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This is a thread for listing those people in the public eye that you absolutely can not abide.
I'll kick off with Bear Grylls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls#Criticism).
Bear Grylls - Super-Twat
I won't substantiate this opinion, I just believe it to be true.
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Jeremy Vine
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Jamie Theakston
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That Warburton lad.
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That Warburton lad.
He makes a fine loaf! ;D
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Jade Goody,
Well, someone had to say it, didn't they?
Oh - and Kerry Katona. Am I allowed two?
Oh Oh - and Sarah Kennedy. Am I allowed three?
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Bear Grylls = Super-Twat
I won't substantiate this opinion, I just believe it to be true.
He's just the warm-up act. Wait till Cameron and the rest of the Bullingdon Club are running the country.
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Chris Moyles
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That Warburton lad.
He makes a fine loaf! ;D
It's all laptops these days. :(
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Bill Oddie.
Before Noodley gets in first. ;)
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Chris Hoy! :demon:
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Mrs eck says please can she please add Heather the Weather to the list.
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That other Jeremy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Kyle)
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All Jeremies! Everywhere!
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Stephen Nolan off Radio 5...
Anita Anand off Radio 5...
Peter Allen off Radio 5...
John Humphrys off Radio 4.
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All Jeremies! Everywhere!
Especially the C-one
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Right now I'm just reacting to whatever twat is presenting themselves on my TV screen. I'm going to have a good long sleep pretty soon, where these people can't bother me. It's interesting that right now I can't recall more names of personalities that I know I dislike with a passion. I'm sure it will come flooding back to me the minute I'm reminded of them.
In my conciousness right now is Jason Statham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Statham)
Jason Statham - Super-Twat
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Right now I'm just reacting to whatever twat is presenting themselves on my TV screen. I'm going to have a good long sleep pretty soon, where these people can't bother me. It's interesting that right now I can't recall more of the names of personalities that I know I dislike with a passion. I'm sure it will come flooding back to me the minuted I'm reminded of them.
In my conciousness right now is Jason Statham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Statham)
Jason Statham = Super-Twat
No, no, no. :o
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Stephen Nolan off Radio 5...
Anita Anand off Radio 5...
Peter Allen off Radio 5...
John Humphrys off Radio 4.
d.
Can I make a suggestion? stop listening to Radio 5 ;D
Ealy morning Chav Chat show hosts and their wannabee famous subjects :sick:
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Right now I'm just reacting to whatever twat is presenting themselves on my TV screen. I'm going to have a good long sleep pretty soon, where these people can't bother me. It's interesting that right now I can't recall more of the names of personalities that I know I dislike with a passion. I'm sure it will come flooding back to me the minuted I'm reminded of them.
In my conciousness right now is Jason Statham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Statham)
Jason Statham = Super-Twat
And the really thick-looking one who's in those movies. I've no idea what his name is, but he was the thicko in Mean Machine and he's been in some other shite films. God, he's annoying.
While I'm here, Gordon Ramsay should be nominated. It's just food, FFS. And Duncan Bannatyne and anyone else so tied up in their own self-importance. Listen, Bannatyne, if everyone was a millionaire, that would defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? Just admit you're flogging false hope and fcuk off back to whichever hole you frequented before you started appearing on the TV. Argh!
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Annie, please don't tell me you fancy Jason Super-Twat, I had you down as having good taste and intelligence! :P
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Hugh Foppish-Tosspot from River Cottage. And anyone else who talks like that.
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This thread is largely beyond me.
I have ignored the meeja for so long that I no longer know who anyone is.
OK, I know Humphrys and recognise a few of the other names, but the vast majority have passed me by completely.
Am I on my way to nirvana?
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John Humphrys off Radio 4.
SUPER-SUPER-ULTRA-TWAT! Don't you think the Today program is so much better when he's not involved? The BBC's Rottweiler? The BBC's twat-supreme more like!
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This thread is largely beyond me.
I have ignored the meeja for so long that I no longer know who anyone is.
OK, I know Humphrys and recognise a few of the other names, but the vast majority have passed me by completely.
Am I on my way to nirvana?
Ignorance is bliss. ;D
I can't get that wound up by people in the public eye - life's too short, and hate is not good for the digestion...
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Bill Oddie.
Nobody on this page has mentioned him yet ;)
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Annie, please don't tell me you fancy Jason Super-Twat, I had you down as having good taste and intelligence! :P
Don't be daft.
I prefer intellect, a cuppa and a good book or a brisk walk.
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John Humphrys off Radio 4.
SUPER-SUPER-ULTRA-TWAT! Don't you think the Today program is so much better when he's not involved? The BBC's Rottweiler? The BBC's twat-supreme more like!
Saying that, I don't find him half so irritating on the Moral Maze program which he also hosts.
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I'm still stuck with Thatcher, Tebbit, Parkinson, Baker et al. I used to spend hours wondering which of those I hated most.
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Parkinson! There's one - you just reminded me, thanks for that.
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John Humphrys off Radio 4.
SUPER-SUPER-ULTRA-TWAT! Don't you think the Today program is so much better when he's not involved? The BBC's Rottweiler? The BBC's twat-supreme more like!
Saying that, I don't find him half so irritating on the Moral Maze program which he also hosts.
Bzzt. The Moral Maze is hosted by Michael Buerk.
The Moral Maze often features rabid frothing Melanie Philips, whom I'd like to nominate.
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I'm still stuck with Thatcher, Tebbit, Parkinson, Baker et al. I used to spend hours wondering which of those I hated most.
Likewise with Tony BLiar, Gordon Brown, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith, John Prescot et al!! :P :P
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]Likewise with Tony BLiar, Gordon Brown, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith, John Prescot et al!! :P :P
Chris Hoy.
You forgot Chris Hoy. :P
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Rosemary Leonard (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/presenters/6173898.stm)
:sick:
A significant contributing factor in my disillusionment with morning news on TV. Every time I switch it on, that patronising bitch is there, when what I want is The News.
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Anne Widdecombe. The most odious woman ever to bestride the Countdown studio.
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I'm still stuck with Thatcher, Tebbit, Parkinson, Baker et al. I used to spend hours wondering which of those I hated most.
Likewise with Tony BLiar, Gordon Brown, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith, John Prescot et al!! :P :P
Michael Foot? I s'pose, if you didn't like his politics...
But John Smith? Really? Given the calibre of Tories opposing him at the time, he would have to be a combination of Satan and Stig of the Dump to attract any real bile. Seemed pretty inoffensive to me.
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Bzzt. The Moral Maze is hosted by Michael Buerk.
The Moral Maze often features rabid frothing Melanie Philips, whom I'd like to nominate.
It is, I get confused with who's who in the BBC's 'intellectual' bracket.
Melanie Philips can rot in Hell her own effluence.
Melanie Philips - Super-Twat
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I'm still stuck with Thatcher, Tebbit, Parkinson, Baker et al. I used to spend hours wondering which of those I hated most.
Likewise with Tony BLiar, Gordon Brown, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith, John Prescot et al!! :P :P
I suppose Kenneth Baker brought a completely different meaning the the expression "peak oil". ;)
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Gillian McKeith (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/feb/12/advertising.food) - I'm incandescent at the thought of this one.
Gillian McKeith - Super-Twat.
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Anne Widdecombe. The most odious woman ever to bestride the Countdown studio.
OMG.
What an image.
Dandruff on the studio floor?
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Gillian McKeith (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/feb/12/advertising.food) - I'm incandescent at the thought of this one.
Gillian McKeith = Super-Twat.
Having read that article, I must say that I do agree with you.
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I'm still stuck with Thatcher, Tebbit, Parkinson, Baker et al. I used to spend hours wondering which of those I hated most.
Parkinson! There's one - you just reminded me, thanks for that.
It's just occured to me that that you were most likely talking about Cecil Parkinson (http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Parkinson), whereas I had in mind that twat-done-good from Yorkshire, Michael Parkinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Parkinson).
Michael Parkinson - Super-Twat
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You are right - I was referring to Cecil Parkinson.
Your link underlines what a consummate c*nt the man is.
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Jon "Gaunty" Gaunt.
The man's a maggot.
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Bear Grylls winds me up of course, and all other climbers or mountaineers, for his hyperbole. As far as I can tell, the climbs he does, and the situations he puts himself in, are highly non-trivial to deal with, and would be very dangerous indeed -- nay likely fatal -- for the totally inexperienced. Nonetheless, they represent utterly manageable risks to the experienced mountaineer and outdoorsman, with none of the kind of acute danger that the program presents.
One slip and he's dead? Whatever.
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Stephen Nolan off Radio 5...
Anita Anand off Radio 5...
Peter Allen off Radio 5...
John Humphrys off Radio 4.
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cant believe you missed out Nicky Campbell.
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My father describes such people as having "punchable faces".
Mick Hucknall
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John Humphrys off Radio 4.
SUPER-SUPER-ULTRA-TWAT! Don't you think the Today program is so much better when he's not involved? The BBC's Rottweiler? The BBC's twat-supreme more like!
Heresy! Burn them!
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I can't decide between Gordon (Swearing does not pass for a personality) Ramsay and Chris (I am not as funny as I think) Moyles.
Would it be possible to arrange a fight to the death between them to decide?
(Then kill the winner)
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Anne Atkins
Melanie Phillips
David Starkey
Brian Sewell
Nicky Campbell
Jeremy Vine
Oh sod it, this could take hours:
Anyone who appears on TV
&
Anyone who appears in 'Celeb' mags.
That should just about cover it.
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Sorry - I can't agree with you about David Starkey or Brian Sewell. I'm not the greatest fan of either, but they both can be brilliant in their own ways.
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cant believe you missed out Nicky Campbell.
I'm not his biggest fan but I like Shelagh and they have a good double act going so I can tolerate him.
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Jimmy Carr :sick:
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Garth Crooks - there's something deeply smug and annoying about him.
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Another Jeremy - that smug former England rugby player who appears on the BBC rugby programs. Can't remember his surname.
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Another Jeremy - that smug former England rugby player who appears on the BBC rugby programs. Can't remember his surname.
Guscott?
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guscott. He threatened me with a "good kicking" once in a pub in Bath for talking to one of the girls in his group on valentines day. I decided cowardice was the best option, finished my pint and left.
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Paul Dacre.
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Jeremy Guscott is almost single-handedly the reason Scots hate the English these days. At least when Brian Moore isn't on screen.
Paul O'Grady - his voice makes my ears bleed.
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Paul Dacre.
Oh yes. Just to make sure, in case their appearances on TV somehow slip through the net of my previous categories, I have to make sure that:
Paul Dacre
Kelvin Mackenzie
Richard Littlejohn
and
Garry Bushell
are all included...
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Garth Crooks - there's something deeply smug and annoying about him.
<mode HMHB=on>
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves.
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves.
With the possible exception
Of being Garth Crooks.
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves.
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Fortunately Terry Christian seems finally to have disappeared up his own arris, and Regulator has already nominated Jimmy Carr so it has to be James "The Cock" Allen. Please please please please please please please please please can he be abandoned in a cupboard when the BBC takes over F1 coverage next year?
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Mark Lawson
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Germaine Greer
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Tim Lovejoy
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Frederick Forsyth
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Anne McElvoy
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Giles Coren
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Tim Lott
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David Mellor
Sorry, I'll stop in a minute.
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Eamonn Holmes
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Tim Lott
I met him on a train once with his daughter, and we talked for a couple of hours. He's a very nice man, actually, and not remotely twattish.
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Germaine Greer
Oi! Leave the lovely Germaine alone. She's a heroine of mine, I'll have you know. She speaks a lot of sense.
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Germaine Greer
Oi! Leave the lovely Germaine alone. She's a heroine of mine, I'll have you know. She speaks a lot of sense.
In between all the rest of the words that she spouts.
Female Eunuch's a great read, mind.
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Oi! Leave the lovely Germaine alone. She's a heroine of mine, I'll have you know. She speaks a lot of sense.
Once upon a time, maybe. It's all just pretentious self-regarding pseudo-intellectual tosh these days.
d.
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Not all. Her Guardian columns are worth reading. There's always something intelligent & perceptive buried in there.
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Having seen the dramatic growth of this thread this morning, I've decided that the collective noun for Super-twats is a "smutchin". ;)
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My list was longer ;)
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Mine was of the highest quality and I doubt that any compares to the appalling Cecil Parkinson. :P
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Not even Robert Kilroy Silk?
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Frederick Forsyth
+1 :thumbsup: STFU and stick to the novels.
Actually, don't bother with that either.
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Not even Robert Kilroy Silk?
Read the Wiki biography of CP. I think RKS is a lightweight by comparison.
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Marti Pellow
Ally McCoist
Sarah Kennedy
Jodie Marsh
The entire team of Cosmopolitan magazine
Raj Persaud
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Whoever it was at Murrayfield on Saturday who booed the All Blacks
Anne Moffat MP for East Lothian
Michael Portillo
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Whoever it was at Murrayfield on Saturday who booed the All Blacks
Anne Moffat MP for East Lothian
Michael Portillo
Sorry - I quite like Portillo. Together with Andrew Neil and Diane Abbot, he makes This Week quite an entertaining show.
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Jim Davidson
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Lowri Turner
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Michael Gove
<shudder>
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Have we had Richard Littlejohn yet? Or Garry Bushell?
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Have we had Richard Littlejohn yet? Or Garry Bushell?
Who cares? Neither of those can be stressed enough.
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Stressed as in being hung by a burning rope over a swamp full of crocodiles?
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ooh, just thought of another!
Piers Morgan
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All Jeremies! Everywhere!
With the possible exception of Jeremy Hardy, surely? Despite regularly revelling in his own ignorance of science on the News Quiz, he should avoid the firing squad come the revolution.
Paul Dacre, definitely should go on the list. Anyone else read his poisonous article on press "freedom" in the Guardian today? Complete with obligatory dig at the Beeb. Ultra-twat.
Raj Persaud. Smug twat as well as super twat.
Richard Dawkins.
Amanda Platell.
George Galloway.
At least one Hitchens.
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Another Jeffrey:
Archer :sick:
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James Whale
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Another Jeffrey:
Archer :sick:
Do you want Jeffrey from Rainbow too? ;)
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Giles Brandreth
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Kirst, he spells his name Gyles, which I only mention because makes him look even more twattish.
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What a wonderful thread! ;D
Geoffrey Boycott. You've ruined so many otherwise enjoyable days at the cricket when I was a kid with your boring, stale outlook on the game.
You talk shite. You invent ridiculous sayings. You beat up your girlfriends. You are a knob.
Watching you and Piers Morgan (sorry for the repetition) in a bare knuckle boxing match until you're both dead would give me more pleasure than shagging the girl who always gets the 8:23 train I've been fantasising about for years.....
MEGA- twat!
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the 8:23 train I've been fantasising about for years
"Look at the rolling stock on that!" ;)
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Gethin Jones
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the 8:23 train I've been fantasising about for years
"Look at the rolling stock on that!" ;)
d.
I thought about rewording that for a couple of seconds, but then realised it was several feet of potentially amusing rope :P
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Kirst, he spells his name Gyles, which I only mention because makes him look even more twattish.
I did think it didn't look right but he's such a twat I couldn't work up enough enthusiasm to check.
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What a wonderful thread! ;D
Geoffrey Boycott. You've ruined so many otherwise enjoyable days at the cricket when I was a kid with your boring, stale outlook on the game.
You talk shite. You invent ridiculous sayings. You beat up your girlfriends. You are a knob.
Watching you and Piers Morgan (sorry for the repetition) in a bare knuckle boxing match until you're both dead would give me more pleasure than shagging the girl who always gets the 8:23 train I've been fantasising about for years.....
MEGA- twat!
And you used to run out entertaining batsmen like Graham Gooch and Derek Randall!
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Ann Widdecombe.
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George Osborne. I think he's been mentioned before, but I can only suspect his tax proposals are an attempt to get into this thread, so let's give him a special mention, eh? ;)
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What a wonderful thread! ;D
Geoffrey Boycott. You've ruined so many otherwise enjoyable days at the cricket when I was a kid with your boring, stale outlook on the game.
You talk shite. You invent ridiculous sayings. You beat up your girlfriends. You are a knob.
Watching you and Piers Morgan (sorry for the repetition) in a bare knuckle boxing match until you're both dead would give me more pleasure than shagging the girl who always gets the 8:23 train I've been fantasising about for years.....
MEGA- twat!
And you used to run out entertaining batsmen like Graham Gooch and Derek Randall!
Although I've played against both (admittedly in charity games :P) I can't say I've ever run either of them out!
Edit: I completely read that arse about face! Ho-hum.......
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And you used to run out entertaining batsmen like Graham Gooch and Derek Randall!
He ran out our skool headmaster1 once as well.
1 - who had opened the batting for Derbyshire in a previous life
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James Whale
I used to think he was a twat.
Then he interviewed me on his radio show once. He was, despite a tendency to hyperbole, a lot more thoughtful and serious about the issues, and took more time to expand on them, than anyone on Radio 4 who has interviewed me.
After that, I reconsidered his twattishness.
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That'll be the James Whale who's just got into bother again for bias...
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William Hague. Look, you were never going to be PM because
(1) you come from Yorkshire, and therefore have a superiority complex.
(2) you look like a baked bean.
(3) you are less interesting than that really boring guy who replaced you, whose name I had to struggle with...Duncan-Smith, that's it.
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Adrian Chiles.
You belittling knob.
Somebody comes on your show with AIDS or something and you're like "Boom boom - must be a bit tough that!"
GIGA-twat......
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I can't believe we've made it to 8 pages without mentioning...
George W Bush.
Thank the hanging chad he's going.
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On the strength of what I've just watched on C4, Neil Morrissey. And his side kick, but I'm not sure he counts for the purposes of his thread.
Anyway, juvenile, overexposed knob jockeys the pair of them. And I hope their pub goes bust.
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I can't believe we've made it to 8 pages without mentioning...
George W Bush.
I assume that's for the same reason that people get confused if you walk up to them in Trafalgar Square and ask where England is :)
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Have we had Robbie Williams yet?
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That'll be the James Whale who's just got into bother again for bias...
Well, I am sure - but he's infinitely preferable to the snide hypocrites who inhabit much of Radio 4.
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William Hague. Look, you were never going to be PM because
(1) you come from Yorkshire, and therefore have a superiority complex.
(2) you look like a baked bean.
(3) you are less interesting than that really boring guy who replaced you, whose name I had to struggle with...Duncan-Smith, that's it.
Who was in turn once described as looking like a waxed cock in an undertaker's suit.
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Robert Kilroy Silk
Esther Rantzen
Brian Paddick
Carly Zucker
Martina Navratilova
Simon Webbe
Joe Swash
Nicola McLean
Dani Behr
But not George Takei!
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William Hague. Look, you were never going to be PM because
(1) you come from Yorkshire....
Bzzt! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson)
Though this is all true.
(2) you look like a baked bean.
(3) you are less interesting than that really boring guy who replaced you, whose name I had to struggle with...Duncan-Smith, that's it.
Along with
(4) you had a lot of the nasty corrupt Tories still hanging around (like Cameron does, but more quietly)
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Smutters, I really do think that Brian Paddick and possibly Martina Navratilova ought to come out of that list as well. The rest of them can stay, though...
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Not Sulu! My first crush! :o :( :(
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Smutters, I really do think that Brian Paddick and possibly Martina Navratilova ought to come out of that list as well. The rest of them can stay, though...
I'll give you Martina, but Paddick... I'm not convinced.
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I met him at the ITV London Mayoral Hustings. He's a good chap, I promise.
One of those, of course
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Those two dicks on Masterchef. Utter twats.
Melvyn Bragg.
Bruce Forsyth.
Horse racing.
Last of the summer wine.
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Could I make a bid for David Dickenson if not one has had him yet? You know, bright orange antiques bloke.
whilst on Davids I'll have David Bellamy too.
And not a David, but definitely a twat that stands out among his fellow twats: the short arse licking Irish bloke of the X Factor. You know, the one that was being wound up by another pair of twats about the possibility of appearing in a new American version of the X Factor and agreed to fixing the results if they'd let him on.
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Talking of orange people - that twat who plays Rugby for Wales. Can't remember his name - knobing that chav who used to sing a bit. Probably spends 500 quid a month on getting his pubes trimmed. Suuuuuuper-twat...
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Gordon effing Ramsay
John McCrirrick (or wotevah his name is, the man's so excreble ICBA looking)
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Those two dicks on Masterchef. Utter twats.
THAT WAS A GREAT PUDDING WASN'T IT?
WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?
BECAUSE IT ADDS TO THE TENSION, JUST LIKE SAYING "AND THE WINNER IS..." THEN PAUSING FOR TEN SECONDS
FAAAAAAAAAAHKIN NARWHAL DUDE!
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The Channel 4 news has finished and lo and behold, there's a brand new Super-Twat on the tele - George Clarke (http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ask-the-experts/expert-panel/george-clarke-08-17-07_p_1.html).
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Talking of orange people - that twat who plays Rugby for Wales. Can't remember his name - knobing that chav who used to sing a bit. Probably spends 500 quid a month on getting his pubes trimmed. Suuuuuuper-but very neat-twat...
FTFY ;D
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Have we had Jamie "Mockney" Oliver yet?
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Simon Cowell
Ainsley Harriott
Geri Halliwell
I'll be back with a few more in a minute.
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HAs anyone mentioned Ant and Dec?
And if not, why not? ;D
And Jordan, and Peter f*cking Andre
and Nick f*cking Berry*
And Rowan Atkinson as Mr sodding Bean
( this post seems to be heading for the rant thread ;D)
*Copyrite Paul Calf
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And Rowan Atkinson as Mr sodding Bean
Can't possibly agree with that. I don't like him, but the videos keep the kids out of mischief for hours.
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Simon Cowell
Ainsley Harriott
Geri Halliwell
I'll be back with a few more in a minute.
Misread this thread as 'What are you listening to'?
So that's a relief.
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cant believe you missed out Nicky Campbell.
My father describes such people as having "punchable faces".
Mick Hucknall
Been reading tvgohome? :P
Oh, and:
Catherine Tate: Super-twat.
Fern Cotton: Super-twat extraordinaire.
Kilroy Silk: Vomit-inducing-super-twat extraordinaire.
Everyone who has ever appeared in 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps': twats.
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THe mention of Melvyn Fecking-Bragg reminds me of the occasion that I spent some time watching him in Real Life. We were standing in the interminable queue for HIGNFY and who should come out of the London Television Centre but MF-B. He ponced from one side of the road to another, then sauntered along the queue and did the same thing somewhere else. I reckon he must have wasted about 20 minutes of his valuable life just poncing about saying "Look at ME!" He reminded me of a bower bird - I think that's the once which builds some sort of structure and then ponces about trying to impress its potential mate. I could almost imagine David Attenborough doing the commentary.
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In fact anyone in the entertainment industry who thinks that SHOUTING will cover for personal lack of talent or an inane, boring, badly produced show.
STOP SHOUTING AT ME YOU TALENTLESS MORONS.
Graham Norton. Feck off, you're a Super-Twat.
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It was OK when he played the occasional role of Father Noel.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Heidi Fleiss.
But you lot are probably thinking metaphorically.
Damon.
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In fact anyone in the entertainment industry who thinks that SHOUTING will cover for personal lack of talent or an inane, boring, badly produced show.
STOP SHOUTING AT ME YOU TALENTLESS MORONS.
;D
That's what I seem to be shouting at the TV increasingly these days.
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Stupid, stupid, stupid 'kin software.
Theatre - you've gone to the trouble of writing a little java applet to allow me to select some seats, please though take the designers and coders of it outside and get medieval on their asses for ten minutes. They when they come round point out to them that as well as selecting seats it ought to be possible to deselect seats (if you want to select some others). Stupid. I've now got two seats that I can't deselect, if I clear the cookie I can't get either seat again 'cause their software thinks it's reserved for someone. Pucking Fillocks.
While I'm upset about software....
Activision. I was looking forward to spending some time this weekend killing people, lots of them, with lots of weapons an ammo and stuff. Wall to wall gore.
The day of the uk release (48 hours after the US, but I can live with that) there's already a patch - over 300Mb to download.
It's a pity though that it doesn't work, with or without the patch. At all. In the slightest. It just hangs.
I know that you've used the same game engine as the last game, and that worked happily on my machine. I've got an up to date graphics card that eats so much juice that my electricity supplier loves me. I've gone to the trouble to download the latest drivers for everything. Still it doesn't 'kin work.
Now how am I going to get rid of my bloodlust?
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Bzzt. The Moral Maze is hosted by Michael Buerk.
The Moral Maze often features rabid frothing Melanie Philips, whom I'd like to nominate.
It is, I get confused with who's who in the BBC's 'intellectual' bracket.
Melanie Philips can rot in Hell her own effluence.
Melanie Philips - Super-Twat
Tonight's Moral Maze: I've just heard a BNP chappie giving MP a right verbal kicking. They may not get my vote, but I would like to shake this guy's hand for this one favour.
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Gok Wank
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Not been through all the thread so apologies for any duplicates
Wayne Rooney
David Beckham
Trinny and Suzanah.
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Not been through all the thread so apologies for any duplicates
Wayne Rooney
David Beckham
Trinny and Suzanah.
The hamiltons
Mohd Fayed
Putin
Bush
and that corrupt twat who resigned as his secretary of state ???
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Alan Sugar, who spent 1.8million to buy 4% of woolworths about a month ago. Bwa ha ha ha ha......
Oi, shortarse beardy twat - Your Fired!!
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Digby Jones.
Twat by name, twat by nature.
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Patrick Holford, the awful breakfast TV supplement quack, and an easier target, Gillian McPoo.
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Most DJ's on mainstream radio esp.
Chris Moyles and that fecking twat on R1 between 4.00pm and 6.00pm.
Richard Allinson and Chris Evans from R2.
The woman on Radio 1 over lunchtime who's going out with some bloke in some band. (she always mentions it).
I mention these as I have to listen to their inane drivel at work.
Jeremy Clarkson and his toadying over-scripted acolytes (the audience and co-presenters).
I mention these because I have to listen to the inane drivel of workmates talking about them.
I could go on.............. And probably will.
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William Hague. Look, you were never going to be PM because
(1) you come from Yorkshire....
Bzzt! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson)
Though this is all true.
(2) you look like a baked bean.
(3) you are less interesting than that really boring guy who replaced you, whose name I had to struggle with...Duncan-Smith, that's it.
Along with
(4) you had a lot of the nasty corrupt Tories still hanging around (like Cameron does, but more quietly)
I have a soft spot for Hague. A man with real intellect who is very good at speaking, probably the best in parliament these days. Unfortunately for him he is in a party that was never going to let him be leader at a time when they had a real chance of winning an election as he isn't really their type.
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Bear Frikkin-Grills
What a Super-Twat. His hammy presenting and "risk taking in extreme climates" are such utter Bullsh*t and besmerch the name of Ray Mears EVEN THOUGH THEIR PROGRAMS ARENT RELATED TO EACH OTHER!!!!!
TWAT!
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Gary Herbert. Shut Up You Little Twat.
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Gary Herbert. Shut Up You Little Twat.
Don't! You'll make him cry again!! ::-)
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I've never liked coxes. Dead weight on a straight 2k course, if you ask me, but at least most of them have some dignity and dont ruin everyones bloody telly for years after.
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Who is gary herbert? Is he a cox, then?
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Bear Frikkin-GrillsGryhls
What a Super-Twat. His hammy presenting and "risk taking in extreme climates" are such utter Bullsh*t and besmerch the name of Ray Mears EVEN THOUGH THEIR PROGRAMS ARENT RELATED TO EACH OTHER!!!!!
TWAT!
FTFY!
Twatty name for a start...
Mind you, I like the odd bear grill*. ;)
*AKA a hairy roasting... ;D
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Alan Sugar, who spent 1.8million to buy 4% of woolworths about a month ago. Bwa ha ha ha ha......
Oi, shortarse beardy twat - Your Fired!!
Perhaps he should seek out who persuaded him, that's the person he needs as his apprentice.
As anyone said Jonathan Ross?
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Not been through all the thread so apologies for any duplicates
Wayne Rooney
David Beckham
Trinny and Suzanah.
The hamiltons
Mohd Fayed
Putin
Bush
and that corrupt twat who resigned as his secretary of state ???
Just Remembered Dick (by both name and nature) Cheney
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Bear Frikkin-GrillsGryhls
What a Super-Twat. His hammy presenting and "risk taking in extreme climates" are such utter Bullsh*t and besmerch the name of Ray Mears EVEN THOUGH THEIR PROGRAMS ARENT RELATED TO EACH OTHER!!!!!
TWAT!
FTFY!
Twatty name for a start...
Mind you, I like the odd bear grill*. ;)
*AKA a hairy roasting... ;D
There was no need for the Asterisk there Reg, I was already there before I reached the full stop ;)
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Digby Jones.
Twat by name, twat by nature.
In fact a fat-cat-super-twat :demon:
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Edmund King - megatwat :sick:
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Jonathan King - king of the twats.
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Germaine Greer
Oi! Leave the lovely Germaine alone. She's a heroine of mine, I'll have you know. She speaks a lot of sense.
After reading her column in today's Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/dec/01/germaine-greer-gordon-ramsay-food), I feel utterly vindicated in my view that she is a super-twat of the first order.
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Digby Jones.
Twat by name, twat by nature.
In fact a fat-cat-super-twat :demon:
or even a fat-fat-cat-super-twat.
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Ruth Lee. Yup. Absolutely.
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John Humphreys
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? Why, in particular? He has utterly twattish moments, but I think on balance he's OK. Has he done something in particular?
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He got on my tits this morning during the eight-year-old-earrings-to-school 'debate'.
And he uses the phrase 'politically correct' without irony.
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OK. I only caught the closing moments of that discussion. And the second part, yes.
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I only caught a bit of that this morning - was the mother refusing to send her child to school because they said she couldn't go out at playtime because she had her ears pierced and couldn't take the earrings out until they'd healed? And did they say why didn't she just wait till the start of the summer holidays to pierce them? I got the impression that's what it was and I thought the mother was a bit of an idiot.
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John Humphreys
Right on...
Super-Twat (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10772.msg187959#msg187959)
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Rumsfelt
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A known known S-T for sure.
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John Humphreys
Right on...
Super-Twat (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10772.msg187959#msg187959)
I didn't find that 'cos I did a search for John Humphreys, not Humphrys ::-)
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Humphrys/Humphreys - mega-twat either way!
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I got to see the Jeremy Kyle show this morning. I am no less convinced that he is not a twat but is in fact evil.
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+5000 for Chris Moyles
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Humphrys/Humphreys - mega-twat either way!
Yup, absolutely top-drawer twattery every time he opens his mouth. The idiot thinks he's a celebrity. I've got stronger words than twat that I'd like to use about him but not on a family forum.
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I was unfortunate enough to see Calum Best on TV this morning.
What have you ever done other than live on the back of your father's fame? Nothing. OK, he was a cunt, so if you're going to use the fact that you're his son to appear on shitty TV shows and in the sort of magazines that chimpanzees wipe their arses with, at least have the common decency to develop a chronic alcohol problem. Then die.
SUPER FUCKING BELL END TWAT!!!
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Has anyone yet mentioned, on this page, Jeremy Kyle? Or Piers Moron?
ButI will add Michael O'Leary
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That stupid weather man off BBC London - Michael Cockroft,
Super-Twat!
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Alex Ferguson.
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Qoooooooooooh yes
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Sorry, I'm late to this thread. I'm not going to read through 13 pages to find out if he's been mentioned before. (He's bound to have been)
Stephen Nolan
Fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckofff uckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff
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Sorry, I'm late to this thread. I'm not going to read through 13 pages to find out if he's been mentioned before. (He's bound to have been)
Stephen Nolan
Fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckofff uckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff
He has been mentioned quite a few times before, but your post is still acceptable :)
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Anyone who uses the term 'workshop' in any other situation than light engineering. . .
Anyone who uses the phrase 'going forward'.
Just fuck right off.
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Gordon Brown. Twat.
Tony BLiar. Twat
Sarah ****ing Kennedy. TWAT.
Hazel Blears. Squirrel. Total complete and utter TWAT!
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Has anyone yet mentioned, on this page, Jeremy Kyle? Or Piers Moron?
ButI will add Michael O'Leary
At least twice, but that's ok, he could use some more.
And being as everyone else is in bed and I'm bored...how about:
Michael Gove (yes I know I already had him, but he's still an S-T)
Odious Osbourne
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+1 for Gordon Brown and Tony Bliar.
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Have we had Kate Hoey?
Get your minds out of the gutter...I'm sure none of us are that sick
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On BBC Midlands Today we have to endure Nick Owen. Can't you southerners keep your twats to yourselves? We have plenty of our own, thank you.
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Rod Liddle.
What a hateful animal fanny that man is.
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Oh come on... Seeing him screaming "scallops for the wirkers" last Thursday was hilarious
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Sorry, I'm late to this thread. I'm not going to read through 13 pages to find out if he's been mentioned before. (He's bound to have been)
Stephen Nolan
Fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckofff uckoff fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff
He has been mentioned quite a few times before, but your post is still acceptable :)
Thank God he's still allowed. I'm late to this topic too.
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Jimmy Carr.
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Jeremy Clarkson.
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James Martin.
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Terry Wogan.
(I'm enjoying this) :thumbsup:
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Russell Crowe
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Front Row, Russell Crowe, Ashes to Ashes and the Archbishop of Canterbury (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s8zd0)
I laughed a lot at this interview. Crowe is a tit.
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Boris Johnson
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I laughed a lot at this interview. Crowe is a tit.
Yeah, I heard that too. Made me cringe rather than laugh, though. Thing is, Mark Lawson is also a tit and it was a really poorly conducted interview.
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Has anyone mentioned Brillo Neil yet?
Christ, he's a twat >:(
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Anyone mentioned Mark Lamarr yet?
And yet another (possibly repeat) mention of the Jimmy 'Mysoginistic and Homphobic Unfunny Twat' Carr... :demon:
*Reaches for STABBY thing*
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Jimmy Carr and his lawyer...
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Oaky: Super-Twat
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Everyone on the One Show. Almost all Breakfast TV presenters, especially Bill Turnbull. (I'm not singling out the BBC, I just don't seem to watch 'independent' channels (for long)).
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Jeremy Vine what is it with him
Those three tossers from top gear
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Clarkson - yes, the tosso di tutti tossi.
Hamster - yes, more so since he started doing his hair like a teenager.
May - well, he doesn't appear very interested in cars and loves his Brompton, so he's not in the same category.
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Lewis Hamilton
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Clarkson - yes, the tosso di tutti tossi.
Hamster - yes, more so since he started doing his hair like a teenager.
May - well, he doesn't appear very interested in cars and loves his Brompton, so he's not in the same category.
Clarkson, obviously can be mentioned an infinite number of times here!
Hamster is a bit of a twat (I think his hair is cool though!) I read one of his books recently and he did come across as a bit of an aggressive little tool.
May is cool. He has quite a few bicycles and loves riding them. I always get the impression he's toeing the Clarkson line on Top Gear.
Although on occasions I find Clarkson funny, on recent viewings of him, I have to go with SUPER FUCKING TWAT!!
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Carol McGiffin (sp) and all the rest of the she-hags from Loose Women.
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Jeremy Clarkson.
Stephen Nolan.
Because they really can't be mentioned too many times.
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the il tosso di tutti tossi.
I must remember that, so I can use it.
+1 for Jimmy Carr.
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While he's on my mind...
Mark Lawson
Ugh!
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Everyone on the One Show. Almost all Breakfast TV presenters, especially Bill Turnbull. (I'm not singling out the BBC, I just don't seem to watch 'independent' channels (for long)).
OMFG! I simply can't risk seeing any TV in the morning because of this guy - I might explode with disgust.
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Willy Walsh
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Nominative determinism?
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Time to mention the world's biggest super twat again, the man most people want to punch the minute he opens his mouth, the one person you wouldn't pee on if he was on fire...
...Jimmy Carr
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Willy Walsh
+1
And Injustice McCombe too.
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Mind you... Unite
Seen their full-page ad in today's Guardian? V.poor.
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Michael McIntyre. Industrial grade hyper-twat.
Ricky Gervais. Stop believing your own PR droids and shut up.
Eyjafjallajokull. A joke's a joke, but if you haven't stopped by September I shall be very cross indeed.
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new transport minister, Phillip Hammond. Quoted in the Sunday Times as saying that speed cameras are unnecessary because when motorists are reminded of the speed limit they slow down. Just like little piglets are born with wings and will fly south for the winter. First rate pratt.
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Oh shit. That's what we're in for? Bugger.
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new transport minister, Phillip Hammond. Quoted in the Sunday Times as saying that speed cameras are unnecessary because when motorists are reminded of the speed limit they slow down. Just like little piglets are born with wings and will fly south for the winter. First rate pratt.
That'll be why they're normally flashing "30" every hour of the day or night?
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new transport minister, Phillip Hammond. Quoted in the Sunday Times as saying that speed cameras are unnecessary because when motorists are reminded of the speed limit they slow down. Just like little piglets are born with wings and will fly south for the winter. First rate pratt.
Aye, the guy must be an uber Twat. He doesn't realise that the 'reminder' most folk need is a flashy fixed penalty generating reminder- either that or a Droid asking "Stirling Moss is it?"
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Jeffrey Archer was on TV this morning, flogging a new book and flaunting his title. Goes without saying that another mention in the super twat thread is called for.
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As I was driving down the M1 yesterday I saw a sign for Hucknall, which reminded me that Mick hasn't had a mention for a long time. Whiny voice, face like a slapped bum, serial band-sacker, yet also (presumably due to vast royalty income) a fanny magnet. What's not to despise?
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He brought his bike into a shop I worked in once?
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Hmm. What was the bike? And how well did he ride it? ;D
He was a complete tw@ when I met him, and he was a nobody then. He's still a nobody, of course, just a rather richer one.
Eric Clapton riding Condor bikes doesn't make him any less of a tw@
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As I was driving down the M1 yesterday I saw a sign for Hucknall, which reminded me that Mick hasn't had a mention for a long time. Whiny voice, face like a slapped bum, serial band-sacker, yet also (presumably due to vast royalty income) a fanny magnet. What's not to despise?
You forgot to add: Man United fan. ;)
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Hmm. What was the bike? And how well did he ride it? ;D
He was a complete tw@ when I met him, and he was a nobody then. He's still a nobody, of course, just a rather richer one.
Oh, he was a twat. He didn't ask if he could bring the bike in and just wheeled it up to a cashpoint and made to leave it there, as if we would watch it for him. It had gears and drop bars and everythin. I seem to recall we made him lock it to a lampost outside, but that could just be my wishful thinking.
<flashes diamond studded tooth>
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*talk of Hucknall sparks memory*
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_tZtjNi-Cuwk/S_ZwK_p_17I/AAAAAAAAAoE/1KfMy1ZY0Zk/MHPP.jpg)
From TV Go Home (http://www.tvgohome.com/) ;D
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Chris Moyles and the bunch of super-c**ts who decided that ignorant loud-mouthed witless bloaters were the way forward in broadcasting.
And Clarkson.
And Glitter.
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*talk of Hucknall sparks memory*
Same here. I can't think of Mick Hucknall without immediately thinking of pink pancakes. TVGoHome was brilliant. Still one of the best things Charlie Brooker has done.
Talking of twats, TVGoHome also gave us the brilliant Nathan Barley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X6APGN1cAs), who may be a fictional character but perfectly captures the extreme twattishness of many real-life twats of my unfortunate acquaintance.
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Hamster - yes, more so since he started doing his hair like a teenager.
That's cruel. He had a terrible car crash and damaged that part of the brain that controls the urge to "tease" hair, buy Harleys and wear cowboy boots.
I can't help wondering what his gorgeous doe-eyes would look like with my fingers jabbed in them.
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I can't help wondering what his gorgeous doe-eyes would look like with my fingers jabbed in them.
Is that a sexual thing?
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I hate to say it... but I think the Hamster's quite hawt :-[ - when he doesn't speak
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It's the ethnic beads round his neck, isn't it?
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Would he look better with a pearl necklace?
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Omid Djalili. What an irritating git.
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Have we had Jon Gaunt yet?
The Official Jon Gaunt Website (http://www.gaunty.com/)
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Anyone mentioned Paul Ross? (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canvas-Print-PAUL-ROSS-MirrorPrintStore/dp/B001N6W8U0)
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Anyone mentioned Paul Ross? (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canvas-Print-PAUL-ROSS-MirrorPrintStore/dp/B001N6W8U0)
There's a refurbished one for sale? Presumably the refurbishers had to patch a fist-shaped hole in the face area?
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Alastair Stewart. Sanctimonious cock.
Super-Twat.
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Am I allowed to mention Noel Edmonds again? Oh, I just did.
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Bear Grylls = Super-Twat
I won't substantiate this opinion, I just believe it to be true.
He's just the warm-up act. Wait till Cameron and the rest of the Bullingdon Club are running the country.
the waiting is at an end
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David Blunkett, just in case he hasn't already been mentioned here.
I will write no more, otherwise I will get all sweary.
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What Big Helga said. He was on the Toady prog this morning, crying into his tea about the abolition of ID cards, because he is a monumental fucking twat with knobs on.
The Home Secretary (Mr. David Blunkett): Mr. Speaker, I should like to give notice that I will be introducing the idea of foundation prisons in the near future to create centres of punishment excellence. Then in non-foundation prisons we can lump anyone we don't like in with molesters etc.
The Home Secretary's Guide Dog (Tuffers): Sausages!
Mr. Speaker (Fat Scottish): Order! Keep that fucking hoond quiet or I'll have it beheaded for sorcery!
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I just checked, and we already had this one a couple of pages back, but I still think he needs another mention.
Phillip "wing mirrors" Hammond - Super Twat
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With the foopball World Cup fast approaching, it should be noted that the only people more twatty than the average foopballer is the average foopballer's wife / girlfriend, who is usually orange.
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With the foopball World Cup fast approaching, it should be noted that the only people more twatty than the average foopballer is the average foopballer's wife / girlfriend, who is usually orange.
What, he's married a footballer?
Wondered where Jason had gone....
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I can't help wondering what his gorgeous doe-eyes would look like with my fingers jabbed in them.
Is that a sexual thing?
To some Broadmoor residents possibly.
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Does ANYONE like Piers Morgan? Anyone at all? Anyone, anywhere? Even a tiny bit?
No.
Everyone despises him right?. (Casully ruining lives of the innocent in his Mirror days). He's like Little Lord Fauntleroy's spoilt brother.
So why is he on so many TV shows? Who employs him? Surely 5 minutes of market-research in any high-street would result in a 100% "Super Twat" rating.
The only reason I can think of to stop punching his pace would be the inevitable, and painful, stress fractures to my arms after about 3 hours, just running out of energy, bonking if you will, or Piers running out of face to punch.
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My theory is that he spent his early career at The Scum collecting dirt on all the top TV execs...the affairs, the bungs, the goats etc.
Now it's payback time.
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Don't care if we've had him already: Mark Lawrenson
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Ronaldo. The boy who cried foul. And now his reputation has caught up with him. The look on his face when the ref didn't give a free-kick after Capdevila took him down was priceless.
Serves you right, twat-boy. ;D
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I see this week's b3ta image challange features one R. Littlejohn. Not a vintage week, but this one made me chuckle (NSFW due to language):
b3ta.com board (http://www.b3ta.com/board/10102116)
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Toby Young. :sick:
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Ronaldo. The boy who cried foul. And now his reputation has caught up with him. The look on his face when the ref didn't give a free-kick after Capdevila took him down was priceless.
Serves you right, twat-boy. ;D
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He spat in the general direction of a cameraman afterwards too. Unpleasant.
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OK, not a celeb as such but did anyone watch Come Dine with Me last night? The bloke (Alex? he was the only 1 against 3 women) was the biggest arsehole I have ever encountered on British television*. Not only that, but he cooked pasta bake for his guests! That's what I've just made for Mrs Woofage and the peeps as fuel for the ride I'm going on a bit later. It's not dinner party grub ::-).
* I don't watch Big Brother
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David Tredinnick
Michael Howard
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IDS
WH
(what is it about his voice? everytime I hear it, I want to punch him repeatedly.)
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Kenneth Clarke (Torysaurus venerabilis).
The Williams sisters. STFU.
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I don't think we've had the man whose name I cannot even type as it will make me explode.
That fat, little, coke snorting, cheating fuck who now manages the Argentina football team.
Ginormous - TWAT!
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Would a 'high-five' help here Bobbers?
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I don't think we've had the man whose name I cannot even type as it will make me explode.
That fat, little, coke snorting, cheating fuck who now manages the Argentina football team.
Ginormous - TWAT!
Who might, under certain circumstances, be on the receiving end of the Hand Of Bobb.
Joak shamelessly stolen from Bob Wilson Anchorman.
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Who might, under certain circumstances, be on the receiving end of the Hand Of Bobb.
Excellent!! I don't think Teh Hand of Bobb would be quite as useful as The Bear, but it's a start!!
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Charles Moore. Torygraph columnist, former editor of same and also The Spectator, constant dribbler about the BBC and twat of truly cyclopean proportions.
Except for the World Service, Mr Moore, the BBC is not publicly-funded. Though it irks me that they apparently paid you fifty sovs to be on the Toady prog this morning.
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Don't care if we've had him before.
Alastair 'Just call me super fucking duper uber TWAT' Campbell.
For what he did for Tony B. Liar - TWAT
For appearing on Top Gear and failing to clock Clarkson was taking the piss - REAL TWAT
For what he did to Dr David Kelly - should be whipped and boiled and killed to death. - TOTAL AND UTTER TWAT ! ! ! !
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But he did make mincemeat of Adam Boulton, and for that we should be thankful.
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I think it has been truly said that the British Press created Alastair Campbell and that they deserved what they got. Basically, the Labour party looked at the way the press had treated Foot and Kinnock and decided that they were going to get their retaliation in first, from then on.
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Charles Moore. Torygraph columnist, former editor of same and also The Spectator, constant dribbler about the BBC and twat of truly cyclopean proportions.
At least he is a cyclist then. ;D
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This is a thread for listing those people in the public eye that you absolutely can not abide.
I'll kick off with Bear Grylls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls#Criticism).
Bear Grylls - Super-Twat
I won't substantiate this opinion, I just believe it to be true.
I came rather late to this and had to check 19 pages to see if this had been posted already but substantiation
http://www.bats.org.uk/news.php/82/bct_response_to_bear_grylls_born_survivor
(http://www.bats.org.uk/news.php/82/bct_response_to_bear_grylls_born_survivor)
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) has been working with the international conservation and animal welfare community to investigate the footage of the TV presenter Bear Grylls smoking out, swatting and then stamping on bats in Asia. During the programme, several bats are killed deliberately and this was treated as a game.
nice man
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Uber-twat.
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This is a thread for listing those people in the public eye that you absolutely can not abide.
I'll kick off with Bear Grylls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls#Criticism).
Bear Grylls - Super-Twat
I won't substantiate this opinion, I just believe it to be true.
I came rather late to this and had to check 19 pages to see if this had been posted already but substantiation
http://www.bats.org.uk/news.php/82/bct_response_to_bear_grylls_born_survivor
(http://www.bats.org.uk/news.php/82/bct_response_to_bear_grylls_born_survivor)
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) has been working with the international conservation and animal welfare community to investigate the footage of the TV presenter Bear Grylls smoking out, swatting and then stamping on bats in Asia. During the programme, several bats are killed deliberately and this was treated as a game.
nice man
We have his range of childrens books in our libraries where I work :sick: Gives me more incentive to weed out his books. :demon:
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Does he get bonus S-T points for the stupid name?
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Can we just declare him the winner and leave it at that?
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We have his range of childrens books in our libraries where I work :sick: Gives me more incentive to weed out his books. :demon:
IRTA "more incentive to wee on his books" AISMS.
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We have his range of childrens books in our libraries where I work :sick: Gives me more incentive to weed out his books. :demon:
IRTA "more incentive to wee on his books" AISMS.
Not wearing my specs I got it even more wrong. IRTA "more incentive to wee on his bollocks" :facepalm:
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Spotted on the Wireless With Pictures yesterday: Jimmy Buffett blaming all the world's ills on BP, in "song".
So, nothing to do with the USAnian public's insatiable thirst for fossil fuel, then, Jimbo?
Hyper-twat.
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Does he get bonus S-T points for the stupid name?
Yes - because he chose it. He's really Edward Michael Grylls.
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or 'Teddy'
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Although his wiki article says his sister called him it when he was one week old.
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Mark Lawrenson
(No particular reason other than he's not mentioned on this page of the thread yet!)
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Have there been anywhere near enough mentions of Jeremy arsing Kyle yet?
Nope, didn't think so. Nor of Nicholas Hoogstraaten.
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Have there been anywhere near enough mentions of Jeremy arsing Kyle yet?
Nope, didn't think so. Nor of Nicholas Hoogstraaten.
Nope.
Not enough mentions of Mark Lawrenson yet, either!
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I know this was supposed to be about entertainment celebrities, but as it seems to be spreading can I have Michael O'Leary?
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Anyone in the public is eye is fair game, I say. And Michael O'Leary - Über-Twat. I'm so pleased that he's been forced to apologise to that nice man Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
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Nicholas Hoogstraaten.
Blimey. That's a blast from the past...
"Moving up into second place
Behind Nicholas van Wotsisface
At six foot six and a hundred tons
The undisputed king of the slums
More aliases than Klaus Barbie
The Master Butcher of Leigh-on-Sea
Just about to take the stage
The one and only
Hold the front page"
And in a similar vein, don't forget Peter Rachmann.
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Moving up into second place
*Moving on up to second base
Get it right ;)
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*Moving on up to second base
Of course. Sorry. :-[
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I know this was supposed to be about entertainment celebrities, but as it seems to be spreading can I have Michael O'Leary?
The dear man calledme a fucking cunt once. Nice to be recognised for my work ethic!
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Michael Gove .I bet his kids(assuming hes up to it) wont be going to to some ramshackle fuckrot of a school.
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The dear man calledme a fucking cunt once. Nice to be recognised for my work ethic!
Tony, you've always been all right in my book, but if you hadn't been, you would be now.
Whatever it was you did to elicit that response, well done! ;D
d.
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The dear man calledme a fucking cunt once. Nice to be recognised for my work ethic!
Tony, you've always been all right in my book, but if you hadn't been, you would be now.
Whatever it was you did to elicit that response, well done! ;D
d.
YHPM
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I suppose this (http://cdn.smosh.com/smosh-pit/4/picturethis17-1.jpg) is too much to hope for?
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Michael Gove .I bet his kids(assuming hes up to it) wont be going to to some ramshackle fuckrot of a school.
Anyone else hear him being interviewed on the radio this morning? He's incapable of answering a simple question.
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Tim Westwood.
Tim Westwood.
Tim Westwood.
Amazed he isn't in here already.
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David Mellor. I am sure anyone working at ports & airports would agree today. SuperTwat.
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That bloke who did "Thought For The Day" yesterday. Fortunately I missed it for once. Apparently he was slagging off people who have elaborate weddings. He sounds like a miserable twat.
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The Rev'd Canon Dr Giles Fraser, one of the few religious commentators with at least one foot in the twenty-first century. He's probably been doing two weddings a weekend for the last four months; it's no wonder he's a little jaded.
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A A Gill
'nuff said.
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I quite like Giles Fraser.
And yeah - elaborate weddings are over-rated. ;)
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Hi, I'm new, will introduce myself later but in the meantime, just had to say.....
P.Diddy
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Absolutely. The biggest ego and most monumental lack of self-awareness in the business.*
Hi.
* Mr Diddy, that is, not you ;)
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A A Gill
'nuff said.
And his editor at the Sunday Sun.
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Wot Clarion said. Anyone who covers Every Breath You Take is automatically a capybara's clunge of the first water. Doubly so when you don't realise that far from being a love song, it's the second-creepiest1 piece of audio stalking in the history of popular music.
1 - Obsession by Punishment of Luxury is even creepier, as the narrator comes right out and says he'll kill the girl rather than let her go out with anyone else.
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That bloke who did "Thought For The Day" yesterday. Fortunately I missed it for once. Apparently he was slagging off people who have elaborate weddings. He sounds like a miserable twat.
I agreed with pretty much every word he said.
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What about Delilah, Mr L? Just cause it's belted out by a bloke with tight pants and a big hairy chest don't mean it's anything short of creepy...
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Has anyone mentioned on this page yet...
Bill Oddie
Jeremy Vine
John Humphreys
Jon Snow
Jeremy Clarkson (spit, spit, spit...)
James May
'The Hamster'
Liz Jones
Richard Littlejohn
Peter Hitchens
Janet Daley
Julie Birchill
Dominic Lawson
Rod Liddle
Anne wot's her name that gets dragged out to pontificate on religious/moral stuff as she's married to a vicar-type
Christopher Monckton
I'm sure I can think of more...
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What about Delilah, Mr L? Just cause it's belted out by a bloke with tight pants and a big hairy chest don't mean it's anything short of creepy...
Ah, but that's based on a true story.
FSVO "true", obv.
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Has anyone mentioned Robbie Savage yet? I'd be able to put up with his stupidity, or his ignorance, or his cockiness, if it wasn't for his stupidity, and his ignorance, and his cockiness, and his appalling narcissism. What a cock.
He spent the entire radio 5 coverage of the New Zealand vs Italy game wittering on about the frigging England team and how the players get bored cos the life of a footballer is so hard, a whole raft of pathetic insights which he offered as if they were rare glimpses into a secret kingdom. Not only was I listening to the game to try to escape the endless, tedious examination of the England team, but all the while, a football match was happening in which the world champions were being defeated by a pack of sheep-shearers from the arse end of the planet. Something interesting was actually happening! Shut the fuck up, Robbie! Argh!
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I wondered why, after all this time, Savage was an irritant.
I hadn't realised he was being used as an 'expert' :-)
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Even Savage's co-commentator was audibly annoyed.
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I wondered why, after all this time, Savage was an irritant.
I hadn't realised he was being used as an 'expert' :-)
Definition of "expert"...
"ex"= has been
"spert"= a drip under pressure
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Well, in any game involving a lot of unnecessary shoving, hoofing or reckless tackles, he'd be able to advise...
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Super-Twat DJ - Steve Wright.
Very occasionally I find I've accidentally tuned into Radio 2 when this bag of sh1t is spilling over the microphone. I can't dwell on it for too long or I'll explode with contempt, but there are two main things he does which have me scrambling to turn him off: Singing over the end of crappy songs, badly. Who the f*ck does he think he is that the listening public would actually enjoy hearing his stupid voice render a bad song even worse. Then, he'll make some half-arsed attempt at a witticism, but not without rounding it off with the phrase "Did you see what I did there?". YOU JUST ADDED TO THE SUM OF YOUR TWATISHNESS YOU UTTER, UTTER C*NT!
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Ryan Giggs must now be in this category.
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Do we have Danny Alexander yet? If so, excellent but he deserves another mention because he's so po-faced, chinless and obviously evil.
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Francis Maude :sick:
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Francis Maude :sick:
+ 1*10^6
He's a crap liar as well as a supertwat.
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While we're at it...
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/MICHAEL_GOVE.ashx.jpeg)
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I think he's popped up at least three times already.
But he is a massive supertwat.
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I wish the news bods would stop putting Gove on while I'm eating my dinner. That's twice I've nearly puked it back on to my plate.
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Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes)
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Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes)
;D
I was going to add him, after seeing his performance on Channel 4 News and hearing his vile opinions on Radio 5 this morning. Even Nicky Campbell went "Whoah, that's a bit much!"
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Nigel Starmer-Smith, Uri Geller, Esther Rantzen, Cannon and Ball, Dotun Adebayo, Chatty twat - Alan Carr, David Eyke, Simon Cowell, The Chuckle Brothers, David Dickinson, Cleggandcameron, Jodie Marsh, Peter Andre, Ken Livingstone, Kate Moss, Pete Docherty, Nicky "Three Bells" Gavron, the cast of "The Only Way is Essex", Brian Harvey, Stuart Barnes, Geoffrey Boycott, Ketty Katona, Noel Edmonds, Timmy Mallett, the whole cast of Time Team, Robbie Savage, Little and Large, Linford Christie, Tom Cruise, Will Carling, Danielle Westbrook, golfers, Donny Osmond, Jimmy Osmond, Marie Osmond, The Osmonds, Jordan, Gerry Adams, Stacy Solomon [for that matter anyone who's been on Britains got Talent, X Factor, Pop Idol etc], Australian rugby referees, Kiwi rugby referees, South African rugby referees, Steve Walsh, Stuart Dickinson, Andre Watson, Alex Higgins, Arlene Phillips, Bob Geldorf, every football commentator, various Murdoch's, Eastenders, Rick Stein, Bay City Rollers, anybody who's ever kicked a football professionally, Ken Dodd, Eric Pickles, Eddie Waring, Janet Street-Walker, Lily Savage/whatever the twat's real name is, Cameron Diaz, Seb Coe, George Galloway, Cheryl Tweedy-Cole, Jack Tweedy-Twat, Ann Widdecombe, Donald Trump, Patsy Palmer, Phillips Idowu, all the British heavyweight boxers since Lennox Lewis, John Redwood, Take that, Boys Zone, boy bands in general and Robbie Williams in particular, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Rene Zellweiger, Corrie, Michael Winner, Paul McCartney, Barry Manilow, Peter Jackson, Andy Murray, Tim Henman, Andy Murray, Greg Rusedski, Andy Murray, Jocky Wilson, Bruce Forsyth, Anthony Beke, Chuck Norris, Andy McNab / Chris Ryan .....................
I'm bored now - I'm gonna stop!
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Oi! Leave Cameron Diaz out of this :hand:
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And Chuck Norris, if you know what's good for you.
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And I like the Chuckle Brothers. Would you swap them for the Krankies?
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And I like the Chuckle Brothers. Would you swap them for the Krankies?
No, but the Krankies are going on the list as well.
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And I like the Chuckle Brothers. Would you swap them for the Krankies?
No, but the Krankies are going on the list as well.
Fair enough.
I've pre-empted myself; I was saving The Krankies for when I get round to starting a Comedy Hall of Shame thread.
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Anyone who gets paid for playing golf.
scrub that...
Anyone who plays golf. Bunch of hand-penis-interfacers, the lot of them.
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Derek Acorah.
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Francis Maude :sick:
+ 1*10^6
He's a crap liar as well as a supertwat.
My MP :-[ :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
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Francis Maude :sick:
+ 1*10^6
He's a crap liar as well as a supertwat.
My MP :-[ :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
You should have voted for Kenneth Cranham instead. He looks almost the same but is definitely not a twat.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Francis_Maude,_Minister_for_the_Cabinet_Office.jpg) (http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsC/3805.gif)
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All the looting scum in London.
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The following should apologise for existing:
- The "creative brains" behind the current Celebrity Big Brother trailers on 5. You are a tragic waste of blood.
- The prancing cocks and she-cocks, and John McCririck, who appear in said trailers. Anyone who can stand in a field holding up a placard reading "Marry me Alex" ought, in a sane Universe, to have been drowned at birth.
- Anyone involved in the decision to pull the stake out of the undead corpse of the programme in the first place.
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Francis Maude :sick:
+ 1*10^6
He's a crap liar as well as a supertwat.
My MP :-[ :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
You should have voted for Kenneth Cranham instead. He looks almost the same but is definitely not a twat.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Francis_Maude,_Minister_for_the_Cabinet_Office.jpg) (http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsC/3805.gif)
Of course what I meant was he's the MP for the constituency in which I happen to live.
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Well - that's the beauty of FPTP ;)
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"Big tailbacks on A3 and A3 approaches to M25 and in other direction to Wimbledon. Due to flamin Olympic bikes. Keep sport in a stadium"
- Eamonn Holmes
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The quote is redundant - it's a fairly well known fact that Eamonn Holmes is a bell-end of considerable magnitude.
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"Big tailbacks on A3 and A3 approaches to M25 and in other direction to Wimbledon. Due to flamin Olympic bikes. Keep sport in a stadium"
- Eamonn Holmes
I'm not too worried about what that fat, sofa-munching twat says.
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What does Holmes know about sport? What hashe ever done in that direction? The 20yds dash to the doughnut shop?
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What does Holmes know about sport? What hashe ever done in that direction? The 20yds dash to the doughnut shop?
Freestyle pie-shifting?
All-comers salad dodging?
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I see Stephen Nolan's name pop up a lot here.
I'm assuming this on the back of his weekend 5 Live show?
I know you may not believe this but he actually tones it way down for the National airwaves.
He does a morning show on Radio Ulster (regional radio). It's toxic.
Think "everyone who is mentioned in this thread encompassed in one body" and you're sort of on the right track.
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Roger's Profanisaurus gives us
Holmophobia - an entrely rational urge to punch Eamonn Holmes.
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The following should apologise for existing:
- The "creative brains" behind the current Celebrity Big Brother trailers on 5. You are a tragic waste of blood.
- The prancing cocks and she-cocks, and John McCririck, who appear in said trailers. Anyone who can stand in a field holding up a placard reading "Marry me Alex" ought, in a sane Universe, to have been drowned at birth.
- Anyone involved in the decision to pull the stake out of the undead corpse of the programme in the first place.
Going by what I have read - and I pity the reviewers who have had to watch this so that we don't have to - Mr. Desmond and Channel 5 have achieved what had been hitherto considered impossible, and found even more Stygian, foetid depths to plumb.
We can add the z-list nonentities who were dumb enough to agree to appear on the show, thus validating its existence.
I almost feel sorry for the Speaker of the House of Commons. :-\
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(Googles)
Christ, that barrel's getting very thin at the end.
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The following should apologise for existing:
- The "creative brains" behind the current Celebrity Big Brother trailers on 5. You are a tragic waste of blood.
- The prancing cocks and she-cocks, and John McCririck, who appear in said trailers. Anyone who can stand in a field holding up a placard reading "Marry me Alex" ought, in a sane Universe, to have been drowned at birth.
- Anyone involved in the decision to pull the stake out of the undead corpse of the programme in the first place.
Going by what I have read - and I pity the reviewers who have had to watch this so that we don't have to - Mr. Desmond and Channel 5 have achieved what had been hitherto considered impossible, and found even more Stygian, foetid depths to plumb.
We can add the z-list nonentities who were dumb enough to agree to appear on the show, thus validating its existence.
I almost feel sorry for the Speaker of the House of Commons. :-\
I quite like the Big Fat Gypsy wedding fella. When asked what he thought of Jedward he said ' Oi'd fockin' droyn 'em'.
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http://www.amshold.com/social_media/piers_book.html
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Clarkson, again:
I think we are fast approaching the time when the United Nations should start to think seriously about abolishing other languages.
What’s the point of Welsh for example? All it does is provide a silly maypole around which a bunch of hotheads can get all nationalistic.
>:(
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Clarkson, again:
I think we are fast approaching the time when the United Nations should start to think seriously about abolishing other languages.
What’s the point of Welsh for example? All it does is provide a silly maypole around which a bunch of hotheads can get all nationalistic.
>:(
Pen dafad ydy o!
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Clarkson, again:
I think we are fast approaching the time when the United Nations should start to think seriously about abolishing other languages.
What’s the point of Welsh for example? All it does is provide a silly maypole around which a bunch of hotheads can get all nationalistic.
>:(
Pen dafad ydy o!
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Clarkson is big enough to be insulted twice.
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At risk of "twat" being too good a word for...
Sir David Scholey
(http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01373/SNN1015AA---lion_1373642a.jpg)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3806600/Whos-the-bigger-beast.html
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OMG. :sick:
Utter Supertwat. But for being a Tory donor as much as anything else ;D
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Holy crap! I didn't realise this spoof (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/tory-donor-kills-lion-but-still-fails-to-get-full-erection-201109124291/) had such an element of truth in it. :o
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You're on live morning telly, twat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6tC5b0CRnc
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You're on live morning telly, twat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6tC5b0CRnc
I don't like the look of him, but who is he?
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Who was that particular fool?
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I don't like the look of him, but who is he?
A film director, I think. I don't know or care more than that.
Do Super-Twats have to be famous?
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No. But I think he is only a twat. He's said one gormless thing on the tellybox. He's got a long way to go before he comes close to the sheer torrent of ignorant inanity which constitutes the oeuvre of Morgan or Clarkson.
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Agreed. But I didn't think it was worth starting a thread for mere twats. :)
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It's the critically-acclaimed but often hapless Nicholas Winding Refn. I was watching that absent-mindedly and didn't notice it, only Bill's grovelling apology at the end. Quite funny really.
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Have we had Gyles, I can't spell my name, Brandreth?
If not, I'll nominate him.
If we have, I'll nominate him again.
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He's such an irksome twat that I'm putting him in again.
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Gyles Brandreth
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Gyles Brandreth
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Gyles Brandreth
I clicked post too soon
Yep, that's the one.
At this rate, he's going to be Super Twat of the Year.
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You're on live morning telly, twat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6tC5b0CRnc
It was worth it just to see the beeb's talking heads lay a couple of pineapples immediately after.
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At least Gyles Brandreth (who is, incidentally, a supertwat, in case anyone was still unaware) was candid about his complete contempt for his former constituents on Just A Minute last night. I get the feeling that is a more common view than we might hope.
Which reminds me: that venerable broadcasting institution Nicholas Parsons should be put on the Supertwat list, not least for saying that Gyles Brandreth was 'the most literate and intelligent person' he knows. Either that is unwarranted sycophancy to an already dangerously overinflated ego, a subtle pisstake, he has a very narrow circle of acquiantances, or else Parsons truly is thicker than three short planks.
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He's not famous but he is a twat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqN3amj6AcE&sns=fb
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Hugh Porter. Who the hell is Toomas Voockler, Hugh? Twat.
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At the risk of repeating myself...
Donald Fucking Trump^1010000000000000000
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Giles Coren
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No, sorry, mine wins.
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Sure. But Coren is definitely in the category too. I heard him on 'I've Never Seen Star Wars' being a Supertwat and thinking himself oh so clever.
Sorry mate. Victoria got all the brains.
And the wit.
And the looks.
And the charisma.
In fact, Giles, what exactly is it you can offer?
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Giles Coren
Parasite - obvious candidate for the B Ark.
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Sure. But Coren is definitely in the category too. I heard him on 'I've Never Seen Star Wars' being a Supertwat and thinking himself oh so clever.
Sorry mate. Victoria got all the brains.
And the wit.
And the looks.
And the charisma.
And the stated intention to shag her tutor in return for a better degree. And the coke.
Allegedly.
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After listening to the news on Radio 4, Tiff Needle. I can't be arsed to find out the correct spelling.
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W-A-N-K-E-R, I believe.
Have we had Philip Hammond yet? If not, I bagsy him.
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W-A-N-K-E-R, I believe.
Have we had Philip Hammond yet? If not, I bagsy him.
I get the impression that you are not keen on him. In fact, that you pick on him just because he's an irritating stupid little shitbag.
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W-A-N-K-E-R, I believe.
Have we had Philip Hammond yet? If not, I bagsy him.
I get the impression that you are not keen on him. In fact, that you pick on him just because he's an irritating stupid little shitbag.
Well, fooooor-giiiiiiive me. ;D
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W-A-N-K-E-R, I believe.
Have we had Philip Hammond yet? If not, I bagsy him.
I get the impression that you are not keen on him. In fact, that you pick on him just because he's an irritating stupid little shitbag.
Isn't that enough? ;D
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W-A-N-K-E-R, I believe.
Have we had Philip Hammond yet? If not, I bagsy him.
I get the impression that you are not keen on him. In fact, that you pick on him just because he's an irritating stupid little shitbag.
Isn't that enough? ;D
Oh, all right then.
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Cllr Harry Phibbs (who was on Jonsnonews tonight)
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Whatever fuck-haired imbecilic cockwomble it was on Question Time last night made me shout at the telly.
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W-A-N-K-E-R, I believe.
Have we had Philip Hammond yet? If not, I bagsy him.
In The Times today about speed limits Hammond said we should "police by consent", so if a large number of people break a law, it's the law that needs looking at. Like with, say, cannabis or prostitution? I could never tire of punching Hammond's complacent stupid face and weird schoolboy haircut. I would punch his haircut over and over, it would start crying and I wouldn't stop.
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We need to reinstate the You Must Choose threads.
Hammond or Gove for a lifetime of punchbag fun?
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We need to reinstate the You Must Choose threads.
Hammond or Gove for a lifetime of punchbag fun?
Why not use one as a club with which to hit the other? When that gets boring they can change places.
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Eddy Mair. Smug, patronising, facetious, flippant. Some day I'll list his defects.
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http://twitter.com/#!/dannycare
"I hate Cyclists!!!!! #getacar"
My reply: "I hate Rugby Players!!!!! #getaroundball"
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Mr Care(less) later tweeted:
"My last comment wasn't meant to offend. I didn't realise cyclists were so passionate. I'm sorry. #cyclesafe"
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Mr Care(less) later tweeted:
"My last comment wasn't meant to offend. I didn't realise cyclists were so passionate. I'm sorry. #cyclesafe"
Well that's one twat dealt with, for the time being.
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Mark Littlewood.
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Jason Plato. Hypertwat. Note to Matt Neal: if you're going to thump him one, please do it properly.
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Mark Littlewood again Just seen it on the telly. It really is a sack of shit.
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What's he done? He has form on foot-in-mouth.
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He was on Panorama making his "case" for the abolition of the Minimum Wage.
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And he'll be the first to volunteer for a wage below the current minimum, I take it?
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He could come and work for me. I would charge him a fair rate for the privilege.
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Is he the twat I heard on R5 yesterday morning arguing the same? His case seemed to be that some jobs are "worth only £5.50 an hour" to employers, so they can't afford to employ someone to do the job, ergo the minimum wage is causing unemployment. A particularly specious line of reasoning. It made me really annoyed - not just because they were giving him the oxygen of publicity but because his cretinous argument was going largely unchallenged by that thicko woman they've got in to replace Shelagh.
And she's another one for the list. Thicko Woman, not Shelagh. I love Shelagh.
They had some bloke on talking about luxury speedboats the other day. He was going through some of the features on such vessels and Thicko Woman was befuddled by his mention of "Bombay doors". I felt compelled to write in to point out that the feature in question was actually "bomb-bay doors".
d.
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Yes, that's the twat.
If we apply the logic of "free" market economics, if a business cannot afford to employ people, then it shouldn't.
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Theresa May. See POBI.
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Eddy Mair. Smug, patronising, facetious, flippant. Some day I'll list his defects.
and Carolyn Quinn. She said catgate on PM this afternoon.
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Lord Foster
(Don't get me started - oh you have)
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This ^^^^. Especially for the crime against humanity that is LHR Terminal 5.
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Matthew bloody arsehole Wright. Would ya?
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Matthew bloody arsehole Wright. Would ya?
I presume that in this instance, the usage of "would ya?" refers to devising an amusing demise for him, que no? :demon:
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One can only hope. Otherwise one would despair.
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Stephen Bayley, arrogant elitist ponce for hire. Just fuck off.
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I had forgotten about him; I had always thought of him as a knob but now I realise I was mistaken. Apologies.
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Jack Whitehall.
Trustafarian twat.
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Jack Whitehall.
And the bollock-brained fuckwit who designed his website.
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Never heard of him, but, having read his Wikipedia entry, I am not inspired to seek him out.
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It may be a complete coincidence and I admit that I wasn't wearing my specs but I am sure that I saw him at lunchtime today outside the RFH as I passed on my Friday run. He was texting while picking his nose and despite this impressive display of multi-tasking still looked a twat. It could have been some other twat of course.
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He's on Mock The Week quite regularly. When he's on I put the telly on mute when he's speaking.
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In the unlikely event that he hasn't been mentioned previously, I'd like to name Wayne Rooney (particularly after last nights display) ::-)
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In the unlikely event that he hasn't been mentioned previously, I'd like to name Wayne Rooney (particularly after last nights display) ::-)
He's not a super twat.He's not that good.
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Steve Jobs's death got me thinking about other business heroes. Specifically those that are/have been (reputedly) able to walk on water.
Therefore, I nominate as Super Twats, Richard Branson, Alan Sugar and Clive Sinclair.
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I know we've had Lewis Hamilton in this thread before, but he's worth re-stating after spending most of the 2011 season behaving like a big twatty twatter.
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I accidentally watched 2.6 seconds of a documentary about U2 last night. Bono.
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Have I offended someone? Come now, perhaps Mr Bono is a difficult man to despise but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
J
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I deliberately missed that U2 documentary as I feared for the integrity of my television. Bonio takes the (dog) biscuit in the twattery stakes.
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More than the Right Honourable Dr Liam Fox, MP? Or 'Knocksy Foxy', if you will...
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I deliberately missed that U2 documentary as I feared for the integrity of my television. Bonio takes the (dog) biscuit in the twattery stakes.
Splendid! For a moment I wondered whether it was just me.
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I deliberately missed that U2 documentary as I feared for the integrity of my television. Bonio takes the (dog) biscuit in the twattery stakes.
Splendid! For a moment I wondered whether it was just me.
Yeah, but they're so like, Rock and Roll y'know?
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I am afraid that I cannot view Rock and Rollery as a mitigating circumstance.
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More than the Right Honourable Dr Liam Fox, MP? Or 'Knocksy Foxy', if you will...
Rarely has the word "honourable" seemed less appropriate.
d.
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Paxman. Another Jeremy I'm afraid but definitely a twat big time.
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Tory Councillor Tony Shields (http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Council-cyclists-claim-expenses-drivers/story-13501665-detail/story.html#comments)
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Mike Penning (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=52491.msg1066480#msg1066480)
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Oliver
TwaLetwin (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/14/oliver-letwin-investigation-documents-bin?newsfeed=true).
Those bins aren't for recycling, twat.
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That workplace performance is definitely worth £65k per year. Just think what morons we might get if we didn't pay enough.
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David King, spokesdroid for Human Genetics Alert, has a black belt in twattery, as his performance on the Toady prog this morning demonstrated all too clearly.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg.
(Yes, I'm watching Question Time right now).
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Louise Mensch :hand:
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Jacob Rees-Mogg.
(Yes, I'm watching Question Time right now).
If ever the almighty (however you perceive him/her/it to be) ever had in mind a Ur Tory, this man certainly qualifies.
I recall reading from somewhere that his nanny helped her charge canvassing in a hopeless scottish seat.
Frere
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Louise Mensch :hand:
I take it you saw Have I Got New For You? Love Ian Hislop.
d.
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Two twats for the price of one. In an amazing bit of ubertwattery, "Pierce" actually has me agreeing with him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQx3YIImvjk
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Jacob Rees-Mogg on Newsnight at the mo
:sick:
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The people responsible for adapting Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks novels for the electrick television. Stephen Tompkinson is Damien Day. End of.
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Eamonn Holmes, the obnoxious knacker, particularly related to his remarks on This Morning yesterday.
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Eamonn Holmes, the obnoxious knacker, particularly related to his remarks on This Morning yesterday.
Oh yes, he's been a Super-Twat since at least 2008...
Eamonn Holmes
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He called co-presenter Jonathan Wilkes "retarded" on This Morning a couple of weeks ago. What now? Has he topped that?
d.
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Ray Comfort, the banana man.
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He called co-presenter Jonathan Wilkes "retarded" on This Morning a couple of weeks ago. What now? Has he topped that?
d.
They had a woman on the other day who was abducted and raped in his car when she was 18. She had the presence of mind to tear her hair out by the roots and shove it between the seats, and to spit several times, so that her DNA was present in the car. She said she tried to cut her finger open with her earring to leave blood too, but it hurt too much. Anyway, he was caught and convicted of that attack and several other abductions and rapes. Eammon Holmes finished the piece with "well, I hope you take taxis now."
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Me. I am taking everything far too seriously. Stoppit, stoppit stoppit.
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It's that time again: Eddie Mair.
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After seeing a BBC trailer ( I don't know when it was broadcast; it may have been recorded with something else, as we rarely watch programmes at scheduled transmission times) Ricky Gervais. He's an obnoxious little shitbag.
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Gotta be Sepp Blatter.
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Bob Diamond.
I think that charging customers to look after money, that you then use as the stake for your gambling, is a "flawed model".
And Evan Davies, who sucks up to such pigfuckers.
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Heather McGregor, who was on the Toady prog this morning arguing that it should only be shareholders, and not workers, who determine The Boss' compensation package and sounded like a twat of epic proportions while doing so.
Edit:
Interviewer: They have worker representation in such matters in Germany
Super-Twat: This is not Germany!
Interviewer: Perhaps it should be.
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Heather McGregor, who was on the Toady prog this morning arguing that it should only be shareholders, and not workers, who determine The Boss' compensation package and sounded like a twat of epic proportions while doing so.
If that was the shrill, shouty woman who got even more shrill & shouty when anyone dared to question her point of view, then:
+1.
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Have we had Dermot O'Leary yet? He doesn't really do a lot but he wears too-tight shiny suits and is insufferably smug.
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Heather McGregor, who was on the Toady prog this morning arguing that it should only be shareholders, and not workers, who determine The Boss' compensation package and sounded like a twat of epic proportions while doing so.
Edit:
Interviewer: They have worker representation in such matters in Germany
Super-Twat: This is not Germany!
Interviewer: Perhaps it should be.
IIRC she said something like: "It's not 70 years ago* and we're not part of Germany". At which point (given that it followed on from "Anyone over the age of 7 who says 'It's not fair' needs to grow up") I spontaneously redecorated the kitchen >:(.
* - precisely the attitude that sustains the German view of Brits as "island monkeys" ::-)
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The cast of The Moral Maze (the antidote to radio).
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Some recent or ongoing twats:
- The bloke with the dog in Richmond Park. Takes twattery to unrivalled heights of ultra-twattiness.
- Tony Parsons. Why, while you were twat-in-residence at Heathrow airport, did someone not roll you up in a carpet and air-freight you to Turkmenistan?
- George Osborne. I know we've had the slack-jawed pasty-faced twat on several previous occasions but someone whose qualifications for high political office are confined to stiff documentation and towel folding should not be in charge of the world's sixth largest economy. Just looking at him makes me feel physically ill.
- Andrew Lansley. When I am physically ill, I'd have to look at this twat on a three-minute loop until the Twat Death of the universe.
- Any of the numerous twats who repeated the story that the BBC had ordered programme makes to use the terms "CE" and "BCE" instead of "AD" and "BC". Twats including, though not limited to, Melanie Phillips, Richard Littlejohnson, James "Twat" Delingpole, the Archtwat of Cunterbury and some twat from the Vatican.
- Nick Clegg. Twat. End of.
- Robert Peston. Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! My ears!
- Nadine Dorries. Has turned being a twat into the equivalent of Tolstoy, Shakespeare or Bach.
- ITV's colemantators at the Rugby World Cup. Even the more-than-a-little twatoidal Eddie Butler is better than you.
- That big bison off "Frozen Planet".
- That male wolf off "Frozen Planet".
Aaaah! That's better :P
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I am sure he's featured on here before, but Danny Alexander needs a good slap for being so smug about bending over and taking it from the Tories. Apart from the fact that he looks like a student union sabbatical officer, he has a shit-eating grin that makes me gingercidal.
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I know we've had Lewis Hamilton in this thread before, but he's worth re-stating after spending most of the 2011 season behaving like a big twatty twatter.
And he's even more of a twat for dumping that Pussy Cat Doll - muppet! I gather they might be trying to make up but even if he gets her back he's still a twat for getting rid of her in the first place.
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I know we've had Lewis Hamilton in this thread before, but he's worth re-stating after spending most of the 2011 season behaving like a big twatty twatter.
And he's even more of a twat for dumping that Pussy Cat Doll - muppet! I gather they might be trying to make up but even if he gets her back he's still a twat for getting rid of her in the first place.
Are you sure she didn't dump him, on account of his being a twat?
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Clarkson. Again. You all know why.
I hope his next job is cleaning pig slurry pits with his own toothbrush.
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I know we've had Lewis Hamilton in this thread before, but he's worth re-stating after spending most of the 2011 season behaving like a big twatty twatter.
And he's even more of a twat for dumping that Pussy Cat Doll - muppet! I gather they might be trying to make up but even if he gets her back he's still a twat for getting rid of her in the first place.
Are you sure she didn't dump him, on account of his being a twat?
Possibly. Who cares about the detail, he shouldn't of let it happen, she is ... well ... a Pussy Cat Doll and he's a super twat!
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Clarkson. Again. You all know why.
I hope his next job is cleaning pig slurry pits with his own toothbrush.
I quite like the chap, in small controlled doses, with my shit filter turned up to the max but even I was appalled last night. What a twat!
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Is this something about PubSec strikers should be shot?
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Is this something about PubSec strikers should be shot?
Public sector strikers should be executed in front of their families. And this at about 7:10pm on primetime telly.
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In addition to Clarkson, I will throw the following collectiev into the mix-
Just about anybody harping on about the disparity between public and private sector pensions.
Your average public sector worker is paid an annual salary or weekly wage a long way short of what the corresponding grade/ job etc. would attract in the private sector. Plus working for public sector employers can be absolute shit. I do not include the higher ranks in this category. I know a few public sector Grand High Mucky Mucks who have spent several years raking it in in the public sector before getting senior public sector positions.
Public sector workers put up with 30 years or so of crap pay and crap work for the benefit of being reasonably comfortable in their old age.
Don't want public sector pensions to be "better" than private sector?
Pay a decent wage for the 30 years that they do the job then.
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I saw someone submitting lord Bragg of Bragg on here a while back.
Actually, I quite like him.
Consider 'In Our Time', a flagship mostly-arts-and-history program.
He hosts this very well, in that he invites expert guests, has arranged what questions need to be asked to allow the guests to reveal their knowledge and basically lets them do the talking. He even gamely takes on some science topics, in which he is clearly out of his depth, but that doesn't matter, because he lets the expert guests do the talking.
Contrast this to 'Material World', a supposed flagship science program, hosted by the insufferable Quentin Cooper. He just can't Shut The Fuck Up. He constantly rabbits on with a stream of pun-based drivel, asking his guests questions and not STFU for long enough to let them answer. When they do answer, he constantly interrupts with 'humerous' puns etc, and the sniggers to himself on-mic at his own 'cleverness' like beavis and butthead hearing the word 'boobie', over the top of the guest who tries to continue through gritted teeth.
So:
Quentin Cooper: Super-Twat.
I commend this to the house.
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Since I'm here ( and I don't come here often ), am I allowed more than 1?
They are not in the 'normal' Media, but infest Usenet.
I humbly submit:
'The Medway Handyman', who posts reasonable stuff on uk.d-i-y, but turns into 'Dave - Cyclist VOR' on u.r.c , an absolute worst example of White Van Man that you can imagine.
There are very few people who annoy me so much that I actually wish I could perform a Cruciatus Curse, but he's as close as it comes.
And 'Judith' a close second.
So, Dave: Super-Twat.
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Seconded.
<waves order paper vigorously in the air>
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David Luiz
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Eric Pickles.
Utter utter utter Supertwat par excellence
Man should have done to him what he did to Bradford.
And no, I don't want to watch :o
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Eric Pickles.
What's he done now?
However, I'll second your nomination (on the grounds of Mr Wobbly's very existence).
Should we start a Yorkshire Hall of Shame? Godzone has spawned some real stars.
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Yorkshire Supertwats include (but are not limited to):
Jeremy Clarkson
Paul Daniels
Bernard Ingham
Ted Hughes
Goeffrey Boycott
Eric fucking Pickles
Branwell Bronte
Harvey Smith
Judi Dench
Melanie Brown
Phil Oakey
Kimberley Walsh
Brian Clough
David Hockney
Marcus Fox
etc
etc
etc
I was going to say Fabian Hamilton, as he is a Megatwat, but it turns out he was born in London.
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who is etc & his/her relative's?
;)
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Nay, Clarion lad, tha forgot William Hague.
I can't remember the source (it was either my Dad or a friend) of "There's nowt more toxic than a Yorkshire Tory".
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Oh yes - William Hague, along with Fox, Ingham, Pickles et al.
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What's wrong with Brian Clough? I think he was grand.
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You aren't a Leeds fan, are you? ;D
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Judi Dench? ???
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Ohhhhhh yes! Dame bloody Judi bitchcow Dench. She's the only one on the list with whom I have had professional dealings. And she belongs on the list.
She was born in York, ftr, even though she used to try denying it.
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Ohhhhhh yes! Dame bloody Judi bitchcow Dench. She's the only one on the list with whom I have had professional dealings. And she belongs on the list.
She was born in York, ftr, even though she used to try denying it.
Judi Dench's father was my MILs doctor. He was supposedly quite nice.
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Peter Stringfellow
Mike Tindall
Ashley Jackson
John Braine
and
Chris Moyles
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Dunno who Mike Tindall is, but he is in soundly disreputable company in your list.
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You aren't a Leeds fan, are you? ;D
I'm more like the anti-Leeds fan. ;D
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He reckons to laik rugby. (the southern code FFS). He was one of Englands Finest in the recent
pii-up World Cup competition.
May I ask what you have against David Hockney?
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Letters page, Guardian, passim.
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I haven't read those contributions to the public discourse, but if they are similar to the crap he's spouted on Radio 4 recently, I agree. He comes across as the sort of old fart that whinges about (among other things) "poofs" and "modern art", as well as all his other vacuous ramblings.
He's on Radio 4 on Monday morning. I think I'll have a lie-in.
I like his paintings, though.
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Oh, I love his paintings, and his photography. But his constant whinging about smoking gets on my tits.
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Yorkshire Supertwats include (but are not limited to):
Jeremy Clarkson
Paul Daniels
Bernard Ingham
Ted Hughes
Goeffrey Boycott
Eric fucking Pickles
Branwell Bronte
Harvey Smith
Judi Dench
Melanie Brown
Phil Oakey
Kimberley Walsh
Brian Clough
David Hockney
Marcus Fox
etc
etc
etc
I was going to say Fabian Hamilton, as he is a Megatwat, but it turns out he was born in London.
It's my understanding that there are no s/tees in Yorkshire.I have been told that they were relocated to neigh other counties :demon:
dons tin hat & awaits sh$tstorm ;D
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Worth noting how many of Yorkshire's Supertwats actually live in the county.
We're well rid of them.
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Peter Stringfellow
Mike Tindall
Ashley Jackson
John Braine
and
Chris Moyles
I think this thread was actually invented for Chris Moyles.
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Peter Stringfellow
Mike Tindall
Ashley Jackson
John Braine
and
Chris Moyles
I think this thread was actually invented for Chris Moyles.
The first nomination was Bear Grylls, but I know what you mean.
Bear Grylls sounds like something that Vladimir Putin (another nominee!) would eat to make himself seem dead butch.
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I wanted to add Eric Treacy (Bishop of Wakefield) and Wilf Proudfoot (supermarket/pirate radio/trading stamps boss) to the Godzone Country SuperTwats Hall of Shame, but they were foreign.
So I'll go for David Hathaway, god squadder, MI6 agent, smuggler and slum landlord (it was alleged).
Edit: he's foreign, too! (born in london). I knew him when I lived in Dewsbury; I'd always assumed he was local.
He's still a SuperTwat.
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Keith Peat. He looks bad enough in "On The Road", but a quick Web search gives me the impression that he's an obnoxious, stupid, arrogant, proto-fascist fuckwit.
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Keith Peat. He looks bad enough in "On The Road", but a quick Web search gives me the impression that he's an obnoxious, stupid, arrogant, proto-fascist fuckwit.
I came across him purely by chance in the comments to a link posted here. As others have said, he is clearly channeling the spirit of the late pony-tailed geeklord and speedophile.
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We know 'Nigger in the woodpile' is wrong but Is 'elephant in the room' still OK? Will the word 'looter' be banned next?
http://twitter.com/BogTrotter1
WTF? Cos those words have all the same connotations?
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Pretty sure he's been mentioned before, but, following his interview on Today, perhaps we need a new category of Smug, callous, ignorant Megatwat for Ian Duncan Smith.
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And Gill Kirby sp?
No, I hadn't heard of her either, but she was on Today too.
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Pretty sure he's been mentioned before, but, following his interview on Today, perhaps we need a new category of Smug, callous, ignorant Megatwat for Ian Duncan Smith.
I concur. He wants to inflict his ex-military self-flagellatory masochism and Catholic guilt on the rest of us. And all this tiresome preaching about "getting people back into work" - hasn't he seen the unemployment figures?
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Pretty sure he's been mentioned before, but, following his interview on Today, perhaps we need a new category of Smug, callous, ignorant Megatwat for Ian Duncan Smith.
I concur. He wants to inflict his ex-military self-flagellatory masochism and Catholic guilt on the rest of us. And all this tiresome preaching about "getting people back into work" - hasn't he seen the unemployment figures?
This is not a government that believes in making evidence-based decisions.
I heard the interview. Quite, quite unbelieveable. So his government directly sacks hundreds of thousands, then bangs on about needing to "get people back into work". What an complete and utter smeghead.
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Phil Flanders, Director of the Road Haulage Association in Scotland, for services to spouting anti cyclist bollocks.
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The aptly named Capt AK Burki, headmaster of the proposed Phoenix free school in Oldham, and the similarly aptly Tom Burkard who had the idea. The plan is to have an entire staff of former military, and no trained teachers. Idiots.
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And, also on World At One, seemingly a nutter special, Peter Moskos the author of In Defence Of Flogging.
OK, in private between consenting adults...
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Phil Flanders, Director of the Road Haulage Association in Scotland, for services to spouting anti cyclist bollocks.
Yebbut, over on Cyclechat there's a thread about said anti cyclist bollocks. And one of the cyclechatters has a day job as fleet manager for a large (like seven thousand) fleet of lorries. And when he got back from his Christmas hollibibs, he terminated their RHA membership , citing Flanders' anti cyclist bollocks as a reason.
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Cool.
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Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall.
The exact reason why only being available via PM as it could well be actionable even if it is true.
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Nick Herbert.
Or should this be in the Nominative Determinism thread?
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Is Jamie Oliver already nominated? If so, I've seconded him. His oh so funny "Cock in Cider" mobile pub. His general gittishness. His use of the words "bad boy" "real" (as in keeping it real). I could go on. Wiki claims his children are called Poppy Honey Rosie Oliver, Daisy Boo Pamela Oliver, Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver and Buddy Bear Maurice Oliver.
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Surely those names are the victims of subtle Wiki vandalism?
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Surely those names are the victims of subtle Wiki vandalism?
Apparently not ...
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The girls' names are pretty typical cutesy trendy-parents fare, but Buddy Bear?That's beyond embarrassing and comes out the other end sounding ludicrously cool. Poor guy will never be taken seriously as an adult though.
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Poor guy will never be taken seriously as an adult though.
Like father, like son ....
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We'll find that out if Oliver ever becomes an adult.
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Oh - I know he's in already, but he's earned another mention:
Michael Gove.
And honorable mentions for Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith.
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Have we had James Corden yet? He appears to be fat, boorish, smug and not much else. and I'm not even an Adele fan ;D
Did anyone else think George Michael was a bit stoned at the Brits? Mastercard must have been well annoyed when he half said "the Barclays Brit award".
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tbf, it wouldn't have been Corden's decision to cut Adele's squawking off early. He'd have had a Director yelling in his ear...
George Michael? Stoned? It seems hardly possible.
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I actually love George Michael. He's the real queen of England, and a national treasure. That's why everyone forgives his cottaging and his little stoner incidents.
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Baroness Warsi.
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Baroness Warsi.
Oh yes indeed.
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Have we had James Corden yet? He appears to be fat, boorish, smug and not much else. and I'm not even an Adele fan ;D
You missed out 'desperately unfunny'
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Have we had James Corden yet? He appears to be fat, boorish, smug and not much else. and I'm not even an Adele fan ;D
You missed out 'desperately unfunny'
Your Honour, I would also like "completely talentless" to be taken into consideration.
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Is Jamie Oliver already nominated? If so, I've seconded him. His oh so funny "Cock in Cider" mobile pub. His general gittishness. His use of the words "bad boy" "real" (as in keeping it real). I could go on. Wiki claims his children are called Poppy Honey Rosie Oliver, Daisy Boo Pamela Oliver, Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver and Buddy Bear Maurice Oliver.
What's the difference between Jamie Oliver and a long distance rural runner?
One has a big pant in the country....
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Is Jamie Oliver already nominated? If so, I've seconded him. His oh so funny "Cock in Cider" mobile pub. His general gittishness. His use of the words "bad boy" "real" (as in keeping it real). I could go on. Wiki claims his children are called Poppy Honey Rosie Oliver, Daisy Boo Pamela Oliver, Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver and Buddy Bear Maurice Oliver.
What's the difference between Jamie Oliver and a long distance rural runner?
One has a big pant in the country....
Jamie Oliver has a big **** in the pantry?
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Is Jamie Oliver already nominated? If so, I've seconded him. His oh so funny "Cock in Cider" mobile pub. His general gittishness. His use of the words "bad boy" "real" (as in keeping it real). I could go on. Wiki claims his children are called Poppy Honey Rosie Oliver, Daisy Boo Pamela Oliver, Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver and Buddy Bear Maurice Oliver.
What's the difference between Jamie Oliver and a long distance rural runner?
One has a big pant in the country....
Jamie Oliver has a big **** in the pantry?
The lovely Jules, one presumes.
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Eric Fucking Piggles.
And to save work for my compatriot, Michael Gove.
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Peter Lilley
It's unthinkable that the Prime Minister would have introduced changes which would victimise (children with cerebral palsy)
No. It isn't. It's happened.
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Because he can afford them!
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I seem to recall Peter Lilley being permanent "Slimiest Git of the Week" in Drop The Dead Donkey...
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I thought he was dead and gone, along with all those other awful old skool Tories. I recall he was a particularly vicious and uncaring social security secretary of state in his time.
That's probably enough politics. Don't want this moved.
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I thought he was dead and gone, along with all those other awful old skool Tories. I recall he was a particularly vicious and uncaring social security secretary of state in his time.
That's probably enough politics. Don't want this moved.
I'd forgotten about this particular bastard!
There are threads about zombies elsewhere on this forum. Maybe PL is one.
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Steve Hilton.
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And Perez Hilton.
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Tom Winsor
That is all.
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Scared you wouldn't pass the fitness test? ;)
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Oh No. I'm all for an annual fitness test. I have been supporting that idea for the last 22 1/2 years. I'm just not looking forward to the constant whinging of the fat c**t opposite that this will ferment.
Also not looking forward to the prospect of poor young recruits getting paid £19,000 a year to be led into battle by Sergeants with less than 3 years in the job, or put in harms way by Inspectors with 3 years maximum in the job so minimal street experience, who is taking his or her lead from Superintendants and above who had absolutely fuck all experience of doing themselves what they are ordering done >:(
A recipe for disaster.
What was he beforehand- Rail Regulator or something?
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What was he beforehand- Rail Regulator or something?
Started as a solicitor, Rail Regulator 1999-2004 where he presided over the fuck-up that was Railtrack, then back into legal practice.
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What was he beforehand- Rail Regulator or something?
Started as a solicitor, Rail Regulator 1999-2004 where he presided over the fuck-up that was Railtrack, then back into legal practice.
Where he is presiding over the fucking up of an arm of the practice.....
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As this is one of my favourite threads, I'd like to keep it on page one.
This morning I heard an interview with a contender for Best in Show.
Peter Cruddas.
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Francis Maude.
BOOOOOOOM!!!!!
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Since The Apprentice is on again, any of the contestants. The recruitment consultant (ugh)/amateur body builder looks punchable enough to be this year's Baggs The Brand.
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Francis Maude.
BOOOOOOOM!!!!!
Francis Molotov, surely?
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And now Francis Mauled.
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He's a Firestarter. Twisted Firestarter... ;D
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This is a thread for listing those people in the public eye that you absolutely can not abide.
I'll kick off with Bear Grylls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls#Criticism).
Bear Grylls - Super-Twat
I won't substantiate this opinion, I just believe it to be true.
Bear Grylls could kick your arse in almost any activity you choose. Just because he has a silly name, is an old etonian, and looks a bit gay does not mean he is not actually well hard. He eats worms and roadkill when he is hungry. That is seriously hard.
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And goes to five star hotels when he's tired. That's not so hard. Quite soft, really. Downy, if you like...
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Jens Voigt could turn Bear Grylls inside-out using only his eyebrows.
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Eddy Merckx would have him for a snack.
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Ray Mears did, and that's why he looks a bit porky.
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Ray Mears has got moobs.
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Only on the outside. Bear Grylls is a fathead.
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One day, I'd like to cycle tour/camp a summer away in the Boreal Forest of Canada. Assuming I don't get eaten by a bear or midges, I'd have Ray Mears to thank for that adventure.
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A sweary song for a sweary thread - NSFW obviously...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDM-kCQkarw
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Francis Maude (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17560534) >:(
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Only on the outside. Bear Grylls is a fathead.
I met a bloke in the Royal Armoured Corps on holiday once. Dead nice he was, involved in teaching people how to sail - the RAC has its own yacht. Better than driving tanks I guess.
Anyway, he'd met Mr Grylls on a survival/escape and evasion course when the Ursine one was in the Territorial SAS. He (Grylls) allegedly had an alarming trick of hiding Mars Bars about his person, so he'd have something to eat when on the run. From the description of where he hid them, I hope they were securely wrapped.
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Rather more than I wanted to know.
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Only on the outside. Bear Grylls is a fathead.
I met a bloke in the Royal Armoured Corps on holiday once. Dead nice he was, involved in teaching people how to sail - the RAC has its own yacht. Better than driving tanks I guess.
Anyway, he'd met Mr Grylls on a survival/escape and evasion course when the Ursine one was in the Territorial SAS. He (Grylls) allegedly had an alarming trick of hiding Mars Bars about his person, so he'd have something to eat when on the run. From the description of where he hid them, I hope they were securely wrapped.
AIUI condoms are used
sometimes :sick:
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Only on the outside. Bear Grylls is a fathead.
I met a bloke in the Royal Armoured Corps on holiday once. Dead nice he was, involved in teaching people how to sail - the RAC has its own yacht. Better than driving tanks I guess.
Anyway, he'd met Mr Grylls on a survival/escape and evasion course when the Ursine one was in the Territorial SAS. He (Grylls) allegedly had an alarming trick of hiding Mars Bars about his person, so he'd have something to eat when on the run. From the description of where he hid them, I hope they were securely wrapped.
Would it not melt?
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Have we had Danny Alexander yet?
If not, then I nominate him.
If we have, I'll nominate him again.
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Stewart Jackson, MP for Peterborough. A right-wing RentaGob.
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Have we had Danny Alexander yet?
If not, then I nominate him.
If we have, I'll nominate him again.
He disproves the popular idea that there are less Tory MPs in Scotland than Pandas.
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Michael Gove has earned himself another mention.
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Tom Bursnall. Not that I'd heard of him before.
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I've resisted naming the S.T. but it's the architect who f$c$ed me about last August to the extent that I terminated my RRTY attempt & I'm still bloody >:( about it
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Maybe Clarion hasn't been listening to the radio this week.
Michael Gove was on twice, which makes him a Double Super-Twat.
By way of consolation, Eddie Mair gave him a bit of stick the other night.
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I know it's old news but can I have Michael O'Leary (The Beast Of Ryanair) for registering his chauffeur-driven Merc as a taxi so he can use Dublin bus lanes?
Oh, and Clarkson again, since he's mentioned in another thread right now.
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Did the Addison Lee Supertwat not get nominated? Or did we just assume that he would take his natural place anyway?
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I know it's old news but can I have Michael O'Leary (The Beast Of Ryanair) for registering his chauffeur-driven Merc as a taxi so he can use Dublin bus lanes?
The last part of your sentence was unnecessary.
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Did the Addison Lee Supertwat not get nominated? Or did we just assume that he would take his natural place anyway?
I assumed that someone else would.
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I know they've all been mentioned before but...
Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Hunt, May, Duncan Smith, Rees-Mogg, Pickles, Warsi, Maude... I could go on but I won't. Just the whole fucking sorry lot of them.
d.
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I know they've all been mentioned before but...
Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Hunt, May, Duncan Smith, Rees-Mogg, Pickles, Warsi, Maude... I could go on but I won't. Just the whole fucking sorry lot of them.
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After listening to WATO today, I must second Warsi. What a clown.
An afterthought; if I chuck in Hague, we've got a Triple Score of Yorkshire Super-Twattery. There's nowt more toxic than a Yorkshire Tory.
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I know they've all been mentioned before but...
Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Hunt, May, Duncan Smith, Rees-Mogg, Pickles, Warsi, Maude... I could go on but I won't. Just the whole fucking sorry lot of them.
d.
You would have to combine them to get one decent super-twat out of the lot of them. How has politics in our country got so pathetic?
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Patrick Kielty.
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Any particular reason? Has he recently excelled himself in the field of twattery? Or just his superbly consistent twattishness?
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He's covering for Steve Wright In The Afternoon just now and I had the misfortune to hear some of it.
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Well, Steve Wright is a bit of a twat, so it's a small step up.
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Who keeps letting that awful Mensch on the telly? And why do they always put these arseholes on when I'm eating my dinner?
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Damon Albarn (Blur)
I keep forgetting what a too-cool-for-school-music-is-a-serious-business twat he is. Fortunately he keeps appearing on "Later" to remind me.
He's right down there with look-at-my-new-lute Sting
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Who keeps letting that awful Mensch on the telly? And why do they always put these arseholes on when I'm eating my dinner?
She's foxy, in an Eva Braun kind of way.
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Christine Lagarde.
I mean, WTF? What on earth was she thinking?
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Damon Albarn (Blur)
I keep forgetting what a too-cool-for-school-music-is-a-serious-business twat he is. Fortunately he keeps appearing on "Later" to remind me.
I think you've only got yourself to blame for that!!!
I'd like to add Jools Holland to the list.
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Can I mention Louise Mensch again?
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Theresa May (Theresa most definitely is?)
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Andrew Lansley (again)
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Jimmy Carr
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/20/jimmy-carr-tax-david-cameron (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/20/jimmy-carr-tax-david-cameron)
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People actually pay Jimmy Carr to tell jokes?
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David Cameron said Jimmy Carr is "morally wrong" on tax.
I could have shortened that sentence by two words and it would have made equal sense.
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Sepp Blatter
if there were only two twats on the planet he would be both of them
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;D
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Andrew Lansley.
Again.
Utter utter utter ignorant cocking supertwat.
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I have to confess that I find Jimmy Carr quite funny. But even if I didn't, he does seem to annoy po-faced Guardian readers for some reason, which super un-twatifies him. So there.
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He got off a driving ban by using Mr Loophole (Arsehole, more like).
Dangerous driver still allowed to drive round like the arrogant cock he is.
Still find him funny? I don't.
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Michael Gove, just because he's an utter dickhead.
Louise Mensch, again.
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Louise Mensch, again.
It seems that Mensch has started a Twitteresque microblogging thingummy called Menschn :facepalm:
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Michael Gove, just because he's an utter dickhead.
Yes, that.
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I concur, him again.
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/MICHAEL_GOVE.ashx.jpeg)
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To celebrate Super-Twat's new and more inclusive home, may I have the Syrian military?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18554246
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And again
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/6/21/1340294645470/Michael-Gove-at-the-Woodp-008.jpg)
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I think he's out of his intellectual depth there.
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A picture paints a thousand words. That made I larf ;D
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Is Ramsay on this list? ICBA to wade through it all, but on the off chance he isn't, lets add him. Did you hear that bit on Front Row about his latest wheeze? Reality TV chef in Brixton Prison. Gah!
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To celebrate Super-Twat's new and more inclusive home, may I have the Syrian military?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18554246
If it really was shot down by the Syrians, then whoever took the decision is indeed a twat of the first order. Small bullies really shouldn't pick fights with big bullies.
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I can't believe a would-be EU country is still flying an old shed like the F-4.
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Germany & Greece are still flying the F-4.
Like the Germans, Greeks & Japanese, the Turks have some of the last F-4s built, & they've been considerably improved. The best airframes in the fleet were rebuilt in the late 1990s: complete set of new avionics (including radars), completely rewired, replacement of the structural components most likely to fail, made capable of carrying a wide range of precision ground attack weapons. Their air-air abilities were not improved to the same degree, unlike German & Greek F-4s. They're now dedicated ground attack & reconnaissance aircraft.
The upgraded F-4s are expected to stay in service until at least 2015. The non-upgraded aircraft were retired.
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Buck stops here. Take it out of his bonus.
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/RBS_bonus.jpg)
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The upgraded F-4s are expected to stay in service until at least 2015. The non-upgraded aircraft were retired.
Not bad when you consider it was designed in the 50's. Just shows a brick can fly if you strap on big enough engines :)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8164/7478104278_d0b0f19eca.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/81657088@N06/7478104278/)
Yesterday, in the VIP tent at Poshstock. We were only 10' away. My missus called him a fucking wanker when he walked past us. To his face. He heard. I was so proud.
He was holding on very tightly to his kids. Spot the 'casual' MiB behind.
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The Scrote that did this gets my vote
'On a sour note we may have to reconsider giving access to our house and the use of it's facilities, as we had a bottle of whisky stolen from our kitchen'.
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Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Who is this right-wing, free-marketeer thatcherite arsewipe? He's just been on Newsnight arguing for the abolition of the minimum wage. He boasted of being in the country's top 5% earners then said that the company he runs can't afford to pay its workers more than the minimum wage. I have the same opinion of him as Wiggo has of doper-doubters.
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Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Who is this right-wing, free-marketeer thatcherite arsewipe? He's just been on Newsnight arguing for the abolition of the minimum wage. He boasted of being in the country's top 5% earners then said that the company he runs can't afford to pay its workers more than the minimum wage. I have the same opinion of him as Wiggo has of doper-doubters.
+1
It's not often I shout, "Shut up you cunt" at the tele.
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While on the subject of right-wing free-marketeers, I should like to nominate for Super-Twat status the entire Adam Smith Institute.
Thank you.
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And there was me thinking all this time that ASI stood for Absolute Supertwats Indeed.
Tchah!
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Here's an apolitical nomination for a change - the door-to-door chugger who knocked on my front door with today's TdF stage at a critical juncture.
Good thing I finally made him take the hint before the breakaways hit 2km to go...
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Niall Ferguson, Professor of Sophistry, for his attitude to those who are so wilfully stupid as to dare to disagree with him.
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Here's an apolitical nomination for a change - the door-to-door chugger who knocked on my front door with today's TdF stage at a critical juncture.
Good thing I finally made him take the hint before the breakaways hit 2km to go...
Why answer the door
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Sebastian Coe.
Again.
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Lesley Garrett. Sorry love, I'm sure you're a nice person but that was appalling.
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Theresa May. Foul and evil-hearted mendacious witch.
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Lesley Garrett. Sorry love, I'm sure you're a nice person but that was appalling.
Wiggo's face was a picture - he looked badly in need of some mind-bleach. (http://twitter.com/TelegraphSport/status/227081999691706369/photo/1/large)
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Surrey roadies - which part of "no you can't ride down Box Hill today" don't you understand? ::-)
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/534086/box-hill-closed-after-local-riders-give-security-the-slip.html
The National Trust and LOCOG security had to shut Box Hill today after some leisure cyclists verbally abused security guards who had tried to stop them riding down the road.
A one-way system was enforced in the morning so that national teams and local cyclists could enjoy riding up the road, free of all traffic except some service vehicles working on the venue. But just after midday the road was closed completely leaving Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert stuck at the bottom having only ridden a couple of laps.
Pillocks...
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Lesley Garrett. Sorry love, I'm sure you're a nice person but that was appalling.
Wiggo's face was a picture - he looked badly in need of some mind-bleach. (http://twitter.com/TelegraphSport/status/227081999691706369/photo/1/large)
Great photo! ;D
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Philip Tartaglia (http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/world/2012/jul/25/archbishop-of-glasgow-gay-mp)
Disgusting.
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William Hague.
Elder statesman, master tactician, political genius.
All these are descriptions which do not come close to describing his astonishing abilities.
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Tim Yeo- for reducing transport planning to a name calling game.
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Formerly Environment Minister, current Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, FFS, as well as an adulterer, of course.
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I forgot the Climate change bit of his current job.
So he is Chair of Climate change committee which suggests that he accepts climate change as a real event not just a conspiracy theory, and he wants to encourage more air travel.
Hypocrit as well as Super twat.
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Edwina Currie. She's currently on Any Questions. Somebody's been looking under stones!
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Michael Nazir-Ali. Hasn't he got anything better to do with his time?
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No.1 Son.
Next time, follow advice about arrival time at the airport. You won't then miss check in and have to pay $170 for the pleasure of being allowed to fly home 24 hours late ::-)
Supertwat of my own making :facepalm:
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Jeremy Hunt... :facepalm:
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You can repeat that one every day until he is replaced.
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+1. Cameron has missed a chance to improve his Cabinet , and promoting Hunt is an own goal, IMO.
Hunt is not fit to be in the cabinet, let alone in charge of the NHS. His job will be to put a positive PR spin on the changes.
With hindsight, Lansley was probably too honest and to nice for the job.
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With hindsight, Lansley was probably too honest and to nice for the job.
And just possibly incompetent!
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Quentin Tarantino
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Terry Wogan
Clare Balding
Nicky Campbell
+ numerous others.
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James Delingpole. >:(
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Sorry, but that's wrong. There are categories below (as in worse than) super-twat, & he belongs in one of them.
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Michael Gove (again)
For wanting to remove all mention of Mary Seacole from the curriculum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole).
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Michael Gove (again)
For wanting to remove all mention of Mary Seacole from the curriculum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole).
This is the perfect example of a campaign whipped up by the media over something that wasn't planned or proposed anyway. All the articles published about this reference each other - the Independent quotes Operation Black Vote, who quote The Voice, who quote the Guardian, whose article is written by someone from Operation Black Vote (and so it goes on) - and not one has produced any evidence of proposals to remove Mary Seacole from the curriculum.
There has never been any plan by the Department for Education to "remove Mary Seacole from the curriculum", as the DfE does not get involved in dictating which individuals are covered in subjects. DfE defines which areas will be covered, which will include subjects such as the abolition of slavery and the suffragettes.
(We were discussing this at the equality leads meeting yesterday. One of the people at the meeting is linked with the Mary Seacole Centre and has some interesting insights).
Doesn't mean that Gove isn't a super-twat - but let's give him that accolade for what he has actually done or said...
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James Delingpole. >:(
Sorry, but that's wrong. There are categories below (as in worse than) super-twat, & he belongs in one of them.
Agreed. On both counts.
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Martin Clunes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/jan/29/martin-clunes-road-rage-media-monkey
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Martin Clunes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/jan/29/martin-clunes-road-rage-media-monkey
ISTR Vic Reeves was dropped for the same reason.
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Wasn't that drink driving?
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Harold Hewitt
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Wasn't that drink driving?
Yes. Duh. Didn't read the Clunes article article closely enough coz he's a big-=eared super-twat.
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Harold Hewitt
You might need to expand on that one.
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Google James Hewitt and see the results...
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Ah yes. Thanks.
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In that case, ITYM Henry Hewitt.
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Ah yes, I believe I do.
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http://m.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/11/tories-reverse-socialist-coup-liam-fox
Dr. Liam Fox, far-right twunt who wasted taxpayers' money by taking his "friend" to junkets.
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Ray Winstone.
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1st minister for Wales carwyn jones mega super twat
Russell Brand
Jonathan Ross
99% of all football players
that'll do for now:)
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Any bloody apologists for Chris Huhne & Vicky Pryce.
Oh, and Chris Huhne & Vicky Pryce.
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Any Premiereship footballer that :
Takes drugs/drink drives/crashes a Bentley/roasts a girl in a hotel with his mates/racially abuses another player/wears bling/wears anything that resembles rap threads/gets sent off/releases a chart single/beats up his girlfriend/writes his life story at the age of 20/refuses to play for his club/resigns from international duty at the age of 26/misses training and worst of all. treats Cheryl Cole like dirt.
(I think that's about most of them then).
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Jonathon bloody Ross
How has me managed to weasle his way back into the BBC after the Andrew Sachs affair ?
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Piers Morgan. A million deaths were not enough for
Yueh Morgan.
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Jonathon bloody Ross
How has me managed to weasle his way back into the BBC after the Andrew Sachs affair ?
because the BBC are an organisation with low morale fibre.
Next up will be Andy Gray&his'oppo om MotD doing post match critique of referee & linesmens performance :demon:
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The bloody idiot in the black Audi convertible on the A49 in Hadnall today that decided to overtake the cars overtaking me cycling when there were cyclists coming in the other direction.
4 a breast on an A road, cyslists on both outsides and this knob comes through the middle well in excess of the village 40 mph speed limit.
Not much room for error, or a pot-hole wobble
I couldn't get his number or I would have reported him to the Police.
TWAT of the highest order
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Giles Coren.
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/giles-corens-my-london-8532950.html
What’s your biggest extravagance?
Traffic fines. London is my city and I will drive where I like in it: down Oxford St, pedestrian zones, bus lanes, right turns regardless of signs, wrong way down one-ways, then I park and walk, and if they tow me I think of it as valet parking. Then sometimes you get a letter with a little photo of yourself in your car doing something naughty and they want £80. But mostly you get away with it.
Knob-end.
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Has anyone nominated Gorgeous "George" Osborne yet? ;)
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I think he was given a lifetime's achievement award by page 2 of this thread.
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I think he was given a lifetime's achievement award by page 2 of this thread.
because I'm a sad bastard, I've checked; he wasn't.
But he has now!!!
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I think his twattishness was taken as given, without any need for it to be made explicit.
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John Sweeney
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David bloody lying Mellor!
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The BBC for political censorship.
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That.
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David bloody lying Mellor!
Always a safe choice, but has he done something specific?
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David bloody lying Mellor!
Always a safe choice, but has he done something specific?
He's a Tory - as far as forum political orthodoxy goes, just existing is probably more than enough. ;)
As a break from the party-political nominations, may I commend Justin Bieber for a lifetime uber-twat award?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22146859
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Have we had Harry Styles yet? Described by Charlie Brooker as "git-haired One Direction sex minnow".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/14/thatcher-ding-dong-bbc-charlie-brooker
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David bloody lying Mellor!
Always a safe choice, but has he done something specific?
He repeated the lies about Hillsborough, asserting them as fact. Blaming drunken fans (as the late, unlamented Irvine Patnick MP did) against all the evidence in the report of the Commission is just sickening.
So not a party political nomination at all. More a question of common decency.
Mind you, since it was the Tories who started spreading the lies, and reinforced them, Bernard Ingham and the sainted Margaret included, and attempted to quash the protests of such as IIRC Chris Mullin and others (more to the left than the right) who sought the truth, it seems to have been made a partisan issue by the liars in the Tory party and the Murdoch press, and Mellor continues that shameful tradition.
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Grant fucking Shapps again :hand: :demon:
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And now fucking yadda yadda Gove :demon:
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Have we had Andrew Lloyd-fucking-Webber yet, the donkey dong who permanently looks like he's about to stick up your local branch of $BANK with a sawn-off and a stocking over his head before making off in a Mark 2 Jag, only to be apprehended by DI Regan, DS Carter and assorted hardcases shouting "Don't, Guv, 'ee's not wurf it!"?
And also that twat in the UKIP party election broadcast. Twat. No, the beardy speccy one1, not the rather cute, if clearly deranged. blonde</sexist_oinker>
I have, as you may have guessed, got a bit of a snot on tonight...
1 - Before anyone rushes in with accusations of beardism, specism, etc., I should point out that I possess both :D
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I'll see you a Lloyd-Webber & raise you an Alan Twatmarsh. For no other reason than he exists.
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Gyles Brandreth, obv.
I'm listening to his Wordaholics programme on iplayer at the moment. I only have myself to blame.
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Gyles Brandreth, obv.
I'm listening to his Wordaholics programme on iplayer at the moment. I only have myself to blame.
+1. Christ, he was annoying on HIGNFY the other day. Twat.
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Peter Burkinshaw (http://road.cc/content/news/81887-ukip-cambridge-candidate-if-everybody-cycled-there-would-be-no-roads-ride)
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Katie Hopkins :sick:
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Katie Hopkins :sick:
Have you seen her Wiki entry (if you pardon the expression)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins:
Katie Hopkins (born 31 May 1975) is a British reality television contestant, homewrecker, businesswoman, and journalist, best known for her 2007 appearance on the third UK series of TV reality programme The Apprentice, in which contestants compete for a £100,000-a-year job working for British businessman Sir Alan Sugar.
;D
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I had to look her up. Still baffled as to what she is for.
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Katie Hopkins is for TV producers when they want a young-ish old-fashioned right-winger.
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Niall Ferguson. Even before the latest furore, he was a super-twat, and wrong about almost everything.
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I had to look her up. Still baffled as to what she is for.
I thought she'd vanished into the "where are they now" file. Once famously described as a "horsy-faced (sic) sex fiend".
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Niall Ferguson. Even before the latest furore, he was a super-test, and wrong about almost everything.
I thought his book on the Dundee and Newtyle railway was regarded as the closest thing to a definitive work one is likely to get. Or is that a different Niall Ferguson
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Cody Wilson.
What an utter dick.
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*Googles*
Yup. Supertwat and utter dick.
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*Googles*
Yup. Supertwat and utter dick.
Doesn't Google. Takes Clarion's word for it.
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Nigel Lawson.
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Has Bono appeared in here yet? I had a quick shufti but couldn't find the sanctimonious hyper-twat...
Norman Lamont. Less badgery these days but still a high-end tub of cuntspam.
Boris Johnson. Can't be repeated often enough. Clowning around on horseback while wearing his bike h+lm+t is all very well, but if the mega-twat ever gets to be leader of the Daily Mail Party then most of this community will be in the camps by the following Christmas.
The Manchester Eyebrow Monsters aka Liam & Noel Gallagher. Because they're twats.
My Kindle. Come out of hiding, you utterly twatty electric dope!
LloydsTSB. Making people move to fucking Chelmsford. Twats.
Bad mood again...
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Anyone and everyone with any connection whatsoever with TOWIE, made in Chelsea or similar "Reality TV" shows.
I don't watch them, I've had the misfortune to see too many trailers for them.
Multiple Super Twats.
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Any Cleveland police force I have ever heard of:
Police Visit Cleveland Horror House Many Times, Fail to Note Horrors (http://jezebel.com/police-visit-cleveland-house-of-horrors-several-times-494824408)
Cleveland Police in huge damages payout to lawyer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22452157)
The force admits falsely imprisoning Mr Watson and his family when the lawyer was arrested in 2009, wrongful interference with his belongings and trespass.
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The 'aggressive' Gerald Haworth MP
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The Slovakian truck driver that brushed past me on the A49 today.
Was only inches away from me.
Nothing coming the other way - could have given me loads more room.
Probably watching porn on his lap-top whilst driving (not unheard of).
What's Slovakian for Twat ?
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The 'aggressive' Gerald Haworth MP
Is this the Supertwat who I heard briefly on the radio referring to the aggressive homosexual community, or something?
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Aye.
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He's totally misunderstood the term "gay bashing" hasn't he?
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He's totally misunderstood just about everything.
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Tim Cook.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/21/apple-wants-single-digit-corporate-tax
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Tim Cook.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/21/apple-wants-single-digit-corporate-tax
We've seen invasions driven by the desire to control the production of oil. I wonder how long before 'military intervention' is driven by the desire to chase missing tax revenues?
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Boris fucktard Johnson
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Have you ever seen Boris Johnson and Donald trump in the same place? Just saying, like..
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Gove - utter utter twat
CMD - Murray deserves a knighthood , really? Twat!
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Katie rentagob homewrecker face like a horse's arse Hopkins. No, dear, of course "India" isn't a chavvy location-based child's name like Brooklyn.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-branded-an-insufferable-snob-after-this-morning-debate-on-childrens-names-8690468.html
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As I'm depressingly predictable, I would like to nominate Danny Alexander again.
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Lynton Crosby seems to be creating a new category of Mega-twat right now.
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Raise you giga ...
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Fair. Very fair.
But RJ never lobbied me on the issue. ;D
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No need - clarion's vote was safely in the bag already ;)
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Archbishop of Canterbury. Picks a fight with Wonga, then remembers his church invests in them. Twat.
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Archbishop of Canterbury. Picks a fight with Wonga, then remembers his church invests in them. Twat.
Speaking of Wonga.
Papiss Cisse.
Classy.
For those that don't know; he refused to go on a club tour wearing a football shirt with the sponsor "Wonga" because he claims that, as a Muslim, he's against gambling and shouldn't be seen promoting it.
Fair enough.
Photos of him then surface of him at a casino gambling. Oh....he's a regular. Oh.
Funnily enough; it's "resolved" now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23455637
Wonderfully understated BBC article.
Here's the other bit (also on the BBC):- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-23424012
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Archbishop of Canterbury. Picks a fight with Wonga, then remembers his church invests in them. Twat.
Strictly speaking they don't invest in Wonga. They invest in a capital fund which has provided funding to Wonga.
It's almost impossible to invest totally 'ethically' and good on the C of E for at least trying.
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But Wonga are Super-Jizzbadgers though.
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Archbishop of Canterbury. Picks a fight with Wonga, then remembers his church invests in them. Twat.
Strictly speaking they don't invest in Wonga. They invest in a capital fund which has provided funding to Wonga.
It's almost impossible to invest totally 'ethically' and good on the C of E for at least trying.
I thought that too. There is no what the archbishop could have known.
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Paul "Vagina Monologue" Dacre.
And another vote for the Rt Hon Jeremy mis-spelled surname MP
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Astonishingly, Eric Pickles seems to have avoided mention in this thread for a year or so.
Not sure how.
But now, in an attempt to re-assert his pre-eminent supertwattery in a constellation of supertwats, he has put forward a proposal aimed securely at the shopkeeper and motorist vote, which has been instantly rejected by a Transport Minister, all the major motoring organisations, shopkeepers, and even minor supertwat and professionally obnoxious controversialist Quentin Willson!
Good shot, sir!
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Have you ever seen Boris Johnson and Donald trump in the same place? Just saying, like..
No, but if I ever do, I'll call in an immediate Air Strike.
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Toby Young - the thinking man's twat. On Newsnight now.
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+1 to that ^^^
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Godfrey Bloom.
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I knew what name would be added before I opened the thread. ;D
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Given the epithets directed at him, should we refer to him as "Private" Godfrey?
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Those not subscribing to POBI will have missed the other epithet bestowed, though it's anatomically equivalent.
Can I repeat myself? Pretty please? Can I? Can I?
He promised to write to the ambassador of Bongo-Bongo land to apologise personally, if anybody was offended.
What a cunt @GoddersUKIP is. And if anyone's offended by that I promise to write to his cunt and apologise to it personally. #r4today (https://twitter.com/htfb/status/365005522824474625)
Yes, that's three repetitions for one joke. I've got to write a best man's speech, too. You can guess it's not going well.
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Those not subscribing to POBI will have missed the other epithet bestowed, though it's anatomically equivalent.
Can I repeat myself? Pretty please? Can I? Can I?
He promised to write to the ambassador of Bongo-Bongo land to apologise personally, if anybody was offended.
What a cunt @GoddersUKIP is. And if anyone's offended by that I promise to write to his cunt and apologise to it personally. #r4today (https://twitter.com/htfb/status/365005522824474625)
Yes, that's three repetitions for one joke. I've got to write a best man's speech, too. You can guess it's not going well.
Thanks for the clarification. i had misremembered that not everyone reads POBI. And you may repeat yourself as much as you like: I do. Go ahead, repeat yourself.
Good luck wiht the speech.
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Jamie Oliver - slavedriving super-twat.
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Jamie Oliver - slavedriving super-twat.
One of the above words is redundant ... or could be replaced with 'Mockney'
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Godfrey Bloom.
Hie thee to the York Press website and check out some of his letters.
And the responses to same ;)
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William 'Bomber' Hague
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William 'Bomber' Hague
Ah, Wee Willie Winkie.
Someone wants to put the odious little scrote on a C130 and boot him out over Damascus ... although part of me thinks that not even a psychotic fuckwit like Bashar al-Assad deserves that
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This thread is largely beyond me.
I have ignored the meeja for so long that I no longer know who anyone is.
OK, I know Humphrys and recognise a few of the other names, but the vast majority have passed me by completely.
Am I on my way to nirvana?
I am much the same, I recognise a few names but largely I don't know who anyone is these days, not even Hollywood types.
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Oh good, not just me then.
I used to sometimes Google the names, but when I read the result I found that I just didn't care anyway.
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Jamie Oliver - slavedriving super-twat.
Jamie Oliver.
For deciding to support UKIP. For producing 'Save with Jamie', a cookery book for saving money.
Jamie, you little twerp, people who are really short of money don't have fillet steak and teriyaki sauce.
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And for talking crap on Womans Hour this morning.
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And for talking crap on Womans Hour this morning.
So I wasn't the only one thinking he was talking petit baulleux
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His rant about the outrageous allegations of misogyny against 'the ladies' was priceless.
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The Alliance of British Drivers (@ABD) - collective group of twats.
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Jamie Oliver - slavedriving super-twat.
Jamie Oliver.
For deciding to support UKIP. For producing 'Save with Jamie', a cookery book for saving money.
Jamie, you little twerp, people who are really short of money don't have fillet steak and teriyaki sauce.
A £26 cookery book for saving money . . . using £360 of equipment, & £150 of food 'staples' . . .
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Jamie Oliver's shows are free to watch and he's doing meals for less than £1.80 per head.
I wonder if he'd get so much stick if he looked and sounded different?
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We always have beanzontoast Monday round here. Because Monday is a rush, and it's quick. It is probably the EldestCub's least favourite of the meals we commonly eat. The argument that wins him over every time is that it feeds _all_ of us for £1.80....
My mate who is also a single parent of 2 had a grocery budget of about 40 quid a week for a while. £1.80 a head for evening meals would have left her less than a fiver for all other meals, cleaning stuff, bog roll etc....
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Jamie Oliver's shows are free to watch and he's doing meals for less than £1.80 per head.
I wonder if he'd get so much stick if he looked and sounded different?
Seriously, people don't get that Jamie Oliver isn't producing a book for actual poor people, but rather the middle-class-but-go-Lidl-and-tell-people-about-it demographic? If you're living off ready meals and fried ratchicken, I expect you're not in often found browsing the book aisle in Waitrose for Jamie's latest.
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No, but you're watching his cooking programmes on the telly while you eat, which is why he's now so fabulously wealthy and with a pulpit to sound off from.
It's probably one of those absurdly big-screen TVs, too. If you want a new 40" TV this week it's £249 from Tesco (or anywhere online). Second-hand the going rate for 40"-42" is £150. Counting the licence if the box only lasts a year that's entertainment for the whole family for a pound a day, which wouldn't upgrade you very far from value chicken. And then you can spend the evenings staring at a blank wall.
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His chain of restaurants is mind-bogglingly-large. His company (mostly) owns the entire supply chain, from farms upwards.
The York restaurant cost 600k for the kitchens alone. That cost is recouped in about 12 weeks. Staff are paid a bit above minimum wage and mostly on zero-hours contracts.
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I once spent a New Year's eve in a very right-on lesbian household (don't ask) eating veggie stuff from one of Mr Oliver's books.
It was shite. I've never liked him since.
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His (and Jules') children's names might not pass the playground test.
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Seriously, people don't get that Jamie Oliver isn't producing a book for actual poor people, but rather the middle-class-but-go-Lidl-and-tell-people-about-it demographic? If you're living off ready meals and fried ratchicken, I expect you're not in often found browsing the book aisle in Waitrose for Jamie's latest.
Yes. I'm a skint, benefits-dependant but middle-class Aldi fan, and of course I get that I'm his target market.
I'd just rather that he didn't line up The Poor as entertainment and pronounce judgementally, Daily-Wail-stylee, about flatscreen tellies in order to promote his stuff to me.
Smug Victorian-paternalistic patronising nonsense. Which is what makes him a super-[insert-gender-neutral-insult-of-choice-here*].
*ever since someone otp pointed out on a thread that using twat and cunt as insults is effectively comparing the insultee to a warm and welcoming part of the female anatomy, or words to that effect, I just can't see them in the same light. They just don't _work_ as an insult for me these days :D
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These days I'm working on introducing 'frack' as a replacement
'frack off'
'fracking awful'
'you really are a dreadful frack'
'Jamie Oliver; what a fracking frack'
Such a versatile word.
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Twat 'em all, let Cowell sort them out... :demon:
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These days I'm working on introducing 'frack' as a replacement
'frack off'
'fracking awful'
'you really are a dreadful frack'
'Jamie Oliver; what a fracking frack'
Such a versatile word.
From which of The 12 do you hail Sir?
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Battlestar Galactica got there before you, Fuzzy, you fracking ignoramus ;D
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One of the bands that I follow on BookFace posted a pic at the weekend of a band member and said idiot Essex boy at a festival somewhere down south (I think it was Brownstock).
A strange reversal of role in the picture, said band member looked like the bored 'sleb*, J.O. looked like the starry eyed fan-boy.
*Said band are not a big band, no hit singles, although they have had a number greater than zero of their singles as record of the week on Radio 1**
**If you like to use that as a measure of a bands popularity/ability
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Seriously, people don't get that Jamie Oliver isn't producing a book for actual poor people, but rather the middle-class-but-go-Lidl-and-tell-people-about-it demographic? If you're living off ready meals and fried ratchicken, I expect you're not in often found browsing the book aisle in Waitrose for Jamie's latest.
Yes. I'm a skint, benefits-dependant but middle-class Aldi fan, and of course I get that I'm his target market.
Except that makes you not his market. The Jamie Oliver brand wants affluent middle-class folk who can pony up the cash for whatever he's selling this week. The admiration or disdain of skint people whatever their class probably isn't much use to him other than as publicity for his latest televisual adventure. And surely as the sun is a big yellow thing that you shouldn't stare at, he'll be wheeled out on telly to flap his mouth whenever he's got something to promote. He is the brand, after all, and it's that brand that sells, otherwise it wouldn't be a Jamie Oliver saucepan, it'd just be a saucepan. Who knows, downstream there maybe money in a JO TV that farts out tasty and nutritious falafel at regular intervals for the delight of the more discerning poor.
Do a lot of poor people eat badly? I expect so. Do they care what Jamie Oliver thinks about their diet? I expect not. I think the only people who get hot and bothered by his opinions are middle-class people. I'm not expecting a line of angst-stricken teens outside the Morley's at the top of my street later, suspended outside the door as they existentially debate 'what would Jamie think?' or 'shall I ask for mange-tout as a side?'. Oh, I know, there's that Loachian view of poverty as being a state of strange austere virtue.
He gets a lot of stick, but he seems like a decent and successful bloke. Sure, it's the British way to knock our successes, we seem to get a odd kick out of it. Of course he's out of touch, he's probably rich enough to get helicoptered to the toilet to dispose of falafelly excess and has a man to polish his aubergines to retina-burning lustre. That's no bad thing. A man who polishes his own aubergines is no man at all. Fuck it, I'm not even going in the kitchen without the support of my robot (JO branded) butler and the full logistical support of the entire Waitrose chain.
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His chain of restaurants is mind-bogglingly-large. His company (mostly) owns the entire supply chain, from farms upwards.
The York restaurant cost 600k for the kitchens alone. That cost is recouped in about 12 weeks. Staff are paid a bit above minimum wage and mostly on zero-hours contracts.
And the service is poor and the food overpriced and mediocre in my experience
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And to think it all started because he was marginally less repulsive than AWT and had "naked" in the title of his programme, so lots of impressionable women tuned in hoping to see his hot buns and jumbo sausage, Pukka.
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Except that makes you not his market.
Well.... I do own three, I think, of his cook books. Someone once bought me the utterly pointless 'flavour shaker' gizmo once. Quite enjoyed some of his broadcasts, when I used to watch telly. Thought the school dinners campaign, on the whole, was a good thing. And, acksherly, I've seen an difference in primary school dinners since all that hoo ha. Not least because the prices have gone up, quite a bit, because the ingredient cost has. Guess what - it's much easier to make nourishing food with a few more pennies in the pot. Who'd a thunk it.
But...
The Jamie Oliver brand wants affluent middle-class folk who can pony up the cash for whatever he's selling this week. The admiration or disdain of skint people whatever their class probably isn't much use to him other than as publicity for his latest televisual adventure. And surely as the sun is a big yellow thing that you shouldn't stare at, he'll be wheeled out on telly to flap his mouth whenever he's got something to promote. He is the brand, after all, and it's that brand that sells, otherwise it wouldn't be a Jamie Oliver saucepan, it'd just be a saucepan. Who knows, downstream there maybe money in a JO TV that farts out tasty and nutritious falafel at regular intervals for the delight of the more discerning poor.
That is the obnoxious thing. It's not about knocking success and it's not about whether the people he is talking about give a flying fuck what he thinks. His judgemental inaccurate bollocks is indeed a marketing tool. And yet contributes to the drip drip drip of falafel-scented media shite, to mix one's metaphors, that I reckon actually makes a difference to our society. Which makes him a pissweasel.
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Or he's genuinely passionate about teaching people how to cook and get better quality for money, while he happens to make money from what he enjoys.
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Or he's genuinely passionate about teaching people how to cook and get better quality for money, while he happens to make money from what he enjoys.
He still supports UKIP
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Are we talking about the Jamie Oliver who says poor people should shop at local markets, many of which have been forced out of existence by the supermarkets who sell the ready meals he designed and says people shouldn't eat?
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Are we talking about the Jamie Oliver who says poor people should shop at local markets, many of which have been forced out of existence by the supermarkets who sell the ready meals he designed and says people shouldn't eat?
That'll be the one
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Appropriate initials.
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Battlestar Galactica got there before you, Fuzzy, you fracking ignoramus ;D
You calling me an ignoramus you fracking toaster?
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Liam twatbadger Fox (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24420681)
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Or he's genuinely passionate about teaching people how to cook and get better quality for money, while he happens to make money from what he enjoys.
He still supports UKIP
And he's still a Mockney twat.
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Owen 'Badgers Moved The Goalposts' Paterson :facepalm:
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Owen 'Badgers Moved The Goalposts' Paterson :facepalm:
He was on C4 News tonight - what an odious piece of cloaca effluent he is :demon:
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Mark Constantine, founder of Lush. The man is pure evil.
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Is he? I had the impression (possibly carefully cultivated) that the Constantines were progressive, campaigning folk, against animal testing etc.
I'm interested to hear what you know about him. Other than that he owns shops which make me sneeze badly whenever I go near.
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He nicked the name "Lush" from one of my favourite bands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lush_%28band%29). Just that puts him in my bad book. :)
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Owen "Gas them" Paterson
I know who should be gassed.
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Owen "Gas them" Paterson
I know who should be gassed.
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/owen-patersons-badger-penalty-shootout/
You kids have fun, now ...
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Grant Shapps again :sick:
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Do you mean Michael Green? ???
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Who knows ???
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Glad to see somebody beat me to it again. Who does he think he is?
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Roads Minister Robert Goodwill (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/26-billion-expected-taxpayers-savings-from-road-agency-reforms)
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Paul Massara (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24861448) (or indeed any other
chief robbing bastardCEO of the energy cartel)
There's nothing gimmicky about fuel poverty you smug, arrogant fucker.
Despite being an avowed pacifist I'd quite happily plant my fist in his face.
Repeatedly.
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Peter Bone
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1. The entire cast of Eastenders
2. The entire cast of Coronation Street.
Is that too many?
I'm sure I could just go on and on. Chris Evans = Super Twat
Can I nominate myself?
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Nadhim Zahawi.
Will these fucking greedy, self-serving cunts never learn? >:(
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Dermot O'Leary and his tight suits.
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Edward 'I want a scapegoat' Timpson
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Can I nominate fraudster Grant Green or Michael Shapps again?
http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/constitute-offence-fraud-police-drop-case-shapps/3588
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Godfrey Bloom
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Godfrey Bloom
On behalf of the people of Yorkshire and the Humber with two braincells to clash together, can I just say that we're really, really sorry?
Meanwhile, I will nominate the following:
- RBS for being a bunch of venal, morally bankrupt bunch of pissweasels
- The
Big 6Energy Cartel for being a lying bunch of fucknuggets - Ofgem for being completely and utterly useless
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John Major. Yes, I know he's been stirring things up in a sort-of good way recently, but I just discovered that he refused to grant pardons in 1993 for the 300+ "cowards" who were executed in WW1.
And he shagged Edwina Currie.
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Godfrey Bloom
Again? What's he done this time?
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Godfrey Bloom
Again? What's he done this time?
He continues to exist, but I suspect Roger may be referring to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25104611
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Godfrey Bloom
Again? What's he done this time?
He continues to exist, but I suspect Roger may be referring to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25104611
He also recently said some stuff on LBC about eligibility to vote:
generational unemployed and public sector workers could be banned from voting
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Godfrey Bloom
Again? What's he done this time?
He continues to exist, but I suspect Roger may be referring to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25104611
Oh. :(
He also recently said some stuff on LBC about eligibility to vote:
generational unemployed and public sector workers could be banned from voting
Oh. :(
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Too right. Mega-Twat.
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I think Bloom is pioneering a new category.
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I think Bloom is pioneering a new category.
Blooming twat?
The man is a swivel-eyed lunatic even by the lax standards of UKIP and, judging by his various outbursts, an attention whore of Gaga-esque magnitude.
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Ah, but he isn't UKIP any more, is he? They won't have swivel-eyed lunatics in their party. Ohhhhh no!
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Ah, but he isn't UKIP any more, is he? They won't have swivel-eyed lunatics in their party. Ohhhhh no!
erm, sorry I have to disagree with you.
I'm related to one of them :facepalm:
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Ah, but he isn't UKIP any more, is he?
Apparently not.
They won't have swivel-eyed lunatics in their party. Ohhhhh no!
Nigel Farage. 'Nuff said - still the UKIP leader and a twat of Bloom-level proportions.
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Andrew Mitchell.
For the love of god give it a rest already?
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Donald "McRug" Trump. It is alleged that he tweeted that climate change is a Chinese plot to impoverish the USA (or words to that effect).
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He is a fucking nutter though.
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Ah, but he isn't UKIP any more, is he?
Apparently not.
I thought I recognized the name, and his constituency.
He's the guy who, at the UKIP party conference, called a group of female delegates "Sluts", isn't he?
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Ah, but he isn't UKIP any more, is he?
Apparently not.
I thought I recognized the name, and his constituency.
He's the guy who, at the UKIP party conference, called a group of female delegates "Sluts", isn't he?
That's the guy.
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Ah, but he isn't UKIP any more, is he?
Apparently not.
I thought I recognized the name, and his constituency.
He's the guy who, at the UKIP party conference, called a group of female delegates "Sluts", isn't he?
All this and more besides:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Bloom
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Ah, but he isn't UKIP any more, is he?
Apparently not.
I thought I recognized the name, and his constituency.
He's the guy who, at the UKIP party conference, called a group of female delegates "Sluts", isn't he?
All this and more besides:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Bloom
I guess he learnt all that from the "How to be Popular with your Voters 101".
What a dick.
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I think Bloom is pioneering a new category.
I posted this in hatler's thread in vroom, it sort-of wrote itself ..... https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=78136.msg1601181#msg1601181
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Worthy of re-posting :thumbsup:
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Charles Saatchi.
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Charles Saatchi.
On so so many levels, not just because of his violence towards the Domestic Goddess....
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Boris Johnson (again)
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Charles Saatchi.
On so so many levels, not just because of his violence towards the Domestic Goddess....
As I pointed out on Facebork, if I was married to a bell-end like him I'd be wanting to spend my time coked up to the eyeballs too.
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Npower (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25135247) with particular emphasis on the smug bastard in charge.
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Charles Saatchi.
On so so many levels, not just because of his violence towards the Domestic Goddess....
As I pointed out on Facebork, if I was married to a bell-end like him I'd be wanting to spend my time coked up to the eyeballs too.
I guess all those who wondered how she managed to lose so much weight, so quickly, need wonder no more :)
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I guess all those who wondered how she managed to lose so much weight, so quickly, need wonder no more :)
As a weight loss programme, it's not to be sniffed at.
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*snort* ;D
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I tried snorting coke once.
The bubbles made me sneeze ....
.... oh you mean the other sort of coke ...
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Phillip Davies. He's also a contender for the title of The Toxic Tory's Toxic Tory.
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Osbo. I wanted to be the first today… he's bound to come out with some horrible loony claptrap.
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The Ugandan Parliament, with particular emphasis on the MP David Bahati (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25463942 refers) - remind me, what century is this? ::-)
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Owen Paterson
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Michael Gove - http://www.newstatesman.com/media-mole/2014/01/michael-gove-defends-deaths-37-million-people-just refers.
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Fergus and Judith Wilson
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Fergus and Judith Wilson
Perspective on this lovely couple
At the time of writing (29 August 2013) the Wilsons have not paid £3000 court costs awarded to a gas engineer after they summonsed him for issuing an 'At Risk' notice on a flue at one of their properties that was dangerous and not in line with British Standards. They had tried to claim £5000 from him for making the property unrentable.[13]
So they sued someone for carrying out their professional duty.
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Fergus Wilson - the very same nice compassionate and caring chap who owns nearly a thousand rental properties in Kent and is evicting all tenants on benefits, even those not in arrears.
Very nice chap indeed.
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Have we had Tulisa Constantdross yet? Apparently she was once voted FHM's Sexiest Woman Of The Year, which tells you all you need to know about FHM's current readership. I wouldn't touch her with yours.
As the joke goes, "Tulisa: sexiest woman in the world? She wasn't even the sexiest woman in N-Dubz."
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Have we had Tulisa Constantdross yet? Apparently she was once voted FHM's Sexiest Woman Of The Year, which tells you all you need to know about FHM's current readership.
Said like someone who admits to being a keen FHM reader in the past.
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Jeremy Clarkson (yet again)
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Have we had Tulisa Constantdross yet? Apparently she was once voted FHM's Sexiest Woman Of The Year, which tells you all you need to know about FHM's current readership.
Said like someone who admits to being a keen FHM reader in the past.
When it competed with GQ, not Nuts.
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Jeremy Clarkson (yet again)
I'll probably regret asking, but what has he done now?
I had a quick look at t'web via a search engine: I typed Jermy Clarkson. A bit of a Freudian Slip.
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Efrogwr - see https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=79067.msg1624862#msg1624862
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Efrogwr - see https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=79067.msg1624862#msg1624862
Thanks.
Ultra Twat would be more appropriate. ::-)
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Yes. I do think he probes the outer limits of twattishness.
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Yes. I do think he probes the outer limits of twattishness.
From the outside, trying to get in!
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Efrogwr - see https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=79067.msg1624862#msg1624862
So how is he any different from Emma Way? :demon:
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William Hague - just answer the questions, you odious little runt.
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He didn't, did he? Stupid thing was that he'd have looked much better by giving an honest answer about what's happened so far, & then following that up with his bit about the future.
Amazing how often politicians don't realise that obvious & clumsy evasiveness is bad for their image, even among any of their supporters who aren't brain-dead.
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And now, a (dis)honourable mention for Call Me Dave - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25705550
Clearly, he's obviously added bribery to his skill set.
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Yet again; Osbo.
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I think we should give Gove, Osborne and Clarkson lifetime twatchievement awards to free up the thread for new nominations.
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Similarly: Arthur Scargill
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Owen Paterson, a lying little shit. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25766564)
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Vince Cable.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/23/royal-mail-sale-vince-cable
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in my opinion the bloke who called in to radio 4 to complain that he can't get super fast fibre optic broadband, he has to make do with 3 or 4 mbps
poor bloke, we're lucky to get 1mbps and most of the time it's slower and there's no hope of it getting any faster IMO he is a super twat
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Michael Fabricant (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tories-challenged-over-mps-suggestion-6640369).
It’s difficult enough to find in England people who are good maths and physics and chemistry teachers. To ask them to be bilingual as well is a nonsense.
I've known many good maths, physics and chemistry teachers who were bilingual before they were teachers. Hell, most of them, like me, were bilingual before they started school. Ignorant, arrogant Super-Twat.
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Jackson Carlaw
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Had to google him, but now agree.
In a relsted note, the stupid, offensive* and (allegedly) mendacious Aidan Burley, MP SS
* Both adjectives official, according to his own Party.
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Jackson Carlaw
Nope - I actually agree with his wider point.
Mr Carlaw said the robin would be a better national bird, but wondered why another national symbol was needed at all and where such thinking would end.
"Do we have a national domestic animal, a national wild animal, a national grievance?" he asked.
As for the issue of the eagle, I would agree with this comment:
"It has been a symbol of imperial power of which Scotland is emphatically not, never has been, and hopefully never will be."
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"It has been a symbol of imperial power of which Scotland is emphatically not, never has been, and hopefully never will be."
Shows poor knowledge of Scots' contribution to the expansion and running of the - err - British empire.
Strange perhaps for a unionist, but on a par with Carlaw's equal lack of knowledge of German and European history, and the widespread adoption of eagles as national birds. His comments are particularly insulting to Germany, whose eagle has been thoroughly de-Nazified, and retained as a national symbol (as it was during the Weimar republic) - and Poland, whose national bird is also an eagle.
"Why bother with a national {thing}" is a valid enough point of view that I happen not to agree with - but I'd expect Godwin's law not to apply to parliamentary committees. I suppose that''s what comes of electing failed used-car salespersons ...
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Nicholas Bourne, Baron Bourne of Aberystwyth in the County of Ceredigion, and of Wethersfield in the County of Essex, Liar, Idiot and Supertwat.
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Mark Thompson - saying 'sorry' won't change the fact that £100m of taxpayers money was pissed up the wall on your watch.
EDIT: also Tim Yeo - a detestable specimen of humanity even by Tory standards.
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Michael Gove. Again! :o
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Michael Gove. Again! :o
I think Gove is now an implicit super-twat.
Never has so much complete and utter bullshit been spouted by a single person.
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So I open this thread with a specific person in mind, only to find clarion has beaten me to it...
Every time that fucking imbecile opens his mouth, my blood pressure goes into the red zone.
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So I open this thread with a specific person in mind, only to find clarion has beaten me to it...
Every time that fucking imbecile opens his mouth, my blood pressure goes into the red zone.
He was on the talking wireless-type thing whilst I was on the turbo - about the best session I've had for a while; all the anger had to go somewhere.
Maybe I should use his misguided bletherings as a training aid.
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Perhaps a 'Hyper-Twat' thread for Michael Gove?
I suspect that Gove, Hunt, Shapps, et al just exist to make CMD look intelligent and statesmanlike
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Katie Gobshite Hopkins. I think this nomination is uncontroversial.
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Katie Gobshite Hopkins. I think this nomination is uncontroversial.
<Wowbagger>I'd never heard of her </WB>
But have now looked her up on the intertubes. I feely grubby now.
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Can I nominate Simon Jack, BBC technology 'reporter'?1
GOOGLE IS NOT 'BASICALLY THE INTERNET' you clueless fucknugget.
1 - And Michael Gove, of course.
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But a commendation to his interlocutor for refraining from lamping him when asked a barrage of stupid questions and not being allowed to answer.
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I am one of the few people who has been watching The Jump on Channel 4. We missed the first episode though so don't know who the Essex-sounding brainless bimbo is who refused the ski jump (don't blame her for that, mind) so was relegated. But they've kept her around for soundbites of inanity. Who is she? She MUST be playing the extra-dim card, surely???
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'Lord' Chris Smith - a fucking waste of oxygen when he was an MP, and clearly nothing has changed since he finagled a cushy job at the top of the Environment Agency. Anyone else who failed as completely as he has would have had their marching orders so bloody quick that their heads would be spinning.
Had I been one of the residents of the Somerset Levels whom he visited, I think I'd have temporarily 'forgotten' that I'm a pacifist and decked the clueless fucker and held his head underwater until the bubbles stopped.
Also, since the environment is involved, Owen 'Badgers Moved The Goalposts' Paterson gets a nomination merely for existing.
Also^2, Michael 'Specky Twat' Gove. Y'know, just because.
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To be fair to Smith, I'm not sure what he could have done about the Somerset Levels. Even given historic levels of maintenance of sluices and pumps, this rain would probably have overwhelmed them. The land is below sea level and has no natural drainage; the water has to be pumped *up* into the rivers.
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To be fair to Smith, I'm not sure what he could have done about the Somerset Levels. Even given historic levels of maintenance of sluices and pumps, this rain would probably have overwhelmed them. The land is below sea level and has no natural drainage; the water has to be pumped *up* into the rivers.
It would appear that the current debate centres on dredging, or rather the lack of it in this case - I'm not familiar with the area, so can't really comment any further on that score but it would appear that the Environment Agency has been lurching from one crisis to the next with the results that we're now seeing. Conditions notwithstanding, the handling of the whole thing has been utterly shocking (IMO, of course) and am disgusted that the people at the top will not be brought to account because, let's face it, they won't be.
That said, the same debate rages up here with depressing regularity when large bits of central York disappear underwater for a few days every now and again - I'm given to understand that the Ouse was dredged fairly regularly back in the day (well before I moved up here, anyway) and whilst York still flooded on account of the catchment area of the Ouse being pretty huge, it was far less severe than it was after regular dredging stopped. That said, the floods we had in 2000 were bad even by York's usual standards and I doubt any amount of dredging etc. would have changed that.
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Just another example of how "austerity" is a counter-productive policy, innit.
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Just another example of how "austerity" is a counter-productive policy, innit.
Politicians wouldn't know 'austerity' if it jumped up and gave them a haircut - it's something that only happens to the little people, don'tcherknow.
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Mark Harper (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26101442)
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Met Police Roadsafe Team, I'm afraid:
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=80052.msg1638054#new
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Just another example of how "austerity" is a counter-productive policy, innit.
Politicians wouldn't know 'austerity' if it jumped up and gave them a haircut - it's something that only happens to the little people, don'tcherknow.
"They talk about thriftiness, and it just means that poor people are expected to practise a self-denial that the rich can't even imagine, much less carry out."
George Gissing.
1889.
Nothing changes.
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Mark Harper (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26101442)
(http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110623042519/simpsons/images/4/40/Picture0003.jpg)
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The Institution of Civil Engineers is in favour of the current EA approach to the Somerset Levels. Additional dredging would not improve things to any significant degree. Local farmers paid to manage the land in ways that actually worsen flooding and loudmouth politicians do not have the answers.
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Eric Pickles :sick:
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I saw him on Andrew Marr this morning and he apologised "undeservably".
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/3657135360/hE8404AA3/)
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Pickles is indeed an unmitigated twat, for the crap he spouts about local authorities and otehr agencies who he has starved of the cash needed to operat eproperly. He's a "Daily Mail" polition, i.e. its always someone else's fault, and "someone" should do something about it.
As for the Somerset levels, when I used to drive across them regularly, my initial thought was "why do people live here, its obviously not viable?" Living on land below sea level is just plain silly, unless you have a massively expensive and complex infrastructure to manage it.
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http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article2217239.ece (http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article2217239.ece) The idiot burglar that tries to escape on a stolen bike in front of a cameracrew interviewing police officers
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Was that Nigel Lawson on Today this morning? Blimey.
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Sod it. Donald Trump.
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Was that Nigel Lawson on Today this morning? Blimey.
Yes it was. I didn't get round to nominating him. In reply to one point he said "That's just speculation".Thereby moving the "discussion" to something that he's familiar with.
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http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/climate-change-denier-lord-lawson-is-an-expert-he-once-wrote-a-book-about-dieting/
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Misses out financial interests...
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T*ny Bl**r
What a scumbag.
Nothing new about that but the latest revelations from the Brooks woman (assuming they're true) just serve to lower him still further in my estimation.
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Ooh. Not heard them yet, but I shall be interested to hear.
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T*ny Bl**r
What a scumbag.
Nothing new about that but the latest revelations from the Brooks woman (assuming they're true) just serve to lower him still further in my estimation.
My reactions were an equal measure of "W T actual F" and "I'm not at all surprised". Fucker.
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Ooh. Not heard them yet, but I shall be interested to hear.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26259956
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Paul Dacre. I've seen today's Mail headline. The man is scum, and I have no idea how he sleeps at night.
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Bernie Ecclestone.
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Rebekah Brooks - apparently she "didn't think phone hacking was illegal." :facepalm:
What.
The.
Everloving.
FUCK?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26337845 refers - she's a bigger failure as a human being than she evidently was as a newspaper editor, and I'm pretty sure that in the league table of legal defences, 'ignorance' is barely hovering above the relegation zone.
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???????????????? :o :o :o
That does, at least, sound like a straw being clutched.
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Simon Wolfson
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/millionaire-in-a-cheap-suit-next-ceo-simon-wolfson-has-big-plans-for-london-9151672.html
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???????????????? :o :o :o
That does, at least, sound like a straw being clutched.
I thought recent GCHQ findings were that it was not illegal? :demon:
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Rebekah Brooks - apparently she "didn't think phone hacking was illegal." :facepalm:
What.
The.
Everloving.
FUCK?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26337845 refers - she's a bigger failure as a human being than she evidently was as a newspaper editor, and I'm pretty sure that in the league table of legal defences, 'ignorance' is barely hovering above the relegation zone.
To be fair, it was standard newspaper journalism (well delegated to seedy ex-police officers, along with sorting through bins etc.), so she might reasonably feel aggrieved. That doesn't mean I'm sympathetic. We need a robo-Nelson to iteratively ha-Ha them.
Simon Wolfson
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/millionaire-in-a-cheap-suit-next-ceo-simon-wolfson-has-big-plans-for-london-9151672.html
Good god, he's a moron. I like the way he 'worked his way up' from the bottom at Next, the retail chain his father just happened to be chairman of at the time.
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Chris 'book ban' Grayling
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Ah, you caught up with this.
My take is that the monkey-felching cockroach-nobbler saw it as a way of forcing prisons to buy books from an 'efficient private industry source'.
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???????????????? :o :o :o
That does, at least, sound like a straw being clutched.
I thought recent GCHQ findings were that it was not illegal? :demon:
Only when it's *us* doing it :demon:
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*sigh*
Eric Pickles
again
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Maria Miller.
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
In my particular universe, apologising for defrauding the taxpayer out of several tens of thousands of pounds does not make everything all right and magically go away.
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*sigh*
Eric Pickles
again
There's nowt more toxic than a Yorkshire Tory.
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Constance Briscoe...
...who has now got her comeuppance (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27254145).
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Max Clifford
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Max Clifford
You mean Mr I-Didn't-do-it/they-were-asking-for-it?
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Y'see, the likes of Briscoe, Clifford, and us if we were that stupid, go to prison. Why is it then that politicians get off with a repayment not even equal to the gain and with a job still, albeit for just sixty odd grand per year?
Super-twats? Poli-fucking-greedy-eleven-percent-self-entitled-ticians!!! >:( >:( >:(
Patrick Mercer... *
Maria Miller...
etc., etc., etc., etc...
* Took as long as a tory candidate list to fall on his sword.
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Conor Burns
You fucking epic twat. Piss off down the rathole where you came from.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27783331 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27783331)
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Conor Burns
You fucking epic twat. Piss off down the rathole where you came from.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27783331 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27783331)
Yep, good advice. He should just do it.
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Yup.
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Owen Patterson :facepalm:
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Michael 'Violence against Women' Fabricant.
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Michael 'Violence against Women' Fabricant.
Agreed, although I strongly suspect that quite a few people probably feel the same way towards Tory MPs ...
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Michael 'Violence against Women' Fabricant.
[Googles]
By the Lord Harry, 'tis the mutant child of William Roache and Boris Johnson.
And a Twat of the first water, obv.
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Michael 'Violence against Women' Fabricant.
[Googles]
By the Lord Harry, 'tis the mutant child of William Roache and Boris Johnson.
That, or he's wearing a syrup of truly Trump-esque magnitude.
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Must be his own hair. No one would pay for a toupe that bad.
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And on the same thread..... James Dellingpole
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Just googled. Revolting man.
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Piggles. Again.
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Presumably for this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27952341
What a fucking quarter-wit.
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Presumably for this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27952341
What a fucking quarter-wit.
You are absolutely correct.
The Wikipedia article about him states that he joined the Conservative Party after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. I realise that this may be a coincidence, and that Wikipedia is not necessarily accurate. If the two events are linked, then I have to challenge your "fucking quarter-wit" as an excessively generous assessment.
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I object to those CCTV cars. Not because they clobber people for parking illegally but because round here they themselves are driven by people who park like fuds.
Double-parking opposite a bus stop, anyone?
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I object to those CCTV cars. Not because they clobber people for parking illegally but because round here they themselves are driven by people who park like fuds.
Double-parking opposite a bus stop, anyone?
That's a valid objection. The "Stealth Tax"/"spying" argument isn't.
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The ensuing chaos will be interesting to watch.
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Must be his own hair. No one would pay for a toupe that bad.
I believe it's a syrup. He and Fatty Soames used to have ill-tempered and barbed exchanges in the commons (sic) regarding each other's physical shortcomings.
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The BBC
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The BBC
That wasn't for this piece of sub-Daily-Mail, victim blaming, disablist, ageist, patronising, pathetic attempt at sensationalism (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b047h98w/the-trouble-with-mobility-scooters) was it? To save the ordeal of having to watch it, here's more reasoned critique of why the BBC really should know better. (http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/the-trouble-with-our-physical-environment/).
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No, it was for the total failure to report the Austerity march.
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The BBC
That wasn't for this piece of sub-Daily-Mail, victim blaming, disablist, ageist, patronising, pathetic attempt at sensationalism (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b047h98w/the-trouble-with-mobility-scooters) was it? To save the ordeal of having to watch it, here's more reasoned critique of why the BBC really should know better. (http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/the-trouble-with-our-physical-environment/).
Thank you for the links. I looked at the first, then took your advice and read the second. That sort of crap beggars belief.
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At least it reminded me to stop paying the licence fee. Au revoir, BBC.
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I object to those CCTV cars. Not because they clobber people for parking illegally but because round here they themselves are driven by people who park like fuds.
Double-parking opposite a bus stop, anyone?
Got nicked by one, from a former employer. Yes, I had stopped on a single yellow line, but was still in the car just answering the telephone.
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No, it was for the total failure to report the Austerity march.
Yeah, was amazed at that. Still don't get why.
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No, it was for the total failure to report the Austerity march.
Yeah, was amazed at that. Still don't get why.
They either failed to notice 50 000 people outside their window, or somewhere, someone decided to keep quiet about it.
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Is the BBC covered by FoI?
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I dunno, but their charter obliges them to be unbiased.
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That'll be the BBC where a former Tory Cabinet Minister is likely to be replaced by a former Tory MP - one Tory peer for another - as Chairman.
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Whatever one thinks of the BRITONS' Broadcasting Corporation, the Daily Mail thinks that it's a hotbed of revolutionary Trots. Surely an institution which make the Daily Mail cry is a Good Thing.
And if the alternative is USAnian-stylee TV...
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That is a tad like being grateful for the Tories, since they aren't the Tea Party...
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The ensuing chaos will be interesting to watch.
Been done. Safe and experienced drivers (copyright you know who) were recently allowed to park where they liked in Aberystwyth due to a dispute over whose job parking enforcement was and resulting removal of all penalties.
Result? Gridlock.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16337908
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That'll be the BBC where a former Tory Cabinet Minister is likely to be replaced by a former Tory MP - one Tory peer for another - as Chairman.
Well, as long as they don't call him or her a chair (spit!).
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Our Glorious Democratically Elected Leader and Representative of All Hard-Working Families Ever, the one and only, Cam the Sham.
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Mr Gove said they should "stand up for education" rather than "standing up for their own pay and pensions".
(link) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28226643)
(http://theplastichippo.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/militant-tendancy.jpg)
(link) (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/tory-minister-michael-gove-who-1088200)
"No further questions, m'lud..."
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Any tory who whines pathetically about how they will be terribly inconvenienced by the strike. Hard-working families just want to go to work blah blah blah. That's the point, twat.
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Any tory who whines pathetically about how they will be terribly inconvenienced by the strike. Hard-working families just want to go to work blah blah blah. That's the point, twat.
In that case, may I add Dominic Raab and Francis Maude to this self-serving pack of Tory motormouths?
I saw on FarceBook that Leanne Wood supports the strike. Da iawn, Leanne!
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Any tory who whines pathetically about how they will be terribly inconvenienced by the strike. Hard-working families just want to go to work blah blah blah. That's the point, twat.
The weather hereabouts is nice for a strike.
I'd like a job from which I could decide to strike or otherwise.
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Cameron and Clegg, of course:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28237111
Cameron doubly so for playing a modified version of the "won't someone think of the children" card, to whit: PM asks if we want paedophiles and extremists to communicate without it being possible to intercept communications (no I don't, but I object to the dragnet-style approach that the gubbishment obviously prefers)
And someone needs to remind Spineless Nick about this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22719810
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I thought paedophiles communicated at Monday Club meetings.
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I thought paedophiles communicated at Monday Club meetings.
Nobody knows - they're too busy 'mislaying' documents.
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Bit like HMS Conqueror's log book like .......
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Bit like HMS Conqueror's log book like .......
Was that water damaged as well?
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That ghastly twat Grant Shapps was on C4 News tonight :sick:
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Bit like HMS Conqueror's log book like .......
Was that water damaged as well?
The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)
During the Falklands campaign, HMS Conqueror kept an account containing detailed operational information which was used to compile the submarine's formal report of proceedings. This is a classified document and is in the possession of the Ministry of Defence.
The submarine's navigating officer also kept a "control room log" which records the latitude and longitude, distance run, course, speed and depth of the submarine at hourly intervals together with other routine readings. This document contains no tactical information. It has been mislaid and as it, too, is classified, a board of inquiry' is being held.
§ Mr. Davies
I am grateful to the Secretary of State for answering the question. His astonishing admission that he, his Department and the Navy, apparently, have lost—some unkind souls might say conveniently lost — the navigation log book not of some cross-channel ferry but of HMS Conqueror, is another extraordinary episode in the Government's pathetic attempts to explain away all the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the General Belgrano.
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Canardly, thanks for that. I was aware of the controversy over the sinking of the General Belgrano, but not of the possibility that the MoD was/is/always will be archivally accident prone.
I was having a pop at the Foreign Office, which seems to be burdened with similar bad luck; documents relating to American use of the Diego Suarez base to facilitate "extraordinary rendition" seem to have been "lost", due to "water damage"
Beware of the leopard!
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Luis Suarez - obviously being a racist biter is a lucrative line of work.
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Bit like HMS Conqueror's log book like .......
Was that water damaged as well?
The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)
During the Falklands campaign, HMS Conqueror kept an account containing detailed operational information which was used to compile the submarine's formal report of proceedings. This is a classified document and is in the possession of the Ministry of Defence.
The submarine's navigating officer also kept a "control room log" which records the latitude and longitude, distance run, course, speed and depth of the submarine at hourly intervals together with other routine readings. This document contains no tactical information. It has been mislaid and as it, too, is classified, a board of inquiry' is being held.
§ Mr. Davies
I simply do not believe that.
It's all tosh.Such things are not lost.
It's politics-speak for F uckOff,we ain't showing to nobody innit.
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Whilst we're on the subject of foot-the-ball players, Mario Balotelli: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28270240 ::-)
The classic example of an overpaid prima-donna who gives the impression of having an IQ considerably less than his shoe size (UK or European)
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Whilst we're on the subject of foot-the-ball players, Mario Balotelli: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28270240 ::-)
The classic example of an overpaid prima-donna who gives the impression of having an IQ considerably less than his shoe size (UK or European)
"I have my own ideas about social networks and I've tried many times but our lawyer has always stopped me, saying that it would violate individual rights," he (manager) said.
Lawyer is talking utter bullshit. People who working professions such as nursing are restricted as to their behaviour in social networks.
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James Delingpole.
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Berkeley Germy Jeremy Hunt. Let's bash foreigners; there's a General Election next year...
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Michael Gove. I nominate him now, because he may be less noticeable for a while. It would be a pity not to recognise his contribution to society.
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Berkeley Germy Jeremy Hunt. Let's bash foreigners; there's a General Election next year...
Has Hunt done something notably twatty lately? Le Tour has been restricting my news-acquisition habits.
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Berkeley Germy Jeremy Hunt. Let's bash foreigners; there's a General Election next year...
Has Hunt done something notably twatty lately? Le Tour has been restricting my news-acquisition habits.
Apart from existing, you mean?
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Berkeley Germy Jeremy Hunt. Let's bash foreigners; there's a General Election next year...
Has Hunt done something notably twatty lately? Le Tour has been restricting my news-acquisition habits.
Apart from existing, you mean?
Yes. Hunt is a 24/7 twat with extended opening hours, so he doesn't really merit a mention in this thread unless he's launched something utterly twatacular, the twat equivalent of a manned mission to Mars. And if the first man on Mars was Jeremy Hunt I wouldn't mind at all, provided the ESA/NASA/the Russians ensured there was no way he could come back.
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His plan to surcharge foreigners* for medical treatment in the NHS, and to fine Trusts for non-collection of fees.
* Including EU citizens, even when they hold EHICs.
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His plan to surcharge foreigners* for medical treatment in the NHS, and to fine Trusts for non-collection of fees.
* Including EU citizens, even when they hold EHICs.
Wondrous twattery. Throw him to the Pariah Dogs.
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Michael Gove. For spouting complete and utter bollocks on PM.
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Michael Gove. For spouting complete and utter bollocks on PM 24/7.
FTFY :D
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Michael Gove. For spouting complete and utter bollocks on PM.
Oh, I don't know - I found listening to him remarkably reassuring.
He's going to be in charge of discipline and unity among the Party, for which he'll need to deploy his listening and influencing skills. He's also going to be appearing on the media a lot, for which he'll need to deploy his communicating and speaking to the general public skills.
If they're all exercised to the extent he displayed them tonight, we have little to fear.
Yes, I realise that this may be fearful optimism.
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Michael Gove. For spouting complete and utter bollocks on PM.
"...demotion, emotion, locomotion..." Do you think he'd been on the pop?
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I wish they'd stop showing that clip of Gove addressing a class of Smalls. "Hello. My name is Michael" he says, keeping his teeth clenched to conceal his forked tongue. It terrifies me, so $DEITY knows what effect it would have on the average Tiny. In any case, his name isn't really "Michael", it's something like "Ecankha of the Blood Pyramid" or "Prostetnic Jeltz". Or something.
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Mark Regev.
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If you start typing "Mark Regev" in the Chrome address wossname, Google's first suggestion is, unsurprisingly, "Mark Regev".
The second is "Mark Regev liar" ;D
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He's spouting his awful stuff on C4 News again :hand:
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I had to look this guy up, never heard of him. You'd never guess he's an Aussie!
Regev began his career as a lecturer on International Relations and Strategy at the Israel Defense Forces Staff College.
I bet that course contains a range of balanced political viewpoints.
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Owen twat badger Paterson (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/20/owen-paterson-sacked-cabinet-appease-green-lobby?CMP=twt_fd)
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Owen twat badger Paterson (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/20/owen-paterson-sacked-cabinet-appease-green-lobby?CMP=twt_fd)
wow. Just wow. It's like he's invented a new smegma-twat-bosun particle and is anxious to demonstrate how it behaves.
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The best thing about his comments on the green lobby is that it's part of a speech to Lord Lawson's interestingly-funded climate change denying group.
That's chutzpah!
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Vladimir Putin.
The deafening silence vis-a-vis the recent goings on in eastern Ukraine speak volumes, as it were. I'm sorry if I've offended any Russians reading this, but your dear leader is acting like a bell-end of quite extraordinary magnitude. As for the 'separatists', they're utterly beneath contempt.
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That festering ball of slime Mark Regev was on the WWP just now. Consumer electronics are expensive, and take a long time to set up, otherwise the iPad would have been frisbeeing through the WWP before the smeg-faced clowning dope fuck had even got halfway through blaming Hamas for all the DETHiness.
Seems Hamas are forcing the inhabitants of Gaza to live in, er, Gaza.
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Standard BBC script:
"Mr Regev, sir, is there any message you wish to share with the British nation?"
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Gordon Gillick. He talks bollocks because he enjoys it.
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Gordon Gillick. He talks bollocks because he enjoys it.
(Googles)
Belgium! What an utter Twat.
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Gillick? Gillick? Not related to that Gillick, surely?
*Googles*
Ohh! Yes, indeed. Not only but also. He has form:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukip-councillor-gordon-gillick-deeply-sorry-over-claims-he-called-children-in-care-takers-from-the-system-9259180.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/28/ukip-cllr-gordon-gillick-lights-payment_n_5048689.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBFpc1r5U4
As my Honourable Friend puts it:
Belgium! What an utter Twat.
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His plan to surcharge foreigners* for medical treatment in the NHS, and to fine Trusts for non-collection of fees.
* Including EU citizens, even when they hold EHICs.
Not that I hold a flame for Jeremy CHunt but just for clarification...
NHS trusts can already be fined for non-collection of fees - that measure was introduced under the previous administration.
There is no plan to surcharge EU citizens (as that would be unalwful). What the Department of Health will be doing (or actually expecting CCGs to do from diminished funds) is paying trust's 25% extra for the treatment of EU citizens when they pass on the details of the patient to the relevant body (in this case the DWP). The UK is entitled to recalim the costs of care from the relevant members state - but a lot of trusts don't bother collecting and passing on the data and the UK loses money.
In case you're wondering, yes other EU countries do reclaim the costs of treating Brits in their systems from the UIK government.
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Gillick? Gillick? Not related to that Gillick, surely?
*Googles*
Ohh! Yes, indeed. Not only but also. He has form:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukip-councillor-gordon-gillick-deeply-sorry-over-claims-he-called-children-in-care-takers-from-the-system-9259180.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/28/ukip-cllr-gordon-gillick-lights-payment_n_5048689.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBFpc1r5U4
As my Honourable Friend puts it:
Belgium! What an utter Twat.
I have told Gordon Gillick to 'piss off'...
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I suspect you're not alone.
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He doesn't like email - but he does encourage people to phone him (http://www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/CommitteeMinutes/Committees/member.aspx?ID=198)... :demon:
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Forty pages in and no nomination for sanctimonious war criminal fuckpuppet Benjamin Netanyahu (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28461045)? UN condemnation a "travesty of justice and fairness". And then the Israeli military blows the shit out of a UN school being used as a shelter.
If that's your idea of "justice and fairness", Mr Twatanyahu, then for the good of humanity could I suggest you head for Zürich and jump off the roof of Dignitas?
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Gosh, I think we just took him as read. didn't we?
I think they targetted the UN school shelter to divert attention from the hospital they bombed the crap out of (with 'surgical precision', natch) and the journalists they attacked.
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But d'you know what's really fucking annoying?
Nothing will get done - Sweet. Fuck. All.
Go through the UN? The Septics will veto it.
Speak out against the Israeli offensive? Congratulations, you're an anti-Semite.
Show any support for the poor fuckers in Gaza/the West Bank/wherever? Bingo, you're now viewed as supporting terrorists.
You can't win and as a result everybody loses and as a result shit like this is happening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28468526 - THIS, Mr. Netenyahu, is your "travesty of justice, fairness and common sense".
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His plan to surcharge foreigners* for medical treatment in the NHS, and to fine Trusts for non-collection of fees.
* Including EU citizens, even when they hold EHICs.
Not that I hold a flame for Jeremy CHunt but just for clarification...
NHS trusts can already be fined for non-collection of fees - that measure was introduced under the previous administration.
There is no plan to surcharge EU citizens (as that would be unalwful). What the Department of Health will be doing (or actually expecting CCGs to do from diminished funds) is paying trust's 25% extra for the treatment of EU citizens when they pass on the details of the patient to the relevant body (in this case the DWP). The UK is entitled to recalim the costs of care from the relevant members state - but a lot of trusts don't bother collecting and passing on the data and the UK loses money.
In case you're wondering, yes other EU countries do reclaim the costs of treating Brits in their systems from the UIK government.
Thanks for the clarification.
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Gillick? Gillick? Not related to that Gillick, surely?
*Googles*
Ohh! Yes, indeed. Not only but also. He has form:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukip-councillor-gordon-gillick-deeply-sorry-over-claims-he-called-children-in-care-takers-from-the-system-9259180.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/28/ukip-cllr-gordon-gillick-lights-payment_n_5048689.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBFpc1r5U4
As my Honourable Friend puts it:
Belgium! What an utter Twat.
I have told Gordon Gillick to 'piss off'...
:thumbsup:
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People like Netanyahu and Regev make me sometimes question my pacifist views and my opposition to assassination.
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People like Netanyahu and Regev make me sometimes question my pacifist views and my opposition to assassination.
This, oh so much.
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He doesn't like email - but he does encourage people to phone him (http://www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/CommitteeMinutes/Committees/member.aspx?ID=198)... :demon:
I've just realised he has invented a new concept - Gillick incompetence!
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David Tredinnick (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464009). Blimey.
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David Tredinnick (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464009). Blimey.
What a Twat! Set Brian Cox on him!
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David Tredinnick (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464009). Blimey.
Obviously destined for a role heading up some science/technology subcommitte then ::-)
Wonder if he'll be able to predict his probable demise at the next election ...
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David Tredinnick (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464009). Blimey.
Obviously destined for a role heading up some science/technology subcommitte then ::-)
Wonder if he'll be able to predict his probable demise at the next election ...
Stuff me! He's on the Health Select Committee. And The Science and Technology Select Committee. <boggle>
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Stuff me! He's on the Health Select Committee. And The Science and Technology Select Committee. <boggle>
And says he is
absolutely convinced that those who look at the map of the sky for the day that they were born and receive some professional guidance will find out a lot about themselves and it will make their lives easier
<double boggle>
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David Tredinnick (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464009). Blimey.
Obviously destined for a role heading up some science/technology subcommitte then ::-)
Wonder if he'll be able to predict his probable demise at the next election ...
Stuff me! He's on the Health Select Committee. And The Science and Technology Select Committee. <boggle>
I've dealt with him professionally. He's a whole loaf, never mind a sandwich, short of a picnic.
Look up 'raving mad cockwomble' in the dictionary and his picture is there.
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No results found for "raving mad cockwomble".
:(
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David Tredinnick (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464009). Blimey.
Obviously destined for a role heading up some science/technology subcommitte then ::-)
Wonder if he'll be able to predict his probable demise at the next election ...
Stuff me! He's on the Health Select Committee. And The Science and Technology Select Committee. <boggle>
Fuck it. I'm emigrating ....
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Stuff me! He's on the Health Select Committee. And The Science and Technology Select Committee. <boggle>
It was probably his turn. How else can we account for an Equalities Minister who doesn't believe in equality or a Health Minister who believes in homeopathy?
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Was he science adviser to Owen Patterson?
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Stuff me! He's on the Health Select Committee. And The Science and Technology Select Committee. <boggle>
It was probably his turn. How else can we account for an Equalities Minister who doesn't believe in equality or a Health Minister who believes in homeopathy?
Kill me. Kill me now. Preferably by fatal underdose.
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Let's hear it for Michael Shrimpton*, conspiracy theorist, climate change denier and ace bullshitter.
The term "sack of shit with a hole in it" springs to mind.
Look him up on you search engine of choice. You will need a capacity for self-restraint and a strong stomach.
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They're only prosecuting him to silence TEH TRUTHS!!!!!!
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Doesn't even have comedy value :(
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Doesn't even have comedy value :(
I agree; it's unpleasant and depressing.
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Iain Duncan Smith, for his performance as spokestwat for Cam the Sham, who also deserves a dishonourable mention.
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That festering ball of slime Mark Regev was on the WWP just now. Consumer electronics are expensive, and take a long time to set up, otherwise the iPad would have been frisbeeing through the WWP before the smeg-faced clowning dope fuck had even got halfway through blaming Hamas for all the DETHiness.
Seems Hamas are forcing the inhabitants of Gaza to live in, er, Gaza.
I feel bad about bringing the thread back to Regev---I feel bad about mentioning him in the first place---but here, watch this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqBTtXKKT_8&feature=youtu.be)
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That festering ball of slime Mark Regev was on the WWP just now. Consumer electronics are expensive, and take a long time to set up, otherwise the iPad would have been frisbeeing through the WWP before the smeg-faced clowning dope fuck had even got halfway through blaming Hamas for all the DETHiness.
Seems Hamas are forcing the inhabitants of Gaza to live in, er, Gaza.
I feel bad about bringing the thread back to Regev---I feel bad about mentioning him in the first place---but here, watch this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqBTtXKKT_8&feature=youtu.be)
Wow. I'd always thought of Emily Makepeace as a bit of a lightweight. No more.
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Richard Dawkins being an arrogant knob... (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/30/richard-dawkins-rape-tweets-atheist-admits-mistake-quotation-marks_n_5633059.html?utm_hp_ref=uk) :facepalm:
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I know he should have had a lifetime achievement award by now, but after avoiding it for a decade I am watching Noel Edmonds on "Deal Or No Deal" in absolute horror. I don't know why I hate him so much...he's a smug rich bastard exploiting desperate poor people (let's be accurate: chavs) in an amazingly bored and casual manner, his beard is increasingly ridiculous, he must spend more time on his hair than the average catwalk model (and spend the GDP of Burkina Faso on Just For Men products) and he is trying to look about 40 years younger thn he is, and failing miserably..
No...I think it's the way he's dressed. Tweed jacket woith red leather collar and elbows, fuckingredtrousers and a cravat. Why isn't he a Bond villain? He wouldn't even need acting lessons.
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Why isn't he a Bond villain? He wouldn't even need acting lessons.
Because an array of orbital gunge delivery satellites isn't a credible threat to world peace.
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And Dawkins shows himself to be an even bigger Super Twat by penning a rambling self-justifcation, rather than simply saying sorry for being such a Twitter Twat... (https://richarddawkins.net/2014/07/are-there-emotional-no-go-areas-where-logic-dare-not-show-its-face/)
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Mark Regev...
It simply needs repeating.
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The more often Mark Regev appears on the news, the more he resembles a lizard.
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Perhaps the conspiracy nutters have a point...?
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Lt Col Peter Lerner.
The Israeli Defence Force's* Mark Regev... :sick:
*How inaptly named.
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Roman Shapiro
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Douglas Murray (the Spectator blogger)
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It's a toss-up between the German legal system and Bernie fucking Ecclestone.
If, as he seemed to suggest all along, the odious little twerp was innocent of any wrongdoing why did he feel the need to by himself out of trouble? Utterly shameful.
Sepp Blatter has competition in the 'loathesome twat running a professional sport' stakes.
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'Sorry I nicked that loaf in Tesco's guv, will a tenner cover it? Oh bugger, I don't have a tenner'.
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I think Mark Simmonds (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/11/tory-foreign-office-minister-quits-intolerable-expenses-rules) has just earned himself a mention.
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He has indeed. Perhaps we cold have a whip-round to see if we can convince him to stay and continue to provide his insights, compassion and understanding of ordinary people's way of life to our political system?
No takers?
Oh.
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(http://www.davidicke.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/legacy_images/stories/Feb201392/hypocrisy-7718811-300x293.jpg)
Sorry, I got sidetracked by the loose coalescence of blithering loonery that forms davidicke.com
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One of today's 'most read' stories on the site. Historical interest lies in the comments...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15507374
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I think Mark Simmonds (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/11/tory-foreign-office-minister-quits-intolerable-expenses-rules) has just earned himself a mention.
My, what a repellent little pustule - sense of entitlement much?
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One of today's 'most read' stories on the site. Historical interest lies in the comments...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15507374
I'd like to read the many deleted posts.
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Ooooooooh yes!
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Vince 'Enabler' Cable
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/12/israel-arms-embargo_n_5671921.html?1407862971
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For his services to Ebola Virus related fuckwittery, Donald "Rugboy" Trump.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-28979459
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John Bishop.
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Will Self-publicist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28971276
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Will Self-publicist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28971276
I'm with Mr Self on that one.
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I am inclined to agree, but then the 'twat' in question is Self.
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Stansted airport.
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Brooks Newmark.
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The ex-Joan Rivers. I'm not shedding any tears for the demise of a vile person...
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Giro Bebb.
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I was at university with Guto, seemed an ok bloke at the time, what the hell has happened to him I dunno.
His grandfather must be spinning in his grave - he was one of the founders of Plaid Cymru.
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I am descended from Bebbs, so I'm probably distantly related to this wazzock.
Sorry.
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Stupid Name from USAnia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29146045
"Do you know who I am?"
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-29205418
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I suspect he's not the only one riding that lucrative bandwagon.
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Parents witnessed street bucket collectors helping themselves to cash for booze. Not good.
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David fingers-crossed-behind-my-back Cameron
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I know he's an easy target but Shapps really is a twat
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/grant-shapps-makes-beautifully-awkward-twitter-typo-9737590.html
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Gordon Ramsay. No particular reason save that I walked into this motel after ten hours of (mostly) driving and thes weary twatster was the first person I saw.
No, on the telly.
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Who else but Teflon Tony "Middle East Peace Envoy" Bliar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29305840
How about leading by example, you odious, war-mongering fuckhead. Give him desert kit, an SA-80 and boot the smarmy fucker out of a C-130 somewhere over Syria ... see what he thinks about deploying ground troops then.
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How about leading by example, you odious, war-mongering fuckhead. Give him desert kit, an SA-80 and boot the smarmy fucker out of a C-130 somewhere over Syria ... see what he thinks about deploying ground troops then.
I'd vote for that.
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Give him an SA-80 by all means, but don't give him any ammunition. We can't afford it.
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Give him an SA-80 by all means, but don't give him any ammunition. We can't afford it.
The mental image I have doesn't even afford him the luxury of a parachute. An anvil, perhaps, but not a parachute.
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Brooks Newmark.
Resigned, hooray! No more spoiling my dinner on Jonsnownews.
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Brooks Newmark.
Resigned, hooray! No more spoiling my dinner on Jonsnownews.
Really? He's my MP. What's he been up to?
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Brooks Newmark.
Resigned, hooray! No more spoiling my dinner on Jonsnownews.
Really? He's my MP. What's he been up to?
Sending explicit selfies, apparently. There are suggestions that it's a tabloid sting, however.
Sources told The Telegraph that Mr Newmark had sent the pictures to someone he believed was a woman using a social networking website, as part of a tabloid newspaper sting operation.
In a statement, Mr Newmark said: "I have decided to resign as Minister for Civil Society having been notified of a story to be published in a Sunday newspaper.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11125919/Conservative-minister-resigns-over-sex-scandal.html
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Berk!
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Have we had David "imperial-non-metric-bill-of-rights" Cameron yet?
>:(
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Have we had David "imperial-non-metric-bill-of-rights" Cameron yet?
>:(
You beat me to it!
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Nick Tory-boy Robinson
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Matt Hancock, MP, Poet in Residence, Conservative Party.
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Oh you are a hard man it was a mistake. :demon:
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Off to the M Hancock MP hall of shame ...
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Brooks Newmark.
That's the in-house brand for the men's polyester blend suits from C&A*, isn't it?
*other high-street retailers are available.
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Chris Grayling
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Jeremy Clarkson, supertroll. Yet again!
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Brooks Newmark.
That's the in-house brand for the men's polyester blend suits from C&A*, isn't it?
*other high-street retailers are available.
This is a candidate for Post of the Week.
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Jeremy Clarkson, supertroll. Yet again!
Just for once, this one looks accidental. It seems to be the original registration from over 20 years ago, & nobody noticed the rather tenuous connection which could be made to the Falklands war if one was sufficiently obsessed. That they'd seek & find a car with such a number is a bit far-fetched. Too subtle for Clarkson et al.
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I think we need to designate a new level of twattery for Cameron and co. Even Thatcher would have balked at repealing human rights legislation.
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Surely Thatcher would not have allowed BRITAIN to be party to the Convention in the first place?
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Except she did, albeit indirectly and regretted it later. But of all the Bad Things she did in the name of security, she never went as far as repealing universal human rights.
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Except she did, albeit indirectly and regretted it later. But of all the Bad Things she did in the name of security, she never went as far as repealing universal human rights.
Only because Keith Joseph didn't think of it :demon:
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https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=iB-FQRjd6b_9PM&tbnid=LvnU7NuQ6GLI5M:&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmariamuir.com%2Fdavid-cameron-a-son-hitler-wouldve-been-proud-of-needs-to-be-stopped-as-he-jumps-into-bed-with-monsanto%2F&ei=SBU3VOvpMofe7AbVsoGwAw&psig=AFQjCNFDyUFXWEMgnjIHkNZW9lJepy31kw&ust=1412982486404810
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So who's the tw@, David Cameron or Maria Muir?
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Seeing as this is the Official yACF Two Minute Hate thread, need you ask? ;)
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Brooks Newmark.
Resigned, hooray! No more spoiling my dinner on Jonsnownews.
Really? He's my MP. What's he been up to?
Sending explicit selfies, apparently. There are suggestions that it's a tabloid sting, however.
Sources told The Telegraph that Mr Newmark had sent the pictures to someone he believed was a woman using a social networking website, as part of a tabloid newspaper sting operation.
In a statement, Mr Newmark said: "I have decided to resign as Minister for Civil Society having been notified of a story to be published in a Sunday newspaper.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11125919/Conservative-minister-resigns-over-sex-scandal.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29585203 ;D
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David Tredinnick, again. Why give health workers a pay rise when you could spend it on fairy woo instead.
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At this time of year it is traditional for me to nominate serial whinge fountain, big-nosed Friend to the Panel-Beating Industry, racing motor-ist and twat Mr Jason Plato of Monaco, Oxon. No Sunday afternoon of BRITISH Touring Car Championship racing upon the anbaric wireless-with-pictures has been complete this year without the BRDC's tame proboscis monkey blathering on about how unfair it is that the laws of physics permit the rear-wheel drive BMWs to accelerate from a standing start more effectively than his poxy front-wheel drive MG.
On Sunday this shockingly biased state of affairs forced Mr Plato to attempt to overtake the Beemer of a Mr Colin Turkington by taking to the wet grass on the approach to Paddock Hill Bend, which manoeuvre saw the motor-car of Mr Turkington end the race shortly thereafter, backwards and in the crash barrier. After the drivers' title had been decided in Mr Turkington's favour. I therefore suggest that Mr Plato gets some first-hand experience of the acceleration of a souped-up 1-Series by being firmly strapped into one which is then pushed out of the back door of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, somewhere over territory occupied by IS(IS).
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3949/15345628508_efc2cfb11c_c.jpg)
Jason Plato learns of his demotion to the back of the Brands Hatch grid, yesterday Sunday
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Judy Finnigan.
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"Lord" Freud (http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/tory-minister-suggests-disabled-people-not-worth-the-minimum-wage--x1-AH7-XUl)
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"Lord" Freud (http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/tory-minister-suggests-disabled-people-not-worth-the-minimum-wage--x1-AH7-XUl)
Shameful.
I'd be happy to introduce my 'honourable' friend to a cricket bat with the words 'Sorry does not make things magically better' written on it. Repeatedly.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-29559771
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-29559771
sparrows weep in silence . . .
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-29559771
sparrows weep in silence . . .
The court had to calculate the value of the work carried out by the girl when she was being exploited and also the sum of benefits claimed fraudulently in her name.
The judge based it on the minimum wage, assuming she worked for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Lawyers for the couple argued a deduction should be made for board and lodging accrued by the girl when she was with them.
Can I suggest those lawyers are taken outside in a public place and beaten by an angry mob?
I mean really, is "Royally taking the piss" a punishable crime?
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"Lord" Freud (http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/tory-minister-suggests-disabled-people-not-worth-the-minimum-wage--x1-AH7-XUl)
Shameful.
I'd be happy to introduce my 'honourable' friend to a cricket bat with the words 'Sorry does not make things magically better' written on it. Repeatedly.
I can think of one particular group of people who certainly are not worth a tenth of what they are paid, Lord Freud...
The vile and unthinking idiot should immediately resign.
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"Lord" Freud (http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/tory-minister-suggests-disabled-people-not-worth-the-minimum-wage--x1-AH7-XUl)
Shameful.
I'd be happy to introduce my 'honourable' friend to a cricket bat with the words 'Sorry does not make things magically better' written on it. Repeatedly.
I can think of one particular group of people who certainly are not worth a tenth of what they are paid, Lord Freud...
The vile and unthinking idiot should immediately resign.
You mean resign from the party who secretly agree with his views? Why would he do that? The Tories voted against the minimum wage, so why would he resign? re-sign maybe.
It's like a member of the green party resigning for plotting to save some trees.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-29559771
sparrows weep in silence . . .
The court had to calculate the value of the work carried out by the girl when she was being exploited and also the sum of benefits claimed fraudulently in her name.
The judge based it on the minimum wage, assuming she worked for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Lawyers for the couple argued a deduction should be made for board and lodging accrued by the girl when she was with them.
Can I suggest those lawyers are taken outside in a public place and beaten by an angry mob?
I mean really, is "Royally taking the piss" a punishable crime?
I had read that, and wanted to give myself time to wind my neck in. I submitted the link as an example of multiple twattery, and you have indeed identified one of the things that made me want to scream.
All I would add re the lawyers is the suggestion that the claim may not have been their idea but have emanated from the central pair of slaver twats.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-29559771
sparrows weep in silence . . .
The court had to calculate the value of the work carried out by the girl when she was being exploited and also the sum of benefits claimed fraudulently in her name.
The judge based it on the minimum wage, assuming she worked for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Lawyers for the couple argued a deduction should be made for board and lodging accrued by the girl when she was with them.
Can I suggest those lawyers are taken outside in a public place and beaten by an angry mob?
I mean really, is "Royally taking the piss" a punishable crime?
I would really rather you reconsidered first. Don't shoot the lawyer who has a legal and professional responsibility to do their utmost for their client, however vile it might appear to the layperson. After all, you'd want your lawyer to try their best for you should you ever find yourself in the dock.
IIRC, people convicted who serve time and are later found not guilty have a deduction from their compensation for 'board and lodgings' at her maj's pleasure.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-29559771
sparrows weep in silence . . .
The court had to calculate the value of the work carried out by the girl when she was being exploited and also the sum of benefits claimed fraudulently in her name.
The judge based it on the minimum wage, assuming she worked for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Lawyers for the couple argued a deduction should be made for board and lodging accrued by the girl when she was with them.
Can I suggest those lawyers are taken outside in a public place and beaten by an angry mob?
I mean really, is "Royally taking the piss" a punishable crime?
I would really rather you reconsidered first. Don't shoot the lawyer who has a legal and professional responsibility to do their utmost for their client, however vile it might appear to the layperson. After all, you'd want your lawyer to try their best for you should you ever find yourself in the dock.
IIRC, people convicted who serve time and are later found not guilty have a deduction from their compensation for 'board and lodgings' at her maj's pleasure.
It's not the same thing. She had no trial before her incarceration. No defence. No appeal. Her keepers raped her.
Moral considerations aside (yeah - lawyers can do this), the law is pretty clear that an illegal contract (how else could she be liable for board & lodging?) is unenforceable*.
I wouldn't be the lawyer arguing that she should be liable for rent and board to her kidnappers/rapists. Sometimes you just have to do what's right.
(*I guess they weren't arguing that there was anything like a contract, but discussing loss on a tortious basis, but I don't think that the tortfeasor in these circumstances gets to do so. I might be wrong, but the judge didn't seem to think so)
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A real, actual, human being would have refused to stand up and utter the sick request.
Professional responsibilities to their client or otherwise.
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Lee. I understand your point of view. I have given evidence in a lot of trials, and I have used that in several novels. In one of them*, I wrote about a barrister defending the repeated rape of a child. Said barrister asks the victim if (one of) the rapists is an attractive man
Confronted outside the court, following the guilty verdict, the lawyer explains, as Polar Bear suggests, that he has been passed a very shitty stick. He either deals with it, passes it on to some other poor bastard, or the REAL twat gets off on appeal.
*Ride On
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John Grisham
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A real, actual, human being would have refused to stand up and utter the sick request.
Professional responsibilities to their client or otherwise.
Everyone is entitled to a defence, which means that lawyers often have to take cases that perhaps they'd rather not. It's no reflection on the individual lawyer; they're just doing their job. Though some do seem to relish being on the side of the crim!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-29644124
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A real, actual, human being would have refused to stand up and utter the sick request.
Professional responsibilities to their client or otherwise.
Everyone is entitled to a defence
Asking for rent from the slave they repeatedly raped in their dungeon is not a defence.
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No, but it is a very clear window into what passes for their soul.
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Oh dear, Jeremy Clarkson again ::-)
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Liz Truss doesn't seem to be any better than Owen Patterson :facepalm:
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Mike Read, always a twat, now qualifies for Supertwat to the power of lots
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Oh yes. he does that.
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Liz Jones with her FAKE hearing dogs for the deaf that she's been asked to STOP writing about as if they're genuine: http://limpingchicken.com/2014/10/20/jones-fake-hearing-dogs/
Lord Fraud can fuck right off.
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:facepalm:
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Does Nigel Farage need adding? For allying himself with fascists this time. Nice to have his allegiances out in the open.
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Liz Jones with her FAKE hearing dogs for the deaf that she's been asked to STOP writing about as if they're genuine: http://limpingchicken.com/2014/10/20/jones-fake-hearing-dogs/
Lord Fraud can fuck right off.
Sounds like she's the sort of person that parks in a disabled parking spot.
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Liz Jones certainly has plenty of previous in Premier-League twattery. Was she the one who racked up a bazillion quid of debt and then wrote numerous newspaper columns on how it Wasn't Her Fault? Or am I thinking of some other twat?
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I believe she also expounded upon the travails of the poor, put-upon middle classes who could scarcely be expected to cope with a mere four houses to choose from, the difficulties in dealing with domestic help, and the tragedies involved in romancing, marrying, quarrelling with and divorcing a significantly younger man.
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Liz Jones certainly has plenty of previous in Premier-League twattery. Was she the one who racked up a bazillion quid of debt and then wrote numerous newspaper columns on how it Wasn't Her Fault? Or am I thinking of some other twat?
The banking industry as a whole, perhaps?
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Michael Fallon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29776970 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29776970)
One of his colleagues once described him to me as "a thoroughly unpleasant sh*t", which is saying something for a Tory MP.
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Back when Fallon was MP for Darlo, my dad told him to fuck off and made him run away.
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Back when Fallon was MP for Darlo, my dad told him to fuck off and made him run away.
Shouldn't this be in the tenuous claims to fame thread? It's worth boasting about.
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I'm pretty sure I already have - but the search function doesn't look as though it works on that board, and I'm not reading the whole thing again!
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For repeated and dedicated services to arch-twattery I nominate Google searching as implemented in this 'ere forum ;)
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For repeated and dedicated services to arch-twattery I nominate Google
FTFY.
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FruitCo MegaCorp of Cupertino, Leftpondia - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/27/icloud_data_grab_irks_privacy_conscious/ refers.
Out-snooping even the Chocolate Factory - that's pretty impressive going.
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Michael Fallon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29776970 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29776970)
One of his colleagues once described him to me as "a thoroughly unpleasant sh*t", which is saying something for a Tory MP.
And now David Blunkett.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/28/david-blunkett-praises-michael-fallon-swamped-migrants
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Yes, well immigration is one of those topics we dare not talk about for fear of being labelled fascist. However, it's very real issue for many people and it will be talked about, however much you condemn the messengers.
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Yes, an important issue. Got to keep these Jews down.
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I don't know what you mean by that, but I'm sure it's not complimentary! However, it's a fact that ever since Enoch Powell's overblown and distasteful speech it's been extremely difficult to discuss immigration in a grown-up and dispassionate way, to the extent that successive governments have either ignored the issue or exacerbated it by removing oversight rather than engaging in constructive debate. The result has been that anyone who questions immigration is, more or less instantly, labelled at the very least a reactionary and often considerably worse. Yet it is a fact that net immigration to this country is proceeding at a rate that is uncomfortable for many and they wish to see some control exercised over it. Surely the debate can be had without accusing everyone who engages in it of occupying the extreme right or left of the stage?
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Indeed. An example:
Why are the people sleeping rough in Calais not claiming their refuge in France?
(A question with multiple and complicated answers)
Answer, as immediately given above, FASCIST!
People will discuss it. It is an important and emotive subject. Immediately making an obvious accusation of racism is not helpful. I have said many times that as long as the immediate reply to any comment about immigration is to label the questioner a fascist, people will find themselves drifting to extremes. UKIP is one good example.
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Don't get me wrong, Steph, I'm not promoting (or looking for) any easy answers - migration within the EU is not particularly significant, works in several directions at once, and is subject to fashion and the variability of local economies (as it is equally within, say, the US). Blocking any one of them will have knock-on effects that aren't desirable. Asylum is a different issue, but - as you imply - the answer isn't any unilateral action on the part of the UK. But there is a perception that the UK has borne more than its fair share of immigration, and a suspicion that the reason is a Welfare State that is more generous than elsewhere. Both the assessment of the problem - if there actually is one - and the search for a solution rely on the ability to openly discuss the issues and the acceptance that there are different points of view. Pejoratively labelling anyone simply for raising the question is akin to censorship.
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But there is a perception that the UK has borne more than its fair share of immigration,
It took me about 15s to find the figures that show that that perception is absolute bollocks.
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But there is a perception that the UK has borne more than its fair share of immigration,
It took me about 15s to find the figures that show that that perception is absolute bollocks.
Really? Do share....?
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And now David Blunkett.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/28/david-blunkett-praises-michael-fallon-swamped-migrants
May his guide dog bite him on the arse.
If the "economic migrants "in for e.g. Wisbech were Scousers1 instead of Bulgarians, would the likes of Fallon, Blunkett and Farrago be making a fuss?
Edit
1 - yes, I know it's unlikely...
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Natacha Bouchart.
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FFS!
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FruitCo MegaCorp of Cupertino, Leftpondia - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/27/icloud_data_grab_irks_privacy_conscious/ refers.
Out-snooping even the Chocolate Factory - that's pretty impressive going.
Julian Assange* has a new book out about that lot http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447?piano_d=1 (http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447?piano_d=1)
*probably has an mention in the Super Twat thread of his own....
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FruitCo MegaCorp of Cupertino, Leftpondia - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/27/icloud_data_grab_irks_privacy_conscious/ refers.
Out-snooping even the Chocolate Factory - that's pretty impressive going.
Julian Assange* has a new book out about that lot http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447?piano_d=1 (http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447?piano_d=1)
*probably has an mention in the Super Twat thread of his own....
I dunno about Asshatange, but Eric Schmidt has certainly elevated twattery to epic levels over the years - I'd very much like to see a circle of Hell set aside for him, Page and Brin.
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Natacha Bouchart.
I thought she did rather well and some of our MPS were gratuitously rude to her, given that her national government's failure to deal with illegal immigrants is not her responsibility.
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Natacha Bouchart.
I thought she did rather well and some of our MPS were gratuitously rude to her, given that her national government's failure to deal with illegal immigrants is not her responsibility.
I agree. And I think she made a very good point that £36 a week quite probably seems like a fortune to people who have no idea how much it costs to live here, and simply relate it to the cost of living in their own country. However, I presume the French (and other EU countries) have some kind of similar payout? I just don't get why so many people would risk everything to get here!
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I just don't get why so many people would risk everything to get here!
I've always assumed it's the language. Most people learn English as a second language and if you're desperate enough to want to risk everything, you might as well try to end up somewhere where you'll be able to communicate.
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One explanation I heard from someone who already had 'status' in Germany was "Because I'll get more money"
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I just don't get why so many people would risk everything to get here!
I think you would have to be them, there, to 'get' it.
I'm glad I'm not.
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Andrew Lawrence, alleged comedian.
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Definitely with Frankie Boyle on this one. Also I've never heard of Andrew Lawrence, probably because he's not funny enough to be on TV.
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Apparently there are ivory towers in west London. Populated undoubtedly by the metropolitan elite. Now I know the location I'm thinking of an anthropological expedition to find the lost tribe of the metropolitan elite in their native ivory towers.
I can't remember who, but he was a twat, some batshit crazy tory dipshit rambling on about out-of-touch Westminster elite with a reference to the Praetorian guard. Getting down with the language of the street, innit.
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I don't know why you lot are accusing Andrew Lawrence of not being a Comedian. I thought his Facebook response was hilarious:
Here are a few clarifications of what I meant in my October 25th post- 'Can't help but notice increasingly...'.
-A post which has attracted a level of attention I neither wanted, nor courted.
Firstly, here is what I intended by the term 'ethnic comedian':
A comedian from a minority background who uses their own ethnicity as a foundation for the whole of their act, rather than looking at wider aspects of society and exploring outside of their own personal experience.
Now, here is what I intended by the term
'Women-posing-as-comics':
Director of BBC television Danny Cohen's aggressive diversity politics are well documented.
Quotas have been introduced, whereby every panel show must book a certain number of female and ethnic comedians, regardless of ability or merit.
Objectively then, there are comedians on panel shows who are there first and foremost because of their gender or ethnicity.
Some of these comedians are very good.
Because there is currently not a sufficiently large enough pool of female comedians with the requisite experience and ability to fill the quota, there are females who've been booked for these shows who are either poor comedians, not comedians at all, or aspiring female comedians that are still learning their craft, but have not yet reached a decent professional standard.
These females I have described as 'women-posing-as-comedians'.
The upshot of all that is that there are still many women coming across incredibly badly on panel shows, which is helping to perpetuate the myth that women aren't funny.
The hope is that women currently on panel shows, will further legitimise stand-up comedy as a career for women and encourage other women to take up comedy. Which is an admirable aim.
Unfortunately for every female who gets on a panel show, there are very many male comedians with more ability and experience who are not and will never get the opportunity to be on one. I think that's a great shame for TV audiences.
There are also male comedians who've been doing these shows for far too many years and have become incredibly stale, too lazy to move on to other things.Some of them are fat and balding.
Oh, and I don't have a problem with properly regulated immigration and I don't have a problem with immigrants.
I do have a great deal of concern about the lack of border controls in this country and subsequent gross overpopulation as a result of EU legislation, which I believe adversely affects all our quality of life.
Something needs to be done about that BBC quota that requires every panel show to have a 'certain number* of comedians' who 'use their own ethnicity as a foundation for the whole of their act, rather than looking at wider aspects of society and exploring outside of their own personal experience'. Although thinking about it, that does explain Jeremy Clarkson.
And I love his 'for every female who gets on a panel show, there are very many male comedians with more ability and experience who are not and will never get the opportunity to be on one'. How he managed to resit not following that with 'Me! Me!' I don't know.
* Andrew, I think you'll find that number is '0'.
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Simon Mayo Super-Twat.
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David Coburn. He's UKIP, so it goes without saying that he's a Supertwat, but he's gone the extra mile.
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Simon Mayo Super-Twat.
What's he done now? ::)
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Simon Mayo Super-Twat.
What's he done now? ::)
He exists. Surely that's bad enough?
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Yup.
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"Sir" Andrew Green :sick:
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I have just edited his Wikinaccurate page so it now reads "Sir Andrew Green, KCMG (born 6 August 1941) is a British former diplomat, the founding chairman of the organization MigrationWatch UK and a massive fucking twat."
Lie ^^^^. Though I did change "former British diplomat" to "British former diplomat". The word "unfortunately" may have appeared in the edit summary.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29931463#
The land owner has not condemned the actions nor said if he knew. Make that two super-twats, and in addition I rather suspect that neither a grand in costs (probably paid by his employer) nor a suspended sentence is going to deter him from similar future offences.
I am also NOT holding my breath waiting for him to lose his job permanently. About time E and W followed the Scottish lead on this one.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29931463#
The land owner has not condemned the actions nor said if he knew. Make that two super-twats, and in addition I rather suspect that neither a grand in costs (probably paid by his employer) nor a suspended sentence is going to deter him from similar future offences.
I am also NOT holding my breath waiting for him to lose his job permanently. About time E and W followed the Scottish lead on this one.
The pudding's not yet proven:
https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/first-vicarious-liability-prosecution-part-3/
... though prosecution is at least an option. And Scottish Ministers are at least talking the talk.
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"Dapper" "Laughs."
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"Dapper" "Laughs."
Think he goes well beyond super twat!
Hyper twat thread anyone? ;D
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Yep. I was only vaguely aware of this 'phenomenon' until this week, when I was appalled by more information.
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"Dapper" "Laughs."
Has Wowbagger moment. Googles. Goes off to wash hands.... :sick:
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"Dapper" "Laughs."
Has Wowbagger moment. Googles. Goes off to wash hands.... :sick:
Er... I had just assumed EG was referring to Dappy, who is indeed a supertwat in his own right, so didn't check. Just have. Ugh.
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In a similar vein, Julien Blanc
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/julien-blanc-is-a-racist-sexual-predator-teaching-men-to-prey-on-women-like-me--he-must-be-stopped-9843939.html
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"Dapper" "Laughs."
Doubt he's laughing now. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/10/itv-drops-dapper-laughs-criticism-daniel-oreilly-misogyny (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/10/itv-drops-dapper-laughs-criticism-daniel-oreilly-misogyny)
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Although why the hell ITV commissioned him in the first place is a disgrace.
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"Dapper" "Laughs."
It's only taken me three days to work out what this is about.
I need to stay in more ???
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Has Wowbagger moment.
I have the slight opposite problem. I thought people had moved on from being interested in this idiot two years ago. Didn't realise he'd been given his own TV series until this story came up. What a twat.
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Sorry, but Katie Hopkins, yet again *sigh* :(
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First Bus get a collective supreme twattery award for this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-30010126
and Unilever run them a close second: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30004158
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First Bus get a collective supreme twattery award for this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-30010126
While I don't disagree, I reckon we'd also be offering them as a sacrifice on the twattery altar if the driver had turfed a passenger with a child in a pushchair off the bus ...
and Unilever run them a close second: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30004158
Hmmm. From that story, I'd be more inclined to nominate Hampton Creek: making an egg-free faux-mayo is all very well; marketing it as Just Mayo and putting a picture of an egg on the packaging less so.
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Redfoo.
If you don't know who this dick-clown is, don't bother Googling. He's seen what sexism did for Robyn Thicke's profile, and decided to be in on the action.
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Whoever came up with that Sainsbury's Christmas ad.
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David Cameron yet again (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2014/11/prime-minister-david-cameron-on-pensions?_ga=1.168760743.70909162.1375831515) pension stealing twat
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Whoever came up with that Sainsbury's Christmas ad.
FTFY
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David Cameron yet again (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2014/11/prime-minister-david-cameron-on-pensions?_ga=1.168760743.70909162.1375831515) pension stealing twat
Whatever else he might have done, I see nothing in that article (or elsewhere) to justify calling him 'pension stealing'. Have I missed something? What are you referring to?
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David Cameron yet again (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2014/11/prime-minister-david-cameron-on-pensions?_ga=1.168760743.70909162.1375831515) pension stealing twat
Whatever else he might have done, I see nothing in that article (or elsewhere) to justify calling him 'pension stealing'. Have I missed something? What are you referring to?
Nothing in the article. He just nicked the extra amount people would get if they'd contracted in. Hits in 2016 with the flat rate pension.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-30134107
"#rapetruck"
Twat.
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Spotted on the TV: Jay Rayner. Jay. Rayner. Evening ruined.
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David Cameron yet again (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2014/11/prime-minister-david-cameron-on-pensions?_ga=1.168760743.70909162.1375831515) pension stealing twat
Whatever else he might have done, I see nothing in that article (or elsewhere) to justify calling him 'pension stealing'. Have I missed something? What are you referring to?
About £250k out of mine.
But we're all in this together
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Don't worry chaps. He gave it to the needy higher rate taxpayers in the guise of a 5% tax cut. Somebody has to get rich during a recession.
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I am increasingly frustrated by seeing banks fined etc for maladministration, but not bankers. What price accountability? We are, and will be, paying for this lots f'ups in 50 years time.
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I am increasingly frustrated by seeing banks fined etc for maladministration, but not bankers. What price accountability? We are, and will be, paying for this lots f'ups in 50 years time.
It always puzzles me too, it's not the bank that pays the fines, it's the customers. So the bank screws its customers and then passes on the fine for being caught doing so. That'll learn them.
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Technically, it's the shareholders that pay the fine although, of course, like any business the bank can then recoup its costs through higher charges to its customers, but those customers are free to move their business.
On the bankers themselves, IANAL, but as I understand it, there is no law against incompetence or deliberately making a complete hash of everything in a privately-owned company. (I think there may be something on maladministration in a public office.) Where these has been genuine fraud, there may be a chance of prosecution, but I don't think you can (or should be able) to throw someone in jail simply for being spectacularly bad at their job. However, in most significant financial roles, the regulator can determine that you are not fit and proper, which makes you pretty much unemployable, except by Wonga.
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David Cameron yet again (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2014/11/prime-minister-david-cameron-on-pensions?_ga=1.168760743.70909162.1375831515) pension stealing twat
Whatever else he might have done, I see nothing in that article (or elsewhere) to justify calling him 'pension stealing'. Have I missed something? What are you referring to?
About £250k out of mine.
But we're all in this together
There's a backstory here I'm not privy to, I think. I get what MrC is talking about, though I have to say that I think the flat rate pension was inevitable whoever was in government (and is the quid pro quo for sticking with unfunded pensions when we could have sorted that out many, many years ago). Was your contracted-in 2ndSP worth £250k? Following advice that was pretty common in the '80s, I contracted out way back then and rolled it all up once pension providers no longer had to account it separately a year or two ago. It wasn't worth anything like that much, and (in my case) it wouldn't have been had I remained contracted in for all that time. If you got stung for that much, ouch - I can see where you're coming from!
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No, Eddie Jordan, there at at least three sports in Italy. Ever heard of the Giro d'Italia?
Twat.
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Theresa "The time is right for more terror powers" May.
No. It. Fucking. ISN'T
We do not need yet more knee-jerk legislation rubber-stamped through Parliament under the guise of protecting us from Terry Wrist and his mates - they won the battle years ago. The biggest threat the the UK's national security is it's own sodding government - emigration is starting to look like a seriously tempting proposition.
Irrespective of whichever circle of Hell Osama bin-Liner is currently occupying, he's probably laughing his arse off and "1984" was a work of fiction, not a fucking policy manual.
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emigration is starting to look like a seriously tempting proposition.
But where would you go that isn't worse? New Zealand seems a bit better but I have serious moral quibbles about living in an occupied country.
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emigration is starting to look like a seriously tempting proposition.
But where would you go that isn't worse? New Zealand seems a bit better but I have serious moral quibbles about living in an occupied country.
Russia would be a good bet, if only because Vlad the Mad doesn't hide the fact that he's a totalitarian basket-case.
But seriously ...
Given the number of jobs in Das Vaterland I've had punted in my direction recently, it's very tempting to pursue those opportunities further although anything long-term would require a bit of work on my language skills.
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That's why I'm here - safe in the Fatherland. Where people seem to have just a bit more idea about their history, how it happened and how in the future to avoid it. Although there are still some dodgy people.
The economy here is maybe not as good as people think though.
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emigration is starting to look like a seriously tempting proposition.
But where would you go that isn't worse? New Zealand seems a bit better but I have serious moral quibbles about living in an occupied country.
You live in an occupied country now. At what point does the occupation become old enough to not be your moral responsibility?
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When the occupiers have a different skin colour to the occupiers who occupied the place first? This is why UKIP aren't racist.
Except when they're being racist, obv.
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The Maoris fought the Brits to the point that they signed the Treaty of Waitangi. Can't think of any other native folk that managed that. The treaty means that NZ could be described as 'less occupied' than most other former colonies.
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Then the brits ignored the treaty . . .
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David "Do you know who I am?" Mellor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30188899
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Stone me, what a tool!
I'm almost ashamed to say that I was amused by Kelvin McKenzie's comment.
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Stone me, what a tool!
I'm almost ashamed to say that I was amused by Kelvin McKenzie's comment.
If he was a tool, he might have been useful for something, getting a Marc Almond out of a schoolboy or something!
Quote Mark Lamar " Marc Almond, the only start known to have gagged on a fruit"!
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Jeremy "I've gone to A&E rather than wait to see a GP" Hunt
About the only good thing I can take from this is that he might have seen first-hand some of the carnage his privatisation by stealth (and other, less stealthy, methods) is doing to the NHS.
Other than that, he's a chinless cunt of the highest order.
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Jeremy "I've gone to A&E rather than wait to see a GP" Hunt
About the only good thing I can take from this is that he might have seen first-hand some of the carnage his privatisation by stealth (and other, less stealthy, methods) is doing to the NHS.
Other than that, he's a chinless cunt of the highest order.
FTFY :thumbsup:
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The Maoris fought the Brits to the point that they signed the Treaty of Waitangi. Can't think of any other native folk that managed that. The treaty means that NZ could be described as 'less occupied' than most other former colonies.
Not quite. The wars between Maori & British settlers & troops were after the treaty.
The Maori did fight damned well, though, & when the wars stopped, there were still sizable areas effectively under Maori rule. They were gradually absorbed into the colony by peaceful integration into the economy & administration of the colony.
The Maori honed their skill at using firearms, & devised tactics for countering them, in the Musket Wars between Maori tribes, from the early 1800s up to about 1840. They got rather good at building fortifications able to withstand artillery, for example. They also built up quite a stock of guns, bought from European traders.
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Not for the first time, Norman Tebbitt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30257544 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30257544)
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He hasn't thought this through, as it allows special privileges to the descendants of Communists and socialists.
And, conversely, suggests we should deport most of the aristos.
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Not for the first time, Norman Tebbitt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30257544 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30257544)
He hasn't thought this through, as it allows special privileges to the descendants of Communists and socialists.
And, conversely, suggests we should deport most of the aristos.
And precludes reconciliation (something I feel very strongly about, particularly in the context Tebbs has just invoked - oh so extremely simplistically)
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Nigel Farage (again)
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/05/nigel-farage-ukip-claridges-breastfeeding-mothers
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Nigel Farage (again)
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/05/nigel-farage-ukip-claridges-breastfeeding-mothers
Bit hypocritical coming from a tit like Farage ...
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Mr Farage. Please could you perhaps sit in a corner and shut up. You are embarrassing us and making us feel awkward.
Breastfeeding doesn't get much more British and ostentatious than this. (https://twitter.com/HistoryNeedsYou/status/540970151672545280/photo/1)
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Nigel Farage (as a pre-emptive strike. Let's face it, it can't be long until he says something twattish again).
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Clintons Cards http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/clintons-faces-backlash-over-shameful-christmas-card--why-santa-claus-must-live-on-a-council-estate-9908540.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/clintons-faces-backlash-over-shameful-christmas-card--why-santa-claus-must-live-on-a-council-estate-9908540.html)
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Nigel Farage (as a pre-emptive strike. Let's face it, it can't be long until he says something twattish again).
Something like this, perhaps:
"That is nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a population that is going through the roof chiefly because of open-door immigration and the fact that the M4 is not as navigable as it used to be."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-30370570
Ask and the Xenophobe-in-Chief will deliver. Whatever shit he's smoking, I want some.
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Has his chauffeur not heard of AA Route Planner? (No point at all in asking whether Nige knows anything about the M4 relief road saga - streuth, it's not even in England)
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He told LBC radio: “You look at all the other leaders of political parties. They, of course, all have the state provide them with, you know, the means to get around and with security. The state doesn’t provide Ukip with anything.
He said the government has previously refused his request for help with his security bills.
“I’m not having an argument over it, the fact is we don’t get help. Do I need a security? Yes. And do I need to be driven around from place to place? I think I probably do,” he said.
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Well come on, he can't be expected to drive himself, he's usually pissed.
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In the few short moments in between NF asserting his right to be SuperTwat In Perpetuity, we have one to slip in:
Nigel Mills MP
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Another long-term resident of this thread returns: The vile James Delingpole (http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/09/How-Nigel-Farage-outfoxed-the-breast-Nazis)
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Another long-term resident of this thread returns: The vile James Delingpole (http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/09/How-Nigel-Farage-outfoxed-the-breast-Nazis)
It simply wasn't done in the old days
What's that famous victorian statue in london? Victoria memorial
With the breastfeeding mother . . .
Delingpole isn't just a super twat, he's an ignorant stupid super twat. More of a syphilitic bellend, really.
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He's a...he's a...a Delingpole!
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I'll be honest, I think babies should be kept in sealed boxes and fed biscuits and money through a slot until they're 18. It's the only way. Mind you, I find the entire breast-feeding thing a bit odd. I've never been offended. There's plenty of men willing to spend good money just to see breasts. I expect most women can get the same for free. All the rather odd comparisons with public urination and sex. Really, they think feeding a baby is akin to taking a piss? It must make dinner an odd experience for them.
I think on the subject of good manners, Mr Delingpole, that it ought to be good manners not to make such a cunt of yourself in public.
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I do wonder what goes on at mealtimes at public school.
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I do wonder what goes on at mealtimes at public school.
Think "chimps' tea party" but with less emphasis on the gourmet aspect.
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I'm trying hard not to think about it.
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Another long-term resident of this thread returns: The vile James Delingpole (http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/09/How-Nigel-Farage-outfoxed-the-breast-Nazis)
We've known for years that Delingpole is a Twat of Homeric proportions but I hadn't realised that there were so many Twats who agree with him. Reading the comments on that piece of ill-informed Twattery made me want to don a balaclava and a pair of heavy boots and commit an arson attack on the offices of the Daily Heil.
Bit like a normal Tuesday, in fact.
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Sorry, I thought was a daily activity for you.
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He also scores extra points on the Twat bingo card for "places like Africa". Shorthand for "If you've not stopped reading this already, probably best to stop now as I am not competent to hold an informed opinion on this subject".
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He also scores extra points on the Twat bingo card for "places like Africa". Shorthand for "If you've not stopped reading this already, probably best to stop now as I am not competent to hold an informed opinion on this subject".
I've just made the mistake of Googling him. Good god, I've done shits that are more lucid and better informed.
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I do wonder what goes on at mealtimes at public school.
Just watch 'The Riot Club' (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/27/tory-mps-bfi-posh-bullingdon-club). It's a docudrama about the Bullingdon Club.
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Another long-term resident of this thread returns: The vile James Delingpole (http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/09/How-Nigel-Farage-outfoxed-the-breast-Nazis)
Interesting.
Trouble is, his core point is probably correct
Farage, in other words, got his response spot on. It is, I think, the greatest of all his strengths, this ability he has to shoot from the hip (as opposed to ducking the issue, which is what most of his career-safe political contemporaries would have done in the same situation) and say what the man or woman in the street actually thinks, as opposed to what the metropolitan elite think they ought to think.
It so happens that Claridges doesn't (?) have a dress code about ladies breast feeding, but they do about a host of other things - I couldn't get in there in shorts for example. I'm rather pleased that the whole thing became an issue and probably brings the day when breastfeeding in public doesn't warrant a mention anywhere. But, to suggest that a media savvy person was surprised to be asked to desist (ETA or more particularly to cover her breast and continue) is stretching credibility beyond breaking point. Good luck to her an'all, and as posted elsewhere I love the cafe that offered to cover UKIP supporters with a cloth so that people didn't have to look at a tit, but that quote tells it like it is.
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Trouble is, his core point is probably correct
Farage, in other words, got his response spot on. It is, I think, the greatest of all his strengths, this ability he has to shoot from the hip (as opposed to ducking the issue, which is what most of his career-safe political contemporaries would have done in the same situation) and say what the man or woman in the street actually thinks, as opposed to what the metropolitan elite think they ought to think.
Therein lies the great confidence trick of UKIP. The people whose sensibilities he claims was protecting were dining at an exclusive Mayfair hotel where afternoon tea for two will set you back over £100. Yet those who object to requiring a woman to cover herself up in public (oh, the irony) are labelled the metropolitan elite. I note also that in the latest 'bad apple' general secretary Roger Bird, thought it appropriate to "interview" Natasha Bolter at his Pall Mall club, the Oxford and Cambridge. I wonder how many men or women in the street are allowed to use its elite metropolitan facilities.
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Therein lies the great confidence trick of UKIP. The people whose sensibilities he claims was protecting were dining at an exclusive Mayfair hotel where afternoon tea for two will set you back over £100. Yet those who object to requiring a woman to cover herself up in public (oh, the irony) are labelled the metropolitan elite. I note also that in the latest 'bad apple' general secretary Roger Bird, thought it appropriate to "interview" Natasha Bolter at his Pall Mall club, the Oxford and Cambridge. I wonder how many men or women in the street are allowed to use its elite metropolitan facilities.
Sorry, I don't agree. He doesn't claim to be protecting sensibilities, instead he accurately senses that the Man On The Clapham Omnibus will say "Oh, I'm broad minded but I wouldn't want my mum/daughter/aunt to be offended". Which is polite speak for someone who doesn't know what he should think until the Daily Mail tells him. I'm being over caustic, but you know what I mean. Also, there is something deep in the psyche - not just of the English, but that's who we are talking about - that has foreskin tugging forelock tugging as a proper state of affairs. Anyone who is in an expensive joint deserves to be there, respect flows to them just for existing. So, the irony is completely absent.
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Ian Gordon, a previously obscure banker:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30426245
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Back with James Delingpole: James Delingpole is a bit of a tit (http://crispian-jago.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/james-delingpole-hockey-stick.html).
Thanks to Dr Larrington for sending me the link to Crispian Jago's webby SCIENCE. I have spent a fair amount of this afternoon laughing immoderately.
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Nina Myskow, this evening on PM. Summary: it's bad of women to change their babies in the disabled loos, but OK for able bodied people to use them, if there isn't a queue.
Julie Fenandez kicked her arse.
(43:42 in here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tlk9b) )
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Nina Myskow, this evening on PM. Summary: it's bad of women to change their babies in the disabled loos, but OK for able bodied people to use them, if there isn't a queue.
Julie Fenandez kicked her arse.
(43:42 in here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tlk9b) )
Didn't she just?
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Nina Myskow, this evening on PM. Summary: it's bad of women to change their babies in the disabled loos, but OK for able bodied people to use them, if there isn't a queue.
Julie Fenandez kicked her arse.
(43:42 in here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tlk9b) )
Further thoughts; where does the BBC get these pointless wobblygobs? Does it keep them under the studio desk?
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Nina Myskow is a former editor of "Jackie" which clearly make her ideally qualified to comment on the Proper Uses of disabled bogs.
Or something.
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Ian Gordon, a previously obscure banker:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30426245
And another
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30475232
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This company for corporate twattery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30509906
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I've never heard of Milo Yiannopoulos before, but he was on Womans Hour just now, suggesting that feminists need to 'calm down, dear' or some such. Utter supertwat.
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Katie fucking Hopkins has surpassed her levels of super-twattery today and gone into a whole new realm of obergruppentwattery.
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I don't understand why people get so worked up about Katie Hopkins. Yes, she seems to be a publicity-seeking pub bore who delights in saying things that are calculated to offend, but that's the point. She\s just another version of Richard Littlejohn, Melanie Phillips, Sarah Vine or any of the so-called "controversial" commentators that have disgraced the media through the years. A generation ago, we had John Junor (who really was obnoxious) and Patricia Boxall. In another decade, we'll have some new upstart, groomed to seek notoriety.
By getting worked up, people give Hopkins the attention she so obviously craves. As is often said, why feed a troll?
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By getting worked up, people give Hopkins the attention she so obviously craves. As is often said, why feed a troll?
The inability of people to refrain from feeding the trolls makes more sense if you accept that the internet is as much - if not more - a masturbatory aid for the ego as it is for genitalia.
There's nothing quite like the warm and fuzzy afterglow engendered by some furious self-affirmation - $troll gets off on getting a reaction, everyone else gets off on their own self-righteous indignation/having their prejudices confirmed. It's mental crack cocaine... :demon:
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No name for this one (yet), but I think we can all agree he has earned his place in this thread.
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His name is Rayhan Qadar. Now he's had his fifteen minutes of fame, he can piss off.
And he no longer has a job. Whether he gets a prosecution in his future is still being looked into.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11327788/Motorist-in-crash-with-cyclist-tweets-Im-late-for-work-so-had-to-drive-off.html
Sorry for Torygraph link. Bet they're conflicted: Bad brown man; Good capitalist; Bad lawbreaker; Good hater of lycralouts.
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Not entirely sure that his Ray Pew online identity is in particularly good taste, either.
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Have we had the disgusting Philip Drury?
A councillor who claimed a rape victim was too ugly to be assaulted has resigned as party leader.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30687263 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30687263)
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Not entirely sure that his Ray Pew online identity is in particularly good taste, either.
That had gone straight over my head. Particularly classy.
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I'm not sure if he is a super-twat or IdiotOfTheDay
Steven Emerson http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30773297 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30773297)
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I'm not sure if he is a super-twat or IdiotOfTheDay
Steven Emerson http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30773297 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30773297)
It was on FauxNews, so both are kind of implicit.
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#foxnewsfacts has been the highlight of a very poor week.
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Jan Mortier (http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/10/thinktank-interns-charged-300-pounds-job-reference)
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I don't understand why people get so worked up about Katie Hopkins. Yes, she seems to be a publicity-seeking pub bore who delights in saying things that are calculated to offend, but that's the point. She\s just another version of Richard Littlejohn, Melanie Phillips, Sarah Vine or any of the so-called "controversial" commentators that have disgraced the media through the years. A generation ago, we had John Junor (who really was obnoxious) and Patricia Boxall. In another decade, we'll have some new upstart, groomed to seek notoriety.
By getting worked up, people give Hopkins the attention she so obviously craves. As is often said, why feed a troll?
Agreed.
1) Ignoring them is the only sensible approach. Pity them if necessary.
2) Never, ever read "below the line" on the Internet.
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In fairness to Steven Emerson, while he may have got the ethnic make-up of Birmingham completely wrong - it's actually 100% Klingon (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/birmingham-now-100-percent-klingon-2015011394318)* - his super-twattery was merely non-enriched compared the weapons-grade effort by Faux "News" host Jeanine Pirro:
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7533159/fox-news-pirro-rant
* ;)
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David Starkey...
If you're not sure why, watch the repeat of tonight's Question Time.
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That programme is such a joke. Why invite a bilious pillock like Starkey on?
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Leader of anti-muslim group Pegida, Lutz Bachmann
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germanys-pegida-chief-lutz-bachmann-poses-as-hitler-with-the-caption-hes-back-9992387.html
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He's stepped down from the position of Führer. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30920086)
But the German government condemned it. Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Bild: "Anyone in politics who poses as Hitler is either a total idiot or a Nazi. Reasonable people do not follow idiots, and decent people don't follow Nazis."
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Sadly, he has served to Godwinise this thread.
Git.
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David Starkey...
If you're not sure why, watch the repeat of tonight's Question Time.
How about extending this to anyone who appears on Question Time
Jeremy Vine for the middle class. Bunch of people without proper jobs expressing opinions on topics they have no knowledge about. A recipe for hypertension.
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Oh dear. Someone I'd never heard of before his emergence as a fully-fledged Super-Twat: Commentator Ian Cohen (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2920538/Canadian-tennis-star-Eugenie-Bouchard-embarrassed-old-guy-TV-presenter-asks-outfit-Australian-Open.html?ito=social-facebook)
Alert: Daily Heil link.
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Some chap from UKip (can't be any more specific than that at present) who was quoted as suggesting that, cars should rule the roads, cyclists shouldn't be allowed to use the road any longer, and be moved to using the pavements, with pedestrians being given priority. A spokesman for UKip said the usual: "He was only expressing his personal views and not those of UKip." Surprise, surprise.
I think we just get a good a good idea of what a knobber he his old chap, and what he REALLY thinks, that's all.
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Some chap from UKip (can't be any more specific than that at present) who was quoted as suggesting that, cars should rule the roads, cyclists shouldn't be allowed to use the road any longer, and be moved to using the pavements, with pedestrians being given priority. A spokesman for UKip said the usual: "He was only expressing his personal views and not those of UKip." Surprise, surprise.
I think we just get a good a good idea of what a knobber he his old chap, and what he REALLY thinks, that's all.
He also suggested that people on benefits shouldn't be allowed to drive to reduce congestion.
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Oh, yes. I forgot that part.
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The Sun and its editorial staff.
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Some chap from UKip (can't be any more specific than that at present) who was quoted as suggesting that, cars should rule the roads, cyclists shouldn't be allowed to use the road any longer, and be moved to using the pavements, with pedestrians being given priority. A spokesman for UKip said the usual: "He was only expressing his personal views and not those of UKip." Surprise, surprise.
I think we just get a good a good idea of what a knobber he his old chap, and what he REALLY thinks, that's all.
He also suggested that people on benefits shouldn't be allowed to drive to reduce congestion.
Linton Yates.
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Lynton yates (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-30931266)
IMO,grand twat fascist scum and social engineer.
What a bag of shite.
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Someone I had been blissfully unaware of until yesterday, one Josie Cunningham.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30928875
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Ye Glods, how much sausage poison do you have to have forced into your face to end up looking like that?
Teethgrinder may have to alter his snacking habits...
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Ye Glods, how much sausage poison do you have to have forced into your face to end up looking like that?
Teethgrinder may have to alter his snacking habits...
Au contraire - by subsisting on a diet of produce that even C.M.O.T. Dibbler would have second thoughts about selling, he has - like the Dread Pirate Roberts - been building up his immunity.
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Lynton yates (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-30931266)
IMO,grand twat fascist scum and social engineer.
What a bag of shite.
He seems to be in favour of transportation as well, though it's unclear whether or not he's actually found any overseas gaols that would be willing to accept our prisoners. No doubt he's relying on market forces.
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Lynton yates (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-30931266)
IMO,grand twat fascist scum and social engineer.
What a bag of shite.
He seems to be in favour of transportation as well, though it's unclear whether or not he's actually found any overseas gaols that would be willing to accept our prisoners. No doubt he's relying on market forces.
On that theme, Tony Abott, Australian Prime Minister. Without any shade of irony whatsoever, he has decided that the way to deal with <possibly> illegal people is to resettle them in another country.
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My Aussie tweeps say that today Abbott has finally jumped the shark. And that's more or less the national pastime of the Australian coasts, so they ought to recognise it when they see it.
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Having skim-read the past two pages of this thread, I considered googling the name "Katie Hopkins" but then, having understood the content of the posts, felt that it is in my own interests that I remain ignorant of what those two words, in juxtaposition with one another, represent.
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Renown cheat whines about harsh punishment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/30981609
Lance Armstrong, Super-Twat.
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CMD. Again.
An extended interview on the Today programme, and he was simply odious. Uggh.
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Jeffrey Graham, Mayor of Watertown, New York (http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/01/06/upstate-ny-mayor-people-who-bike-in-the-winter-should-be-arrested/)
I know I’m gonna get in trouble for this: People who are on bicycles out on streets like this — they should be arrested. I mean, that is a clear and present danger that is being created and if you’re gonna sit there and make the argument that texting while driving is reckless, doing that is reckless and it creates a danger for them and the motorists.
Unfortunately, they’ve got their — quote — rights, so they can do it
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Sorry about the Hate link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2928163/Estate-agent-25-repeatedly-raped-Australian-twice-age-sent-naked-pictures-friends-captioned-Lol-Left-cougar-wounded.html
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Michael Gove yet again for his latest movement of the school goal posts.
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Dr Barry Wratten
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-31035847 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-31035847)
Teen gets head shaved to raise money for Macmillan, school academy puts them in isolation for breaking school rules.
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My choice of barnet style is a #2 all over. I try to have it done every 6-8 weeks.
By this moron's 'standards' I wouldn't be able to get onto the school grounds . . .
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In light of the first outbreak of measles in the USA for 15 years (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31034379), the spread of which is being blamed on parents who have chosen not to give their children the MMR vaccine, Dr. Jack Wolfson can take one for the anti-vaccine team:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/30/amid-measles-outbreak-anti-vaccine-doctor-revels-in-his-notoriety/
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(Dis)honourable mention for Andrew Wakefield, too.
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Sir John Arnitt
http://londonist.com/2015/02/londons-cyclists-danger-unto-themselves-says-tfl-board-member.php
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And Steve McNamara. odious head of the LTDA
http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/05/london-taxi-boss-cyclists-are-the-isis-of-london-5051443/
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Coming in thick and fast (particularly thick in this case) today. Mark Spencer (no, seriously, his parents hated him that much) MP
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/05/tory-mp-mark-spencer-starve-dark_n_6622468.html?1423157891
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Kayne West
Keeps on keeping on (being a S-T)
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Kayne West
Keeps on keeping on (being a S-T)
Both Sniff Petrol (http://sniffpetrol.com/2015/02/10/tomtom-announces-kanyenav/#.VNyHiOj46rU) and Scaryduck (http://scaryduck.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/david-bowie-prophet.html) have noted the ST-ness of Mr West this week.
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Glenn the Big Game Hunter McGrath
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Rozanne "I have a problem with negroes" Duncan
No prizes for guessing which political party she represents.
Had to laugh at her esteemed leader's choice of phrasing: "I'm not defending Rozanne Duncan but..."
Beyond parody.
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UKIP must run out of twats eventually. Or have they found a rich seam of twattery buried deep in the former coalfields of Kent, like Max Boyce's Outside Half Factory?
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Rozanne "I have a problem with negroes" Duncan
You're being a little unfair there. Her first four words make perfect sense to me.
Interesting to see NF distance himself from her by saying she was a Conservative defector to UKIP. He may have a point though. The out-and-out racists and xenophobes who formerly had a comfortable space in the Tory party may feel that UKIP provide a welcoming alternative. The very slightly smarter ones can maintain their views but are a little bit wiser about airing them in public.
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What was NF's route into UKIP, btw? ;)
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This bell end.
I wonder if he has the balls to say what he does to a bloke.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/cyclists-deserve-to-die-they-are-incompetent-says-london-man-video-159325 (http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/cyclists-deserve-to-die-they-are-incompetent-says-london-man-video-159325)
Apologies if this has been discussed in another thread. I had a quick look but could not find anything.
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Grant Shapps (not going by another name tonight) is on Question Time.
To be honest, he has a lot of competition, but he remains the most punchable person on the panel.
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Every single greedy one of the 287 MP's who voted to keep paid directorships etc. alongside their MP's jobs. All MP's are paid very well indeed and has a very generous severance package, pension and expenses regime.
My view has been for a very long time that if you don't like the pay, stay away.
Grant Shapps (not going by another name tonight) is on Question Time.
To be honest, he has a lot of competition, but he remains the most punchable person on the panel.
Indeed. Especially when the twat tried to justify not giving nurses a 1% pay rise and denied that MP's were going to get a very large pay rise after the next election. He is another of the slimeball greedy cocks of the highest order.
To have Shapps and Reckless on together competing to be the biggest tosser in the room made for nauseating listening in the bath. :sick:
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Plus there was that rentagob columnist woman who makes me want to Throw Things at the screen, who seems to pop up on QT every third week. Because I have embraced the principles of honesty, open-mindedness and willingness* I have not yet had to buy a new anbaric distascope.
* - The recording of "Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe" awaiting my attention may also have had something to do with it. He really doesn't like Cameron, does he?
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Pickles - what an idiot that man is.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31759767 (http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31759767)
Does he have a clue at all?
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The average stupid fool will believe somehow that Pickle has helped the beleagured motorist. Fools ...
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Pickles is like the neutron star of stupid.
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I look forward to further announcements on the end of the needless wars on burglars, pill dealers and professional assassins.
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I always get Stephen Glaister and Philip Glenister confused. Fire up the Quattro!
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Teh Babylon (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-31805312).
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Teh Babylon (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-31805312).
It doesn't help that Geffen once again gets it wrong though. The fact that she's too young to be held liable doesn't mean it isn't an offence.
They really shouldn't let him do press stuff. He's not up to it.
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Indeed but that's CTC for you. :(
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31864218
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Rhyming slang.
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Rhyming slang.
;D
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Grant Shapps Michael Green.
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Jeremy clarkson
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Grant Shapps Michael Green.
Anyone else looking at his photos on today's Guardian website and thinking Jez from Peep Show?
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Oh, hai, Krishnan Guru Murthy. So you're interviewing the amazing Kim Gordon and the first thing you ask her is "what is it like to be a woman in a male-dominated industry?". And she tells you she hates that question, as do most female artists. But you don't shut up. You keep on with that question and then ask a couple of different variations of it, ending up with "What's it like to be a feminist icon?" A question she also, unsurprisingly, hates.
You're a cock, aren't you?
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Four for the price of one http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-pegida-march-had-only-four-participants-1-3724963
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You can add their caption writer for being unable to spell "Pegida".
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Ted Cruz. $DEITY on a bike, he's a fascist nutter.
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Is he allowed to be President? He was born in Canuckistan and his father only became naturalised in 2005 ???
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Is he allowed to be President? He was born in Canuckistan and his father only became naturalised in 2005 ???
I think (and fervently hope) not. Rogerzilla was a bit conciliatory in his description. Cruz is a southern orifice of the worst kind.
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Is he allowed to be President? He was born in Canuckistan and his father only became naturalised in 2005 ???
His mother was, alas, a US citizen.
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Is he allowed to be President? He was born in Canuckistan and his father only became naturalised in 2005 ???
His mother was, alas, a US citizen.
And, according to wikipedia, he renounced his Canadian citizenship a few years back, so he's only got the one.
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Is he allowed to be President? He was born in Canuckistan and his father only became naturalised in 2005 ???
His mother was, alas, a US citizen.
I thought both parents had to be USAnian citizens ???
Anyway, I look forward to the Tea Party fruitbats who previously took up cudgels against that nice Mr Obambi for having allegedly been born in Indonesia or Tau Ceti or somewhere doing the business...
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Can I nominate John Humphrys on the Today Programme this morning for his patronising anti-intellectual interview of a mathematician on six unsolved problems in mathematics?
Humphrys: So, can you explain in layman's terms one of these problems? Keep it really simple! (snigger, snigger).
Mathematician: Blah, blah, blah, conjecture, blah, blah, blah Riemann [Humphys clearly wasn't listening]
Humphrys: So, do you basically go and sit in a lecture theatre somewhere and think about these problems with a wet towel wrapped around your head?
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Is he allowed to be President? He was born in Canuckistan and his father only became naturalised in 2005 ???
His mother was, alas, a US citizen.
I thought both parents had to be USAnian citizens ???
Anyway, I look forward to the Tea Party fruitbats who previously took up cudgels against that nice Mr Obambi for having allegedly been born in Indonesia or Tau Ceti or somewhere doing the business...
It's complicated on accounted the Constitution says 'natural born citizen' but conspiciously fails to define 'natural born'. Further complicated that the majority of the early presidents (with the exception of van Buren) had been British Subjects and I imagine they didn't want to disqualify themselves.
Provided his mother met the residency requirements (if I recall, 10 years on actual US soil), then any child born to her would be considered a 'natural born' US citizen. Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be born on US soil, but you do have to be born a US citizen (and not be naturalised as a US citizen later, sorry Arnie) and then have lived in the US for fourteen or so years. It's always been a bit of a hot pickle, there's been quite a few arguments about candidates born in pre-state territories (the last mainland territory to become a state was Arizona in 1912), John McCain was challenged on the fact that he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, and even Al Gore has issues because he was born in Washington DC, which isn't a US state, hark the licence plate cry of 'Taxation Without Representation').
There are two primary fruitbat arguments about Obama, one is that he cunningly faked his birth in Honolulu, something which requires a grand conspiracy, or more interminably one of the above arguments, that his father was a British Subject (or whatever category was afforded to Kenyans pre-independence). Despite much digging, no fine legal mind had discovered anything that says both parents have to be US citizens (both Obama and Chester A Arthur have demonstrated this). Of course, Cruz complicates it by being born outside the US.
In other news, whatever his status, he's a nutjob. Protests about his ineligibility would perhaps result in a mutual nutjob annihilation.
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Can I nominate John Humphrys on the Today Programme this morning for his patronising anti-intellectual interview of a mathematician on six unsolved problems in mathematics?
Seconded. And let's indite Mishal Hussein and whoever was reading the weather, together with Humphrys, since they seemed quite happy to go along with the giggling.
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It's complicated on accounted the Constitution says 'natural born citizen' but conspiciously fails to define 'natural born'. Further complicated that the majority of the early presidents (with the exception of van Buren) had been British Subjects and I imagine they didn't want to disqualify themselves.
Van Buren was a British Subject, & had no nationality other than British/USian. He was born in 1782 in New York state, to New Netherlands Dutch parents - i.e. they'd both been born on British territory, & so had their parents, etc. The community he was born into had come under British rule 118 years before he was born, & apart from a brief interlude in 1673-4, had remained so until the American rebellion, but was in territory governed by rebels when he was born.
All the presidents before him, & his immediate successor, were born in British North America as British Subjects. Technically, so was he, but born in rebel-governed territory during the rebellion.
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It's complicated on accounted the Constitution says 'natural born citizen' but conspiciously fails to define 'natural born'. Further complicated that the majority of the early presidents (with the exception of van Buren) had been British Subjects and I imagine they didn't want to disqualify themselves.
Van Buren was a British Subject, & had no nationality other than British/USian. He was born in 1782 in New York state, to New Netherlands Dutch parents - i.e. they'd both been born on British territory, & so had their parents, etc. The community he was born into had come under British rule 118 years before he was born, & apart from a brief interlude in 1673-4, had remained so until the American rebellion, but was in territory governed by rebels when he was born.
All the presidents before him, & his immediate successor, were born in British North America as British Subjects. Technically, so was he, but born in rebel-governed territory during the rebellion.
Hmm, my understanding is that Martin van Buren was the first US president to born a US Citizen, he was born five years after the State of New York endorsed the Declaration of Independence, at which point anyone born within its claim was considered a US Citizen (though citizenship was vaguely defined). You could argue that everyone born in the British American territories was a de facto British Subject until the Treaty of Paris, but it's generally accepted that those born on claimed territory post-declaration were US Citizens unless they opted to leave by 1783.
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Van Buren was born British - technically - & would have been born under British rule if his mother had popped down the Hudson a bit, to the part of New York still controlled by Great Britain. Along with everyone else born in the 13 colonies, his status wasn't settled until the peace treaty, a few months after his birth, when his parents stayed put in Kinderhook. It wasn't surprising they stayed behind, as his father was a supporter of independence, but about 30000 others left via New York.
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Can I nominate John Humphrys on the Today Programme this morning for his patronising anti-intellectual interview of a mathematician on six unsolved problems in mathematics?
Seconded. And let's indite Mishal Hussein and whoever was reading the weather, together with Humphrys, since they seemed quite happy to go along with the giggling.
May I submit further evidence of Jovial Johnny's fuckwitery?
In an interview with some rentagob political commentator about the Cameron Succession he asked whether or not this fascinating political conundrum would be of interest to anyone "…not inside the Westminster Beltway…"
Westminster WHAT?
I am under the impression that The Beltway is a road round Washington DC, which is in the USA, which is not very near Westminster.
I suppose that he thought it was a frightfully clever metaphor.
I thought that it made him sound like a twat. Possibly a super one.
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Van Buren was born British - technically - & would have been born under British rule if his mother had popped down the Hudson a bit, to the part of New York still controlled by Great Britain. Along with everyone else born in the 13 colonies, his status wasn't settled until the peace treaty, a few months after his birth, when his parents stayed put in Kinderhook. It wasn't surprising they stayed behind, as his father was a supporter of independence, but about 30000 others left via New York.
Like I say, you could argue that everyone born in the American colonies was a British Subject until Britain relinquished her claim to the Colonial territories in the Treaty of Paris (the fledgling American republic almost got Quebec too), but it's generally accepted that American 'citizens' were being manufactured from Loyalists from the declaration of independence onwards, regardless of who controlled the actual piece of territory. Kinderhook fell within the claim of New York. As such, van Buren is cited as the first US citizen to be president. Of course, most Americans don't appreciate that the war of independence was mostly a civil war, rather than fulsome Americans conjured de novo to fight their colonial and nattily dressed British oppressors.
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Ted Cruz. $DEITY on a bike, he's a fascist nutter.
To which you just have to add the charge, too stupid to register a URL
http://www.tedcruz.com/
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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"…not inside the Westminster Beltway…"
Westminster WHAT? ...
The M25 old boy, the M25. :)
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BBC Business Irritant and scruffy oik Robert Peston should take elocution lessons, get a haircut and fuck the fuck off.
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BBC Business Irritant and scruffy oik Robert Peston should take elocution lessons, get a haircut and fuck the fuck off.
FTFY
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Hardly needs saying, but Terry Richardson!
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He looks worryingly like a badly-shorn Lemmy in trendy glasses :sick:
As for:
I was like “that was disrespectful, you could have told me!
I am minded of the scene in Carl Hiaasen's Star Island, in which Chemo gets busy with a cattle prod every time Cherry Pye speaks like an S-T:
“Cattle prod,” Chemo said. He’d bought it at a farm-supply store in Kissimmee, the same week he was paroled from prison. It was a Sabre-Six Hot-Shot, with a fiberglass shaft and nickel-plated contacts. He used it for jobs that were too dainty for the weed whacker.
“Looks sorta kinky. How’s it work?” She was slurping another Red Bull, painting her toenails.
“I’ve been making a list in my head,” Chemo said.
They were outside, on the balcony terrace of her suite, Cherry wearing a DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER T-shirt and a sky-blue string bikini bottom. The sun was intense so Chemo had smeared his face with 70 SPF sunblock, which made him look like a seven-foot mime. He was waiting for his meeting with Maury Lykes.
“Like, what kinda list?” Cherry asked, and he touched the end of the cattle prod to her bare thigh. She made a noise like a chicken going under the wheels of a truck, and pitched over sideways in the patio chair.
“Every time you say like, I prod your ass,” he explained. “Also on the list: awesome, sweet, sick, totally, and hot. Those are for starters.”
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Katie "Troll For Hire" Hopkins.
Again.
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George 'respect' Galloway
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32233892 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32233892)
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BBC Business Irritant and scruffy oik Robert Peston should take elocution lessons, get a haircut and fuck the fuck off.
He has, or rather speach therapy sessions because of his severe stammer.
Rest still stands though.
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No excuse for sounding like a hideous mashup of Lard Greaseman and the Hon. Member for Rural Neptune.
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David Cameron
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Surely not, now that we're all guaranteed the good life...?
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Supertwat special on Question Time tonight? Grant Shapps and Piers Morgan.
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I thought that was Michael Green.
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Surely not, now that we're all guaranteed the good life...?
Ah yes, the Good Life.
Couple A living hand to mouth, working 16 hours plus a day, every day simply to put turnips on the table. The modern era minimum wage / zero hours contract couple. Couple B living the life of the entitled, one partner not working, the society and champagne lifestyle, the perks of position. The modern era life of the former public school politician or company executive.
Which couple do you most align with? :demon:
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Which couple do you most align with? :demon:
You are asking me to choose between Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith?
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Of course, most Americans don't appreciate that the war of independence was mostly a civil war, rather than fulsome Americans conjured de novo to fight their colonial and nattily dressed British oppressors.
True.
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Indeed. The late Richard Holmes, military historian and highest ranking territorial officer in the army, said that the Americans had three civil wars, the 'War of independence ', the 'Civil War' and the struggles over civil rights in the 60s and 70s.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32346835
Salauds
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Good grief.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32346835
Salauds
Wow - and they thought that wouldn't harm the quokkas? What utter fucking bellends.
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https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/pic/?o=Sh&pic_id=253986&size=large&v=1H
My leg and a quokka.
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"Amphibian-faced politician" (thanks b3ta) Nigel Farage, for calling a carefully- selected and representative BBC audience "left wing" because they don't want to send all the darkies and gyppos home.
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In another break from the TwoMinutesHatery, I'd like to nominate the so-called electrician (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2177.msg1848072#msg1848072) who originally installed the insufficiency of sockets in my kitchen. Not only for breaking all the way through the inner leaf of a cavity wall when chiselling out the hole for the back box, but also for the bodge he'd perpetrated afterwards.
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Texan vet Kristen Lindsey. Don't google it; it's upsetting.
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Katie Hopkins :sick:
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Bzzzt! Repetition!
If it isn't, it should be.
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Nigel Farage is actually Agent X-2-0 from Stingray...
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Texan vet Kristen Lindsey. Don't google it; it's upsetting.
(Googles it)
I'm not sure who's the twattiest, Lindsey or the S-T Shannon Stoddard:
However, one of the vet's clients Shannon Stoddard said: "She's a good vet, so maybe her bad choice of posting something on Facebook was not good. But I don't think she should be judged for it."
Texas seems to be overstocked with idiots; they even sent one to the White House.
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I glogotha'd it as well. Another case of someone so thick they don't think the internet is visible to people other than their friends.
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To be a vet in the UK: roundabout fifteen A* A levels, having spent every school holiday cleaning up poo at your local vets, following by a willingness to spend the first ten-plus years of your post-qualification career working unsociable hours for unfeasibly small sums of money.
To be a vet in the US: be given a picture of a cat or dog and be able to successfully complete the following exam:
[ ] cat
[ ] dog
[ ] bear
[ ] Canadian
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Guy Martin. A man trying to be twattish enough to replace the Twatfather on Top Gear:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/guy-martin-in-police-probe-after-admitting-to-180mph-speeds-on-public-roads/26568.html
180mph in a 40mph zone? Cockwomble.
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To be a vet in the UK: roundabout fifteen A* A levels, having spent every school holiday cleaning up poo at your local vets, following by a willingness to spend the first ten-plus years of your post-qualification career working unsociable hours for unfeasibly small sums of money.
To be a vet in the US: be given a picture of a cat or dog and be able to successfully complete the following exam:
[ ] cat
[ ] dog
[ ] bear
[ ] Canadian
I suspect Feline would prolly back you on this. (Mostly)
I stand to be corrected.....
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Guy Martin. A man trying to be twattish enough to replace the Twatfather on Top Gear:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/guy-martin-in-police-probe-after-admitting-to-180mph-speeds-on-public-roads/26568.html
180mph in a 40mph zone? Cockwomble.
Was he a policeman, off duty, 'testing a new police vehicle', as was acdcepted by a certain judge of our acquaintance?
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Guy Martin. A man trying to be twattish enough to replace the Twatfather on Top Gear:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/guy-martin-in-police-probe-after-admitting-to-180mph-speeds-on-public-roads/26568.html
180mph in a 40mph zone? Cockwomble.
The majority of Sulby Straight (the A3), including Ballacrye Bend, is derestricted - ie there is no speed limit. You can argue the wisdom of Martin doing 180mph there, but not the legality.
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Guy Martin. A man trying to be twattish enough to replace the Twatfather on Top Gear:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/guy-martin-in-police-probe-after-admitting-to-180mph-speeds-on-public-roads/26568.html
180mph in a 40mph zone? Cockwomble.
The majority of Sulby Straight (the A3), including Ballacrye Bend, is derestricted - ie there is no speed limit. You can argue the wisdom of Martin doing 180mph there, but not the legality.
Ballacrye Bridge, where he admitted to being airborne, is a 30mph zone. He wasn't doing 180 thru Ballacrye for sure but neither will you get airborne at 30mph.
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Guy Martin. A man trying to be twattish enough to replace the Twatfather on Top Gear:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/guy-martin-in-police-probe-after-admitting-to-180mph-speeds-on-public-roads/26568.html
180mph in a 40mph zone? Cockwomble.
The majority of Sulby Straight (the A3), including Ballacrye Bend, is derestricted - ie there is no speed limit. You can argue the wisdom of Martin doing 180mph there, but not the legality.
Ballacrye Bridge, where he admitted to being airborne, is a 30mph zone. He wasn't doing 180 thru Ballacrye for sure but neither will you get airborne at 30mph.
Not how I read it:
Martin added: ‘About 17 miles into the lap there’s a corner called Ballacrye, a fast left out of the village of Ballaugh.
‘On this Sunday morning I just got around it with the accelerator flat to the floor. There’s a jump after the corner, and the car was off the ground, all the lights flashing on the dash telling me everything was dropping off. It fishtailed when it landed,’
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/guy-martin-in-police-probe-after-admitting-to-180mph-speeds-on-public-roads/26568.html#ixzz3Xy9kD4qo
Ballaugh Bridge is certainly in a 30 limit, but that's not what he's talking about. There's no Ballacrye Bridge as far as I'm aware, and Ballacrye Bend, which is where he claims to have got airborne, is in a derestricted zone.
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Grant Shaps, again.
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Julie Bindel. Yet again.
Old stuff:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/10/guardian-columnist-julie-bindel-the-trans-cabal-are-running-a-witch-hunt/comments/#disqus_thread
New stuff
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/apr/22/julie-bindel-i-m-a-lesbian-but-i-wasnt-born-this-way-video
Just STFU.
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Arjun Seth
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/are-you-beach-body-ready-backlash-protein-world-boss-labels-campaigners-terrorists-10207440.html
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What utter and complete bollocks.
ETA: And the same to the commenters who sum it up as "Oh, it's just porkers whining"
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Guy Martin. A man trying to be twattish enough to replace the Twatfather on Top Gear:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/guy-martin-in-police-probe-after-admitting-to-180mph-speeds-on-public-roads/26568.html
180mph in a 40mph zone? Cockwomble.
The majority of Sulby Straight (the A3), including Ballacrye Bend, is derestricted - ie there is no speed limit. You can argue the wisdom of Martin doing 180mph there, but not the legality.
Ballacrye Bridge, where he admitted to being airborne, is a 30mph zone. He wasn't doing 180 thru Ballacrye for sure but neither will you get airborne at 30mph.
I've been airborne in a Nissan Micra at that sort of speed here: https://goo.gl/maps/qhepz
The height of the Google camera car disguises the nastiness of this particular humpbacked bridge. In the dark you can miss the sign and suddenly WHUMP!
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If you take the view of most of the online media today, it appears to be the one that belongs to that Windsor woman.
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Niall Ferguson :sick:
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Sorry it's not tribal politics-derived :demon: ;), but this one's worth bringing to the forum's attention:
An overachieving bigot in Nebraska reached an impressive new level of intolerance this week, filing a lawsuit against “Homosexuals”—as in all of them, everywhere—in a U.S. District Court on Friday, NBC News reports (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nebraska-woman-sues-all-homosexuals-liers-thieves-n354301).
In the handwritten petition, 66-year-old Sylvia Driskell claims to be acting as ambassador for the plaintiffs, “God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ.” Appropriately titled Driskell v. Homosexuals, it asks U.S. District Judge John M. Gerrard to rule whether homosexuality “is a sin, or not a sin.”
Source: http://gawker.com/ambitiously-homophobic-nebraska-woman-sues-every-gay-on-1702486002
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Don't the other plaintiffs need to sign the documents?
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Don't the other plaintiffs need to sign the documents?
Would a miracle do in lieu of a written signature? :demon:
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Niall Ferguson :sick:
Ah, so you saw that too.
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Whoever came up with this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-32690534
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Jim Davidson, it seems.
Who knew?
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He's not decided to come back to BRITAIN, has he?
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He told our Mikey to Bugger off!
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Whoever came up with this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-32690534
I nearly choked on my coffee when I saw that one reported on some news site or other. I can't believe anyone thought they wouldn't get in trouble for that one.
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Whoever came up with this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-32690534
I nearly choked on my coffee when I saw that one reported on some news site or other. I can't believe anyone thought they wouldn't get in trouble for that one.
You think that they might have done it on purpose? An evil friend of mine works in PR and dedicates her days to making people angry about stuff on social media. I'm not joking when I say her job title is something like 'social media engineer'.
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Whoever came up with this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-32690534
I nearly choked on my coffee when I saw that one reported on some news site or other. I can't believe anyone thought they wouldn't get in trouble for that one.
You think that they might have done it on purpose? An evil friend of mine works in PR and dedicates her days to making people angry about stuff on social media. I'm not joking when I say her job title is something like 'social media engineer'.
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." ~ Oscar Wilde
"There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary." ~ Brendan Behan
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Graham Norton
Ant and Dec
Justin Bieber
anyone with the last name Kardashian
Jeremy Kyle
and the woman with the Indian accent who called me today claiming my computer was infested with viruses, again.
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"White Twat Phone for Mr Twathead
Sparrow in the hall."" will Mr Sparrow report to the Twat phone and list Amends to be made!"
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...... is derestricted - ie there is no speed limit. You can argue the wisdom of Martin doing 180mph there, but not the legality.
FYI, "derestricted" means National speed limits apply, ie 60mph or 70 on dual carriageway. Check your highway code if you don't believe me.
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The Isle of Man is a little different though.
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Maybe I should read old threads more carefully, or be less interested in my tea. Nah, what a radical idea. I'll stick with being wrong.
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Raspberry coming your way, Ham, along with a 'na-na-ner-na-na'! ;D
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Nick 'keep your knickers on to avoid being raped' Conrad wins super-twat of the year.
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Oh gosh.
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Nick 'keep your knickers on to avoid being raped' Conrad wins super-twat of the year.
(Googles)
Mummy! It's the Twattyman, Mummy!
NFN, though.
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That would be last year then..
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nick-conrad-bbc-dj-who-said-women-should-keep-their-knickers-on-accuses-campaigner-of-inciting-rape-against-him-and-his-family-9896844.html
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Nick Freeman, Solicitor, serial SuperTwat and waste of oxygen.
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… and arising from Lee's latest post in POBI, David Chameleon.
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This announcer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-32857408
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Alistair Carmichael
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And the idiots who decided not to discipline him, thereby lending the party's support to smear tactics (not for the first time).
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Based on the evidence of last night's HIGNFY, Jon Ronson is an S-T nonpareil. Shut up, you tedious div.
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Based on the evidence of last night's HIGNFY, Jon Ronson is an S-T nonpareil. Shut up, you tedious div.
I got the impression that Merton P wasn't ever so impressed with him either.
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Based on the evidence of last night's HIGNFY, Jon Ronson is an S-T nonpareil. Shut up, you tedious div.
Will watch it on iPlayer but really wish musicians would stick to what they know best and leave the news/comedy programmes alone.
You wouldn't want to see Nicholas Witchell jamming on stage with The Killers.
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I take it you're not the Tony James who was in Gen X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik then ;D
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Was Tony James any relation to Wendy James?
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Things I didn't know, or care about, until just now #28948: Wendy James was adopted.
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Alex Salmond.
Dear God, Alex Salmond.
My opinion of him was pretty low to begin with, even taking into account the fact that he's a politician, but he's managed to pull off some epic twattishness today - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/SNP/11645853/Anger-at-Alex-Salmonds-shameful-Charles-Kennedy-comments-hours-after-his-death.html refers.
:facepalm:
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Mr Salmond later insisted he had not insinuated Mr Kennedy was a nationalist or SNP supporter.
He added: "I only mentioned the Better Together campaign at all because I was asked a direct question about it. As early as the beginning of last year, Charles was one of the first Unionist politicians to realise that the result would be close and said publicly that he felt that the actions of the No campaign were contributing to this."
My bold.
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Mr Salmond later insisted he had not insinuated Mr Kennedy was a nationalist or SNP supporter.
He added: "I only mentioned the Better Together campaign at all because I was asked a direct question about it. As early as the beginning of last year, Charles was one of the first Unionist politicians to realise that the result would be close and said publicly that he felt that the actions of the No campaign were contributing to this."
My bold.
Classic backpedalling from Wee 'Eck there... ::-)
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Eh? :o ??? ::-)
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Rod Liddle
(article in The Sun referring to the ranty man in the Discovery entitled "If Cyclists Behaved We'd Stop Having a Go at Them")
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Rod Liddle
(article in The Sun referring to the ranty man in the Discovery entitled "If Cyclists Behaved We'd Stop Having a Go at Them")
Paywall?
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Rod Liddle
(article in The Sun referring to the ranty man in the Discovery entitled "If Cyclists Behaved We'd Stop Having a Go at Them")
Paywall?
I believe so. There's a scan of the article in a thread on Cyclechat.
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Robert Peston. Mostly for being Robert Peston. He was bad enough on Radio 4, but seems to have found new levels of snide now he is on TV.
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Pesto was a revelation when he did HIGNFY the other week, though, in that he was:
- quite funny, and
- not speaking in an accent that is an unholy mashup of Prince Charles and
Lard Greaseman Loyd Grossman
The tristram responsible for the running order of last night's TT highlights programme, though, is an S-T of the highest order, with golden oak leaves, swords and diamonds.
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Robert Peston. Mostly for being Robert Peston. He was bad enough on Radio 4, but seems to have found new levels of snide now he is on TV.
I don't mind the snide. I think it comes out because he's not allowed to refer to MPs as a bunch of mindless amoeba.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gay-rights-row-rainbow-flag-5895660
Toys out of pram tantrum twat
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gay-rights-row-rainbow-flag-5895660
Toys out of pram tantrum twat
Who, The Wrong Hammond or the people complaining about the removal of the flag?
I see the article has a photo showing the fate of Bobb's hat. Citizen's Arrest time.
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The twot who today parked his mercedes across two disabled bays in Lidl car park. Selfish non thinking Git.
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Have we had Sarah Vine yet?
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Have we had Sarah Vine yet?
You beat me to it!
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Have we had Sarah Vine yet?
You beat me to it!
<googles> Ah, I see.
I think she should quote her inspiration though:
https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/the-terrible-journalists-guide-to-writing-an-article-about-bicycles/ (https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/the-terrible-journalists-guide-to-writing-an-article-about-bicycles/)
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Have we had Sarah Vine yet?
You beat me to it!
<googles> Ah, I see.
I think she should quote her inspiration though:
https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/the-terrible-journalists-guide-to-writing-an-article-about-bicycles/ (https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/the-terrible-journalists-guide-to-writing-an-article-about-bicycles/)
I've just read it. Vines article looks like plagiarism!
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The only thing she said that's missing from the aseasyasridingabike article is "if cyclists want to wear cameras and act like vigilantes - why don't they go and catch some real criminals"...
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/08/american-pastor-who-helped-uganda-create-kill-the-gays-law-will-be-tried-for-crimes-against-humanity/
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Kyrgios your not a character or a firebrand, your a twat
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Aaaand Dawn Fraser joins him in the Super-Twat league by finding the only way to make people feel sympathetic towards him.
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I though this had something to do with the Greekish Referendum until Google told me otherwise. Dawn Fraser bears few of the characteristics of Australian aboriginality so should perhaps fuck off back to wherever it was her antecedents came from, and join UKIP.
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You triggered me looking that up. I wish I hadn't now. Dawn Fraser has irredeemably disgraced herself in my eyes.
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It's sad. Someone who should definitely have kept her mouth shut and kept her dignity.
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Take a bow, Vitaly Churkin and Tomislav Nikolic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33445772
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Apropos of that^, there's an interesting discussion (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11108059) about definitions of genocide - not a term to be used lightly.
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Lest we forget what a bunch of super-twats the Tories are:
(https://vice-images.vice.com/images/content-images/2015/07/08/emergency-budget-323-body-image-1436376578.png?resize=*:*&output-quality=75)
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Mr Speaker: Next on Radio Parliament, The Birdie Song!
IDS: Oh goody, my favourite! Reminds me of the fun we had in the Hitler Jugend!
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Rod Stewart and his stupid sealskin jacket.
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Rod Stewart and his stupid sealskin jacket.
Where?
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Rod Stewart and his stupid sealskin jacket.
Where?
Newfoundland
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/activist-paul-watson-attacks-rod-stewart-s-sealskin-coat-fitting-1.3150278
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Maybe those famous Do Ya Think I'm Sexy trousers were REAL leopard skin?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-33535890
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The fraudster or the victims?
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Boris Johnson (yet again)
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The fraudster or the victims?
I may be wrong, but I supposed the purpose of the title of the thread was to identify idiots to despise rather than fools to pity.
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David Cameron - civil servants must communicate with clarity. Will " fuck off you lying, thieving slick of smugness" do?
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Blast from the past: Jack Straw.
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Rob Wilson M.P.- still hasn't quite got it about M.P's expenses and the reason that the public think they are all shysters.
352 fucking yards-you lazy,arrogant, grasping toad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33606908 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33606908)
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Rob Wilson M.P.- still hasn't quite got it about M.P's expenses and the reason that the public think they are all shysters.
352 fucking yards-you lazy,arrogant, grasping toad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33606908 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33606908)
Nay, lad, call it 321.73 fucking meters; it makes him look even lazier.
Part of his excuse is that he's a Hardworking MP, so he needs to save time… the journey's so short that he probably spends more time parking than he saves.
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Exactly. If he stopped using his car for such pathetically short journeys (I would question whether he actually did use his car) it wouldn't need replacing so often.
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.
Again ::-)
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2nd-ed.
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Isn't he just considered a permanent feature here?
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He does have an impressive palmares :(
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Amber Rudd.
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Amber Rudd.
Used to be married to A.A. Gill, who is something of an S-T in his own right.
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Amber Rudd.
Used to be married to A.A. Gill, who is something of an S-T in his own right.
Christ! Did they reproduce? If so, would the spawn be 2ST or ST2?
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Amber Rudd.
Used to be married to A.A. Gill, who is something of an S-T in his own right.
IRTA "A A Milne" and boggled somewhat.
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Amber Rudd.
Used to be married to A.A. Gill, who is something of an S-T in his own right.
One would have to be a massive S-T to do something like that.
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Amber Rudd.
Used to be married to A.A. Gill, who is something of an S-T in his own right.
One would have to be a massive S-T to do something like that.
Should we have a Right-Wingers Who Have (at least) Equally Unpleasant Partners thread?
For starters we have the Gove/Vine axis of fuckwittery.
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Amber Rudd.
Used to be married to A.A. Gill, who is something of an S-T in his own right.
Christ! Did they reproduce? If so, would the spawn be 2ST or ST2?
(Googles)
Yes. Yes, they did. Poor little sods.
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Walter Palmer (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/11767119/Cecil-the-lions-killer-revealed-as-American-dentist.html) >:(
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What a plank! and illegal.
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According to a magazine cover I saw in the horriblemarket this afternoon, Premier League S-T Katie Hopkins is to undergo "open brain surgery".
Good luck with that, Mr Branes Surgeon. I hope they give you a map.
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According to a magazine cover I saw in the horriblemarket this afternoon, Premier League S-T Katie Hopkins is to undergo "open brain surgery".
Good luck with that, Mr Branes Surgeon. I hope they give you a map.
And a magnifying glass...
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After all these years, Derek Acorah seems to have finally spotted a ghost. Who knew he was still plying his seedy, deceitful trade?
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Only because I've finally realised he reminds me of Dr Evil.
https://youtu.be/BFBW4SE5ECE
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Toby Young.
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The tossers mentioned in this blog post: https://thelonelycyclist.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/skinny-cyclist-not-likely/
(Wasn't sure whether to post this in the Oiks Shouting Things at Cyclists thread, but decided that super-twats was more appropriate.)
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Louise Mensch is probably an ex officio member of this thread, but I feel this (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/22/louise-menschs-bid-to-smear-jeremy-corbyn-backfires) deserves a supertwat mention as she demonstrates twatishness in both its malign, shit scraping sense as well as plain incompetent embarrassing twatdom.
*points and laughs*
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Louise Mensch is probably an ex officio member of this thread, but I feel this (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/22/louise-menschs-bid-to-smear-jeremy-corbyn-backfires) deserves a supertwat mention as she demonstrates twatishness in both its malign, shit scraping sense as well as plain incompetent embarrassing twatdom.
*points and laughs*
Oh dear. I hope Dr Larrington is regretting ever having taught the former Ms Bagwash.
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*fnark*
Amusing what she searches for in her spare time. There's probably another terrible chick-lit book coming.
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According to a magazine cover I saw in the horriblemarket this afternoon, Premier League S-T Katie Hopkins is to undergo "open brain surgery".
Good luck with that, Mr Branes Surgeon. I hope they give you a map.
Would it be wrong to hope the neurosurgeon is an alcoholic with the DTs?
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According to a magazine cover I saw in the horriblemarket this afternoon, Premier League S-T Katie Hopkins is to undergo "open brain surgery".
Good luck with that, Mr Branes Surgeon. I hope they give you a map.
Would it be wrong to hope the neurosurgeon is an alcoholic with the DTs?
So the personification of 'I'd rather have a full bottle on front of me than have to perform a full frontal lobotomy!'?**
**You have NO IDEA how long I have waited to use that!!!!!!!
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I think scientists have recently identified the supertwattothalumus and are hoping to remove it, after which she will just be an inoffensive, if rather horse-faced, airhead. The Sun will replace her with Liz Jones and KH will move over to the problem pages in Take A Break.
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Theresa May.
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Viktor Orbán, with bar...
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It's quite hard at the best of times to describe the Hungarian ruling party without invoking Godwin. The wrong Godwin.
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Viktor Orbán, with bar...
He does appear to be a massive dick on a number of levels.
nobody would like to stay in Hungary, neither in Slovakia nor Poland nor Estonia.
Translation: my country is a shithole, and so is yours unless it signs its mail "Deutschland".
You'd never guess he used to be a professional foopballer, would you.
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Councillor John Dyer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-34188718 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-34188718)
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Jesse Norman (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/34195672)
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Adam Holloway MP.
Bringing the country's attention to what matters about the refugee crisis.
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A group submission for every Republican candidate for POTUS?
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Dave "Yorkshire people hate everyone else and each other" Cameron
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Dave "Yorkshire people hate everyone else and each other" Cameron
There's a grain of truth in that.... :P ;D
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redirect to Alt Flame............ ;)
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Frederick Forsyth
(most recently on today's Today programme)
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Dave "Yorkshire people hate everyone else and each other" Cameron
There's a grain of truth in that.... :P ;D
You're confusing hate and pity.
We fucking hate David Cameron though.
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All those NuLabor apparatchiks who tried their level best to undermine Corbyn.
All those tory twunts who will now be very very concerned that what happened in Scotland with the SNP is gong to happen in England with Corbyn and Labour. You'll get what you finally deserve, hopefully!!!
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Perennial Super-Twat Donald Trump is criticising Carly Fiorina for her face, thereby proving that his syrup is by far the more intelligent partner in their symbiotic relationship.
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Perennial Super-Twat Donald Trump is criticising Carly Fiorina for her face, thereby proving that his syrup is by far the more intelligent partner in their symbiotic relationship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi-Ff3YJPOQ
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I'd rather look at and listen to Carly than Donald. He's just pure sleaze and needs pouring back into the bottle.
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Priti Patel
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Priti Patel
To be fair, she's just the parrot
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-called-jeremy-corbyn-6435223
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Parrot is the word!
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I thought that clarion had nominated Gove again. As he didn't, I will.
Michael,the Thinking Man's Fuckwit, Gove.
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I thought that clarion had nominated Gove again. As he didn't, I will.
Michael,the Thinking Man's Fuckwit, Gove.
To be fair, he's just the parrot
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-called-jeremy-corbyn-6435223
Anyway, I think Pob has permanent tenure in this thread
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34284385
Absolute twat. I hope they go after his family for perjury as well. Family award of twattishness. I note the judge specifically commented that it wasn't a case of the poor murdered lad being in the wrong place at the wrong time, it was entirely the fact that the murderer was a twat. Though he didn't use that word. At least not in public.
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I'd rather look at and listen to Carly than Donald. He's just pure sleaze and needs pouring back into the bottle.
They had a debate between the front-runners for the Republican nomination last night. The others decided that Trump is a twat and ganged up on him, to make him look like a twat. His face went roughly the same colour as a Ferrari F1 car, the twat.
(http://sweasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/muntz.gif)
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All those NuLabor apparatchiks who tried their level best to undermine Corbyn.
All those tory twunts who will now be very very concerned that what happened in Scotland with the SNP is gong to happen in England with Corbyn and Labour. You'll get what you finally deserve, hopefully!!!
Is new-trad labour offering Englandshire independance from London?
Where do I sign?
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Martin Shkreli.
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Martin Shkreli.
I think he wins the thread for all time.
My (pacifist) wife's response to reading about him was "Someone will shoot him or inject him with AIDS-infected blood and he deserves it."
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Oh yes. He gets Life Membership here for certain. Sad thing is, there are loads more out there like him.
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Martin Shkreli.
+ 1
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Amanda Platell. For this.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQaOB4lW8AARG4P.png)
Hidden for those who don't want to know who is left in the for the final of the Great British Bakeoff.
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OFFS!
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I went to skool with an Ian Cumming but as he intended to go straight to Sandhurst on completing his sentence he's probably not going to be appearing on some cookery nonse as a "New Man", whatever one of those might be.
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Alex Wild.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965
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Alex Wild.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965
Add Liam Fox as a footnote to that.
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Amanda Platell. For this.
Jo. For the GBBO spoiler. Grrrr! ;)
Anyone who has following this series would know that Nadiya and Tamal have been consistently among the top bakers every week, while Ian has been less consistent but won star baker three weeks in a row. Flora's real problem is being 19 - her lack of experience has shown at times. I never thought she was going to win.
Amanda Platell being offensively moronic never comes as a surprise.
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Amanda Platell. For this.
Jo. For the GBBO spoiler. Grrrr! ;)
I think half a week is fair game for spoilers! ;)
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I just Googled the oeuvre that is Amanda Platell. I wish I hadn't. Thanks guys.
(She might be right though, my friend was on the 'extra' version the other day and he's gay, so it must be a conspiracy. Chocolate and marmite, really John?)
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I think half a week is fair game for spoilers! ;)
I think I'm actually two episodes behind. I lose track. I watch it more for the actual baking than the competition element anyway, so I'm not that bothered about spoilers. Some people would string you up for it though.
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Taxpayers alliance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965)
"Ministers should waste no time to make unpopular cuts to pensioner benefits, a think tank director has said.
Many of those hit by a cut to the winter fuel allowance might "not be around" at the next election, said Alex Wild of the Taxpayers' Alliance."
That's cynical even by the undemanding standards of that right wing pile of shite
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See above.
The Taxpayers' Alliance are a shower of bastards and always have been. They're basically our version of the Tea Party, a load of rich right--wingers whose motto is "screw everyone else".
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Wasn't one of their high priests shown to be an epic S-T when it was revealed that as a resident of France he didn't actually pay UK taxes?
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Jeremy Hunt.
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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/osborne-light-years-ahead-of-taxpayers-alliance-on-dead-pensioner-thing-20151005102611
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34450057
Anyone changing their name to Augustus Sol Invictus is a twat before they get out of bed in the morning but he actually adds more twattery.
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Probably been mentioned before but has reared her ugly head again...
Theresa May
See also: Iain Duncan Shit
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The Devil may have the best tunes, but the Tories do seem to have the shittiest shits, what with Platell, May and Duncan Smith. Kind of reminds of Bad Nazis (https://youtu.be/qv2XGQBcvxQ)
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Cameron. Grand Poobah Super Twat.
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Given the contents of the last three posts, should there be an Ultra-Twat thread?
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Given the contents of the last three posts, should there be an Ultra-Twat thread?
Where's the LIKE button? :thumbsup:
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Dan Hodges
David Cameron is the new leader of the British Left
It’s now impossible for anyone on the progressive Left to construct an intellectually coherent argument for voting Labour
By Dan Hodges
3:11PM BST 07 Oct 2015
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11917236/David-Cameron-is-the-new-leader-of-the-British-Left.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11917236/David-Cameron-is-the-new-leader-of-the-British-Left.html)
I know it's the Torygraph, but even so.
Hodges has always been a twat but I think he's upgraded himself on this one.
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Dan Hodges
David Cameron is the new leader of the British Left
It’s now impossible for anyone on the progressive Left to construct an intellectually coherent argument for voting Labour
By Dan Hodges
3:11PM BST 07 Oct 2015
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11917236/David-Cameron-is-the-new-leader-of-the-British-Left.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11917236/David-Cameron-is-the-new-leader-of-the-British-Left.html)
I know it's the Torygraph, but even so.
Hodges has always been a twat but I think he's upgraded himself on this one.
A single speech cannot change the political landscape. But this wasn’t just a speech. David Cameron has just erected an impenetrable forcefield around the centre ground of British politics. It’s now impossible for anyone on the progressive Left to construct an intellectually coherent argument for voting Labour.
It is apparent from the Westminster bubble and their press-supporting mafiosa that they really don't believe that poor people, deprived and underprivileged people as well as sane, compassionate, intelligent people actually exist. ???
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David Cameron has just erected an impenetrable forcefield around the centre ground of British politics.
I can only assume that to Hodges british politics is like that shown below, with X marking the centre
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------X------------------|
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I think that your "X" is slightly left by about 20 dashes of where I consider that it should be.
Cameron is beginning to make Thatcher look slightly left wing!
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I saw a pan shot of the Conservative audience the other day. It was basically fat jowly men, their bleached and embalmed wives, and the occasional ruddy-faced young toff. That was it.
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Tory party conference - shooting fish in a barrel for this thread.
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Well, I was thinking about Hell the other days, and I tell you that audience was Hell's Very Own Welcoming Committee. I was kind of looking forward to finally taking the escalator of inevitability Downtown until this realisation kicked in like a meth-fueled bronco. Even Satan must look across that chorus of shit and think fuck, there's the damned and truly damned. I'm going to volunteer to drive a diabolical steam roller over their souls. I think there might be a queue.
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Well, I was thinking about Hell the other days, and I tell you that audience was Hell's Very Own Welcoming Committee. I was kind of looking forward to finally taking the escalator of inevitability Downtown until this realisation kicked in like a meth-fueled bronco. Even Satan must look across that chorus of shit and think fuck, there's the damned and truly damned. I'm going to volunteer to drive a diabolical steam roller over their souls. I think there might be a queue.
;D
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It is apparent from the Westminster bubble and their press-supporting mafiosa that they really don't believe that poor people, deprived and underprivileged people as well as sane, compassionate, intelligent people actually exist. ???
Just you wait for them to decide that people on benefits don't get to vote.
Somewhere, in some committee or thinktank, entirely staffed by Satan's droppings, this proposal has been made by people who are so twattish that the act of typing their name into this thread would incinerate all other entries in a whiff of sulpher.
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Last night was super-awful. They panned across a jolly group of posing Conservative Youth. No one should have to see that while eating their supper.
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Anyone who was ever bullied at school will recognise the tory cabinet and party instantly.
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Tory party conference - shooting fish in a barrel for this thread fun.
FTFY.
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Can we club together and hire a Pig that's willing to stuff it's Dick in the Open wound that is Cameron's mouth?
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I think pigs have more taste and discernment than that
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Matthew Hancock.
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Matthew Hancock.
Mr Useful Work himself!
I would like to nominate Ian Duncan Smith again. Any objections?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34474467
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Probably been mentioned before but has reared her ugly head again...
Theresa May
See also: Iain Duncan Shit
I just came in here to nominate those exact two.
How long before there is a run on black shirts?
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Rupert Murdoch :sick:
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Surely an honorary and permanent fixture on this thread ?
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Amanda Platell again.
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Continuing my theme of watching BBC snippets of the Conservative Party Conference with the sound off, I caught Cameron doing his chop-socky gesticulation. He did remind me of a certain gentleman of Austria extraction.
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Continuing my theme of watching BBC snippets of the Conservative Party Conference with the sound off, I caught Cameron doing his chop-socky gesticulation. He did remind me of a certain gentleman of Austria extraction.
Arnie? Or someone else?
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Continuing my theme of watching BBC snippets of the Conservative Party Conference with the sound off, I caught Cameron doing his chop-socky gesticulation. He did remind me of a certain gentleman of Austria extraction.
Arnie? Or someone else?
Jorg Haider, just at the moment when he realised he should have had his car serviced by a main dealer rather than the Klagenfurt branch of Kwik-Fit?
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Have we had Ben Carson (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/09/ben-carson-claims-jewish-people-might-have-stopped-holocaust-if-they-had-guns) yet?
Fucking ignorant wankstain.
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Have we had Ben Carson (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/09/ben-carson-claims-jewish-people-might-have-stopped-holocaust-if-they-had-guns) yet?
Fucking ignorant wankstain.
Its truly incredible that he is intelligent enough to become a well regarded surgeon.
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...and, incidentally, a candidate for president of USania.
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WTF?
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Continuing my theme of watching BBC snippets of the Conservative Party Conference with the sound off, I caught Cameron doing his chop-socky gesticulation. He did remind me of a certain gentleman of Austria extraction.
Arnie? Or someone else?
Jorg Haider, just at the moment when he realised he should have had his car serviced by a main dealer rather than the Klagenfurt branch of Kwik-Fit?
Josef Fritzl?
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Continuing my theme of watching BBC snippets of the Conservative Party Conference with the sound off, I caught Cameron doing his chop-socky gesticulation. He did remind me of a certain gentleman of Austria extraction.
Arnie? Or someone else?
No, the other famous Austrian. Not Mozart.
Oh, yeah, Ben Carson, nutty Christian fundamentalist, very big on the evils of 'socialist healthcare' – he actually compared affordable healthcare with slavery then claimed he didn't, those nasty liberals made him say it.
Hates the gays, doesn't believe in evolution, and thinks climate change is irrelevant, it's merely a cyclic thing.
Conclusive proof that in the war between Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons, the Rocket Scientists won't have to try too hard.
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Continuing my theme of watching BBC snippets of the Conservative Party Conference with the sound off, I caught Cameron doing his chop-socky gesticulation. He did remind me of a certain gentleman of Austria extraction.
Arnie? Or someone else?
No, the other famous Austrian. Not Mozart.
Oh, yeah, Ben Carson, nutty Christian fundamentalist, very big on the evils of 'socialist healthcare' – he actually compared affordable healthcare with slavery then claimed he didn't, those nasty liberals made him say it.
Hates the gays, doesn't believe in evolution, and thinks climate change is irrelevant, it's merely a cyclic thing.
Conclusive proof that in the war between Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons, the Rocket Scientists won't have to try too hard.
Will have something soft to aim at.
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Conclusive proof that in the war between Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons, the Rocket Scientists won't have to try too hard.
They'd just have to write a news article saying something like:
"Liberals claim that guns are dangerous and that pointing a gun at yourself and pulling the trigger is proof. PROVE A LIBERAL WRONG TODAY!"
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Conclusive proof that in the war between Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons, the Rocket Scientists won't have to try too hard.
They'd just have to write a news article saying something like:
"Liberals claim that guns are dangerous and that pointing a gun at yourself and pulling the trigger is proof. PROVE A LIBERAL WRONG TODAY!"
;D
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Continuing my theme of watching BBC snippets of the Conservative Party Conference with the sound off, I caught Cameron doing his chop-socky gesticulation. He did remind me of a certain gentleman of Austria extraction.
Arnie? Or someone else?
No, the other famous Austrian. Not Mozart.
Ah. Niki Lauda.
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...and, incidentally, a candidate for president of USania.
It's a sad indictment of USAnian politics that someone can put themselves forward for the top job while making Donald Trump look not less of a Super-Twat.
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...and, incidentally, a candidate for president of USania.
It's a sad indictment of USAnian politics that someone can put themselves forward for the top job while making Donald Trump look not less of a Super-Twat.
It's a dirty, dirty job, but someone's got to do it. :demon:
Though it makes me wonder if there is something that the folks at CERN aren't telling us regarding the LHC...
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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Messrs Cox & Ince took "The Infinite Monkey Cage" to USAnia earlier this year but I fear they were just preaching to the converted chiz.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Somewhere in it is Douglas Adams, still laughing at us. Git.
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Labour MP, Helen Goodman. Racist
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Labour MP, Helen Goodman. Racist
I thought it was a perfectly reasonable response to Hunt's asinine comment.
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Bernie Ecclestone (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/34552570)
IMO a truly vile person.
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Any other stance from Mr €¢¢£€$ton€ would be hypocritical in the extreme, what with his chums with pots of money and no notion of human rights and his BFF Mr V Putin...
Though it was in an interview with Russian TV so it's possible there was a goon off-camera waiting to hit him over the head with a board if he deviated from the script.
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He has a very long history of being vile IMO.
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There are rumours of him being in a plane whilst a business rival was cut up and distributed over the Essex marshes. But that was alleged, and surely a made up story.
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Ecclestone's out of the same mould as that Hoogstraten cnut
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Martin Shkreli.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/low-cost-alternative-launched-to-the-aids-drug-hedge-funder-martin-shkreli-hiked-5000-a6705456.html
;D
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Germaine fucking Greer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34625512
One interesting thing about TERFs like her is that they never, ever seem to consider the existence of trans men. As I have posted elsewhere, I will take being told that I neither look like, sound like nor behave like La Greer as an honour and a compliment.
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You beat me to it Steph.
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Having just seen a trailer for "Bear Grylls: Born Survivor" I moved to add the arrogant super-twat to this list, only to find that he was actually the first to whom this glorious accolade was awarded ;D
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Having just seen a trailer for "Bear Grylls: Born Survivor" I moved to add the arrogant super-twat to this list, only to find that he was actually the first to whom this glorious accolade was awarded ;D
Well, if multiple nominations are good enough for the politicians, I see no reason why assorted slebs and people off the TV should get off lightly. ;)
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Having just seen a trailer for "Bear Grylls: Born Survivor" I moved to add the arrogant super-twat to this list, only to find that he was actually the first to whom this glorious accolade was awarded ;D
Does this make him the alpha and omega of Super Twats?
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More like one of those annoying floaters that won't flush.
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The Daily Mash getting in on the act.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/andrew-lloyd-webber-pens-musical-about-what-a-twat-he-is-20151028103354
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Well, if multiple nominations are good enough for the politicians, I see no reason why assorted slebs and people off the TV should get off lightly. ;)
Dan Snow
Dan Snow
Dan Snow
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More like one of those annoying floaters that won't flush.
;D
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Having just seen a trailer for "Bear Grylls: Born Survivor" I moved to add the arrogant super-twat to this list, only to find that he was actually the first to whom this glorious accolade was awarded ;D
Does this make him the alpha and omega of Super Twats?
You have to admire the longevity of his twattishness I suppose.
Some people would have shown weakness over 7 years and given in, doing something untwatty. Not Bear "Not my real name" Grylls though. He continues to twattishly show us just how much fun it can be to be to look exactly like the bastard love-child of David Cameron and George Osbourne.
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Well, if multiple nominations are good enough for the politicians, I see no reason why assorted slebs and people off the TV should get off lightly. ;)
Dan Snow
Dan Snow
Dan Snow
Now say that in front of a mirror, at midnight... :demon:
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Mr J Twunt. Every single day for the rest of his oxygen wasting, mouth breathing life.
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Well, if multiple nominations are good enough for the politicians, I see no reason why assorted slebs and people off the TV should get off lightly. ;)
Dan Snow
Dan Snow
Dan Snow
Now say that in front of a mirror, at midnight... :demon:
Daren't. I might end up in a sealed room with his "informative" documentaries being played at me with extreme prejudice for ever. :hand:
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Philip Davies
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Nigel Graham. And Motorised Moron as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34680289
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David & Philip Davies MPs and all their ilk who think that kidnap and imprisonment for thirteen years without charge does not deserve compensation.
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Rupert Murdoch, Dennis Potter was right.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/03/national-geographic-layoffs-21st-century-fox-merger
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Nigel Graham. And Motorised Moron as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34680289
He's an even bigger twat than I suspected, not only using his father in law as an excuse but going to a tribunal to complain about the damage to F-I-l's health due to the stress. The F-i -L had died well before the ticket was issued.
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Just stumbled accidentally into another Katie Hopkins rant. That woman is massively overpaid and overrated. :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: ...
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Step forward former rally co-driver, motorsport boss of Peugeot and Ferrari and now head of the FIA M. Jean Todt! Yes, Jean, more people may well have been killed in road accidents on Friday than in the Paris attacks but it is a spectacularly crass and insensitive thing to say right now.
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Phil the Greek
A train announcer was stood next to me and he said 'Do you announce in a Brummie accent?'" he said.
"She said no. And he responded saying: 'I suppose you've got to announce in an English accent so everyone can understand you.'"
Queen officially reopens New Street station on Birmingham tour
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-34865657 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-34865657)
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David 'Jetset' Cameron
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You are being too hard Clarion. Apparently they have discovered public sector areoplanes fly more cheaply than private sector ones (and they can hide the rest of the cost in the defence budget). Will Britannia be making a reappearance me wonders.
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He thinks that he's a president and needs an equivalent to Airforce 1. He's just a total arse and needs a reality check instead.
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Actually, the proposal is a minor adaptation of an aircraft that already exists and is in service. If it gets more use out of an asset that is underused at present, I have no difficulty with it. And it'll reduce the likelihood that I have to fly him anywhere.
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Actually, the proposal is a minor adaptation of an aircraft that already exists and is in service. If it gets more use out of an asset that is underused at present, I have no difficulty with it. And it'll reduce the likelihood that I have to fly him anywhere.
On the figures presented, it would take several decades to be cheaper than chartering.
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Probably been on before but needs a re-nom. If not for that awful syrup, then for spouting sh1t like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fdjHjzvZoI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fdjHjzvZoI)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34873057 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34873057)
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"Asked if that may include registering Muslims in a database or using special ID cards, he [ludicrous wig-sporting arsereptile Donald Trump] did not rule it out."
You could force them to sew yellow crescent moons to their clothes too, Donny, you clueless fuckhammer.
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Actually, the proposal is a minor adaptation of an aircraft that already exists and is in service. If it gets more use out of an asset that is underused at present, I have no difficulty with it. And it'll reduce the likelihood that I have to fly him anywhere.
If you do ever fly him anywhere, please turn the seatbelt signs off and then do a loop the loop.
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^ Choice.
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Actually, the proposal is a minor adaptation of an aircraft that already exists and is in service. If it gets more use out of an asset that is underused at present, I have no difficulty with it. And it'll reduce the likelihood that I have to fly him anywhere.
If you do ever fly him anywhere, please turn the seatbelt signs off and then do a loop the loop.
The last words on the cockpit voice recorder were "Sorry about the collateral damage".
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Amber Rudd
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Actually, the proposal is a minor adaptation of an aircraft that already exists and is in service. If it gets more use out of an asset that is underused at present, I have no difficulty with it. And it'll reduce the likelihood that I have to fly him anywhere.
On the figures presented, it would take several decades to be cheaper than chartering.
The figures I heard were something like 13 years until break-even. That is presumably based on the refurb/adaptation cost being no greater than the £10m quoted (ha ha), but also on those costs only being set against the costs of ministerial travel: if the newly modded plane was used for other purposes too (I dunno, flying generals somewhere), then presumably some of the cost should be amortised against their budgets too. £10m didn't seem an inordinate amount to me.
As an aside, the report I heard suggested that charter costs for an airliner were about £6 or £7k an hour - that seemed pretty cheap.
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What is not mentioned anywhere is the running costs of the converted aircraft. I think some presidential aspirational fog has been allowed to cloud judgement.
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No, the report I saw reckoned £6-£7k per hour commercial charter vs £2k per hour for the newly converted tanker.
Assuming a £4.5k ph saving, that gives 2222 hours to break even on £10m, which over 13 years is 171 flying hours per year. That doesn't seem very many, but I guess CMD probably doesn't go to foreign parts *that* much.
It does make sense to me that ministerial transport should be set up with secure comms links and the like (which probably either aren't available on a commercial charter or have to be fitted every time then stripped out again), and whether or not he's suffering presidential delusions I can think of far greater things to get worked up about.
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The aeroplane would not be converted. It would still fulfil its role as a tanker and freight/passenger transport, but as in the days of the old 10 Sqn VC10s, it would have a VIP fit for those occasions when it was to be used for carrying CMD and other senior politico's around. This isn't a new thing, it's been done for years and years. It's really only been in the Iraq 2/Afghanistan era that the RAF hasn't been able to spare any of the large, long-range tanker-transport aircraft for VIP duties.
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Converted, upgraded, modified - whatevs ...
(I hadn't realised that the tankers were dual role - I'd always had a mental picture of the entire fuselage sloshing with fuel. I was quite surprised to see windows on the one they showed on the telly the other night. You may gather that I don't have a particularly strong interest in military aircraft ...)
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With the pure tanker VC10s, you'd have been about right! The ex-passenger deck housed several additional fuel tanks to raise the capacity to something useful. But the Tristar, which has just retired, and the Airbus A330, which is the subject of this current teacup tornado, carry sufficient fuel in the normal tanks to function perfectly well as tankers whilst simultaneously carrying either a few hundred troops, 20 or 30 tonnes of freight, or a couple of political egos.
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What is not mentioned anywhere is the running costs of the converted aircraft. I think some presidential aspirational fog has been allowed to cloud judgement.
I am puzzled. Apparently, according to CMD and Gideon, the most efficient and cost-effective way to supply public services is to sell all the assets, sack all the staff and hire in TasercoG4S as outsource suppliers. Except when it involves CMD ego transport, where using existing public employees and assets, kept in-house, is more efficient and cost-effective.
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Not so, Steph. Well, not entirely, anyway. The A330s are owned by by AirTanker Ltd, and operated on behalf of the RAF using a mix of RAF and civilian crews under a (something like) 20-year lease agreement. A number of the aircraft are used for civilian charter when the RAF demand allows. These aircraft have joint civil/military registration. They tried to interest me in working for them, but going back to military spare-time training and occasional living in tents for half my current pay didn't appeal (and they'd have deducted my military pension from that pay). That was before the VIP role was added to the list. But we've (Virgin) had that PM transport contract for several years now; I've managed to avoid getting involved.
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Can I put in a word here for George Osborne? He seems to have tried so hard to be nominated yesterday, and hasn't been rewarded for those efforts.
Tax Credit Cuts/Not Cuts/Actually Sneaky Cuts Really
Tampon Tax to subsidise 'women's things'
Defining an 'affordable' house as approximately ten times the average wage
Planning (half-heartedly) for less than half of the houses required to deal with the housing shortage
Setting aside a tiny fraction of a per cent of the amount needed to deal with potholes.
it goes on...
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And Jeremy Hunt, for his rubbish brinksmanship, for a massive u-turn he didn't have to set himself up for, and for writing to the wrong person regarding talks. Bravo, sir! Incompetence and Twattishness of the highest order.
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Tampon Tax to subsidise 'women's things'
Cringeworthy though it is, I sympathise that EU law means they can't zero-rate sanitary products. (For the same reason they can't zero-rate anything else.) If it weren't for that, I expect it would have gone through promptly just to stop everyone talking about periods.
Ringfencing the tax for something worthy is a rubbish PR exercise. Mandating that sanitary products be provided free of charge in places that provide bogroll would be a better one.
None of which really detracts from his general over-qualification for the thread...
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Tampon Tax to subsidise 'women's things'
Cringeworthy though it is, I sympathise that EU law means they can't zero-rate sanitary products. (For the same reason they can't zero-rate anything else.) If it weren't for that, I expect it would have gone through promptly just to stop everyone talking about periods.
Um, what? Lots of things are zero rated. PPE for one. Children's shoes.
It's also perfectly normal for different tax rates to apply for the same goods in different EU countries.
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The rule is that you can't reduce the rate to zero for something which has previously attracted VAT. The items you mentioned have never been subject to VAT.
Of course when we entered the Common Market far more of our MPs were male and they wouldn't discuss periods in public.
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ty for the clarification.
Of course, that doesn't rule out the whole EU making a change. But then a lot of male MPs would have to discuss periods. In front of each other.
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Donald Trump again: the gift that keeps giving.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34931215 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34931215)
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He is an insensitive twat.
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He is an insensitive twat.
No, he's a nasty , bullying , evil shitpile of a person
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If Osborne goes on about fiscal rectitude any longer I may be tenpted to give him rectal fistitude.
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If Osborne goes on about fiscal rectitude any longer I may be tenpted to give him rectal fistitude.
He'd probably enjoy that sort of thing ;D
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If Osborne goes on about fiscal rectitude any longer I may be tenpted to give him rectal fistitude.
He'd probably enjoy that sort of thing ;D
De rigeur at St Paul's and Magdalen College*, probably.
*SO went there. Ozzy's gormless Father Dougal expression was still legendary, apparently, even though he'd graduated a few years previously. It's his default face. Was called "povvo" by the Eton kids because he'd only been to St Paul's.
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David Aaronovitch - most recently, for his smug performance on Newsnight.
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Donald Trump again: the gift that keeps giving.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34931215 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34931215)
Given that he appears to be leading the race, it's really not funny any more
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I am afraid I have to drag David Cameron into this thread, for labelling more than half the British population as 'terrorist sympathisers'.
Utter Wazzock beyond all measure.
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Anybody who seriously believes and who has not learned the lessons of Iraq, Libya, etc. that going to bomb Syria is a good idea, is a twat of the highest possible order and wins the thread.
Cameron, Osborne, May, Benn, ...
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And don't forget Fallon, the twat who says bombing alone won't defeat Daesh but it will make it less likely they commit a terrorist attack in the UK. As if dropping a multi-million £ bomb on a second-hand 4x4 in a country 2000 miles away will make the angry nutters of Luton think twice ::-)
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Or Farron, who said that he didn't think that bombing would be the right course of action...
If we have got troops operating in Syria and we are part of air raids, then there is no mandate for that. Indeed, there was a vote in parliament two years ago that denied that mandate. I am sure Isis are aided by the involvement, certainly on the ground, of what are perceived to be western military personnel. Their whole message is that it is them against the west. If you want to make them martyrs and play into their hands, you do this.
“If you want to defeat them, you encircle them by other means and use regional actors. It is really important that British Muslims are reminded that Isis is about murdering other Muslims, and the minute we give Isis the ability to paint through their propaganda a picture of this being the evil west against this Islamic state, then we have absolutely let them have a coup.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/17/farron-calls-for-progressive-left-groups-to-unite-on-key-issues
...so now he's voting for it.
http://www.libdems.org.uk/position_on_syria#
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Anybody who seriously believes and who has not learned the lessons of Iraq, Libya, etc. that going to bomb Syria is a good idea, is a twat of the highest possible order and wins the thread.
Cameron, Osborne, May, Benn, ...
397 super twats I believe was the final headcount.
A day of shame, a day for those victims of past and present atrocities to recoil at the barbarity of britain. I don't know why we are so-called great britain because there's been very little great about us in our dealings in the world, historical or present, as far as I can see. Bullying in the political junior ranks is just training for what comes later. These people need to have a 'don't give a fuck' attitude, a hardened heart, a lack of conscience and reason.
I feel quite sick today and ashamed to be british. I understand why these people will retaliate and fight as best as they can because I am one of the small non-establishment plebs of britain who has been bullied throughout his insignificant life by the self-appointed establishment. Their idealism is no better nor worse than that of our establishment overlords imo.
Oh well, pro bono law clinic today. I can at least help a few people in a small way on their hazardous journey through life.
I wonder: should this have been in the rant thread?
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Tyson Fury - world heavyweight Super-Twat.
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Donald Trump, the weapons-grade stone-bonking gift that keeps on giving.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a "total and complete" halt to Muslims entering the US, in the wake of the deadly California shootings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35035190
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Is he perhaps a Democratic mole ?
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If he's a mole of any sort, I wish he'd burrow his way to the centre of the earth and vapourise his pathetic little brain in a puff of smoke. I just cannot get my head round real people actually thinking he has anything worthwhile to say. An idiotic knob-end of the worst order.
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In my opinion he's crossed beyond twatishness to being actively dangerous. This isn't just words that fell out of his mouth but a considered statement issued by his campaign team.
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I'm tempted to say that no-one could be that stupid, daft, insensitive and a whole array of other, possibly stronger, terms. But I think benborp's right. This looks like a considered position. Heaven help the US.
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Hillary Benn.
His father would be spinning in his grave if he hadn't been cremated.
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Tyson Fury - world heavyweight Super-Twat.
Renominated, because when challenged over his statement women belong on their back
statement, he refused to back down and doubled up by saying women belong on their back or in the kitchen
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There's someone called Tyson Fury?
I think the US will be closing its borders to people called Donald Trump the next time he leaves the country. Assuming he can find a border.
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Hillary Benn.
His father would be spinning in his grave if he hadn't been cremated.
A Blairite traitor but you cannot blame the father for the sins of the son.
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Tyson Fury - world heavyweight Super-Twat.
Renominated, because when challenged over his statement women belong on their back
statement, he refused to back down and doubled up by saying women belong on their back or in the kitchen
Presumably his request that 'critics' suck my b***s
is only directed at the female critics, given his embrace of homosexuality.
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Hillary Benn.
His father would be spinning in his grave if he hadn't been cremated.
A Blairite traitor but you cannot blame the father for the sins of the son.
I wasn't.
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I can't help but hope that when he gets his one-to-one chat on the SPOTY show Mr Fury is interviewed by Clare Balding :demon:
Although it'd also be nice if Gary Lineker called him a cunt on live TV.
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Adrian Hogarth of Cumbrian Properties for tripling their new tennant fee just as half of Carlisle was flooded.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/fees-hike-estate-agent-apologises-for-error-in-judgement-1.1231546
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To be fair to him, he does sound quite contrite now. So that's a second thing Facebook is good for, besides stalking.
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I can't help but hope that when he gets his one-to-one chat on the SPOTY show Mr Fury is interviewed by Clare Balding :demon:
Although it'd also be nice if Gary Lineker called him a cunt on live TV.
Wonder if Clive Myrie will be there?
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To be fair to him, he does sound quite contrite now. So that's a second thing Facebook is good for, besides stalking.
...still should be shot through the lungs. If only for being a lizard estate agent.
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Wonder what Trump's stance on Estate Agents is?
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I am amused that Hopkins says that she would feel unsafe walking through muslim areas.
Hmmm, I wonder why exactly...
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If I ever get wind of the egotistical windbag planning a hile through my area then she'd better be afraid of atheists too.
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I just encountered Bear Grylls for the first time. My step-father's non-selective comfort viewing of a weekend starts with Saturday Morning Kitchen on which Bear Grylls was a guest, hosted by James Martin. I find the TV ear poundingly loud from two rooms away, there has been no escape. Dear God...
Edited 'cos even I struggle to understand myself most of the time.
P.S. Seemingly BBC + XMAS = Constant James Martin.
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I find James Martin an extremely annoying twat for all sorts of reasons - but he did once bring pleasure to me.
There was a program on the telewotsit about the modern day Mille Miglia, starring him, and he had bought an old car, paid for its restoration and was then going to drive it in the event and then sell it for a large profit. He was so incredibly up his arse about the car that he wouldn't even let the camera crew put a go-pro on the bonnet with a sucker (and I'm sure that if it had come off and caused any damage the damage would be covered by the film crews insurance).
So how did this bring me pleasure? Well on day one of the event the engine blew up, big time, trashed totally. After watching his reaction to that the rest of the program concentrated on the other cars.
A nice big kick in the nuts from Madame Karma.
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Graham effing Norton.
Just no.
I do like James Martin's approach to cream and butter, just need to get him to drop the sugar.
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Daniel Erickson-Hull AKA Reverend D
Children's TV show Rainbow 'contained hidden messages to homosexualise all children
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/childrens-tv-show-rainbow-contained-7008220#rlabs=4%20rt$category%20p$3 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/childrens-tv-show-rainbow-contained-7008220#rlabs=4%20rt$category%20p$3)
??? :o :facepalm:
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Daniel Erickson-Hull AKA Reverend D
Children's TV show Rainbow 'contained hidden messages to homosexualise all children
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/childrens-tv-show-rainbow-contained-7008220#rlabs=4%20rt$category%20p$3 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/childrens-tv-show-rainbow-contained-7008220#rlabs=4%20rt$category%20p$3)
??? :o :facepalm:
Certainly deserves some sort of award for being late to the party. And probably one for misunderstanding cause and effect.
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Philip Davies MP for filibustering (this time) a plan to make first aid a part of the curriculum. Yes, I know it didn't have much chance of making law, and perhaps his puerile display will bring the suggestion more publicity than it would otherwise have had,p but that just makes him more of a nobber. And, indeed, a Supertwat.
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He has form (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-who-blocked-law-to-scrap-hospital-parking-charges-for-carers-says-he-was-speaking-up-for-a6716816.html).
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Yes. Hence 'this time'.
He is a wazzock.
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Lord Lawson (http://road.cc/content/news/173223-lord-lawson-says-cycling-most-damaging-thing-london-blitz)
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Lord Lawson (http://road.cc/content/news/173223-lord-lawson-says-cycling-most-damaging-thing-london-blitz)
Lawson the demented“Is it not also hugely age discriminatory? There is a huge section of the population of a certain age, well represented in this House — I declare an interest — for whom cycling is not a practical option.”
“I suggest to my noble friend that it is never too late to start,” was Lord Ahmad’s laconic reply.
f
I'm rather liking this lord ahmad
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And Jeremy Hunt, for his rubbish brinksmanship, for a massive u-turn he didn't have to set himself up for, and for writing to the wrong person regarding talks. Bravo, sir! Incompetence and Twattishness of the highest order.
Yep, he is a supermassive fuck knuckle.
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Philip Davies MP for filibustering (this time) a plan to make first aid a part of the curriculum. Yes, I know it didn't have much chance of making law, and perhaps his puerile display will bring the suggestion more publicity than it would otherwise have had,p but that just makes him more of a nobber. And, indeed, a Supertwat.
Russell Howard seems to be having a go at the massive sodbonce every week, and rightly so.
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Martin Shkreli.
I'm not saying that the following is proof of the existence of God, gods and/or weakly godlike entities but sometimes the universe moves in mysterious ways - Shkreli was arrested this morning for securities fraud. :thumbsup:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35120668
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/
It's worth noting that since he became notorious for jacking up the price of Daraprim by 5,000%, the suppurating boil on humanity's barse acquired a majority stake in KaloBios Pharmaceuticals (http://gawker.com/pharmaceuticals-rapscallion-martin-shkreli-now-playing-1745408324), in a manner which stank of market manipulation, and also planned to hike up the price of another drug (http://gawker.com/vile-human-martin-shkreli-plans-to-hike-up-the-price-fo-1747692796).
What a day, what a lovely day! :D
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BBC News 24. for using obscene images by letting George Osborne's face be seen on national television and going even further by letting him open his mouth and make Sounds with it!
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^^^^
Aargh! You! You mentioned his name!
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Just thought I would mention my pleasure that George Osborne was bood on the red carpet at Star Wars.
Warms the cockles.
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I read that as "blood on the carpet", which would have warmed the cockles even more.
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Martin Shkreli.
I'm not saying that the following is proof of the existence of God, gods and/or weakly godlike entities but sometimes the universe moves in mysterious ways - Shkreli was arrested this morning for securities fraud. :thumbsup:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35120668
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/
It's worth noting that since he became notorious for jacking up the price of Daraprim by 5,000%, the suppurating boil on humanity's barse acquired a majority stake in KaloBios Pharmaceuticals (http://gawker.com/pharmaceuticals-rapscallion-martin-shkreli-now-playing-1745408324), in a manner which stank of market manipulation, and also planned to hike up the price of another drug (http://gawker.com/vile-human-martin-shkreli-plans-to-hike-up-the-price-fo-1747692796).
What a day, what a lovely day! :D
He's a classic example of the 'Why does anyone give their money to this arsehole to manage?" problem. However incompetent, if you're boastful enough & entirely without shame, there are always suckers who think that you'll make money for them. Unfortunately, people like this tosser, when given money, don't just rip off the idiots who gave it to him.
"He also denied the charges regarding the MSMB entities, which he said involve complex accounting matters that prosecutors and the SEC fail to understand . . ."
Yeah - a classic sign of a scam: the accounts are highly obscure, so as to make it hard to follow the money.
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Levi Jud Nelson "Celebrated vlogger" and, well...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-35120892
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Chris Evans.
If it looks like a twat and spends 25 years acting like a twat, then it's probably a twat.
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Iain Duncan Smith
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Liam "definitely not gay" Fox. Does anyone care what he thinks about Europe? He believes we do, but we think he's just a portly right-wing super-twat who was probably wedgied every day at school.
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No-one believed Father Ted when he said the money was just resting in his account so why Super-Twat Sepp Blatter thinks anyone will give credence to his Super-Twattery is a mystery worthy of Dirk Gently, or the very shit Glam Metal Detectives.
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Liam "definitely not gay" Fox. Does anyone care what he thinks about Europe? He believes we do, but we think he's just a portly right-wing super-twat who was probably wedgied every day at school.
I worked with his wife around 1990.
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Liam "definitely not gay" Fox. Does anyone care what he thinks about Europe? He believes we do, but we think he's just a portly right-wing super-twat who was probably wedgied every day at school.
I worked with his wife around 1990.
What did you do with the rest of the evening?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/35126635
I was wondering if we can have a collective noun for a group of supertwats, and I propose the "Hunt". Not reloated to this case, which refers to a complete Hunt of twats.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/35126635
I was wondering if we can have a collective noun for a group of supertwats, and I propose the "Hunt". Not related to this case, which refers to a complete Hunt of twats.
I propose "A Sasson" of Super Twatten, named after the legendary "Olfactory Assault", from five miles out of Mumbai on a good (?) day and the right (?) direction of approach. I was in hospital for a week or so. back when Bombay was the place to be drunk on Righteous Injun' Wh,AAAA.iskey!
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The Racist Oliver Letwin
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oliver-letwin-blamed-black-peoples-7090286
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But he's absolutely right that
“Riots, criminality and social disintegration are caused solely by individual characters and attitudes [...] So long as bad moral attitudes remain, all efforts to improve the inner cities will founder.”
He just neglected to mention that the bad moral attitudes mostly belonged to officers of the Metropolitan Police :demon:
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Fucking scumbag oxygen thieves (http://singletrackworld.com/2015/12/calderdale-premier-dealer-flooded-robbed/)
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Sir Philip Dilley, head of the Environment Agency, going on holiday to the carribean while his staff work straight through, sometimes in appalling conditions, sleeping (literally) where they could on the street.
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Is good to see leadership in action, strewth.....
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Sir Philip Dilley, head of the Environment Agency, going on holiday to the carribean while his staff work straight through, sometimes in appalling conditions, sleeping (literally) where they could on the street.
Crisis? What crisis?
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Sir Philip Dilley, head of the Environment Agency, going on holiday to the carribean while his staff work straight through, sometimes in appalling conditions, sleeping (literally) where they could on the street.
What actually was he going to do? Hold back the rain? Suck all the water up through a giant straw and piss it over the moon?
It's that Daily Mail/Taxpayer Alliance-stylee nonsense. How dare he take a holiday? At Christmas. Is there a lot of point paying a couple of thousand in air fares to bring him back right the? They have phones and teleconferences.
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Sir Philip Dilley, head of the Environment Agency, going on holiday to the carribean while his staff work straight through, sometimes in appalling conditions, sleeping (literally) where they could on the street.
What actually was he going to do? Hold back the rain? Suck all the water up through a giant straw and piss it over the moon?
It's that Daily Mail/Taxpayer Alliance-stylee nonsense. How dare he take a holiday? At Christmas. Is there a lot of point paying a couple of thousand in air fares to bring him back right the? They have phones and teleconferences.
And if he had come back early there would have been wailing and nashing of teeth from the wail and taxpayers' alliance about the cost of the walk on fare.
So it all boils down to a public sector worker daring to have a holiday.
Whatever they pay him I'm not sure a sane person would take that job, if must be up there with child protection social work in the dammed if you do, dammed if you don't stakes.
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By the way
Taxpayers' alliance
Who do they represent, not any taxpayer I know.
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Dear Oliver Letwin, Simon Danczuk, George Osborne and anyone involved with the Financial Conduct Authority...
May I take this opportunity to wish a terminally painful new year to you all. You appalling specimens.
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Sir Philip Dilley, head of the Environment Agency, going on holiday to the carribean while his staff work straight through, sometimes in appalling conditions, sleeping (literally) where they could on the street.
What actually was he going to do? Hold back the rain? Suck all the water up through a giant straw and piss it over the moon?
It's that Daily Mail/Taxpayer Alliance-stylee nonsense. How dare he take a holiday? At Christmas. Is there a lot of point paying a couple of thousand in air fares to bring him back right the? They have phones and teleconferences.
It's not nonsense. It's leadership (or lack of).
He's paid 100k per year for a couple of days a week of work.
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Sir Philip Dilley, head of the Environment Agency, going on holiday to the carribean while his staff work straight through, sometimes in appalling conditions, sleeping (literally) where they could on the street.
What actually was he going to do? Hold back the rain? Suck all the water up through a giant straw and piss it over the moon?
It's that Daily Mail/Taxpayer Alliance-stylee nonsense. How dare he take a holiday? At Christmas. Is there a lot of point paying a couple of thousand in air fares to bring him back right the? They have phones and teleconferences.
It's not nonsense. It's leadership (or lack of).
He's paid 100k per year for a couple of days a week of work.
It's that entitlement thing again. Politicians, uncivil servants*, business owners, etc., etc., etc.
Horrific, isn't it. Paid not to do his job, to be there when expected.
There seems to be a view that 'they' are somehow more equal than us mere plebs.
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Sir Philip Dilley, head of the Environment Agency, going on holiday to the carribean while his staff work straight through, sometimes in appalling conditions, sleeping (literally) where they could on the street.
What actually was he going to do? Hold back the rain? Suck all the water up through a giant straw and piss it over the moon?
It's that Daily Mail/Taxpayer Alliance-stylee nonsense. How dare he take a holiday? At Christmas. Is there a lot of point paying a couple of thousand in air fares to bring him back right the? They have phones and teleconferences.
It's not nonsense. It's leadership (or lack of).
He's paid 100k per year for a couple of days a week of work.
I dunno, did he in some way fail? Rivers flood, there's only so much the EA can do, and they're mostly long term engineering projects. We should look at that, of course, and whether there was more than could have done, and how that could could and should be delivered. As it stands we've probably paid a further couple of grand to fly him back to look at reports he could have done just as adequately where he was. Perhaps we should forget all this 'leadership' nonsense then we wouldn't have to doll out large salaries for people to be leaders.
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Does that include "thought leadership" :demon:
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I would turn back the waters with the mighty forces of Powerpoint. Canute never dreamed of such a thing.
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I would turn back the waters with the mighty forces of Powerpoint. Canute never dreamed of such a thing.
No PowerPoint is so last year, real thought leaders use infographics they are so much more powerful.
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... Perhaps we should forget all this 'leadership' nonsense then we wouldn't have to doll out large salaries for people to be leaders.
Especially as they patently fail to lead most of the time, definitely. :thumbsup:
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I would turn back the waters with the mighty forces of Powerpoint. Canute never dreamed of such a thing.
No PowerPoint is so last year, real thought leaders use infographics they are so much more powerful.
(Googles)
(Wonders how that differs materially from Powerpoint)
Also it appears to lack sarcastic sea otters.
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I would turn back the waters with the mighty forces of Powerpoint. Canute never dreamed of such a thing.
No PowerPoint is so last year, real thought leaders use infographics they are so much more powerful.
(Googles)
(Wonders how that differs materially from Powerpoint)
Also it appears to lack sarcastic sea otters.
Fewer words, more twee graphics and less contrast
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So, Powerpoint but shitter.
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So, Powerpoint but shitter.
C 'est possible?
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So, Powerpoint but shitter.
C 'est possible?
You know that thing about PowerPoint where people put too much text on each slide? Imagine it all stuck on one slide!
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David Twatting Pigknobber Cameron and his desire to reduce poverty.
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David Twatting Pigknobber Cameron and his desire to reduce poverty.
You mean David I do my best to produce sound bites that make me sound like a decent caring person and then shaft the non-rich in favour of my already rich chums Cameron?
Shouldn't he be on a sticky twat thread?
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Sticky twats go over here (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=33.0)
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The Bundy militia* (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/04/oregon-militia-ammon-bundy-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge)
* Terrorists :demon:
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http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
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http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
Quite remarkable. How on earth do they remember to breathe?
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Nick Freeman (no doubt for the umpty umpth time)
http://road.cc/content/news/174321-force-all-cyclists-use-cycle-lanes-says-mr-loophole
I must remember WycombeWheeler's eloquent motorway analogy.
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Nick Freeman (no doubt for the umpty umpth time)
http://road.cc/content/news/174321-force-all-cyclists-use-cycle-lanes-says-mr-loophole
I must remember WycombeWheeler's eloquent motorway analogy.
From his website:
A father of 2 children Nick is a keen golfer with a 3.5 handicap and enjoys vigorous exercise with his Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Eew.
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Richard Lucas
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/hogmanay-s-changed-a-lot-since-days-of-the-tron-1-3992223
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Most of the people quoted in this article:
http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/14180654.Neighbours_unite_to_oppose_zebra_crossing_in_Hampstead_Garden_Suburb/?ref=mr&lp=7 (http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/14180654.Neighbours_unite_to_oppose_zebra_crossing_in_Hampstead_Garden_Suburb/?ref=mr&lp=7)
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Chris Gayle.
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Most of the people quoted in this article:
http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/14180654.Neighbours_unite_to_oppose_zebra_crossing_in_Hampstead_Garden_Suburb/?ref=mr&lp=7 (http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/14180654.Neighbours_unite_to_oppose_zebra_crossing_in_Hampstead_Garden_Suburb/?ref=mr&lp=7)
Where do these people come from?
Anyway, I like the fact that their logic encompasses there not being enough people to need a crossing to the crossing encouraging loads of people to cross. People who either are or aren't there. I can only deduce that zebra crossing somehow decohere pedestrians out of the quantum froth. There's also no traffic and traffic.
Evidently Hampstead Garden Suburb is blessed with a set of macro-scale quantum properties which I feel should be investigated. An entire street is currently in quantum superposition.
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Meanwhile, The Man has erected some new flats between Larrington Towers and Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles, which stand upon the long side of a T-junction. The junction used to have a mini-roundabout, but it's been replaced with traffic lights. About a hundred and fifty yards upstream is a light-controlled pedestrian crossing. About a hundred and fifty yards downstream is another light-controlled pedestrian crossing. Both the crossings are outside schools. You do not want to be visiting Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles around school chucking-out time.
These people don't know they're born.
Additional: "They also say the flashing orange beacons will be disruptive at night". Have these gobbins never heard of curtains?
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Nick Freeman (no doubt for the umpty umpth time)
http://road.cc/content/news/174321-force-all-cyclists-use-cycle-lanes-says-mr-loophole
I must remember WycombeWheeler's eloquent motorway analogy.
From his website:
A father of 2 children Nick is a keen golfer with a 3.5 handicap and enjoys vigorous exercise with his Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Eew.
That can't be much fun for the poor dog, but I suspect Mr Freeman enjoys it :sick: :sick:
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Noel Edmonds
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/634451/Britain-full-Noel-Edmonds-tweet
to be fair he's adopted that stance for many years;
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-immigration-edmonds-idUKLE48697220080914
The Excess are cherry picking his words. There's a difference between "Full no more migrants please" and "insufficient infrastructure to support an increase in population"
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The fucking Tories for removing student grants from the poorest in society, and doing by pushing though an obscure patliamentary committee rather than debating it in the House and taking a vote (which they know they'd lose)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-bypass-mps-sneak-through-7178418#ICID=sharebar_twitter (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-bypass-mps-sneak-through-7178418#ICID=sharebar_twitter)
The Tories will today ram through legislation that will axe university grants for the country’s poorest students .
Labour MPs have been blocked from debating the changes as the Government is pushing through the measure via an obscure Commons committee.
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IF that is as reported, then they are indeed scumbags, but, sadly, no real news there.
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Charlotte Rampling. Michael Caine.
Idiots.
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These turds yet again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35384798
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Yep.
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Jeremy Clarkson's first appearance of the week...
Jeremy Clarkson attacked over transgender comments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35397922/jeremy-clarkson-attacked-over-transgender-comments (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35397922/jeremy-clarkson-attacked-over-transgender-comments)
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Lord Pearson
This UKIP Peer Is Worried He’ll Be Arrested If He Reads The Bible In Public
A polite government undersecretary assured Lord Pearson that reading the Bible is “not a crime”.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/this- ... .opBqv7Mqj (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/this- ... .opBqv7Mqj)
Do Kippers actually have any truck with reality?
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Lord Pearson
This UKIP Peer Is Worried He’ll Be Arrested If He Reads The Bible In Public
A polite government undersecretary assured Lord Pearson that reading the Bible is “not a crime”.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/this- ... .opBqv7Mqj (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/this- ... .opBqv7Mqj)
Do Kippers actually have any truck with reality?
Linky no worky ???
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/this-ukip-peer-is-worried-hell-be-arrested-if-he#.gdd7ER9n6n (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/this-ukip-peer-is-worried-hell-be-arrested-if-he#.gdd7ER9n6n)
This linky worky (allegedly)
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Bernie Ecclestone.
Not that I follow F1 but this guy is a total twunt who wants absolute control. Produce your own fucking engine Bernie - you could afford it! ::-)
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Priti Patel.
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Priti Patel.
I thought she already had honorary life membership?
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While I'm sure Jeremy Corbyn is an excellent human being, the idea that we would spend billions on Trident submarines without Trident missiles is extremely twattish. Why would you still want to incur billions and billions of expense just to keep people in a job at the shipyards? Re-train them or pension them off; stuff their mouths with gold in compensation and you're still quids in.
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Priti Patel.
I thought she already had honorary life membership?
What has she done now? One of the good things about moving to Chelmsford is that I am no longer "represented" by her.
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Priti Patel.
I thought she already had honorary life membership?
What has she done now? One of the good things about moving to Chelmsford is that I am no longer "represented" by her.
Stating that Iain Duncan Smith is doing God's work.
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Melanie Phillips, for her comments about sex education.
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Melanie Phillips
FTFY...
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Lord Farmer
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/31/peer-says-300-daily-allowance-for-attending-house-of-lords-isnt-enough-5654252/
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Melanie Phillips
FTFY...
Thanks. I agree, but MM's latest piece (in the Spectator, about transgender issues being discussed) really got under my skin. One of EMinor's friends is struggling to come to terms with being trans.
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Priti Patel.
I thought she already had honorary life membership?
What has she done now? One of the good things about moving to Chelmsford is that I am no longer "represented" by her.
Stating that Iain Duncan Smith is doing God's work.
Good god :sick:
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Jeremy 'OnLineRashClinic' Hunt
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Andrej Ciesielski
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While I'm sure Jeremy Corbyn is an excellent human being, the idea that we would spend billions on Trident submarines without Trident missiles is extremely twattish. Why would you still want to incur billions and billions of expense just to keep people in a job at the shipyards? Re-train them or pension them off; stuff their mouths with gold in compensation and you're still quids in.
Agreed Roger. Where does that put the twattish ConDems who decided that we will actually have aircraft carriers but no planes on them?
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While I'm sure Jeremy Corbyn is an excellent human being, the idea that we would spend billions on Trident submarines without Trident missiles is extremely twattish. Why would you still want to incur billions and billions of expense just to keep people in a job at the shipyards? Re-train them or pension them off; stuff their mouths with gold in compensation and you're still quids in.
*Jeremy Corbyn condemned for his pragmatic response to realpolitik and is urged to take a principled uncompromising stance instead*
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While I'm sure Jeremy Corbyn is an excellent human being, the idea that we would spend billions on Trident submarines without Trident missiles is extremely twattish. Why would you still want to incur billions and billions of expense just to keep people in a job at the shipyards? Re-train them or pension them off; stuff their mouths with gold in compensation and you're still quids in.
Agreed Roger. Where does that put the twattish ConDems who decided that we will actually have aircraft carriers but no planes on them?
That's comparing apples and oranges. Corbyn would have no intention of seeing the subs fitted with their intended primary armament, whereas it is very much the intention to see the carriers fitted out with aircraft. There's just the non-trivial matter of the testing and development of the F-35 taking rather longer than was anticipated back when the Sea Harriers were retired.
As far as the retirement of the Harrier GR7/9s under the 2010 SDSR is concerned, there was the non-trivial matter of a multi-billion Pound hole in the MoD's procurement budget, that had arisen from the serial procurement and project management fuck-ups that had occurred on Labour's watch, most notably Nimrod MRA4, Type 45, Astute and the carriers.
Edited to add:
The decision as to which aircraft type to retire was probably based on recommendations made by the RAF, who would have a better idea than practically all of the forum membership regarding which out of Harrier and Tornado was worth keeping. My wild-assed guess is that Tornado was kept because it had better performance and could carry the full range of ordnance, and the process of certifying Typhoon for strike operations had only just begun.
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It wasn't just the procurement budget, it was the operating budget. Something had to go, and go quick. The Harrier was going anyway, and had an issue with fatigue that was going to be quite expensive (though far from impossible) to fix. The capabilities of the Harrier and Tornado are not comparable in any realistic way. The Harrier was designed for very short-range battlefield use, which adapted acceptably (given that there wasn't a choice and the Navy already know how to operate the thing) to the carrier scenario. The Tornado is infinitely more capable, so long as decent infrastructure is available to support it.
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The Harrier [...] had an issue with fatigue that was going to be quite expensive (though far from impossible) to fix.
How well does that tie in with the fact that the US Marine Corps (IIRC) bought the ex-RAF fleet and was reported to be planning to keep its own planes running until 2030 or so? Were the UK planes simply to be broken for parts?
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The latter - they were purchased as spares donors.
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/uk-harrier-fleet-sold-as-115-million-worth-of-spare-parts-365277/
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Yes, I don't remember the details of the issues the RAF Harriers faced, but they wouldn't have been helped by their relatively intense usage rate versus the US Marines' fleet. However, the largely composite structure (made mostly in the USA, I believe) is fairly easy to look after and repair if you have the facilities of the largest military support infrastructure in the world! To all intents and purposes, the AV8B (Harrier GR5/7/9) is an American, not British, product.
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Jeremy Hunt for obvious reasons. And the rest of the weasels in the NHS apparatus whom only care about their futures in private business and gongs from the queen. Fuckers the lot of them.
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Jeremy Hunt for obvious reasons. And the rest of the weasels in the NHS apparatus whom only care about their futures in private business and gongs from the queen. Fuckers the lot of them.
There really ought to be a "these people are hyper- twats and always will be, so we don't need to keep mentioning them" thread.
First in Hunt and Priti Patel
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Jeremy Hunt for obvious reasons. And the rest of the weasels in the NHS apparatus whom only care about their futures in private business and gongs from the queen. Fuckers the lot of them.
There really ought to be a "these people are hyper- twats and always will be, so we don't need to keep mentioning them" thread.
First in Hunt and Priti Patel
I don't think it can be stated too often what a twunt hunt is
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Jeremy Bastard Hunt and his pack of cronies. I see this as a deliberate attempt to destabilise the NHS in readiness for privatisation.
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On the flip side, I suppose the staffing shortages in Scotland, Wales and Northern ireland are suddenly going to become a lot less accute ::-)
So now he's imposing a contract, last time he refused to honour the recommendation of an independent arbiter on nurses' pay. Negotiation in good faith isn't exactly a skill of his is it! What ever happened to supply and demand?
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On the flip side, I suppose the staffing shortages in Scotland, Wales and Northern ireland are suddenly going to become a lot less accute ::-)
So now he's imposing a contract, last time he refused to honour the recommendation of an independent arbiter on nurses' pay. Negotiation in good faith isn't exactly a skill of his is it! What ever happened to supply and demand?
demand already outstrips supply, but the greater the gap, the more money Twunt and his arse kissing cronies can make...
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Torysaurus venerabilis Kenneth Clarke has weighed in with "the BMA are a bunch of bolshies", the great twatty.
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Torysaurus venerabilis Kenneth Clarke has weighed in with "the BMA are a bunch of bolshies", the great twatty.
Live feed from Ken's study....
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R1ZU6UMDfgY/hqdefault.jpg)
"The BMA are a bunch of Bolshies"
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Jeremy Bastard Hunt and his pack of cronies. I see this as a deliberate attempt to destabilise the NHS in readiness for privatisation.
James Blunt, a singer m'lud, who has a grip of this Twitter (https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt/status/697784223688757248) thing says:
I'm officially handing over my Cockney Rhyming title to @Jeremy_Hunt
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Jeremy Bastard Hunt and his pack of cronies. I see this as a deliberate attempt to destabilise the NHS in readiness for privatisation.
James Blunt, a singer m'lud, who has a grip of this Twitter (https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt/status/697784223688757248) thing says:
I'm officially handing over my Cockney Rhyming title to @Jeremy_Hunt
I think that means James Blunt is off the list, in spite of being a posh boy who writes godawful songs
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I think that means James Blunt is off the list, in spite of being a posh boy who writes godawful songs
Indeed. Mitch Benn may also need to do a rewrite (http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Mitch_Benn_And_The_Distractions:I_May_Just_Have_To_Murder_James_Blunt).
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James Blunt, on Twitter, is most enjoyable. On record, less so.
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Torysaurus venerabilis Kenneth Clarke has weighed in with "the BMA are a bunch of bolshies", the great twatty.
Live feed from Ken's study....
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R1ZU6UMDfgY/hqdefault.jpg)
"The BMA are a bunch of Bolshies"
"I love my BRICK!"
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James Blunt, on Twitter, is most enjoyable. On record, less so.
Yeh he does actually seem like a decent bloke really....but until now that hasn't outweighed the grudge I hold against him for horrible but strangely earwormy music on me
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Stephen Fry, who said that the woman who won the BAFTA for best costume design looked like a bag lady.
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Most of Mr Fry's "jokes" last night were A Bit Shit.
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And she didn't even have a supermarket trolley. Unless she parked it out back. I'm not sure what the formal etiquette is for trolleys at such events.
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Not really in the public eye, but this Swindon ne'er do well stakes a good claim to ST-dom:
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14277664.Teenager_who_wrote_name_in_court_toilets_must_do_more_unpaid_hours_of_work/
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Does sound like someone who isn't a shining example of human thought.
Talking of which, Katie Hopkins, for her repulsive comments about Our Jezza.
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Kate Hopkins, or should that be: -
Bile in a bag! :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: ...
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"Entrepreneur" Justin Keller (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/17/san-francisco-tech-open-letter-i-dont-want-to-see-homeless-riff-raff)
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"Liberal", no longer secret FBI lackie, John McAfee.
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David Cameron for his personal attack on Jeremy Corbyn's dress sense.
So transparent. Using his Mum as an excuse that: "She'd have said to the honourable gentleman …"
How cowardly and unnecessary.
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Typical twat boy behaviour. Very demeaning I thought.
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Jeremy loses points for not just replying "Your mum" though.
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Ah, but don't forget that Cameron is not the only privately-educated bloke in this exchange. Jeremy's also one, though to a lesser degree.
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Is there anyone who isn't public schooled and fully PPEd who can actually listen to PMQ without feeling an acute sense of embarrassment at the entire braying charade?
In other news, Cameron behaves like the smarmy over-privileged snob that he is. At least at my school we'd have beaten the crap out of him. Probably why he hates state education.
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Is there anyone who isn't public schooled and fully PPEd who can actually listen to PMQ without feeling an acute sense of embarrassment at the entire braying charade?
Me
I get an acute sense of wanting to wield a flamethrower.
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Is there anyone who isn't public schooled and fully PPEd who can actually listen to PMQ without feeling an acute sense of embarrassment at the entire braying charade?
In other news, Cameron behaves like the smarmy over-privileged snob that he is. At least at my school we'd have beaten the crap out of him. Probably why he hates state education.
We'd have beaten the crap out of him at my (public) school as well. He'd be intimately acquainted with the inside of the U-bend too.
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Is there anyone who isn't public schooled and fully PPEd who can actually listen to PMQ without feeling an acute sense of embarrassment at the entire braying charade?
In other news, Cameron behaves like the smarmy over-privileged snob that he is. At least at my school we'd have beaten the crap out of him. Probably why he hates state education.
We'd have beaten the crap out of him at my (public) school as well. He'd be intimately acquainted with the inside of the U-bend too.
Instead of being intimately acquainted with the inside of a dead pigs mouth? :)
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John Whittingdale (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/12193836/Radio-Times-threatens-John-Whittingdale-with-judicial-review-over-BBC-consultation.html), Culture Secretary, lying liar and Twat.
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I think the Crabb that replaced IDS is making his first appearance. I'd bet it won't be the last:-
People with brain tumours, motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s disease and a number of other conditions are “able to work”, new work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb has said.
Mr Crabb made the comments the day before he replaced Iain Duncan Smith
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/work-pensions-secretary-stephen-crabb-disability-able-fit-a6951946.html
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Isn't it funny how just when you think life couldn't posiibly get any worse it suddenly does?
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Another Tory intellectual (until it happens to him or one of his).
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Isn't it funny how just when you think life couldn't posiibly get any worse it suddenly does?
Alternatively, perhaps one should be more careful what one wishes for.
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Isn't it funny how just when you think life couldn't posiibly get any worse it suddenly does?
Alternatively, perhaps one should be more careful what one wishes for.
Crabbsticks?
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[OT] Mr Sainsbury's 'Seafood Sticks' are molished from hake and pollock, not crab nor Crabb.
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Better that than compressed krill. Also Crabbsticks = guaranteed indigestion.
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Janet Street Porter
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Presumably for this bucket of wank (http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cyclists-and-their-powerful-backers-are-destroying-london-for-the-rest-of-us-a6952376.html), rather than calling Coleen Nolan a bitch?
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I have never found anything to like about JSP. Surprising to find that somebody with such extreme and often right wing views comes from a humble background. I guess that may be a consequence of being a beneficiary of the baby boomer generation.
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Surprising to find that somebody with such extreme and often right wing views comes from a humble background.
I'm not sure that's surprising.
On a related note: David Cameron. Again. This time for his creative interpretation of 'Christian values'.
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The UK must "stand together and defend" its Christian values in the face of threats from terrorism, David Cameron has said in his Easter message.
The prime minister said responsibility, hard work and compassion were important to people "of every faith and none".
I can't quite work out what that means. My brane hurts. :-\
All that springs to mind with Dave and his Easter message is how much of a mega twat he is.
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I would leave a comment asking JSP how many pedestrians haved been killed utterly to DETH by these supposedly "lethal" pavement cyclists but Chrome is such a steaming pile of poo that the page always crashes before I can scroll down that far.
I therefore nominate as an S-T the Mega-Global Chocolate Manufactury Corporation of Mountain View, USAnia's head of QA.
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It means nothing or if you are suggestible whatever you want it to. Classic Cameron.
I thought Easter messages were done by popes and archbishops, a touch of the Blairs?
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It means nothing or if you are suggestible whatever you want it to. Classic Cameron.
I thought Easter messages were done by popes and archbishops, a touch of the Blairs?
Indeed.
And if you're doing an Easter Message then surely it should be aimed at people who find Easter significant. Otherwise you're just banging your gums for no reason. Not that Dave has a problem with that, of course.
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Presumably for this bucket of wank (http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cyclists-and-their-powerful-backers-are-destroying-london-for-the-rest-of-us-a6952376.html), rather than calling Coleen Nolan a bitch?
Dearie me. That really is piss-poor. Dashed off in sub five minutes I would think. It's like etch-a-rant. Turn the knobs and see what drops out. No thought. And to think. They get paid for churning out crap like that.
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I had to laugh at the line"The cycling lobby is really powerful".
Yeh, we have the AA and RAC ,the train operators , local authorities and construction companies cowering in fear of our powerful lobbying machinery. NOT.
JSP likes to remind those of us who actually live and work in rural North Yorkshire , how wonderful life is in the capital especially when you have a bolt hole in the Dales. She often tells us in the papers of the concerts she's been to and the goings on in TV land.
Well JSP ,if life is so hip and groovy in London,why don't you just f**k off back there ,pronto.
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Sajid Javid, and all the other Cabinet Ministers who have no idea nor care where Port Talbot even is.
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Charles Walker.One letter short of another apt description.
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Equally deserving of Super-Twat status is the person who stuck the headline "Tory MP says he'll ban curtains if he's forced to publish his tax returns" above Nicole Morley's piece on the matter on Metro's1 webshite. He doesn't say he'll ban curtains, because he can't ban curtains except possibly in his own house, but rather that he'll introduce a private members bill to ban curtains2 which:
- has no chance of becoming law
- is the act of a Super-Twat
He's a back-bench MP, not fucking Stalin. The day after I lead the panzers down Whitehall there'll be some changes made in the media, oh yes.
1: I know, it was just the first result Mr Google threw up.
2: Also he said it to notorious Murdoch-channelling hellspawn gobshite and Super-Twat Kay Burley, who'll be one of the first people to be made illegal under the new regime.
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Charles Moore, resident Super-Twat of the Twattish environs that is the Daily Telegraph. For suggesting that David Cameron is, poor dear, caught in the 'Wealth Trap'.
Would that I had one tenth of his problems!
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Charles Moore, resident Super-Twat of the Twattish environs that is the Daily Telegraph. For suggesting that David Cameron is, poor dear, caught in the 'Wealth Trap'.
Would that I had one tenth of his problems!
Amen, Reverend!
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Tyson Fury.
Seems to be caught between trying to be a victim and being a controversial "character."
He's certainly something beginning with a C.
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I know it's bound to be repetition, but Bernie Ecclescake (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/36086363) just needs to die. Preferably horribly. What a total Grade A c :o nt.
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I really really hope Sophia Flörsch makes it to F1 before the stupid old fucker carks it >:(
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I need to nominate Michael Gove yet again. Sorry.
Can't Cameron and the "In" campaign just put up posters showing Gove, IDS and Farage with a caption "These people want you to vote out"? Surely that would do it?
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I need to nominate Michael Gove yet again. Sorry.
Can't Cameron and the "In" campaign just put up posters showing Gove, IDS and Farage with a caption "These people want you to vote out"? Surely that would do it?
If they added in Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont, John Redwood and Peter Lilley, that might guarantee it.
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I know it's bound to be repetition, but Bernie Ecclescake (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/36086363) just needs to die. Preferably horribly. What a total Grade A c :o nt.
A+++ with distinction, surely?
He makes Trump seem almost reasonable. :o
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I need to nominate Michael Gove yet again. Sorry.
Can't Cameron and the "In" campaign just put up posters showing Gove, IDS and Farage with a caption "These people want you to vote out"? Surely that would do it?
Unfortunately you're starting with Cameron, Osborne and Lord Rose on the opposing poster. Bollox! :facepalm:
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I need to nominate Michael Gove yet again. Sorry.
Can't Cameron and the "In" campaign just put up posters showing Gove, IDS and Farage with a caption "These people want you to vote out"? Surely that would do it?
There's no need to apologise.
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I need to nominate Michael Gove yet again. Sorry.
Can't Cameron and the "In" campaign just put up posters showing Gove, IDS and Farage with a caption "These people want you to vote out"? Surely that would do it?
If they added in Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont, John Redwood and Peter Lilley, that might guarantee it.
To pile horror on horror, Lawson just popped up on the news sounding like he'd had a very good lunch :sick:
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Edwina Currie for this little piece (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03rmynx) of insensitivity.
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I know it's bound to be repetition, but Bernie Ecclescake (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/36086363) just needs to die. Preferably horribly. What a total Grade A c :o nt.
A+++ with distinction, surely?
He makes Trump seem almost reasonable. :o
I do wonder if he's deliberately turned himself into a rentaquote gobshite in the K*t** H*pk*ns mould. Either that, or he's lost the plot, which at 85 isn't surprising.
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Edwina Currie for this little piece (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03rmynx) of insensitivity.
Nicely downplayed Sir. :sick:
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Edwina Currie for this little piece (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03rmynx) of insensitivity.
I actually listened to that as it was broadcast. Other than being horrified by the Currie's very odd words, I was most amused by the presenter's valiant attempt at impartiality whilst very obviously thinking that Currie's ideas were the epitome of super twattery.
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I can't see her without thinking of the "what's grey and smells of curry?" joke :hand:
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To which I believe the answer is "Wobagger's beard".
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Kelvin Mackenzie (for his crass thoughts on Victoria Wood in particular; though he's presumably an honourary life member of this thread).
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Kelvin Mackenzie (for his crass thoughts on Victoria Wood in particular; though he's presumably an honourary life member of this thread).
From Twitter:
"Kelvin" MacKenzie is so-named because he's an absolute zero.
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Boris 'part-American' Johnson
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"Kelvin" MacKenzie is so-named because he's an absolute zero.
;D
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Boris 'part-American' Johnson
Surely he has a permanent place here?
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Boris 'part-American' Johnson
While the terrible twat may have dual nationality, AFAIK both his parents were BRITONS.
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Didn't he renounce his US citizenship (from being born there) to avoid USian taxes that they levy on their citizens wherever they live & wherever they make their money?
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Apparently he stated his intention to renounce his USAnian citizenship in February 2015 after a fight with that Nice Mr Obambi's tax-droids but hasn't yet done so, the big twatty.
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Ah, typical BoJo, then. All mouth & no trousers.
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To be honest, I'd rather he renounce his British Citizenship.
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:thumbsup:
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It's bad enough having one fuck-haired stormtrooper seeking the Republicans' approval; imagine a Trump/Johnson ticket :sick:
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I'm surprised Trump hasn't grown a mullet to appeal to his core voters.
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He is a braying charlatan, who lacks the courage even to be an honest bastard (https://t.co/8PHcBTn6RH)
I'm not a fan of Nick Cohen's writing , but this is a nice piece on Boris ;)
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What is the state beyond super? Is it hyper or ultra? Whatever it is we need a higher level of twatishness for the recent crop of nominees.
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I'd say ultra followed by hyper...
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Whilst I am no classical scholar, I believe 'ultra' and 'super' are Latin, whist 'hyper' is Greek.
Mixing languages might cause hypertension...
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I think Übertwat might be a good superlative.
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Twatissimo? Il twatto di tutti twatti? Trump?
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Top Trump?
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'Mega', obviously. Where were you people in the 90s?
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Whilst I am no classical scholar, I believe 'ultra' and 'super' are Latin, whist 'hyper' is Greek.
Mixing languages might cause hypertension...
I think I saw a programme about that on the television.
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If we stuck to SI units the whole issue would be a storm in a hogshead.
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'Mega', obviously. Where were you people in the 90s?
It sounds so old now, like Sega Megadrive and Megaupload. Tera is obviously a million times better but has unfortunate connotations. Still, you could say that IS are TeraTwats.
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You forgot the ultimately twattish: Megarider.
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Bernard Ingham, for this letter to the Hillsborough campaigners in 1996: -
(http://indy100.independent.co.uk/image/25426-7f3fwd.jpg)
and for refusing to change his stance after the 2012 verdict.
Ingham was asked again about his comments in 2013. He told the Liverpool Echo he stood by his original remarks and also refused to apologise for saying Liverpool should "shut up" about Hillsborough.
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/sir-bernard-ingham-the-disgraceful-letter-margaret-thatchers-press-secretary-sent-to-hillsborough-campaigners--WkFP4C0obb
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Perhaps someone might want to ask him what his view is now.
What a turd.
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Dunno about Super-Twat, Ingham is on the short-list for Cnut of the century
I have no intention of apologising for my views which are sincerely held on the basis of what I heard first hand at Hillsborough.(from 1996 letter)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sir-bernard-ingham-who-labelled-7837120 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sir-bernard-ingham-who-labelled-7837120)
Asked whether he would apologise for comments labelling Liverpool fans "tanked up yobs", Sir Bernard told our reporter "I have nothing to say" before shutting the door.
Turd indeed
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Perhaps someone might want to ask him what his view is now.
What a turd.
He's certainly an "interesting" character. I suspect that he may well no longer be as sharp as he was, if you get my drift. I actually had lunch with him (it's a long story!) about 18 years ago when he had retired from the civil service and was touting himself around as a PR guru. I don't think I've ever encountered someone so absolutely rigid in their thinking and incapable of considering any other viewpoint. As I recall, in his view the internet would never catch on (this was in 1997, remember), newspapers would never face any competition from it and, best of all, journalists would never accept being contacted by email.
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If the allegations are true, Shane Sutton (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/36153485).
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Alongside Ingham, can we nominate David Duckenfield, Boris Johnson, and David Crompton?
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And John Mann. For someone who you might think was well versed in the history of Zionism, he comes across as an ignorant (and abusive) jerk.
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And John Mann. For someone who you might think was well versed in the history of Zionism, he comes across as an ignorant (and abusive) jerk.
But, in his defence, he has always been an abusive jerk (watch his performances at the Treasury Committee) and he was talking to Ken Livingstone, who frequently deserves a mention in this thread
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Bear Grylls
I don't see heroics I just see what the love-child of David Cameron and George Osbourne would look, and act, like.
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ICBA to count but I think Bear Grylls might be challenging Michael Gove for the most mentions so far in this thread.
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ICBA to count but I think Bear Grylls might be challenging Michael Gove for the most mentions so far in this thread.
I've resisted this rant so far.....but Bear Grylls really winds me up......good mates with Blair, now it seems Obama is a buddy....but the thing that really, really gets me is his championing of Nicky Gumble and his Alpha cult.....As a spiritually inclined agnostic I have been through the Alpha course, and basically it appears to be a Christian version of Scientology....very much about peer pressure and brainwashing and with no room for anything but blind adherence to it's dubious tenets
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For me, it's his affected macho voice, his insufferable smugness, the fact that all his "extreme survival" programmes are filmed in the Milton Keynes snowdome or somewhere equally dangerous...no, it's none of those, it's just his stupid name.
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Well if anybody has a spare limpet mine, I could show you the boat where he lives.
No torpedoes though, there are other boats there.
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........... the Alpha course, and basically it appears to be a Christian version of Scientology....very much about peer pressure and brainwashing and with no room for anything but blind adherence to it's dubious tenets
Crikey! That sounds like a most unusual branch of religion.
[/sarcasm]
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........... the Alpha course, and basically it appears to be a Christian version of Scientology....very much about peer pressure and brainwashing and with no room for anything but blind adherence to it's dubious tenets
Crikey! That sounds like a most unusual branch of religion.
[/sarcasm]
Haha....Good point!
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Quentin Letts
Obvs, having had the misfortune to read some of his stuff in a book, he'd be in here anyway, but his latest shit is unbelievable:
From The Independent website:
“We have Andrew ‘Captain Hop-Along’ Marr growling away on BBC One, throwing his arm about like a tipsy conductor,” Letts wrote.
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Quentin Letts
Obvs, having had the misfortune to read some of his stuff in a book, he'd be in here anyway, but his latest shit is unbelievable:
From The Independent website:
“We have Andrew ‘Captain Hop-Along’ Marr growling away on BBC One, throwing his arm about like a tipsy conductor,” Letts wrote.
In Quentin Letts' defence, I don't think he knew it was wrong to make fun of disabled people.
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Presumably he takes his lead from Trump.
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'The European Union is a "force for social injustice" which backs "the haves rather than the have-nots"', says breathtaking hypocrite and Super-Twat Iain Duncan Smith who, incidentally, looks like a freshly-waxed cock in an undertaker's suit. So, not at all like the Monster Raving Tory Party, eh?
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I found it incredible that the chief architect of social injustice in the UK was able to spout this with a straight face. A true politician.
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Drifting away from the completely indefensible, can I nominate Timmy Mallet? Take a listen to Great Lives on The Home Service to see why. Nothing outrageous or bigoted, just incredibly annoying.
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He's got a splendid shed, thobut.
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And he's a loyal Oxford United supporter, which deserves some admiration given that they were out of the league for a while.
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He's the Super Twat of modern day "TEH WURLD"
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Janet Street Porter.
A cranky old gob-shite who's convinced herself that her views trump anyone else's, or indeed actual facts, if they are squawked loudly enough.
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Dominic Cummings. Not just a bully, a vacuous paranoid bully. He's also suitable for the Nominative Determinism thread, the foetid pool of jism.
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Tyson Fury.
Seems to be caught between trying to be a victim and being a controversial "character."
He's certainly something beginning with a C.
bzzzt. Repetition....
http://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/36291579
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Ah, but this thread is perfectly comfortable with repetition. Which reminds me, can I have Bear Grylls again?
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Janet Street Porter.
A cranky old gob-shite who's convinced herself that her views trump anyone else's, or indeed actual facts, if they are squawked loudly enough.
What I do not understand is how she gets oxygen on the BBC. Almost worse than giving Shameron, Tossborne, Bray, Flapps, etc. air time. She speaks utter bollox.
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George Osborne yet again. :facepalm: Who would have thought that a politician would lie through their teeth to get elected, eh?
Letter pledging to scrap tuition fees (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-36323823) surfaces after thirteen years.
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Ah, but this thread is perfectly comfortable with repetition. Which reminds me, can I have Bear Grylls again?
Yes. If I can have Piers Morgan again.
He's got another fucking TV show despite everyone hating him.
This time he's interviewing US female murderers in prison. I mean, come on ladies, surely you can fashion a weapon out of a hair-brush or something.
Isn't "justifiable Homicide" a thing in the US?
He's the embodiment of, "any publicity is good publicity."
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The members of Muirfield golf club. All of them.
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The members of Muirfield golf club. All of them.
...postal ballot of members of Muirfield in East Lothian returned 64% for and 36% against allowing women to join for the first time in the club’s 125-year history.
The vote fell just short of the two-thirds majority required for the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which runs the course, to alter its constitution.
Surely only 36% of them.
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Surely only 36% of them.
Depends if the other 64% choose to tacitly support the policy by retaining their membership of the club.
Anyway, they're golfers so they're probably twats anyway. ;)
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If Muirfield folk leave (despite being in the majority), the chance of any subsequent vote changing the status quo is reduced.
Seeing that cycling is the new golf, (I'll let you finish the rest)
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If Muirfield folk leave (despite being in the majority), the chance of any subsequent vote changing the status quo is reduced.
If enough people vote with their feet, the remaining members might have to rethink their attitude to ensure the survival of the club. In any case, I wouldn't join a club in the first place if it had such a rule.
Seeing that cycling is the new golf, (I'll let you finish the rest)
I imagine all the old golfing clubmen who have been playing the sport since they were kids, and still use a set of vintage 531 steel clubs, are all overjoyed that the flash status-seeking dentists with ridiculously expensive carbon clubs and electric golf carts have moved on to cycling.
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NSFW, in case you hadn't guessed from the URL
http://viz.co.uk/golf-cunt-magazine/
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Peter Allis - golf journalist
"women who want to play at golf club Muirfield should "marry a member"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vmxk0 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vmxk0)
I remember the name from the 1970s when he used to be on TV saying what a wonderful place apartheid South Africa was :sick:
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I thought he died years ago. New Alresford's most famous resident.
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He lives back in the sixties, the seventeen sixties.
Total arse. Women who want to use the facilities better marry a member. What about same sex relationships you fecking idiot Allis. MEGA SUPER WANKER TWAT.
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I thought he died years ago. New Alresford's most famous resident.
That was criket colemantator John Arlott.
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Good call!
I know it was a commentator with a name starting "A"...
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Peter Allis - golf journalist
"women who want to play at golf club Muirfield should "marry a member"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vmxk0 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vmxk0)
I remember the name from the 1970s when he used to be on TV saying what a wonderful place apartheid South Africa was :sick:
He has form. An apology was issued after sexist remarks on the BBC last year.
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Peter Oborne is on Newsnight, apparently pissed & very twattish indeed.
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Peter Oborne is on Newsnight, apparently pissed & very twattish indeed.
Had he just had A Round With Alliss?
(http://legslarry.org.uk/BikeStull/coat_48.png)
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I've probably had him before, but Mark Ronson. Just for ruining any experience of listening to the radio with his dreadful productions. Stick a beat on the song that doesn't fit the lyrics, add some horns and there you go. He's a talentless streak of micturate.
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I really do hope that Liam Fox's remarks that the Met have got better things to do than worry about election fraud come and bite him on the arse. He's a Super-Twat if he believes anyone should trust his judgment.
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George Eustice ...
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Tony Blair AGAIN !!!
This time for his comments on Corbyn. Let the public decide Tony. They were stupid to elect you, a red tory, so why shouldn't they now choose to have a proper socialist, eh?
Democracy: A concept that the establishment and PPE cohort just do not understand ...
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re Mr Larrington's post in the EU referendum thread; may I nominate (retrospectively) Norman Lamont? Even if he is currently not twatting about, he deserve recognition for his lifetime achievement.
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Noel Edmonds.
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Noel Edmonds.
Beat me to it.
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Crivens! What a cockwomble!
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He has plenty of form, but this takes it to a new height.
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I want to know what bodies he knows the burial sites of. There is no other possible explanation for him continuing to be hired.
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Tony Blair AGAIN !!!
This time for his comments on Corbyn. Let the public decide Tony. They were stupid to elect you, a red tory, so why shouldn't they now choose to have a proper socialist, eh?
Democracy: A concept that the establishment and PPE cohort just do not understand ...
Assuming that the alternative to electing Blair would have been PM John Major again, William Hague, a brief unelected spell by Iain Duncan Smith, and then Michael Howard, it always seems surprising when people on the left regret doing so. And the last Labour leader before Blair to win an election was Harold Wilson: the public doesn't have a record of deciding to back proper socialists.
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If I have the choice of Cameron or Corbyn I would always vote Corbyn regardless of whether he represents my ideal political position. The same can be said for voters when faced with Major or Blair. The fact that Blair turned out to be just as right wing as Major is a sad reflection of the political system in the UK.
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David Icke, for suggesting we should vote Brexit just because Tony Bliar wants to Remain.
Er...this is turquoise-wearing, Illuminati-obsessed, one-world-government-fearing, Royal-shape-shifting-lizard-believing, gold-plated, fur-lined, ocean-going grade A nutter David Icke?
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Frustrated traveller, whose train was delayed after man threatened to jump off railway bridge:
“I’m sorry for the bloke in question but you can’t have one person disrupting the lives of 50,000 people like this.”
What alternative would he propose?
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Igor Lebedev.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/13/moscow-football-official-to-violent-fans-well-done-lads-keep-it-up (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/13/moscow-football-official-to-violent-fans-well-done-lads-keep-it-up)
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I came here to nominate him. I see the job is already accomplished.
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I think his response would be "let him jump".
But I can see the point, the good of one person does not outweigh the good of the mass. What if one of those people was going to see their mother/father/son/daughter dying in hospital and missed it because of this one person. Or someone has a job interview that will save his or her family from poverty. Does that one person deserve more than the others?
It is an insoluble problem - there is no answer. But it keeps philosophy departments going.
I think if any of the scenarios you posited about the inconvenience to passengers turns out to be true we will hear about it soon enough in the press. And even if not, we will hear about it in The Mail.
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Igor Lebedev.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/13/moscow-football-official-to-violent-fans-well-done-lads-keep-it-up (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/13/moscow-football-official-to-violent-fans-well-done-lads-keep-it-up)
I do wonder whether an all-in hooligan tournament, held in the wilds of Scotland with no risk of injury to anyone but the competitors, might be more entertaining than the Euros. I'm sure Channel 5 would buy the rights, anyway.
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Igor Lebedev.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/13/moscow-football-official-to-violent-fans-well-done-lads-keep-it-up (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/13/moscow-football-official-to-violent-fans-well-done-lads-keep-it-up)
I do wonder whether an all-in hooligan tournament, held in the wilds of Scotland with no risk of injury to anyone but the competitors, might be more entertaining than the Euros. I'm sure Channel 5 would buy the rights, anyway.
The World Cup in Russia, 2018, has the copyright on that already.
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Ronaldo
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Mega brat twat that Ronaldo chappie. :o
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ICBA to check whether nauseating berk Sir Philip Green has been nominated before (though I'd be most surprised if he hasn't) but he deserves a place at the top table just for telling Richard Fuller MP off for looking at
his pint him in a funny way.
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There's a half billion pound hole in the BHS pension fund but he's apologised for it.
So that's OK then . . .
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Funny innit. If we 'forgot' a few quid on our tax returns we could and probably would end up in court, even prison. When the establishment get caught with their proverbials in the
pig till they simply apologise and everything is just dandy.
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Katie Hopkins - a regular here - only because I found myself sitting at a lunch table with her yesterday and concluded that she is even more vile than reputed.
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Katie Hopkins - a regular here - only because I found myself sitting at a lunch table with her yesterday and concluded that she is even more vile than reputed.
Poor you, Rob. But why? And how did you cope?
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ICBA to check whether nauseating berk Sir Philip Green has been nominated before (though I'd be most surprised if he hasn't) but he deserves a place at the top table just for telling Richard Fuller MP off for looking at his pint him in a funny way.
The word 'farce' springs to mind. I wonder if such inquiries (or whatever it was) actually ever decide anything at all.
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I'm nominating Sellafield Ltd's new Chief Exec, Paul Foster for this.
http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/Shock-salary-slash-for-Sellafield-workers-c3a4f021-b972-48a2-aee5-3fff598f4366-ds
Perhaps he'd like to explain personally to the technical trainee that he doesn't want her in his company? This is a place that struggles to recruit and retain skilled technical staff as it is. >:(
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I don't suppose as a newbie himself any cuts affect his package?
Thought not.
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.... fewer paid sick days.
.... to save around £4 million a year and increase productivity.
Just the sort of place we want people dragging themselves in when they're not up to it.
mcshroom, please tell us if the new intake includes anyone called Homer, please.
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Katie Hopkins - a regular here - only because I found myself sitting at a lunch table with her yesterday and concluded that she is even more vile than reputed.
Not that I give a damn but I'd kinda thought (hoped?) that the Hopkins persona was construct. She comes across as so vile, so pantomime baddie, that I figured it can't be real.
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Katie Hopkins - a regular here - only because I found myself sitting at a lunch table with her yesterday and concluded that she is even more vile than reputed.
Not that I give a damn but I'd kinda thought (hoped?) that the Hopkins persona was construct. She comes across as so vile, so pantomime baddie, that I figured it can't be real.
It may all be an act but, if it is, she's certainly worthy of several BAFTAs (not that she would accept an award from a bunch of leftie luvvie profiteers, of course) for sustaining it so convincingly. She appears to revel in the opprobrium that she attracts - for example, boasting about being questioned by the police for "hate crimes" - and sees herself as speaking up for people who otherwise have no voice (presumably because many of them have not evolved that far yet).
Deano - I was at a small conference discussing the implications of the changing balance between reporting and commentary in mainstream media. All interesting stuff and, Hopkins excepted, the quality of participants was pretty good.
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I'm nominating Sellafield Ltd's new Chief Exec, Paul Foster for this.
http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/Shock-salary-slash-for-Sellafield-workers-c3a4f021-b972-48a2-aee5-3fff598f4366-ds
Perhaps he'd like to explain personally to the technical trainee that he doesn't want her in his company? This is a place that struggles to recruit and retain skilled technical staff as it is. >:(
That's what is happening to public servants in general (and yes I know the place is privatised). Two days ago I received my letter telling me my take home pay would be going down, two months after it did, by £45 a month. I am also being blackmailed to "volunteer" for revised T&Cs that will deliver another 5% or more pay cut. Retention is now dreadful, and Hunt et al are claiming that charging nurses to study, which in practice means charging them for working in the NHS, will somehow deliver more nursing students.
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Cllr Dominic Peacock
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jo-cox-memorial-fund-dominic-peacock-tory-councillor-facebook-conservative-piss-post-deleted-a7093441.html
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I'm nominating Sellafield Ltd's new Chief Exec, Paul Foster for this.
http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/Shock-salary-slash-for-Sellafield-workers-c3a4f021-b972-48a2-aee5-3fff598f4366-ds
Perhaps he'd like to explain personally to the technical trainee that he doesn't want her in his company? This is a place that struggles to recruit and retain skilled technical staff as it is. >:(
That's what is happening to public servants in general (and yes I know the place is privatised). Two days ago I received my letter telling me my take home pay would be going down, two months after it did, by £45 a month. I am also being blackmailed to "volunteer" for revised T&Cs that will deliver another 5% or more pay cut. Retention is now dreadful, and Hunt et al are claiming that charging nurses to study, which in practice means charging them for working in the NHS, will somehow deliver more nursing students.
Presumably that's due to overtime or allowances, since it's not actually legal to cut someone's salary without their consent?
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Yebbut, there's consent, and there's consent.
As a long-term inmate of the oil industry, I can tell you exactly how consent works.
For example, the Working Time Directive.
The UK successfully battled for the right to opt out of this, on behalf of all the Hard Working Families.
We got the 'right' for employees to consent to work longer hours.
Yay for worker's rights and choice.
Right.
Actual effect?
"Sign the opt-out and continue your long hours, or sling your hook."
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I'm nominating Sellafield Ltd's new Chief Exec, Paul Foster for this.
http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/Shock-salary-slash-for-Sellafield-workers-c3a4f021-b972-48a2-aee5-3fff598f4366-ds
Perhaps he'd like to explain personally to the technical trainee that he doesn't want her in his company? This is a place that struggles to recruit and retain skilled technical staff as it is. >:(
Staggering that he can even begin to say it's about fairness to the employees and local community having just stated it's about saving £4m.
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Yebbut, there's consent, and there's consent.
As a long-term inmate of the oil industry, I can tell you exactly how consent works.
For example, the Working Time Directive.
The UK successfully battled for the right to opt out of this, on behalf of all the Hard Working Families.
We got the 'right' for employees to consent to work longer hours.
Yay for worker's rights and choice.
Right.
Actual effect?
"Sign the opt-out and continue your long hours, or sling your hook."
Yes, I've seen employees put through a dismiss and re-engage process at the time of a redundancy exercise and being, formally, told that if they didn't first sign an opt out of their final salary pension scheme that they wouldn't be re-engaged. I was confident this was in breach of the case law, quite apart from just plain wrong, but no one chose/felt able to challenge.
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I would like to nominate an un-named person.
They are the brother-in-law of a friend. Said friend is an iraqi muslim (half-german, half-iraqi). Lived in the UK, married to an English guy for about 30 years.
The Nominee is an immigrant to NZ and posts a constant stream of anti-immigrant, anti-muslim rhetoric to his sister-in-law's facebook wall. Said rhetoric is up to and including the "all Muslims are rapists/terrorists/Islam is inherently evil/all immigrants should go back where they came from". Anyone pointing out that he himself is an immigrant is called a uneducated guardian lefty bigot and told to go stick their head back in the sand.
He is an absolutely prize class arsehole of the first order. A white-privileged bellend.
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Can we have group nominations?
I nominate the LEAVE campaign liars. Oh, and the REMAIN campaign spineless jerks.
I am still waiting for either side to present a coherent argument either way. Fortunately I have exercised by brane and sent off my postal vote already.
Roll on Friday!
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Katie Hopkins - a regular here - only because I found myself sitting at a lunch table with her yesterday and concluded that she is even more vile than reputed.
Not that I give a damn but I'd kinda thought (hoped?) that the Hopkins persona was construct. She comes across as so vile, so pantomime baddie, that I figured it can't be real.
It may all be an act but, <snip>
It's not, she jogs on the cycle path I use to bimble to work.
"Get out of my f*ing way" seems to be her mantra.
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For the good of humanity you must arrange a brake failure while testing those spiked winter tyres you've always promised yourself.
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Tell us where. We can have a 'yacf massive' brake failure ... :D
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Un-named judge at York crown court and the road-rage twat whose conviction he quashed
DISABLED Yorkshire pensioner who admitted assaulting a cyclist in a road rage incident has had his driving ban overturned, and says he pleaded guilty to the charge only because he was going on holiday.
Brian McDonald, 77, who says he is “no road-rage pensioner” was given a 12-month driving ban after pleading guilty to assaulting a 26-year-old cyclist last month.
Scarborough Magistrates’ Court heard Mr McDonald had called the police after an altercation with a cyclist, and needed hospital treatment for an injured finger.
Mr McDonald’s driving ban was quashed after he took his case to York Crown Court last week.
Mr McDonald, of Doncaster, said: “I was very upset by it all - the only reason I pleaded guilty was because I thought it was a minor offence.
“They were talking about having a trial in September, but I go away with my wife to Spain then and we go every year.
“I just wanted it over with - I thought I would just get a fine of about £75.
“My wife and I were very upset by it because we are both disabled and need the car to be able to get to hospital appointments.”
Magistrates also ordered him to pay a £220 fine, £85 in court costs and £150 compensation to the cyclist.
But when York Crown Court overturned the ruling, he was told he would not have to pay anything to the man he was convicted of assaulting.
However, the assault conviction still stands.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/i-m-no-road-rage-pensioner-says-77-year-old-after-his-driving-ban-is-overturned-1-7979007#ixzz4COzA2I4W (http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/i-m-no-road-rage-pensioner-says-77-year-old-after-his-driving-ban-is-overturned-1-7979007#ixzz4COzA2I4W)
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Mrs Justice Hogg (retd.).
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Mrs Justice Hogg (retd.).
I think you mean very conveniently (retd.).
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Sort of worried about this nomination but (intake of breath)...
Oscar Pistorius; "Reeva Steenkamp wouldn’t want me to spend my life in jail"
Maybe, but I think she'd have preferred not to have been killed by you.
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Un-named judge at York crown court and the road-rage twat whose conviction he quashed
DISABLED Yorkshire pensioner who admitted assaulting a cyclist in a road rage incident has had his driving ban overturned, and says he pleaded guilty to the charge only because he was going on holiday.
Brian McDonald, 77, who says he is “no road-rage pensioner” was given a 12-month driving ban after pleading guilty to assaulting a 26-year-old cyclist last month.
Scarborough Magistrates’ Court heard Mr McDonald had called the police after an altercation with a cyclist, and needed hospital treatment for an injured finger.
Mr McDonald’s driving ban was quashed after he took his case to York Crown Court last week.
Mr McDonald, of Doncaster, said: “I was very upset by it all - the only reason I pleaded guilty was because I thought it was a minor offence.
“They were talking about having a trial in September, but I go away with my wife to Spain then and we go every year.
“I just wanted it over with - I thought I would just get a fine of about £75.
“My wife and I were very upset by it because we are both disabled and need the car to be able to get to hospital appointments.”
Magistrates also ordered him to pay a £220 fine, £85 in court costs and £150 compensation to the cyclist.
But when York Crown Court overturned the ruling, he was told he would not have to pay anything to the man he was convicted of assaulting.
However, the assault conviction still stands.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/i-m-no-road-rage-pensioner-says-77-year-old-after-his-driving-ban-is-overturned-1-7979007#ixzz4COzA2I4W (http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/i-m-no-road-rage-pensioner-says-77-year-old-after-his-driving-ban-is-overturned-1-7979007#ixzz4COzA2I4W)
Presumably he'll be back in court in September charged with perjury and wasting police and court time?
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This thread introduced me to Katie Hopkins. I'm not coming back here.
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The fucking pig-fucker who fucking decided that fucking fucking pigs wasn't fucking doing it any fucking more for him, so fucked the entire fucking country instead. And then fucking fucked off afterwards.
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Sort of worried about this nomination but (intake of breath)...
Oscar Pistorius; "Reeva Steenkamp wouldn’t want me to spend my life in jail"
Maybe, but I think she'd have preferred not to have been killed by you.
No idea what you're worried about. Deserved nomination and I'm surprised if it is his first.
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The fucking pig-fucker who fucking decided that fucking fucking pigs wasn't fucking doing it any fucking more for him, so fucked the entire fucking country instead. And then fucking fucked off afterwards.
He has permanent residency in this thread, as we don't really have a thread with a level of twattery high enough to put him where he really belongs
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The fucking pig-fucker who fucking decided that fucking fucking pigs wasn't fucking doing it any fucking more for him, so fucked the entire fucking country instead. And then fucking fucked off afterwards.
I'll admit, my personal politics doesn't put in the consensus view on this forum, but this unit (un)happily endorses this nomination, simply because he's failed to own his breakage.*
The utter fucking cowardly hoofwangling spoogesucker of a bunglecunt.
* Hat-tip to Colin Powell.
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The fucking pig-fucker who fucking decided that fucking fucking pigs wasn't fucking doing it any fucking more for him, so fucked the entire fucking country instead. And then fucking fucked off afterwards.
Couldn't possibly imagine who you are talking about.
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Is Cameron on this list?
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The fucking pig-fucker who fucking decided that fucking fucking pigs wasn't fucking doing it any fucking more for him, so fucked the entire fucking country instead. And then fucking fucked off afterwards.
POTD
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Ah. Ok good.
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Nigel Farage
Farage slammed for saying Leave won referendum victory 'without a bullet being fired' despite Jo Cox murder just a week earlier
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3657913/Farage-slammed-saying-Leave-won-referendum-victory-without-bullet-fired-despite-Jo-Cox-murder.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3657913/Farage-slammed-saying-Leave-won-referendum-victory-without-bullet-fired-despite-Jo-Cox-murder.html)
Apologies for linking to *that* place
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Over 17 million new candidates ...
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Over 17 million new candidates ...
The Solution (Berthold Brecht)
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
;)
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So we can now expect violent suppression by extremist right wing rule?
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Here's a clue - for "government", read "YACF".
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The people have spoken, the bastards.
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The fucking pig-fucker who fucking decided that fucking fucking pigs wasn't fucking doing it any fucking more for him, so fucked the entire fucking country instead. And then fucking fucked off afterwards.
Couldn't have put it better myself...
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Couldn't have put it better myself...
I stand on the shoulders of giants
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Clive Tyldesley - at the end of the England-Iceland game, he commented that England's defeat would overshadow the Brexit debacle.
No, Clive, it really really won't.
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Yeah, I noticed that. I don't know what all the fuss is about - we only got beaten by one goal. That's as good as a win if you support Newcastle.
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Well done Iceland.
Danny Mills on radio 5. Every two minutes all he kept saying was that in the post match interview Hodgson needed to be asked what his plan was for the second half. Mills became increasingly ranty and angry and you could almost hear the veins popping in his neck and forehead.
Licence payers money wasted on this super twat so-called expert.
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You see what you miss by not having a TV <g,d&r>
There may be other foopball colemantators, pundits etc. etc. who manage to talk sense in a calm and rational way but not even Mr Gary Winston Lineker MBE can be everywhere at once.
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Alan Green is nauseating enough but him and Danny Mills together is like listening to the ballsports equivalent of Farage and Gove. :sick:
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Every cynically opportunist Labour shadow cabinet minister who has taken the opportunity to ram the knife into Jeremy's back.
What these self-serving scrotes forget is that it's the members who give Jeremy his mandate and not them.
Politicians are uber twats and utter bastards aren't they?
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I disagree, but POBI is that way->
Let's keep this thread to individuals, not principles. For yesterday I'm going with Boris "Johnson" Johnson, wanting to lead the country from his Telegraph column but not doing his elected job in the debate in Parliament.
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Clive Tyldesley - at the end of the England-Iceland game, he commented that England's defeat would overshadow the Brexit debacle.
No, Clive, it really really won't.
Unbelievable. Do they let him vote? He certainly seems to have an odd sense of priorities
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I disagree, but POBI is that way->
Let's keep this thread to individuals, not principles. For yesterday I'm going with Boris "Johnson" Johnson, wanting to lead the country from his Telegraph column but not doing his elected job in the debate in Parliament.
From what I hear, even before the current debacle, he was rarely seen in the Chamber or his constituency, generally being too busy with his numerous other sources of income. Intriguingly, Sonia Purnell's book about him tells how when he was Mayor of London, most of the donkey work on his £5k a shot column was done by City hall staff, which - given that they are publicly paid officials - surely must have constituted a misuse of public funds.
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Alan Green is nauseating enough but him and Danny Mills together is like listening to the ballsports equivalent of Farage and Gove. :sick:
YMMV. I like Alan Green, and Danny Mills is OK
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Seeing as no-one else has actually nominated them-Roy Hodgson and Martin Glenn ,CEO of the F.A., who should have sacked Woy after the last World Cup.
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He's probably been mentioned at least 1,000 times already but I want amphibian-faced Farage again, for his smug performance at the European parliament today. If I were them I'd have gone all Murder on the Orient Express on his slimy arse.
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Belgium. Lots of canals. Surely it can't be difficult to find some concrete and a length of heavy chain?
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He's probably been mentioned at least 1,000 times already but I want amphibian-faced Farage again
Seconded. I've come to expect the guy to be a complete and utter *select-the-word-you-feel-appropriate* but today he excelled himself even by his own low standards. He really does play his own character to the fullest.
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Anyone had 174 of their own MPs express a vote of no confidence in them and still refused to resign? SDP2 is days away.
It's a shame.
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...
For yesterday I'm going with Boris "Johnson" Johnson,
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D'oh! :facepalm: I've only just twigged that one. :-[ :D
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Clive Tyldesley - at the end of the England-Iceland game, he commented that England's defeat would overshadow the Brexit debacle.
No, Clive, it really really won't.
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that." ~ Bill Shankly :demon:
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Poor old Jeremy. He always looks a bit befuddled by what's going on. Either that, or he's the Millwall of party leaders.
Re-importing Miliband D would scare the shit out of the Tories but (a) he seems happy where he is (b) he's probably named in the Chilcot report (c) he is a firm Remainer but might not want to take the risk of standing on that platform (though could probably win it, after another couple of months of pain, if he did a deal with the SNP and LiBDems). Oh, and (d) Labour are such a shower of talentless bastards right now that he wouldn't be able to put a front bench together.
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I made this.
Not sure why but sleep tight.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CQznzcQ-2hs/V3LOhK1W-9I/AAAAAAAAIF8/H9MoBeKxwLoxHtm4sGSdKU9z7VNdvfYPgCCo/s640/Nigel%2BFarage.jpg)
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Spoiler tags, LEE, please!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9UvrLyj3k
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Clive Tyldesley - at the end of the England-Iceland game, he commented that England's defeat would overshadow the Brexit debacle.
No, Clive, it really really won't.
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that." ~ Bill Shankly :demon:
:)
I was thinking of Mr Shankly when I typed that - though I reckon he'd a better sense of irony than that fucker Tyldesley.
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Spoiler tags, LEE, please!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9UvrLyj3k
It's goatse II :sick:
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/b3ta
Only 'shopped pictures, please.
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I know that this is a Two Minute Hate thread for people in the public eye, but does anyone else think LEE deserves a nomination for posting that picture of N**** F*****? :demon:
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No. Spoiler tags applied to save stomachs.
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The bastards who stole my brother's bikes...
Bicycles STOLEN from Fairfields Road, Basingstoke last night:
Giant TCR Advanced SL carbon - size large (2014 colours). Dura Ace 7900 groupset with Mavic Ksyrium rear wheel and Campagnolo Neutron front. White Flite saddle, Giant carbon stem and (relatively) uncommon Deda Supernatural shallow drop bars (as pic but with Elite Custom Race bottle cages and different wheels).
Scott Spark 930 MTB - size large (2014 colours). Standard manufacturer's spec with Schwalbe Nobby Nic tyres. Paint distinctively rubbed off front fork bridge by rubbing cable.
Clearly stolen by someone who knew what they wanted. They climbed over my 3m-high gate/wall, walked past my commuting bike (that was resting by the back door), chiselled the lock on the garage door - and then presumably passed the bikes back over the gate.
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Something (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2016/apr/25/patrick-stewart-sketch-what-has-the-echr-ever-done-for-us-video) reminded me to nominate Theresa May, Bojo, Farage, Gove, etc., etc. yet again ...
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Tim Vine.
He of the endless puns.
You know the thing, an hour solid of "Black Beauty. Now there's a dark horse!"
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmcHUQJWAAAcyJ7.jpg)
There's never a dinosaur killing asteroid impact when you want one...
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What's the collective noun for S-Ts?
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What's the collective noun for S-Ts?
Sani-bin, as found in Ladies' conveniences everywhere.
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MEGA response there Helly. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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;D ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36698157 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36698157)
Super-Twattishness exemplified.
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At least the polis have detained the S-T. One hopes the use of unnecessary violence was approved by their superiors.
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I know he's probably got a permanent place here, but the Rt Hon ACL Blair deserves another nomination for his self-justificatory performance on the Today programme.
He makes me want to throw things at the wireless.
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I think that he should be put into Saddam's hole in the ground and a missile carrier, you know, one carrying those imaginary missiles that the Iraqis had, over the top. If the weapons inspection team still cannot find one* just park one of Prescott's jags on top instead.
War crimes trial hopefully.
* feins surprise ...
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I know he's probably got a permanent place here, but the Rt Hon ACL Blair deserves another nomination for his self-justificatory performance on the Today programme.
His nauseating performance on last night's news was worthy of another nomination. He sounded like he was about to cry because some big boys had ganged up on him and called him nasty names and that was before he implored TV's Laura Kuenssberg not to call him a lying liar who told lies before, during and after his time in Number 10.
ETA:
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LYjTqOYbfig/hqdefault.jpg)
Twenty-one years on and he's hardly changed a bit
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I think that he should be put into Saddam's hole in the ground and a missile carrier, you know, one carrying those imaginary missiles that the Iraqis had, over the top. If the weapons inspection team still cannot find one* just park one of Prescott's jags on top instead.
War crimes trial hopefully.
* feins surprise ...
Errr . . . aksherly, the Iraqis had lots of missiles. But that was only a breach of agreements or conditions imposed on Iraq if they had a range of over 150km, & they didn't. What they didn't have were nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) warheads to put on them, or NBC bombs, or active programmes to make NBC weapons, as falsely alleged by Blair & Bush.
The Iraqi NBC weapon programmes had been dismantled after the 1991 war. Saddam seems to have tried to hang onto some fragments in order to make it easier to revive them, but with little success, & he didn't try to keep active programmes going. He kept a missile development programme, but that wasn't banned.
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Cristiano Ronaldo (he's the epitome of spoilt footballers, and his team will hopefully be thrashed by France tonight).
Oh, and I hadn't previously come across Quentin Letts but he may well be the alpha and omega of super-twats. He's a kind of Establishment Katie Hopkins who tries to position himself as an intellectual although his scribblings are facile and in the same vein as those of Jeremy Clarkson, if Clarkson happened to come from a posh Cotswolds background and went fox hunting.
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Cristiano Ronaldo (he's the epitome of spoilt footballers, and his team will hopefully be thrashed by France tonight).
You can put the voodoo doll away now (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36696772). :demon:
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Trump, for his comments about Nice :-(
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Kelvin MacKenzie (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/19/the-sun-kelvin-mackenzie-muslims-c4-news-fatima-manji)
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He is a special kind of neanderthal.
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He is a special kind of neanderthal.
That's a bit harsh on neanderthals, who had larger brains than homo sapiens - he's more of an australopithecus at best. :demon:
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Kelvin MacKenzie (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/19/the-sun-kelvin-mackenzie-muslims-c4-news-fatima-manji)
He's still digging https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/25/kelvin-mackenzie-channel-4-news-tim-farron-sun-ofcom-faitma-manji
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Julia Long. Uber-TERF and campaigner against treatment of young trans people, as well as claiming (along with so many other S-Ts) that we simply want to get into women's spaces to rape and perve. From her great heights of medical expertise (she's a sociologist) she's now citing as evidence Rupert Everett. The, er, actor.
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http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14641163.Labourer_was_overpaid_by___44_000_so_spent_it_on_gambling__drugs_and_a_car___now_he_s_walked_free/ (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14641163.Labourer_was_overpaid_by___44_000_so_spent_it_on_gambling__drugs_and_a_car___now_he_s_walked_free/)
He should have been paid £441, payroll mistake meant he got 44k - so he immediately gambled 12k away overnight etc and is just laughing at the poor bastard who overpaid him.
What a pr!ck. I don't understand why he didn't get a jail sentence. Intentionally spending money you know isn't yours is an offence and this wasn't a few hundred quid, it was tens of thousands.
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mr charly makes me feel like an angel. I received a duplicate monthly salary as a junior doc and informed the hospital.
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I was given a fiver too much change today & gave it back.
Now where's the smiley with a halo . . . ? ;D
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O:-) O:-) O:-)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36914434
"Her head is shaved because she wanted it shaved"
"Spending time with older men"---as opposed to being forced to marry them?
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Is she already in? Sarah "24/7 NHS for poor Pob" Vine.
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Australian senator Malcolm Roberts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37091391 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37091391)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36972449 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36972449)
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(Makes mental note to watch later)
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(Makes mental note to watch later)
I'll summarise it for you:
Malcolm Roberts: "I won't believe in Climate Change until I see Empirical Evidence, 'cause I'm an Engineer!"
Prof Cox: "Here is Empirical Evidence"
Malcolm Roberts: "I don't believe in that evidence because that is from NASA and they made it up! wibble!"
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That's the problem with arguing with these people (see also homeopaths, flat earthers, anti-vaxers, creationists etc. bloody etc.). They're not really interested in data, they believe something and are going to keep believing it regardless. They'll cherry pick data for anything that supports them, ignore anything and everything as they see fit, and when presented with incontrovertible evidence, they'll claim it's rigged or a conspiracy or some other nonsense.
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(Makes mental note to watch later)
I'll summarise it for you:
Malcolm Roberts: "I won't believe in Climate Change until I see Empirical Evidence, 'cause I'm an Engineer!"
Prof Cox: "Here is Empirical Evidence"
Malcolm Roberts: "I don't believe in that evidence because that is from NASA and they made it up! wibble!"
And don't forget "Concensus is not empirical data or science!"
Unless it's a concensus among scientists based on in depth study of empirical data... 🤔
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Brian should have forgone giving him the graphs etc. and just presented him with a tin foil hat.
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Brian should have forgone giving him the graphs etc. and just presented him with a tin foil hat.
While saying "Of *course* it's real. What did you think all those chem-trails were doing to the upper atmosphere?"
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As Prof Cox comes from Manc-land, he probably DID call him a twat later.
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As Prof Cox comes from Manc-land, he probably DID call him a twat later.
A fookin' twat, more like.
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He has a habit of calling people he disagrees with nobbers...
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Brian should have forgone giving him the graphs etc. and just presented him with a tin foil hat.
I'm minded to suggest that a knuckle sandwich is more appropriate.
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Brian should have forgone giving him the graphs etc. and just presented him with a tin foil hat.
I'm minded to suggest that a knuckle sandwich is more appropriate.
"I refute it thus"
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I appreciated Brian's pauses, while the ST carried on talking UB and the audience laughed at him.
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Australian senator Malcolm Roberts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37091391 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37091391)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36972449 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36972449)
I watched that clip, and loved the bit where Cox lobbed the paperwork to the nobber.
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Roberts uses weird language akin to that of the "sovereign citizen" (Oz/US similar to "Freemen on the land") nutters. Somewhere on the web is an affidavit he submitted in an attempt to avoid paying a tax which makes their lunatic distortions of language look sane, complete with repeated references to himself as "Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul".
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Roberts uses weird language akin to that of the "sovereign citizen" (Oz/US similar to "Freemen on the land") nutters. Somewhere on the web is an affidavit he submitted in an attempt to avoid paying a tax which makes their lunatic distortions of language look sane, complete with repeated references to himself as "Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul".
Edit. Dunno what happened there. What I meant to say was the second link in my post references this.
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Living R-soul, more like.
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Roberts uses weird language akin to that of the "sovereign citizen" (Oz/US similar to "Freemen on the land") nutters. Somewhere on the web is an affidavit he submitted in an attempt to avoid paying a tax which makes their lunatic distortions of language look sane, complete with repeated references to himself as "Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul".
Edit. Dunno what happened there. What I meant to say was the second link in my post references this.
Ah yes. So it does.
I saw a facsimile of the document on the web recently. Very, very weird. As well as the many repetitions of his strange term for himself, the rest of it wasn't much less crazy.
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Nigel Lawson, again, for the utter drivel he spouter on the today programme this morning.
A true post factual trail blazer.
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Nigel Lawson, Today-o'clock: "Negotiating special terms is a waste of time and won't work."
Theresa May's spokesbod, lunchtime: "We want to negotiate special terms."
Fortunately Lawson doesn't count for anything. Though he's possibly right that it won't work.
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He might have a point this time. UK has been treated as a 'special case' pretty much since commencing membership. The wind is not blowing that way any longer. Still, it's only 52% of the UK's total trade in goods and services and £400 billion or so pa.
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Much as I despise Lawson even more than the 150+ slugs that I removed from my tent over the weekend, I agree with Canardly. Why would the EU give the UK special terms except of course special to the remaining EU member states?
Farage warrants another nomination for his recent intervention in the US elections doing exactly what he was critical of Obama for doing. Let's hope that there is a smaller percentage of USAsians than there is of UKsians with sympathy for his poison politics.
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Has Donald Trump been nominated yet? If not, why not?
"Hi Mexico, we're going to build an effing great border wall and we're going to make you pay for it."
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Why would the EU give the UK special terms except of course special to the remaining EU member states?
Because they wish to export to here? Path of least resistance is economic relations exactly as now under a new name. So long as the language is opaque enough for it to take a few days for the liars lawyers and liars journalists to work out thats what happened while the liars politicians on both sides claim a resounding victory jobs a good 'un. By the time anyone figures it out the public will be bored.
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Except they can only give uk the same deal as say Norway Giving uk favourable terms will meet with vested interest resistance from within the eu. For example, no eu based car manufacturer or their home governments will accept uk imports on effectively more favourable terms.
The trade desire is two way.
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Has Donald Trump been nominated yet? If not, why not?
"Hi Mexico, we're going to build an effing great border wall and we're going to make you pay for it."
Following which El Presidente has told D Trump to get tae fuck :thumbsup:
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James Corden, for being unfunny and talentless yet believing he is truly hilarious and a gift to us all.
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Several people in this story.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14724386.Why_was_A338_Wessex_Way_closed_for_six_hours_after_crash_/ (http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14724386.Why_was_A338_Wessex_Way_closed_for_six_hours_after_crash_/)
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This goes way way beyond super twat
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14746422.Lorry_driver__killed_clearly_visible_cyclist_then_gave_court__deeply_unpleasant__explanation/
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Indeed.
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This goes way way beyond super twat
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14746422.Lorry_driver__killed_clearly_visible_cyclist_then_gave_court__deeply_unpleasant__explanation/
Only banned for 3 years? What the Everlasting Fuck?
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Should never be allowed to drive again. ever.
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What an absolute & utter fucking scrote.
Cruel AND unusual punishment is called for . . .
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A lot of motorists are jailed for similar crimes & given driving bans which expire soon after the end of their sentence. Some of 'em have long lists of convictions for driving offences, & show no sign of changing their behaviour. The obvious answer to the risk they present is to get them out from behind a steering wheel - permanently. But it's very rarely done.
I recall one recent case where a driver was sending a trivial text message when he killed someone. He had several convictions. Jailed, banned - for about two years longer than his sentence. :facepalm:
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http://urbanintellectuals.com/2013/05/06/us-judge-receives-28-year-jail-term-for-selling-kids-to-private-prisons/
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Donald Trump Jr (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37416457)
What a complete c**t.
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And didn't even think of it. He lifted it (unattributed) from a right-wing loony blogger with a big following Over There.
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Yes, well, the entire pack of Trumps seem to have previous for lifting other people's Stuffs wholesale.
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A rather poor choice of words by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte - other omnicidal role models are available...
In a rambling speech on his arrival in Davao City after a visit to Vietnam, Duterte told reporters that he had been "portrayed to be a cousin of Hitler" by critics.
Noting that Hitler had murdered millions of Jews, Duterte said: "There are three million drug addicts (in the Philippines). I'd be happy to slaughter them.
"If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have...," he said, pausing and pointing to himself.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-philippines-duterte-hitler-idUKKCN1200BD
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One of the worst cases of autogodwinism seen in a long time.
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He even got the numbers wrong.
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I think Boris has to enter the realm, having apparently offered to assist Turkey in its efforts to join the EU.
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Tyson Fury.
Seems to be caught between trying to be a victim and being a controversial "character."
He's certainly something beginning with a C.
bzzzt. Repetition....
http://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/36291579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/37542160
Wot a fukkin twat.
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Tom Rawstorne of the daily fail for this piece of drivel
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3822518/Cycle-lanes-lunacy-built-Britain-causing-gridlock-pollution-maddest-thing-empty.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3822518/Cycle-lanes-lunacy-built-Britain-causing-gridlock-pollution-maddest-thing-empty.html)
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There's quite a backlash against protected cycle ways at the moment of which that DM article is just one angry voice. I think we're probably at Tony Benn's stage three. Looking on the bright side, it won't be too long before we get to the final stage.
First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
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Look. It's the Daily Mail. You don't honestly expect to find anything that even approaches a tangent to rational discourse or reporting in its pages or on its web site do you? Really?
On the bright side I heard a fragment of news headline on the Home Service^w^wRadio Four at lunch-time that made me think that the Daily Mail may not be trading for very much longer. I do so hope it wasn't just wishful thinking on my part.
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There's quite a backlash against protected cycle ways at the moment of which that DM article is just one angry voice. I think we're probably at Tony Benn's stage three. Looking on the bright side, it won't be too long before we get to the final stage.
First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
Indeed. The best way to avoid a backlash is to do nothing (which, let's face it, was the cycling policy of many years and predictably achieved nothing).
Anyhow, that article was just crap, the usual jangle of febrile non-sequiturs and sticky apoplexy. I've think we've all known for a while that the Daily Mail is written by an enormous bile-spluttering mechanical writing engine called Hateful Hatty. I don't think anyone attends to her any more.
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Theresa May has stepped up to the plate.
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Theresa May has stepped up to the plate.
You mean you've only just noticed?
The Wicked Bitch of the Westminster has been on the list for a few years in my (police orientated) opinion.
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She might be Hateful Hatty's human avatar.
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Steven Woolfe, who came off worst in what sounds like a UKIP beer hall putsch. Is it just me, or is UKIP basically Farage plus a load of unelectable moronic thugs?
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Yeah, but think of all the empty BNP meetings.
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Steven Woolfe, who came off worst in what sounds like a UKIP beer hall putsch. Is it just me, or is UKIP basically Farage plus a load of unelectable moronic thugs?
Errr - yes. It's not just you.
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Ched Evans
"I could have had any girl"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37572208
Twat.
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The aptly named Matteo Moroni (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37612735).
"It's funny if I do it, but not anyone else."
W&nker.
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Ched Evans
"I could have had any girl"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37572208
Twat.
Sorry, I misread that as donald trump.
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Julie Bindel, on PM(?) at the weekend, talking about childfreee areas on planes. By heck, she's a regular ray of sunshine.
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Child-free planes. Oh yes. God knows the racket they make when you shove them in luggage bins. It's not my fault the fat little noise monkeys won't fit through the window.
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Julie Bindel, on PM(?) at the weekend, talking about childfreee areas on planes. By heck, she's a regular ray of sunshine.
It's not that I love the sound of rampaging children, it's the way she wrote about it. Utterly offensive. How dare parents of small children be allowed onto planes ahead of me, I'm Julie Bindel, I'm important, I should be allowed on first.
Julie Bindel is trying to out-hopkins Katie Hopkins.
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Julie Bindel, on PM(?) at the weekend, talking about childfreee areas on planes. By heck, she's a regular ray of sunshine.
It's not that I love the sound of rampaging children, it's the way she wrote about it. Utterly offensive. How dare parents of small children be allowed onto planes ahead of me, I'm Julie Bindel, I'm important, I should be allowed on first.
Julie Bindel is trying to out-hopkins Katie Hopkins.
Not all children were evil in the bit I heard. Children of working class single mothers were fine. It was the children of middle class mothers, who were over entitled, that she had a thing against.
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Julie Bindel, on PM(?) at the weekend, talking about childfreee areas on planes. By heck, she's a regular ray of sunshine.
It's not that I love the sound of rampaging children, it's the way she wrote about it. Utterly offensive. How dare parents of small children be allowed onto planes ahead of me, I'm Julie Bindel, I'm important, I should be allowed on first.
Julie Bindel is trying to out-hopkins Katie Hopkins.
Not all children were evil in the bit I heard. Children of working class single mothers were fine. It was the children of middle class mothers, who were over entitled, that she had a thing against.
I read an article she'd written. She made it clear that as she was concerned no concessions should be made to children ever. She regarded things like parent and child parking places as ridiculous and unfair on people like her, because it meant she had to walk further in the car park, etc.
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It was the children of middle class mothers, who were over entitled, that she had a thing against.
Don't we all?
No nice restaurant is safe from these, "C**ts in Training" any more. Any child asking for Herb Bread with Olive Oil & Balsamic dip needs a slap and a tin of Heinz Spaghetti.
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Agreed about the spaghetti, but that seems like a waste of a perfectly good slap that would be better directed at Julie Bindel.
(I'm sure this article barely makes the top 10 offensive things she's written.)
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Julie Bindel, on PM(?) at the weekend, talking about childfreee areas on planes. By heck, she's a regular ray of sunshine.
It's not that I love the sound of rampaging children, it's the way she wrote about it. Utterly offensive. How dare parents of small children be allowed onto planes ahead of me, I'm Julie Bindel, I'm important, I should be allowed on first.
Julie Bindel is trying to out-hopkins Katie Hopkins.
Not all children were evil in the bit I heard. Children of working class single mothers were fine. It was the children of middle class mothers, who were over entitled, that she had a thing against.
The children in question were probably called "Poppy", and we all know what that means.
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Agreed about the spaghetti, but that seems like a waste of a perfectly good slap that would be better directed at Julie Bindel.
(I'm sure this article barely makes the top 10 offensive things she's written.)
Doubt it's Top 20 material.
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I am the proud parent of two children that have been able to clear out a Harvester, a Pizza Hut and, most impressively, an entire railway platform. They're not loud but they do talk about farts rather a lot.
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I have just looked up Julie Bindel. Really? She gives feminism an awfully bad name. All men are not rapists and children are the joy of most parents regardless of the parental gender.
Perhaps Bindel, Birchill and Hopkins should find a remote island somewhere together - perhaps they could take Farage, Trump and Clarkson with them ...
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The Guardian tried to jump the shark by publishing an interview between Julie Bindel and Julie Birchill at one point. It was a lot less interesting than it sounds.
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Surely that would be impossible. I can only imagine something completely mundane and banal.
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It was the children of middle class mothers, who were over entitled, that she had a thing against.
Don't we all?
No nice restaurant is safe from these, "C**ts in Training" any more. Any child asking for Herb Bread with Olive Oil & Balsamic dip needs a slap and a tin of Heinz Spaghetti.
I was in a restaurant the other day (ok, food court, but hey, it's Wholefood so this may be exactly what I deserve). Round and round and round go the screaming kids. Round and round and round they go. Where they stop nobody know. Well until CRASH which is precisely where and when they stop. Which was pretty much a guaranteed outcome unless someone stabbed each of them through the head with a fork first. I was just finishing up my tostada and they were next.
I'm supposed to say something reasonable now to make you think I'm a man of a modest opinions who really doesn't mind children. But no, I hate the amoral mini-Hitlers and would happily shovel them into the mouths of hungry alligators. Munch, munch my large reptilian friends, there's plenty more. I don't care what the airlines claim, it's not wrong to dispose of them in airplane vacuum toilets either.
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The Guardian tried to jump the shark by publishing an interview between Julie Bindel and Julie Birchill at one point. It was a lot less interesting than it sounds.
They were probably hoping for some sort of critical mass effect that would have set bollocksometers a-quiver as far away as Hawaii, although the sort of collateral damage you could expect from such a thing must have been deliberately excluded from the risk assessment.
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Child free areas on planes? Nah, kids can be tolerated. What we need to sort out are the Carry On C***s who arrive at the plane with a roll along case that they managed to fit into the size guide by standing on it and jumping on it whilst giving a piggy back to Giant Haystacks. This case is accompanied by a 'personal item' the size of a small country. They then commence to block the aisles and delay boarding whilst they try and fit this luggage into an overhead bin, taking up 15 other passengers space in the bins whilst they do so. They often fail miserably to stow the luggage without the assistance of a large mobile crane, the weight being more than they can lift above ankle height.
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Child free areas on planes? Nah, kids can be tolerated. What we need to sort out are the Carry On C***s who arrive at the plane with a roll along case that they managed to fit into the size guide by standing on it and jumping on it whilst giving a piggy back to Giant Haystacks. This case is accompanied by a 'personal item' the size of a small country. They then commence to block the aisles and delay boarding whilst they try and fit this luggage into an overhead bin, taking up 15 other passengers space in the bins whilst they do so. They often fail miserably to stow the luggage without the assistance of a large mobile crane, the weight being more than they can lift above ankle height.
You forgot to mention the laptop. And they wear three coats, which they take off and stuff into the lockers.
Seriously, I've seen someone fill a locker bin (supposedly for cases for 3 seats) then turn to the bin across the aisle from their seat and start to put stuff in that.
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Carry on luggage is the work of Stan.
I know I am going to use it next weekend when I go to Gibraltar but, a) that is because SleazyJet will charge extra tokens for checked baggage and b) my whole party of 6 will have less luggage than 2 Carry On C****s.
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I think I might have seen Carry On Luggage. Barbara Windsor as the air hostess, Jim Dale as the hapless co-pilot, Sid James a troublesome passenger (married to Hattie Jacques), and Charles Hawtry as the steward getting quietly sloshed as the flight goes on. Kenneth Williams is the aero engineer trying to convince the pilot that he needed to land the plane before it suffered a critical failure from a design flaw. Oh, hold on, that's No Highway, isn't it?
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And the well-upholstered types who bulge into your seat both above and below the armrest. I was compressed from Vienna to Heathrow by one such oversize woman, who was also spectacularly rude to the cabin crew and the former Mrs Z.
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I think I might have seen Carry On Luggage. Barbara Windsor as the air hostess, Jim Dale as the hapless co-pilot, Sid James a troublesome passenger (married to Hattie Jacques), and Charles Hawtry as the steward getting quietly sloshed as the flight goes on. Kenneth Williams is the aero engineer trying to convince the pilot that he needed to land the plane before it suffered a critical failure from a design flaw. Oh, hold on, that's No Highway, isn't it?
Surely Kenneth Williams was born to play an exceptionally camp Dan Air steward?
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I was actually thinking of him as the Captain...
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No. The Captain should be Stanley Unwin.
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No. The Captain should be Stanley Unwin.
Fuzzy, take this all home. You have Won The Interwebz Today!!! :thumbsup:
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Carry on luggage is the work of Stan.
I know I am going to use it next weekend when I go to Gibraltar but, a) that is because SleazyJet will charge extra tokens for checked baggage and b) my whole party of 6 will have less luggage than 2 Carry On C****s.
It's also bloody annoying when you do have only one item of carry-on (for example, I usually travel with a small bag and a book) and it ends up having to go in the hold because of all of the tw-ats who have turned up with too much stuff. I wasted 45 minutes at Gatwick a few weeks ago having to wait for my tiny little bag to come through while the other tw-ats swanned straight through customs and away.
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The one sure way is to take onboard only a bag that goes under the seat in front.
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I managed 6 days abroad with one carryon bag - and it easily fitted in the size checker. Dropped in.
When I boarded, I quickly chucked it in the overhead locker. 30s later, someone with laptop, stuffed baby rhino, duty free and a rigid case took my bag out of the overhead locker so he could fit all of his bags in there. Tried to argue that I had to put mine across the aisle, 'cause otherwise his bags would end up in split in several bins.
Steward came and removed his duty free, put it in a locker right at the aft of the plane, MrEntitledST had to wait until all passengers had exited when we landed to get it back ;D
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I boarded, I quickly chucked it in the overhead locker. 30s later, someone with laptop, stuffed baby rhino, duty free and a rigid case took my bag out of the overhead locker so he could fit all of his bags in there. Tried to argue that I had to put mine across the aisle, 'cause otherwise his bags would end up in split in several bins.
Steward came and removed his duty free, put it in a locker right at the aft of the plane, MrEntitledST had to wait until all passengers had exited when we landed to get it back ;D
Class.
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No. The Captain should be Stanley Unwin.
Fuzzy, take this all home. You have Won The Interwebz Today!!! :thumbsup:
Eyethangewe 8)
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I managed 6 days abroad with one carryon bag - and it easily fitted in the size checker. Dropped in.
When I boarded, I quickly chucked it in the overhead locker. 30s later, someone with laptop, stuffed baby rhino, duty free and a rigid case took my bag out of the overhead locker so he could fit all of his bags in there. Tried to argue that I had to put mine across the aisle, 'cause otherwise his bags would end up in split in several bins.
Steward came and removed his duty free, put it in a locker right at the aft of the plane, MrEntitledST had to wait until all passengers had exited when we landed to get it back ;D
Chap sat next to me on the way home from Chicago the other week tried to conceal his carry-on bag between his legs and the side of the fuselage. It didn't work :thumbsup: Nice BA Lady took it away and hid it. I like to think that one reason my fellow passenger had bagsied the seat right at the front of the cattle class cabin was that it affords a quicker getaway; he certainly looked a bit glum as half a 747 shuffled past him to do battle with LHR's immigration machine.
The words "Twat", "Super" and "Schadenfreude" probably apply to this case.
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Kudos to nice BA lady ;D
I also think that folk who insist on collecting bags before approaching emergency exit slides should be made to go to the back of the queue. Just get out of your seat and get off the plane FFS.
On a number of recent(ish) news films of emergency evacuations of planes, there have been more than one person on each walking away from the aircraft clutching luggage of some form.
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I managed 6 days abroad with one carryon bag - and it easily fitted in the size checker. Dropped in.
When I boarded, I quickly chucked it in the overhead locker. 30s later, someone with laptop, stuffed baby rhino, duty free and a rigid case took my bag out of the overhead locker so he could fit all of his bags in there. Tried to argue that I had to put mine across the aisle, 'cause otherwise his bags would end up in split in several bins.
Steward came and removed his duty free, put it in a locker right at the aft of the plane, MrEntitledST had to wait until all passengers had exited when we landed to get it back ;D
Chap sat next to me on the way home from Chicago the other week tried to conceal his carry-on bag between his legs and the side of the fuselage. It didn't work :thumbsup: Nice BA Lady took it away and hid it. I like to think that one reason my fellow passenger had bagsied the seat right at the front of the cattle class cabin was that it affords a quicker getaway; he certainly looked a bit glum as half a 747 shuffled past him to do battle with LHR's immigration machine.
The words "Twat", "Super" and "Schadenfreude" probably apply to this case.
Something similar happened to a former orquer de vache of mine some years ago. MrEntitledST started to kick up a fuss about his too large carry on baggage being removed, wanted the flight attendant's name ect ect . My former orquer de vache suggested that if he didn't STFU, space would be made for him in the overhead locker instead.
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I've a friend who's a trouble shooter for a multinational. She's dedicating the next year to get 1 million frequent flyer miles which she should get quite soon. We asked why it was so important, and she said, that 1 million miles will get you priority boarding for life. If you don't get priority boarding, you won't get a seat near the front, and you won't have space for your hand luggage. If you don't get those, you won't be one of the first off the plane. If you're not one of the first off the plane, you might not get a space on the first bus to the rental car hire. If you miss the bus, you have to wait 20 mins, and by the time you the bus delivers you to the rental car hire, the queue could be an hour. It's all a giant knock on effect that could mean that rather than take 20 mins to finally get out of the airport, it could be 2 to 3 hrs.
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All the above makes me glad I don't fly often.
BTW. I heard from a former orquer de vache that the smart thing to do when landing in Florida was to be last off the plane. That way, by the time you reach the head of the car rental queueueueueueue, all the 'Group 1' cars have been hired. Which means that they're forced to upgrade you to the Millenium Falcon, or something.
Highly unlikely ever to be relevant to me but anyone know for sure . . . ?
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Something similar happened to a former orquer de vache of mine some years ago. MrEntitledST started to kick up a fuss about his too large carry on baggage being removed, wanted the flight attendant's name ect ect . My former orquer de vache suggested that if he didn't STFU, space would be made for him in the overhead locker instead.
I recall a similar conversation at the gate waiting to board a flight to Moscow some years ago. Obnoxious git turned up at the last minute, with both a large pull-along and a large suit carrier, demanding to be allowed on. The very calm lady at the desk gave him the option of leaving his bags behind or taking a later flight. After a lot of nugatory shouting, he flounced off, to the accompaniment of applause from all of us who didn't have to put up with him on the flight.
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Christian Holliday
@CllrHolliday
Member of Guildford Conservative Association , Vote Leave Co-ordinator for Guildford, Ward Member for Burpham
This twat has started a petition on petition.parliament.uk:
Amend the Treason Felony Act to make supporting UK membership of the EU a crime.
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Should I start one making being a super twat a crime?
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Christian Holliday
@CllrHolliday
Member of Guildford Conservative Association , Vote Leave Co-ordinator for Guildford, Ward Member for Burpham
This twat has started a petition on petition.parliament.uk:
Amend the Treason Felony Act to make supporting UK membership of the EU a crime.
So he wants 48% of people who voted, millions of people, to be criminals?
Is he a S-T or very very very dim?
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Both.
Profoundly ignorant of the principles of democracy, as well.
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Personally, I'm tempted to sign it, and ask everyone I know to do the same so that "how fucking stupid is Cllr Holliday?" gets to be debated in Parliament.
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Christian Holliday
@CllrHolliday
Member of Guildford Conservative Association , Vote Leave Co-ordinator for Guildford, Ward Member for Burpham
This twat has started a petition on petition.parliament.uk:
Amend the Treason Felony Act to make supporting UK membership of the EU a crime.
Wow! I lived in a failed African state for a couple of decades where you could be imprisoned for bad mouthing the President and his corrupt, single party government. As for being in the 48% minority... *sucks teeth...
...won't be long until our 1 Trillion Pound Sterling note (still in printing) won't buy you an egg.
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Ryan Williams.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenage-meninist-sparks-fury-anti-9067035#ICID=ios_TMNewsApp_AppShare_Click_FB (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenage-meninist-sparks-fury-anti-9067035#ICID=ios_TMNewsApp_AppShare_Click_FB)
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I'm really not sure to say about that at all. :facepalm:
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I have to thank Dez OTP for sharing this on Facebook...
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Teenage boy doesn't quite understand female anatomy shocker. No news there, just some clickbait triviality. He's not a super-twat (although he would benefit doing some homework on what one is), he's just a teenage boy.
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(Presumably) sexually active teenage boy displays educational FAILURE and power of social media.
People would be less flabbergasted if he were a YOUNG teen but at 19, this DOES show shocking ignorance.
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Normal for Canvey and Norfolk, I love how the mirror added his brexit campaigning too.
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He makes a good point though...why is there VAT on bumwad? I mean, you *could* try and use an old newspaper but, take it from me, it doesn't work. Or you could be hardcore like some Middle Eastern people and use your left hand, but I don't think our work cubicles are really designed for that, as the washbasins are outside and you'd have to pull up your trousers with beshitted fingers :hand:
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/glenn-parkes-say-toilet-roll-luxury-problem-vat/story-22248220-detail/story.html
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There is VAT on most 'hygiene' products: soap. tissues, loo rolls, laundry detergent, loo cleaner. That's not fair either but multiple wrongs do not a right make.
[OT] Bottled water is taxed but milk and milk drinks like Frijj are not.
Salted peanuts are taxed etc etc
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Will we now see VAT scrapped following Brexit and go back to purchase tax et al?
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No VAT on Frijj? Those bloody audaxers have too much power
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It will no doubt be an exercise in obfuscation whereby luxury goods are no longer taxed but everyday necessities will undoubtedly become subject to punitive purchase tax.
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(Presumably) sexually active teenage boy displays educational FAILURE and power of social media.
People would be less flabbergasted if he were a YOUNG teen but at 19, this DOES show shocking ignorance.
Not really, sadly. I meant to post in the 'overheard' thread but I was on the train the other week and two girls – they must have been post-school age/late teens – were loudly discussing their periods. Hey, I'm a man of the world, I can handle mentions of a Lady's Cursed Season, but the discussion seemed to orientate around the fact that one of them believed she couldn't get pregnant because periods meant that 'any babies came out' and the other one believed that it happened 'because you're not pregnant'. I had to restrain my wife from giving an impromptu birds-n-bees talk. Is there any actual sex education in the UK? It was an embarrassed mumble at our school. Boys and girls were separated and given that talk by teachers who'd wanted to be somewhere else. Possibly another planet.
I, on the other hand, learned everything I needed to know about female anatomy from the Ladybird Your Body book. Admittedly it took me another twenty years of staring at women with my head tipped to one side trying to figure out where their fallopian tubes might be. Those diagrams turned out to be very cryptic.
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AIUI sex education these days skirts around the plumbing aspects and just talks about the dangers of VD and Snapchat. It's not surprising that the young 'uns get it all from pr0n instead, and think bukkake moresomes are a fairly normal end to an evening.
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Will we now see VAT scrapped following Brexit and go back to purchase tax et al?
No more than in Australia (where they call it GST), Brazil, China, or the many other non-EU countries that have introduced it. Issa very popular tax with tax collectors & economists, because it's relatively cheap to collect & hard to evade, & considered to be less economically distorting than many other taxes.
Most of the non-USian world has VAT.
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AIUI sex education these days skirts around the plumbing aspects and just talks about the dangers of VD and Snapchat. It's not surprising that the young 'uns get it all from pr0n instead, and think bukkake moresomes are a fairly normal end to an evening.
The young women of the R family have had very comprehensive sex ed at school, to the point where mini enlightened Mrs R about the need for maintenance if indulging in anal sex.
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Will we now see VAT scrapped following Brexit and go back to purchase tax et al?
No more than in Australia (where they call it GST), Brazil, China, or the many other non-EU countries that have introduced it. Issa very popular tax with tax collectors & economists, because it's relatively cheap to collect & hard to evade, & considered to be less economically distorting than many other taxes.
Most of the non-USian world has VAT.
Most of USAnia has state sales tax too, and the price writted on the shelf isn't the amount you fork over at the till. Which is highly confusing to itinerant BRITONS.
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And it varies state to state.
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AIUI sex education these days skirts around the plumbing aspects and just talks about the dangers of VD and Snapchat. It's not surprising that the young 'uns get it all from pr0n instead, and think bukkake moresomes are a fairly normal end to an evening.
I remember my biology teacher when I was in what is now year 8 (i.e. aged 11) attempting to teach us human reproduction. He got through the bit about males producing sperm and them exiting via the penis. He then moved on to females producing eggs that hung around waiting to be fertilised. I guess he assumed that (on the grounds that at least one of the kids in the class lived on a farm) that we all knew how the former came in to contact with the latter. As a very naive boy from a family that was pretty uptight about sex, I spent most of that school year assuming that, somehow, they jumped.
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Back to Super-Twats:
I nominate David Davies MP for his understanding of dental science in the service of bigotry.
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I second that, especially as he backs up his lack of understanding of dental science with a demonstration of his lack of knowledge on bone age to the same ends.
"Inaccurate, inappropriate and unethical." said a Home Office spokesperson, "Stop paying attention to anything these twats say." I wish they had continued.
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This is, of course, the same D Davies who told the governor of the Bank of England that when it came to monetary policy he had to do whatever Teresa May told him.
(Erm, the Bank has been able to make independent decisions on monetary policy since 1997, I believe, and, in any case, is accountable to the Chancellor.)
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And it varies state to state.
And, in some cases, city to city.
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Gove. Again.
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Yeah. Trying to weasel his way back into favour with those now running the party. Ooozing insincerity. Slimy git.
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Slithey.
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slubbergubby gollumgove?
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What's it thinking behind its glasseses?
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Norman fucking Tebbit
Why is he even still a thing?
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Because it's too dangerous to get close enough to put a stake through his black, undead heart.
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He discovered the Internet, probably after sending off for one of those Which? free guides that tell poisonous old fossils how to get online.
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Amber Rudd.
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Amber Rudd.
In bloody deed. No one died, so we won't have an enquiry. FFS.
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Amber Rudd.
In bloody deed. No one died, so we won't have an enquiry. FFS.
Truly astounding decision knowing the history of SY Police.
Clearly a political decision given that it was a tory government inspired action and supported by that oft mentioned super twat, Tebbit. Tebbit too has been saying what a great decision it is. Worried that it might reflect on him perhaps?
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Or that it might reflect badly on the Eternal Leader Thatcher.
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Thatcher is like Trump. No matter how bad the indiscretion, somehow it was somebody else's fault.
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I should imagine there are a few ex coppers who would have liked an examination of what they were forced to do.
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Liam Fox.
Again.
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Perhaps we could have a post that automatically repeats periodically, saying 'Liam Fox'. It'd save having to keep typing it out, & I'm sure it'd always be justified.
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Point of order: *the disgraced* Liam Fox.
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Liam "not gay" Fox?
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Philip Davies
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/11/tory-mp-philip-davies-thinks-orgreave-campaigners-should-get-over-it (http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/11/tory-mp-philip-davies-thinks-orgreave-campaigners-should-get-over-it)
>:(
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David Davies also made a contribution that astounded me, but after several hours have passed I'm afraid my memory fails to distinguish it from the rest of the stuff that dribbles out of him.
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Claire Barber (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-37850522)
I am completely stunned by this. How can she be so ruthlessly greedy? There are now two victims of this assault and one greedy selfish money grabber exploiting a situation to her own advantage in my humble opinion.
"Impeccable reputation" What, for greed?
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I'm not sure exactly why someone wanting to be paid for doing her job is a "greedy selfish money grabber exploiting a situation to her own advantage."
If the conversation had been:
- I'm raising some money for charity. Will you do some PR work?
- Sure. Seeing as it's for charity I'll do it for free.
then I'd probably agree.
But it appears the judge thinks the conversation was instead:
- I'm raising some money for charity. Will you do some PR work?
- Sure. My day rate will be £550.
- OK.
If that's true, then taking steps to recover the debt seems entirely reasonable. And if we can take her statement as quoted in the article at face value,
Ms Barber said: "Katie could have sorted this out easily. I gave her a year to pay it back but at every point, instead of contacting me, she kept giving interviews to the media."
then perhaps you should be spelling 'ruthless' 'long-suffering'.
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FIFA.
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Tory MP Andrew Rosendell, who demanded the BBC should play the national anthem at the end of each day in order to mark Brexit.
The BBC have duly obliged...
http://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo
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Tory MP Andrew Rosendell, who demanded the BBC should play the national anthem at the end of each day in order to mark Brexit.
The BBC have duly obliged...
http://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo
They still do on the Home Service Radio 4. It's the insomniac's reminder you're going to be knackered all day tomorrow. I did think it was an excellent reposte ;D
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Tory MP Andrew Rosendell, who demanded the BBC should play the national anthem at the end of each day in order to mark Brexit.
The BBC have duly obliged...
http://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo
That is splendid.
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Cue rabid frothing
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Q Rabid would have been a good name for a punk group.
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Tory MP Andrew Rosendell, who demanded the BBC should play the national anthem at the end of each day in order to mark Brexit.
The BBC have duly obliged...
http://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo
That is splendid.
Agreed!
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superb :thumbsup:
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Typical bloody BBC! Rabid Trots, the lot of 'em. I'd string 'em up!
["cont. 'The Bumper Book of Dribbling Tory Outrage', p.94" - Ed.]
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I expect that's worth at least 90 minutes of Farage, in the interests of 'balance'.
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I wish newspaper editors would stop frigging about with our constitution and misleading people.
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Giovanni Cavalcoli https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/05/italian-priest-blames-earthquakes-on-gay-civil-unions (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/05/italian-priest-blames-earthquakes-on-gay-civil-unions)
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Farage again. I know, it goes without saying. But the fact that he's veritably revelling in his twatishness and crowing about the damage he has caused really isn't helping.
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Was it Farage who was complaining about Obama having an opinion on Brexit but then turns up like a turd in the bath beside Trump?
It takes a loathsome individual to understand what one is but clearly Farage even failed that test.
Please piss off and stay over in the US.
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Guess who?
Farage of course...
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxLMkGcXEAASy09.jpg:large)
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Jeremy YAWN Clarkson once again.
Appears that he might have been taking media lessons from Farage and Trump.
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Has he got a book out or something?
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I think the new Clarkson vehicles kicks off on telly soon.
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Something missable I presume.
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Eminently so. It's on something other than free-to-air.
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Milo Yiannopoulos - wow, what a cunt.
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Where's this "alt-right" bollocks come from?
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I think it's smart-arse
wankers nazis and fascists not using the term 'nazi' or 'fascist', but instead using words that makes it sound a bit tech.
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Hipster Hitlers?
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I think it's smart-arse wankers nazis and fascists not using the term 'nazi' or 'fascist', but instead using words that makes it sound a bit tech.
Or not wanting to admit that they are actually fascist arseholes.
I think that makes them cowardly fascist arseholes. Make that pathetic cowardly fascist arseholes. The sort that like to shout insults over the web but wouldn't actually dare say it to your face in a pub.
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Where's this "alt-right" bollocks come from?
It's the button you press to get the € symbol... We used to call it <Alt-Grrr>
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I think it's smart-arse wankers nazis and fascists not using the term 'nazi' or 'fascist', but instead using words that makes it sound a bit tech.
Alt-Reich*? :demon:
* Nicked from a thread on Reddit
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Hipster Hitlers?
I am SO stealing that ;D
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Julian Assange
(https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/14/12/assangecat.jpg)
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Not sure if that merits a ;D or a :facepalm:
The expression on the cat's face is so "someone - anyone - get me out of here, or just kill me now and make it quick."
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Kanye West. Not for calling his child North, but for being a Trump supporter who wants to run for president in 2020 despite apparently having fewer marbles than Father Dougal Maguire.
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The fucking knobs head on the escalator at liv'pool at yesterday. Three people in total, he insists that I move out of his way because "it's the convention to stand on the right, everyone knows that"
WTF?
One step to the right was too much?
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Kanye West. Not for calling his child North, but for being a Trump supporter who wants to run for president in 2020 despite apparently having fewer marbles than Father Dougal Maguire.
Yes, but no-one is going to take seriously the opinion of a man so demonstrably lacking in critical judgement that he married Kim Kardashian.
Are they?
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Guess who?
Farage of course...
If you get your vote in quick, he's in one of today's fixtures in the Arsehole Premier League (http://arseholepremierleague.com/event/nigel-farage-vs-theresa-may/).
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KW.
Again...
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Farage again, for apparently believing that a slimeball who insulted the European Council, and is about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit, would make a good ambassador.
Still, it did give us the BBC title "Trump on Farage" which I, for one, would be happy to follow through.
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I'm told there are websites for that sort of thing . . .
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I'm told there are websites for that sort of thing . . .
Rule 34 (https://xkcd.com/305/), innit?
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Is Farage beating Bear Grylls yet?
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Moe likely that Grylls would be beating Farage ... :sick:
Perhaps Grylls and farage should hook up with Trump for a threesome? :hand:
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KW.
Again...
Hey, I'm innocent!
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KW.
Again...
Hey, I'm innocent!
Are you sure?
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Steam locomotives, scat, bizarre political slash-fic suggestions...
Were Freud alive today, he'd be having a field day with some of YACF's members. :demon:
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The vindictive coward targetting magnetom and his neighbours, over a cycle lane >:(
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/cycle-lane-campaigner-targeted-road-9338552
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NF. (Boringly predictable I realise.)
Beeb story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38125432)
On the eve of the leadership announcement, Mr Farage - who has been linked with a possible move into the House of Lords - told the Sunday Express he "can't do anything" because of threats to his security.
"Certainly I would not go out in London of an evening on my own without security - couldn't even think about it," he said.
"I can't even walk down the street without it. I have to go to private places, private venues.
"The thought of doing a Friday night pub crawl around Westminster - I just can't do it any more."
My heart bleeds. If he hadn't been such a consistent super-twat then he wouldn't have a problem.
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I don't understand, surely Farage is in his local pub supping a pint with his local mates? That's what he does. I've seen the pictures.
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Poor hard-done-by soul. Spends his political life whipping up hatred of 'others' and then whines about people not liking him. Hypocritical turd. If there is such a thing as an empathy rating, then his would surely be -ve several hundred.
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Poor hard-done-by soul. Spends his political life whipping up hatred of 'others' and then whines about people not liking him. Hypocritical turd.
This + 1million
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Shilpa Shetty - not quite a supertwat, but certainly a bit of a numpty.
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Shilpa Shetty - not quite a supertwat, but certainly a bit of a numpty.
Lol
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Shilpa Shetty - not quite a supertwat, but certainly a bit of a numpty.
I've just googled her, um, I think you've put her in the wrong thread, the feckin div thread is over there --->
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How about Eric Bristow? or that also a feckin' div thread nomination?
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No, definitely Super-Twat territory. He has clarified one of his earlier tweets by making a correction:
"Sorry meant peado not poof"
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How about Eric Bristow? or that also a feckin' div thread nomination?
Unbelievable. He's beyond the pale even for that beacon of respectability Murdoch.
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No, definitely Super-Twat territory. He has clarified one of his earlier tweets by making a correction:
"Sorry meant peado not poof"
Poor old Eric. He wasn't all that crafty, was he?
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With so many repeat offenders couldn't we just automate this whole process?
Welcome to the YACF Super-Twat nomination service.
Please select the area of expertise in which your nominee operates:
Press 1 for so called politicians and journalists, 2 for vacuous 'celebrities', 3 for faded sports stars or 4 for an unholy amalgam of twatishness across several fields.
If your nominee gobs off from a position of authority that we have not listed please hold the line and one of our strained staff will assist you. Unfortunately in these times of unrelenting twatism this assistance is likely to consist only of a brief shouted rant concerning our current twat du jour. We apologise for failing to give you a full opportunity to vent but hope that a moment of vicarious rage will offer a brief respite from what you must now realise is a futile battle against the venal stupidity that will, in one way or another, overwhelm us all.
"JEREMY HUNT IS SAVAGELY STUPID. I'm sorry. Bye."
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:-)
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#1 Did I imagine one of our regulars wanted to ban sexting by the under 18s?
I think I saw that in my Twitterfeed.
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It's better than that. He seems to think the cellular carriers are the ones to enforce it...
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#1 Did I imagine one of our regulars wanted to ban sexting by the under 18s?
I think I saw that in my Twitterfeed.
You didn't imagine it.
Now that they have access to *All Teh Recordz of Everything*, they will be able to do it, too.
Imagine a 14-year-old getting put on the sex offenders register for sending "Gazza, you were a right twat yesterday"
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Except the ICRs will just show a TLS connection to twitface (or whatever it is the cool kids are using these days)...
It does make it easier for them to get twitface to hand over a list of people who were a right twat yesterday, thobut. And makes it legal to pwn the phones of suspected twats in order to read the unencrypted messages.
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And send the Sweeney to smash your door in at four am because someone with a vaguely similar name to yours called someone a cunt on Twitter.
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Jermey Vine - just listened to him interview Gina Miller on Radio 2.
Reminded me again why I can't stand him.
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Welcome to the YACF Super-Twat nomination service.
Please select the area of expertise in which your nominee operates:
Press 1 for so called politicians and journalists, 2 for vacuous 'celebrities', 3 for faded sports stars or 4 for an unholy amalgam of twatishness across several fields.
5 for Bear Grylls
6 for Nigel Farage
(Let's make this as efficient as possible)
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"Or, if you don't select any of the suggested options, Michael Gove will be auto-nominated on your behalf."
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Time magazine has shortlisted Farage for Super-Twat Of The Year. Go on, 2016 can't get any more cursed.
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I'm sure we could list 0 to 9 twats.
Trump
Farage
Grylls
Hopkins
Johnson
Hunt
Gove
...
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Time magazine has shortlisted Farage for Super-Twat Of The Year. Go on, 2016 can't get any more cursed.
<Dr. Pepper> What's the worst that could happen? </Dr. Pepper>
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I'm sure we could list 0 to 9 twats.
0 - Trump
1 - Farage
2 - Grylls
3 - Hopkins
4 - Johnson
5 - Hunt
6 - Gove
...
...
7 - Murdoch
8 - Clarkson
9 - Blair.
Please press zero for Trump, one for Farage, etc.
Works for me. :thumbsup:
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Perhaps this should be something like the UN Security Council, with a limited number of permanent members whose twattery is so well-established as to be beyond doubt (let's say 10, determined by popular vote from a larger selection) with others coming in and out according to recent behaviour. We could also restrict it to British twats since there are too many foreign twats to include, especially if you count each one that voted for Chump.
My 10 nominations would be:
Aaron Banks (highly regarded historian)
Jeremy Corbyn (non-leader of non-opposition)
Paul Dacre (editor of the Daily Mail - need I elaborate?)
Richard Desmond (Pornographer)
Matthew Elliot (Taxpayers' Alliance)
Nigel Farage (Sponger)
Katie Hopkins (failed "Apprentice" contestant)
Boris Johnson (liar)
Owen Jones (know-all do-nothing)
Keith Peat ("Alliance of British Drivers")
I was tempted to include that two who rides around London with about 10 cameras attached to his bike, picking quarrels with motorists, but that discussion probably belongs elsewhere.
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Time magazine has shortlisted Farage for Super-Twat Of The Year. Go on, 2016 can't get any more cursed.
You've been taking fake news sites seriously again, Mr Zilla! Bad show!
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Whoever nominated trump, farage and erdogan for 'Time person of the year' shortlist.
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That's a sort of meta-Super-Twat.
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With all respect, it appears that people are missing the point...
The Person of the Year issue of Time magazine features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year"
If you look at the list of winners, it's not exactly an exclusive list of Good Samaritans - not when it has Hitler, Stalin (twice), Andropov, Nixon (twice), King Faisal, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Deng Xiaoping (twice) and Vladimir Putin on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year#Persons_of_the_Year
Was the person who picked Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (leader of ISIS) for last years's shortlist an uber-clunge? Al-Baghdadi finished in 2nd place behind Angela Merkel.
Right, that's the PSA done, now back to the auto-patellar (sic) reflexive Two Minute Hating... :demon:
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Chris Grayling. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=100658.msg2110283;topicseen#msg2110283)
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Time did bottle it in 2001 though - they gave it to Rudy Giuliani instead of Osama bin Laden.
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A new candidate.
Duncan Buchanan (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38248488#comment_125943111) of the Road Hauliers Association.
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Amber Rudd, who has had a remarkable year, taking herself from relative obscurity all the way to the upper echelons of super-twattery.
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Amber Rudd, who has had a remarkable year, taking herself from relative obscurity all the way to the upper echelons of super-twattery.
Hoo yuss! And I'll add pinbrained cheese-botherer Liz Truss for her contention that barking dogs will stop drones from being used to smuggle contraband into prisons.
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A new candidate.
Duncan Buchanan (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38248488#comment_125943111) of the Road Hauliers Association.
Ah, that's where that ghastly turd comes from. I got the tail end of him and Chris Boardman on the Toady prog this morning.
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Sheffield Councillor Jack Clarkson (UKIP)
A UKIP councillor has been accused of racism after saying a Chinese construction firm planned to turn Sheffield Library into “the biggest takeaway this city has ever seen”.
Councillor Jack Clarkson said plans to turn the library into a five-star hotel were a “sham” and said officials had no idea what the building could be used for.
Asked by a fellow councillor to withdraw the remarks Cllr Clarkson refused to do saying: “No I won’t. It could be the biggest Chinese takeaway the city has ever seen.”
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/outrage-over-sheffield-ukip-councillor-s-chinese-takeaway-jibe-1-8280148 (http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/outrage-over-sheffield-ukip-councillor-s-chinese-takeaway-jibe-1-8280148)
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Well, you would take away books, so it could just be a really bad pun. But, given his clarification, probably not.
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Sad to see a magnificent example of civic pride in the interests of the people being flogged off.
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Steve Brookstein, even if he has a thread to himself over in A&E.
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Chris Grayling.
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Chris Grayling
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And what's more, Chris Grayling.
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Are you jokers trying to summon him or something?
Although it is quite delicious to think that some little sliver of his soul could be trapped forever within the erudite and smutty confines of a cycling forum.
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'Campagnolo, Campagnolo, Campagnolo'!
No? OK, try:
'Benelux, Benelux, Benelux'.
last go:
'Fondriest, Fondriest, Fondriest'.
Bollox! I'm off to bed . . .
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Are you jokers trying to summon him or something?
Although it is quite delicious to think that some little sliver of his soul could be trapped forever within the erudite and smutty confines of a cycling forum.
Nah, he'll just appear behind you and slit you from groin to gullet with his hook for a hand.
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Are you jokers trying to summon him or something?
Although it is quite delicious to think that some little sliver of his soul could be trapped forever within the erudite and smutty confines of a cycling forum.
Let's just make sure. Chris Grayling.
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Trevor merralls
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Chris Grayling.
He thinks that rail strikes are palpable nonsense so perhaps he considers door strikes in a similar manner?
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Chris Grayling.
He thinks that rail strikes are palpable nonsense so perhaps he considers door strikes in a similar manner?
I'm looking forward to hearing ASLEF point out the safety implications of not having guard operated doors on ministerial transport.
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'motoring journalist' Steve Berry, for his comments here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38340125 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38340125)
Ignorant of Highway code 239
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Philip Davies
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/16/philip-davies-anti-feminist-tory-mp-filibuster-women-violence-bill
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Hmmm, much as I thing Grayling is a super twat and Berry too, I don't think that you can really overly rely on 239. The rule is aimed at operators of cars and it expressly says that it is safer for 'your' passengers to get out on the pavement side.
The errors in that incident in my view were: 1: The car should have been pulled up to the kerb for Grayling to safely exit, and, the cyclist should have been more careful going for the gap. That said, you would think that Grayling's staff would be on the lookout and would have seen the cyclist approaching. Poor show from both the driver who should have been checking his mirrors imo, and his security team.
I hope that the experience will help Grayling understand the inadequacy of cycling provision and the risks faced by cyclists from thoughtless motor vehicle drivers and their passengers. Somehow I doubt it though.
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I don't know what would be worse- being knocked from my bike by Greything or being comforted by him afterwards (where's a 'shivers down the spine' emoji when you want one?)
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'Poor show' from the driver for not exchanging details after a collision.
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Fecclestone. Apparently a Trump / Putin alliance would be good for the world and Putin succeeds at everything he does, which is apparently a good thing.
Please no. :hand:
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Find one, get one free - two super twats in one!!!!
Hopkins and Trump (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38367563) - a match made in hell!!!!
Of course, this is only MY opinion... :demon:
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Given the Kevin Bacon game you could probably link HM to al Qaeda.
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Shapps and his multiple personalities again.
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Have we had Nigel Farage before?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-berlin-attacks-angela-merkel-legacy-germany-christmas-market-lorry-a7486181.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-berlin-attacks-angela-merkel-legacy-germany-christmas-market-lorry-a7486181.html)
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Have we had Nigel Farage before?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-berlin-attacks-angela-merkel-legacy-germany-christmas-market-lorry-a7486181.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-berlin-attacks-angela-merkel-legacy-germany-christmas-market-lorry-a7486181.html)
He's now doubled-down on this and accused the widower of Joe Cox of backing extremism.
I'd like to back a campaign to ban the toady-faced prick from Yorkshire for that.
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What is even worse that Farage the Terrible is the hate filled bile that the alt right spew out in the comments columns that accompany these news articles. The most stupid thing we do is give these people oxygen.
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Did anyone mention Nigel Farage on this thread already?
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He truly is the most loathsome, odious creature.
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It looks like HopeNotHate are going to sue him for defamation. I'll probably bung a few quid in. https://donate.hopenothate.org.uk/page/contribute/farage-to-court
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Ooh goody. Tenner done.
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I'm not sure we should encourage him with more oxygen. He seems to thrive on being a festering manhandle.
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We can only hope that impending legal proceedings force even the most vile of shits to keep his kipper shut on legal advice.
I'll have to find a tenner for the cause.
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I've more than happily donated :thumbsup:
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It's a long time since any domestic politician was as loathsome as NF. And he continues to amaze by sinking ever lower. Supercilious, self-aggrandising, over-inflated, insensitive, dangerous, execrable piece of filth.
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It's a long time since any domestic politician was as loathsome as NF. And he continues to amaze by sinking ever lower. Supercilious, self-aggrandising, over-inflated, insensitive, dangerous, execrable piece of filth.
I've only just realised his initials are the same as the National Front's acronym. Coincidence?
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"Look, even the initials are the same." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUyK6JWt9U)
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Hmmm, much as I thing Grayling is a super twat and Berry too, I don't think that you can really overly rely on 239. The rule is aimed at operators of cars and it expressly says that it is safer for 'your' passengers to get out on the pavement side.
The errors in that incident in my view were: 1: The car should have been pulled up to the kerb for Grayling to safely exit, and, the cyclist should have been more careful going for the gap. That said, you would think that Grayling's staff would be on the lookout and would have seen the cyclist approaching. Poor show from both the driver who should have been checking his mirrors imo, and his security team.
I hope that the experience will help Grayling understand the inadequacy of cycling provision and the risks faced by cyclists from thoughtless motor vehicle drivers and their passengers. Somehow I doubt it though.
Actually, it is clearer cut than that. The car was not pulled over to the kerb because the driver was not intending to stop. It was held up in traffic, from its position, and the occupants decided to get out. I have had similar experiences when motorcycling on clogged motorways. Filtering (always slowly in my case) and finding someone getting out of their vehicle in front of me. What it actually consists of is the assumption that traffic=cars.
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Rod Liddle
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Rod Liddle
Fuck me. I've just read the Bike Biz summary. What an odious no-mark he is.
(Mind you, I thought he was a Super-Twat be default anyway)
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What a twat!!
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Wot Tim said. I have long maintained Liddle to be an odious prick of titanic proportions and this does nothing to change my view.
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You're not going to be impressed by his employer's response to calls for a formal apology either.
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Ah, yes, "heavy irony". I'm sure the court will consider this an adequate defence were I to introduce Liddle to Mr Shovel.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38480296
Hypocrite. Politician. Violent twat.
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A real trumpneck that one.
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And it's Katie Hopkins again.
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True colours. :sick:
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And it's Katie Hopkins again.
Not following the toxic one, a quick summary?
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Happily re-tweeting something by a charmer with the username "anti j**den" whose avatar/id also includes a swastika & SS runes :sick:
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I like the follow-up tweet saying she's gone "full batshit".
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/footballer-sacked-mocking-death-harry-arters-baby-daughter-163800097.html (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/footballer-sacked-mocking-death-harry-arters-baby-daughter-163800097.html)
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Michael Heseltine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-38534069 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-38534069)
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Michael Heseltine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-38534069 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-38534069)
I read a fuller report in the Grauniad which does not exonerate him at all but does suggest that he may not be a complete idiot.
Link: Grauniad (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/06/michael-heseltine-fined-knocking-cyclist-off-bike-northampton-magistrates)
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I know people vary a lot, but I imagine ability to judge speed and distance are somewhat impaired when you're 83.
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Compulsory testing every five years will help cull the deadwood. Once you reach 70 perhaps annual testing?
It's just plain wrong that innocents suffer serious injury or even death. A driving licence is the UK's equivalent to a yankee's right to bear arms.
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Sainsburys (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-38529780) clearly has no sense of proportion, nor humour.
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The Cowley Road in Oxford still has a hairdresser called Toni's The Guy.
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I know people vary a lot, but I imagine ability to judge speed and distance are somewhat impaired when you're 83.
There has been much SCIENCE on the subject. The bottom line is that under-10s are cognitively incapable of judging an objects' speed by looming[1], young adults are surprisingly good at it[2], and the ability declines with old age. That's before you factor in the usual age-related deterioration of vision and reaction times.
I suspect older people tend to make up for this with experience-based strategies. eg. They know how far it is to that bend in the road, and assume the car is travelling at the speed limit. Which works well until it doesn't.
TBH I don't think I'm very good at estimating vehicle speeds at all. When crossing faster roads I'll sometimes resort to counting the seconds it takes for a car to get from me to a given point in order to work out what constitutes a sufficient gap, because I have so little faith in my intuition.
[1] The apparent size of an object increasing as it becomes closer, which is the primary mechanism for estimating speed on a straight road.
[2] Although we tend to underestimate the speed of larger objects, eg. planes.
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Sainsburys (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-38529780) clearly has no sense of proportion, nor humour.
The Cowley Road in Oxford still has a hairdresser called Toni's The Guy.
Good to see that Leicester's McIndians (http://www.mcindians.com) is still going. You've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians!
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Michael Heseltine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-38534069 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-38534069)
I read a fuller report in the Grauniad which does not exonerate him at all but does suggest that he may not be a complete idiot.
Link: Grauniad (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/06/michael-heseltine-fined-knocking-cyclist-off-bike-northampton-magistrates)
He screwed up, but
He stopped at the scene, going to the injured man’s aid and then called the emergency services
Then in court pled guilty and he said he was “unreservedly” sorry to the cyclist
I'm not sure he qualifies for the S-T thread.
Blind bend due to a hedge, couldn't see the oncoming bike.
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To a certain degree, I agree with MrC.
Sometimes a collision IS and accident. Being a Tory does not make Heseltine guilty of doing it on purpose.
Being aged and less capable than he was when he was granted a licence is what goes against him here.
At least he did right by the victim. Super Twats tend not to.
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Jeremy Hunt.
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Compulsory testing every five years will help cull the deadwood. Once you reach 70 perhaps annual testing?
It's just plain wrong that innocents suffer serious injury or even death. A driving licence is the UK's equivalent to a yankee's right to bear arms.
Even a basic eye-test would most likely fail many older motorists (and younger ones to be honest). I've known people, family members as well, who just didn't realise they had poor eyesight until they tried on glasses. Poor eyesight + night driving = Recipe for disaster.
My parents are both in their 70s and I feel that it's probably not the place to start with a retest. Purely because of logistics I'd start with 100+, then start working downwards, 95+, 90+, 85+, 80+... and so on.
But, to start with, an eye test would help a lot I think, rather than rely on the over-70s' judgement.
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I like the eye test idea.
100 year olds tend not to be behind the wheel and causing accidents though.
Testing needs to be more frequent for newly qualified drivers and elderly drivers. Also, every idiot that drink drives or gets banned for other reasons should have to retest. None of this 'I need my licence because...' malarky.
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I think a 93 year old lady did kill someone last year and the Bournemouth Daily Echo seems to report crashes involving ancient motorists most days.
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But then don't forget that the average age in Bournemouth is at least 127, Helly! So you're going to get a high proportion of oldies involved in road accidents.
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But then don't forget that the average age in Bournemouth is at least 127, Helly! So you're going to get a high proportion of oldies involved in road accidents.
Oh I know, but conditions are unfavourable for non-drivers so far too many older people drive when they should not.
I have seen every side of this situation, having worked there in A&E, having GP colleagues needing to stop patients' driving and having partner with Aged, sight-impaired Parent in the area.
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The woman tory piece of excrement interviewed this lunchtime of Radio 2. Discussing the latest version of the NHS crisis she attempted to skew the argument around to the NHS being under added pressure as a result of immigration.
Lying. Fucking. Twat.
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Nothing to do with their not funding it then. Or having a series of private leeches bleeding it of profit.
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Or being staffed by a substantial proportion of immigrants.
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Jeremy Hunt.
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
[I think we're going to have to take this one as read every day until long after his parasitic ideology is eradicated from DH. I don't want to bore people, but this vile specimen produces new lies and new ways to damage the NHS every day at the moment. He is a Life Member of the Super-Twats]
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The NHS is actually being bled dry by the ageing population. Go to a hospital or GP waiting room and see who the patients are. These Daily Heil reading, Brexit-voting pensioners need someone to blame...
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Rob Flello.
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The NHS is actually being bled dry by the ageing population. Go to a hospital or GP waiting room and see who the patients are. These Daily Heil reading, Brexit-voting pensioners need someone to blame...
Oh, so the year-on-year budget cuts imposed by government and the consequent closed beds, closed ambulance stations and downgraded A and E departments had nothing to do with it?
Thanks for putting us right.
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Chris Grayling
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The NHS is actually being bled dry by the ageing population. Go to a hospital or GP waiting room and see who the patients are. These Daily Heil reading, Brexit-voting pensioners need someone to blame...
Oh, so the year-on-year budget cuts imposed by government and the consequent closed beds, closed ambulance stations and downgraded A and E departments had nothing to do with it?
Thanks for putting us right.
Demand is rising sharply at the same time as funding is either frozen, rising modestly or being cut (depending on whom you believe). What should be obvious is that taxation has to increase to pay for all the ageing baby boomers. However, it's hard to find a form of tax that doesn't involve the impoverished younger generation paying for the boomers yet again. Inheritance tax is a tax on the beneficiaries really, but could be fairer than some options like yet more NI.
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The NHS is actually being bled dry by the ageing population. Go to a hospital or GP waiting room and see who the patients are. These Daily Heil reading, Brexit-voting pensioners need someone to blame...
Oh, so the year-on-year budget cuts imposed by government and the consequent closed beds, closed ambulance stations and downgraded A and E departments had nothing to do with it?
Thanks for putting us right.
Demand is rising sharply at the same time as funding is either frozen, rising modestly or being cut (depending on whom you believe). What should be obvious is that taxation has to increase to pay for all the ageing baby boomers. However, it's hard to find a form of tax that doesn't involve the impoverished younger generation paying for the boomers yet again. Inheritance tax is a tax on the beneficiaries really, but could be fairer than some options like yet more NI.
Not hard at all. Pop a penny or two on the higher band of income tax.
What's hard is finding a tax that won't instantly lose votes... :-(
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Michael Gove, whom I thought was an MP but appears to be moonlighting as a journalist for a Murdoch mouthpiece. Surely even Trump thinks he's a slimy little shit?
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The picture of the two of them giving a thumbs up in front of what appears to be a porn mag cover on the wall kind of sums both of them up.
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Rob Flello MP (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cyclists-increase-congestion-air-pollution-uk-cities-worse-rob-flello-labour-mp-cycle-lane-sceptic-a7532141.html) gets my vote for another appearance on this thread.
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I wish I remained ignorant of his existence, as I was until very recently.
As if one Chris Grayling isn't bad enough.
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Rob Flello MP (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cyclists-increase-congestion-air-pollution-uk-cities-worse-rob-flello-labour-mp-cycle-lane-sceptic-a7532141.html) gets my vote for another appearance on this thread.
Register of Members' Financial Interests (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/170109/flello_robert.htm)
Starts...
"Flello, Robert (Stoke-on-Trent South)
2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
Name of donor: Road Haulage Association
Address of donor: Roadway House, Bretton Way, Bretton, Peterborough PE3 8DD
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: salary and national Insurance contributions of around £16,000 pa to be provided for an intern in my Parliamentary office in relation to my duties as Chair APPG Freight Transport and to support me in my work on the Transport Select Committee, from 10 June 2015 until August 2016
Date received: 10 June 2015
Date accepted: 10 June 2015
Donor status: company, registration 391886
(Registered 01 July 2015; updated 27 July 2016)..."
Nuff sed?
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The Road Haulage Association is a bit like the NFU - it has its tentacles all over government and its sometimes co-opted by the Dept of Transport to represent the UK government at meetings in Brussels. Funding an intern for a member of a supposedly independently-minded committee is taking the piss though.
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Martin Shkreli -
https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae (https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca)
Not only does he behave like a parody of a heartless money-grubbing capitalist, but he's also a creepy weirdo.
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Martin Shkreli -
https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae (https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca)
Not only does he behave like a parody of a heartless money-grubbing capitalist, but he's also a creepy weirdo.
That guy has serious issues. What a nob.
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Martin Shkreli -
https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae (https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca)
Not only does he behave like a parody of a heartless money-grubbing capitalist, but he's also a creepy weirdo.
That guy has serious issues. What a nob.
And he's another living embodiment of backpfeifengesicht. :demon:
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Martin Shkreli -
https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae (https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca)
Not only does he behave like a parody of a heartless money-grubbing capitalist, but he's also a creepy weirdo.
That guy has serious issues. What a nob.
Well, yes. I think he's featured in this thread before for some reason...
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I'm planning a 'Men's March' to protest at the creeping global emasculation of my gender by rabid feminists. Who's with me? (https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/822756556005588992)
Guys?...Guys!?...Anyone there?
OK, the second one might be a bit post-truth, but for anyone worried that Piers might be feeling a bit lonely, I endorse Mr Roger Quimbly's advice
Does 'heinous' rhyme with 'penis' or 'anus'? To win a prize, send your one word answer to Piers Morgan. Good luck!
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Donald trump becoming President of the USA rather seems to have drawn a line under this thread for me.
Suddenly everything else seems mildly irritating by comparison.
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But he's not a super-twat. He's the Twatti di Tutti Twatti and therefore in a category of his own.
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I don't understand how rabid feminists can creep up on anyone. They'll surely be foaming at the mouth and making those grrr-grrr-grrr noises that rabid creatures make (admittedly I'm basing my knowledge of rabies on a half-remembered viewing of Cujo). This is not just something they can get around with soft soled shoes. I'd imagine an advanced neurological condition would impose some difficulties considering the rather precise detail of any emasculation procedure.
I don't think Piers really thought that tweet through.
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Piers may hear the clump of approaching DMs and smell the smoke from burning brassieres just before he gets his nads covered in tahini and eaten like falafel. It won't save him.
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I've done some extensive research and it's now a scientific fact (the best kind) that 97.533% of all sentences that begin with the two words 'Piers Morgan' always end in the two words 'colossal bellend'.
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Piers Morgan is, in my opinion, a colossal bellend.
Oh, I see. Spot on Ian. :thumbsup:
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Piers Morgan was seriously injured in a campanologic accident when Big Ben fell on him. It was a colossal bell end.
Yep, Ian speaks true.
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What about sentences beginning 'Piers "Morgan" Moron'? The colossal bellend.
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Piers Morgan used to edit the Bizarre! celeb news page in The Scum when I first heard of him. That was more his level but he still came across as a massive bellend.
EDIT: https://mobile.twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/233349853458083840
;D
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:thumbsup:
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Kellyanne "Alternative Facts" Conway
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Kellyanne "Alternative Facts" Conway
Also known as "Kellyanne Conwoman", or my favourite - "Baghdad Barbie"*.
EDITED TO ADD:
It appears that she's from the Groucho Marx school when it comes to principles (if she ever had any in the first place): https://youtu.be/TOzQrOPrjwk?t=169
* Being a riff on "Baghdad Bob" which was the US nickname for Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf), the hapless Information Minister otherwise known as "Comical Ali" on this side of the Big Pond.
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What about sentences beginning 'Piers "Morgan" Moron'? The colossal bellend.
Piers "Morgan" Moron, the colossal bellend, is a colossal bellend.
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What about sentences beginning 'Piers "Morgan" Moron'? The colossal bellend.
Piers "Morgan" Moron, the colossal bellend, is a colossal bellend.
:thumbsup: This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment.
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Seen on That Twitter:
Competition! Does "heinous" rhyme with "penis" or "anus"? Tweet your one-word answer to Piers Morgan to win a prize.
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Also seen on a post further up this page ---^
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Piers Morgan is still a colossal bell end.
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Right. Enough is enough.
I'm standing up for the right of colossal bell ends everywhere not to be tarred with the same brush as Piers Morgan.
I know I'm guilty but I feel ashamed :-\
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I feel smugly fortunate, inasmuch as I do not dwell in the media-mire that this Morgan person swims in, and he cannot stain my ego. I am all too willing to accept from others' observations he is a shit.
Actually, I can pass on a little observation from a friend who, had the misfortune to be playing in a cricket match with this Morgan person a few years ago now. Morgan was batting, received a 'nick' of ball coming off the bat, and wicket-keeper caught it – and he refused to walk. Those 'close in' heard it and obviously Morgan did too. That's the sort of chap he is.
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^
That's not cricket, Riggerers.
That's being a colossal bellend.
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Wasn't it Morgan (colossal bellend) who paid that gym manager for secretly taken photos of one of the royals working out in the gym ? Scumbag. (And colossal bellend.)
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Wasn't it Morgan (colossal bellend) who paid that gym manager for secretly taken photos of one of the royals working out in the gym ? Scumbag. (And colossal bellend.)
Amongst other things such as faking photographs of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners (so not bothered about putting lives at risk) and ALLEGEDLY using phone-hacking to glean gossip, and publishing the addresses of people he assumed were guilty.
He's a nasty slug. Nobody likes him. I mean the Question Time crowd actually booed when Dimblebum announced his as next week's guest.
... and yet.. he gets high-profile media jobs. I'm sick of TV execs paying these objectionable people high salaries just because they are "controversial character". I have to tar the execs with the same, "no morals" brush I use on Morgan.
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I've met people who've worked with him. Colossal Bellend is merely their starter for ten.
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The analysis of Trump's behaviour in the link which Spesh posted here (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10502.msg2127445#msg2127445) can, it would seem, be equally applied to Piers, colossal bellend, Morgan, with similar results.
Funny, that.
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Piers Morgan: isn't he that media parasite and colossal bellend?
Strange isn't it that we live in a world where the likes of trump, hopkins, farage and bellend have become popular with a certain small minded, right leaning, self interest section of the world's population?
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I've met him. Not for here; ask me sometime.
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And Hurrah! for Ewan Macgregor, who was supposed to be plugging his new film on morning TV until he realised that this would mean being in the same studio as colossal bellend Piers Moron and decided to not do it after all. Which prompted Super-Twat and colossal bellend Moron to take to Twitter to bitch about actors, seemingly unaware of how this merely serves to make him appear an even more colossal bellend.
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And Hurrah! for Ewan Macgregor, who was supposed to be plugging his new film on morning TV until he realised that this would mean being in the same studio as colossal bellend Piers Moron and decided to not do it after all. Which prompted Super-Twat and colossal bellend Moron to take to Twitter to bitch about actors, seemingly unaware of how this merely serves to make him appear an even more colossal bellend.
Speaking on Wednesday's GMB, Morgan said: "I was very disappointed with what he did - he let down the viewers and he let down himself."
I hope Ewan is feeling suitably admonished and ashamed by this paragon of virtue and ethics.
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The danger of giving a colossal bellend oxygen is that it can express it's bigoted opinion to a wider audience of bigots.
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If you google "colossal bellend" you get Trump and Farage on the first results page, but no Morgan. We need to recalibrate it.
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If you google "colossal bellend" you get Trump and Farage on the first results page, but no Morgan. We need to recalibrate it.
Delighted to see that Boris Johnson is there...
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Even Chris Moyles gave Piers a big 'colossal bellend' shout-out this morning.
Piers Morgan is a bit odd - why does he even exist if it's not to fill the definition of colossal bellend? When small children ask 'mum, what's a colossal bellend?' she can simply the pull out a magazine and point to picture of Piers. I can't think of any other reason, he can't write, he's not witty, was a shitty journalist and a worse editor, he's not even good a lying, and his face looks like one of those clay reconstructions they make of decomposed murder victims.
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I'll just leave this link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY)
Warning: Links to youtube, with a picture of Piers Morgan, who is a colossal bellend.
However, the bit you want as at 1:06.
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I'll just leave this link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY)
Warning: Links to youtube, with a picture of Piers Morgan, who is a colossal bellend.
However, the bit you want as at 1:06.
That's my all time favourite ISIHAC moment. I love the slight pause followed by shocked realisation.
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I'll just leave this link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY)
Warning: Links to youtube, with a picture of Piers Morgan, who is a colossal bellend.
However, the bit you want as at 1:06.
I've heard about countrycide before.
But continue to delight without abate.
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I'll just leave this link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY)
Warning: Links to youtube, with a picture of Piers Morgan, who is a colossal bellend.
However, the bit you want as at 1:06.
I've heard about countrycide before.
But continue to delight without abate.
And comments below that vid refer to that line being Willie Rushton's originally, but still in reference to Piers Morgan, the colossal bellend.
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The low life in this report (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-38757650) falls into a category beyond ST >:(
He left her. Just walked away and left her and went on the pull.
Cunt.
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And another
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38756577
Towards the end of the article, Sky accuses Discovery of 'Commercial self interest".
WTF?
How can anyone that has anything to do with Sky throw that accusation around?
Rupert Fucking Murdoch :demon:
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Towards the end of the article, Sky accuses Discovery of 'Commercial self interest".
WTF?
How can anyone that has anything to do with Sky throw that accusation around?
Well, if blatant psychological projection is good enough for the short-fingered vulgarian now contaminating the White House, it's good enough for the Dirty Digger. ;)
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Rory McGrath
Pleads guilty to stalking then his solicitors statement says he apologises to the judge and his family. No thought for the victim.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38756508
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*And* he was the least funny one in Who Dares Wins.
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*And* he was the least funny one in Who Dares Wins.
Not to mention a bit of a perv on They Think It's All Over.
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Palmer Luckey
Funds pro-trump trolls in systematic way to disrupt election
'founded' occulus VR headset, but seems he ripped off mucho code from his previous employers, which has cost fb 500m.
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Whoever did this on NCN Route 55 in North Staffordshire....
https://www.facebook.com/midlandstoday/videos/10154949612724761/
Twat.
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A toss up between Motoring Moron, here or Rant...hmm... nooo... _definitely_ a Twat.
The bloke (and it _has_ to be a bloke) at Vauxhall (GM) who decided that automatic headlight dipping (I think the ad. calls it "adjustment") which, "detects oncoming traffic so you don't have to" was a good idea. Does he think that drivers aren't sufficiently inattentive to other road users already?
How many poor bloody pedestrians and cyclists is that going to dazzle / blind? 'Cos you can bet that the detection method (oncoming light level? movement above a given speed?) will be calibrated for cars, vans and lorries.
And what's the betting the system only works when the other vehicle is directly ahead and that it'll dazzle other car drivers as well?
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A toss up between Motoring Moron, here or Rant...hmm... nooo... _definitely_ a Twat.
The bloke (and it _has_ to be a bloke) at Vauxhall (GM) who decided that automatic headlight dipping (I think the ad. calls it "adjustment") which, "detects oncoming traffic so you don't have to" was a good idea. Does he think that drivers aren't sufficiently inattentive to other road users already?
How many poor bloody pedestrians and cyclists is that going to dazzle / blind? 'Cos you can bet that the detection method (oncoming light level? movement above a given speed?) will be calibrated for cars, vans and lorries.
And what's the betting the system only works when the other vehicle is directly ahead and that it'll dazzle other car drivers as well?
Sorry going OT - my automatic headlight dipping on my Renault Kadjar works faultlessly- it dips for cyclists as well as it does for cars - both in front of me and coming towards me, but somehow manages to not dip for passive reflective material (eg on marker posts). It's mightily impressed me.
Discussion elsewhere on this learned forum suggests there may be an algorithm for detecting closing speeds (if there is - it's about the only bit of computing that Renault did get right).
Tapatalk puts this signature here, not me!
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I have to admit to begin out of touch with automotive technology as I'd assigned the blinding full beams responsibility to knob jockeys behind the wheel.
In a world of incredulous levels of twattishness I find it somewhat intriguing that we've tired of Trump, Conway, Morgan, Gove, Clarkson, Farage, Spicer, Vine, Icke, Grayling, Mugabe, ...
Donald trump becoming President of the USA rather seems to have drawn a line under this thread for me.
Suddenly everything else seems mildly irritating by comparison.
Couldn't agree more with Lee's sentiment two pages ago.
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Ah, but at least Trump keeps on giving (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38921968)...
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Nicola Sturgeon’s Cambridge relative that burned a £20 note in front of homeless guy.
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Nicola Sturgeon’s Cambridge relative that burned a £20 note in front of homeless guy.
Or possibly the desperate journalist who used the tenuous connection with Sturgeon to make the story seem a bit more interesting:
A spokesman for the Scottish government said: “The individual is not a direct relative of the first minister or her husband.”
He is thought to be the nephew of the former husband of Mrs Sturgeon’s sister-in-law.
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A toss up between Motoring Moron, here or Rant...hmm... nooo... _definitely_ a Twat.
The bloke (and it _has_ to be a bloke) at Vauxhall (GM) who decided that automatic headlight dipping (I think the ad. calls it "adjustment") which, "detects oncoming traffic so you don't have to" was a good idea. Does he think that drivers aren't sufficiently inattentive to other road users already?
How many poor bloody pedestrians and cyclists is that going to dazzle / blind? 'Cos you can bet that the detection method (oncoming light level? movement above a given speed?) will be calibrated for cars, vans and lorries.
And what's the betting the system only works when the other vehicle is directly ahead and that it'll dazzle other car drivers as well?
Sorry going OT - my automatic headlight dipping on my Renault Kadjar works faultlessly- it dips for cyclists as well as it does for cars - both in front of me and coming towards me, but somehow manages to not dip for passive reflective material (eg on marker posts). It's mightily impressed me.
Discussion elsewhere on this learned forum suggests there may be an algorithm for detecting closing speeds (if there is - it's about the only bit of computing that Renault did get right).
As with self-driving vehicles, this is the sort of thing that if done right is going to treat cyclists better than a typical human driver who is either incompetent or doesn't give a fuck.
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Nicola Sturgeon’s Cambridge relative that burned a £20 note in front of homeless guy.
Or possibly the desperate journalist who used the tenuous connection with Sturgeon to make the story seem a bit more interesting:
A spokesman for the Scottish government said: “The individual is not a direct relative of the first minister or her husband.”
He is thought to be the nephew of the former husband of Mrs Sturgeon’s sister-in-law.
Or even both.
Regardless of who the twat is a relative of, burning a £20 note in front of a desperate person is in my view extremely hateful and arrogant. I could imagine my arrogant nasty brother doing something like that but his character and lack of values are not mine. Isn't there something about trump's son-in-laws brother being the entire opposite of the flange?
The journo who sought to make a story out of nothing is clearly hoping to get a job with the Scum, the Wail or the Sexpest.
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A toss up between Motoring Moron, here or Rant...hmm... nooo... _definitely_ a Twat.
The bloke (and it _has_ to be a bloke) at Vauxhall (GM) who decided that automatic headlight dipping (I think the ad. calls it "adjustment") which, "detects oncoming traffic so you don't have to" was a good idea. Does he think that drivers aren't sufficiently inattentive to other road users already?
How many poor bloody pedestrians and cyclists is that going to dazzle / blind? 'Cos you can bet that the detection method (oncoming light level? movement above a given speed?) will be calibrated for cars, vans and lorries.
And what's the betting the system only works when the other vehicle is directly ahead and that it'll dazzle other car drivers as well?
Sorry going OT - my automatic headlight dipping on my Renault Kadjar works faultlessly- it dips for cyclists as well as it does for cars - both in front of me and coming towards me, but somehow manages to not dip for passive reflective material (eg on marker posts). It's mightily impressed me.
Discussion elsewhere on this learned forum suggests there may be an algorithm for detecting closing speeds (if there is - it's about the only bit of computing that Renault did get right).
As with self-driving vehicles, this is the sort of thing that if done right is going to treat cyclists better than a typical human driver who is either incompetent or doesn't give a fuck.
Sadly in some cases both terms apply.
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"Burning a £50 note in front of a tramp" was an apocryphal Bullingdon Club initiation ritual.
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Ann Coulter.
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Ann Coulter.
AKA Skeletor or The Coultergeist. She's certified Class A weird. Through some weird congress of events, I met her once outside US senator's office ('nice person,' he said, comprehensively proving that even Republican senators can do irony). She has a Katie Hopkins-like need (supersized for American tastes) to puke up something objectionable every few minutes. Which probably explains why she looks like the Angel of Death's least favourite sister.
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I think she's Mrs Coulter from Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials books :demon:
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And Paul Nuttall...
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I think she's Mrs Coulter from Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials books :demon:
She makes her seem pleasant. We in the UK have sadly mostly been deprived of Coulter's peculiar form of wisdom, but Katie Hopkins regurgitates the same schtick. I don't know whether these people believe this stuff they come up with or just have a sad, desperate need for attention.
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Rhyming-slang, unhealth secretary.
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/739e74e6b1cd5b36261eedb675ca0439bf734e12/0_0_4852_3298/master/4852.jpg?w=940&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=b8f560c225a977ce7c6ce8d3a0dce7d6) (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2017/feb/10/martin-rowson-jeremy-hunt-nhs-cartoon)
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I see Piers Morgan, who is a colossal bell end, got into a twitter fight with J K Rowling over Trump's travel ban. This culminated in Morgan, the colossal bell end, saying "this is why I've never read a single word of Harry Potter"
Fortunately help is at hand, in the shape of Simon Key of The Big Green Bookshop, who is kindly tweeting either the entire works of J K Rowling or one book, reports are unclear, a line at a time.
I'm doing it because Piers clearly spends all day on Twitter staring at his timeline.
He clearly needs a bit of a break from all the abuse, so as he mentioned that he hasn't read any JK Rowling, rather then having to tear himself away from Twitter to read it, I'd tweet him
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This is childish and ultimately futile (twitter does have a mute feature), but I like to think that they're going to stop when it gets to one of the exciting bits.
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JKR told PMTCBE to fuck off, which is a bit like your primary school teacher swearing.
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Up to a point, Lord Copper. She expressed great delight that Aussie comedist Jim Jefferies told Piers "Morgan" Moron, who is a colossal bellend, to fuck off on live TV.
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Up to a point, Lord Copper. She expressed great delight that Aussie comedist Jim Jefferies told Piers "Morgan" Moron, who is a colossal bellend, to fuck off on live TV.
I believe she expressed it thusly:
Yes, watching Piers Morgan being told to fuck off on live TV is *exactly* as satisfying as I'd always imagined.
She seems to have forgotten to mention that Piers Morgan is a colossal bell end however.
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I believe she expressed it thusly:
Yes, watching Piers Morgan being told to fuck off on live TV is *exactly* as satisfying as I'd always imagined.
She seems to have forgotten to mention that Piers Morgan is a colossal bell end however.
Which is strange, as the string ", who is a colossal bellend," fits perfectly in the remaining 28 characters.
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www.colossalbellend.com redirects to Piers Colossal Bellend Moron's twitter account.
It previously redirected to Michael Fartley's website after he was rumoured to be playing at Trumpton's inauguration.
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The man can't stop digging a hole! Still going on about it haha. Uber-Twat thread may be needed.
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Colossal Bellend, who is a piers morgan, takes the Bellend / Rowling spat a stage further...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/piers-morgan-to-go-undercover-at-hogwarts-20170216122222 (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/piers-morgan-to-go-undercover-at-hogwarts-20170216122222)
Morgan is currently at King’s Cross station running repeatedly into a brick wall between platforms nine and 10
;D
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It's time to give up the Colossal Bell End/J K Rowling discussion, since she's won.
For those who missed it - she quoted a fawning review of some of her work with the author's name omitted. CBE reacted by lambasting it, having forgotten that he'd written it. Hook, line & sinker.
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Alt-right uber-troll Milo Yiannopoulos has had his invitation to speak at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference rescinded by the American Conservative Union after a video started circulating on social media last night, in which Yiannopoulos appeared to be speaking in favour of boys under the age of consent having sexual relations with older men.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopolous-cpac-disinvited-ovr-paedophilia-speech-comments-video-breitbart-editor-will-not-a7590531.html
ETA
1) It is of course worth noting that certain of Trump's comments about his daughter Ivanka, stories about him walking in on teenage beauty pageant contestants in varying states of undress in the changing rooms, and his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein weren't enough to put off Republican voters who probably pride themselves on their moral values.
2) Simon & Schuster have cancelled the publication of Yiannopoulos's book "Dangerous". Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/72839-s-s-cancels-milo-yiannopoulos-s-book.html
3) A number of employees at Breitbart News are threatening to quit unless Yiannopoulos is fired. Brietbart employees with standards... who knew?
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320375-breitbart-employees-threaten-to-leave-over-yiannopoulos
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What's that you say? Piers Morgan not a Twat?
http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/770517/Piers-Morgan-lashes-out-boring-Charlotte-Hawkins-Good-Morning-Britain (http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/770517/Piers-Morgan-lashes-out-boring-Charlotte-Hawkins-Good-Morning-Britain)
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You forgot Collosal Bellend.
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You forgot Collosal Bellend.
ITYM Colossal Bellend. ;)
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You forgot Collosal Bellend.
ITYM Colossal Bellend. ;)
Yup, Morgan is one L of a Colosal Bellend
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Double twattage
Nigel Farage has said he is "frightened of walking out into the street" because of the way UKIP has been presented by the British press.
The former party leader told ITV's Piers Morgan's Life Stories that the media has for years "attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name".
He's so modest isn't he? Giving the media all the credit.
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Strike opportunity missed. Colossal bellend and fascist scum in the same room at the same time.
Humanity is the loser.
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I didn't watch it. If I wanted to see a couple of shits I'd just not bother flushing the toilet for a while.
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Another right pair - Blair and Miliband D.
STFU you right wing meddling fascists. Your interventions are clearly designed to further destabilise the Labour party in spite of Jeremy's unequivocal mandate. Go set up your own party up if you're so worried, or better still, join your natural allies - the tories.
Now fuck off.
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You can add Lord
Voldemort Mandelslime to that list, chiselling two-bit crook that he be.
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And she's back and
twatting tweeting.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/28/jack-monroes-twitter-case-part-of-crusade-against-katie-hopkins?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=215414&subid=7864904&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Vile faecal smear on the arse of humanity argues:
1. Twitter can't be libellous.
2. She's a twat, and that's what twats do, so it can't be libellous.
Hopkins: the 'justification' defence for defamation is meant to apply to what you say about the plaintiff, not what you are
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That scraping noise you can hear is Hatey Cockpins' brief trying to get out of the barrel at the wrong end.
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Donald Judas Trump
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/03/the_two_most_debased_moments_of_donald_trump_s_speech_to_congress.html
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Dan Schneider
(from an article below that linked in Spesh's post)
Shortly after the conference began on Thursday, Dan Schneider, executive director of the American Conservative Union—the group that puts on CPAC—gave a speech denouncing the alt-right as left-wing infiltrators. “There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks,” he said, arguing that the term “alt-right” had been “hijacked” by a “hate-filled left-wing fascist group.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/02/cpac_invented_an_alternate_history_of_the_alt_right.html (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/02/cpac_invented_an_alternate_history_of_the_alt_right.html)
Left-wing fascists ???
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And she's back and twatting tweeting.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/28/jack-monroes-twitter-case-part-of-crusade-against-katie-hopkins?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=215414&subid=7864904&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Vile faecal smear on the arse of humanity argues:
1. Twitter can't be libellous.
2. She's a twat, and that's what twats do, so it can't be libellous.
Hopkins: the 'justification' defence for defamation is meant to apply to what you say about the plaintiff, not what you are
Somebody might like to remind Ms Cockpins of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow)
It didn't end well for Bercow
Bercow said: "The High Court found that my tweet constituted a serious libel...
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Our friend Piers is at it again:
MANchester will have to be renamed PERSONchester.
And feMALEs will have to be called fePERSONs.
This screams like a desperate and clumsily obvious attempt to seek attention. I think perhaps we should rename him a 'Colossal Irrelevance".
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Our friend Piers is at it again:
MANchester will have to be renamed PERSONchester.
And feMALEs will have to be called fePERSONs.
This screams like a desperate and clumsily obvious attempt to seek attention. I think perhaps we should rename him a 'Colossal Irrelevance".
He's got it wrong anyway - any fule kno that it's PerCHILDchester. At least, that was the version in the playground when I was 11.
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Simon MacMichael. (Road.cc churnalist)
Your war against Sky and Wiggins has become very tedious indeed.
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Every man or woman (but, I imagine, mostly men, as usual) who knew about Tuam or any of the other atrocities of abuse within the Catholic Church (and protestant ones), but denied it, covered it up, or simply ignored it.
Every.
Damn.
One. :'(
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Every man or woman (but, I imagine, mostly men, as usual) who knew about Tuam or any of the other atrocities of abuse within the Catholic Church (and protestant ones), but denied it, covered it up, or simply ignored it.
Every.
Damn.
One. :'(
+1
It's over 40 years since those young boys found the bones.
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The Wrong Philip Hammond
At a rough guess, I'll be several hundred a year worse off this year, and double that from next year. I look forward to receiving all the same paid holiday, sick pay, subsidised pension etc that employed people get. But I won't be holding my breath.
It's like an extra kick in the teeth as a reward for being made redundant again last year.
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And she's back and twatting tweeting.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/28/jack-monroes-twitter-case-part-of-crusade-against-katie-hopkins?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=215414&subid=7864904&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Vile faecal smear on the arse of humanity argues:
1. Twitter can't be libellous.
2. She's a twat, and that's what twats do, so it can't be libellous.
Hopkins: the 'justification' defence for defamation is meant to apply to what you say about the plaintiff, not what you are
Somebody might like to remind Ms Cockpins of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow)
It didn't end well for Bercow
Bercow said: "The High Court found that my tweet constituted a serious libel...
Didn't end well for Hopkins either. Hah!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079)
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Good.
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Hatey Cockpins
I thike lis name.
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I can only hope that the court judgement today will have a moderating effect on social media nastiness.
Somehow I doubt it.
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And she's back and twatting tweeting.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/28/jack-monroes-twitter-case-part-of-crusade-against-katie-hopkins?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=215414&subid=7864904&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Vile faecal smear on the arse of humanity argues:
1. Twitter can't be libellous.
2. She's a twat, and that's what twats do, so it can't be libellous.
Hopkins: the 'justification' defence for defamation is meant to apply to what you say about the plaintiff, not what you are
Somebody might like to remind Ms Cockpins of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow)
It didn't end well for Bercow
Bercow said: "The High Court found that my tweet constituted a serious libel...
Didn't end well for Hopkins either. Hah!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079)
Cool.
What about costs though ? I imagine it costs more than 25k to bring a libel action successfully.
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;D ;D ;D :thumbsup:
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And she's back and twatting tweeting.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/28/jack-monroes-twitter-case-part-of-crusade-against-katie-hopkins?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=215414&subid=7864904&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Vile faecal smear on the arse of humanity argues:
1. Twitter can't be libellous.
2. She's a twat, and that's what twats do, so it can't be libellous.
Hopkins: the 'justification' defence for defamation is meant to apply to what you say about the plaintiff, not what you are
Somebody might like to remind Ms Cockpins of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow)
It didn't end well for Bercow
Bercow said: "The High Court found that my tweet constituted a serious libel...
Didn't end well for Hopkins either. Hah!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079)
Cool.
What about costs though ? I imagine it costs more than 25k to bring a libel action successfully.
She's already been ordered to pay over £100k for the bill, with the expected legal costs somewhere in the region of £300k. What a shame ;D
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Small change for the BQFH.
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Even cooler. The Beeb article didn't have those figures earlier on.
I had it in the back of my mind that for libel cases, costs couldn't be awarded.
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This was just made for Nelson
(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/e/e9/Nelson_Ha-Ha.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121205194057)
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Philip Davies MP
Sir Edward Leigh MP
Philip Hollobone MP
David Nuttal (no blood relation) MP
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-reinstatement-bill-tory-mps-filibuster-debate-by-talking-about-deporting-foreigners-for-hours-a6925781.html
Though, of course, keen observers of Supertwattery will note those names having come up before, so they all have credentials.
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Idiot Duncan Smith, on the radio this morning:
"We believe that countries in the Union are better off staying in the Union."
:facepalm:
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That's not what he was saying before the referendum last June. When did he become in favour of Remain?
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That's not what he was saying before the referendum last June. When did he become in favour of Remain?
Exactly what I would be asking him if I were Nicola Sturgeon.
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That's not what he was saying before the referendum last June. When did he become in favour of Remain?
Exactly what I would be asking him if I were Nicola Sturgeon.
As a politician, he reserves the right to talk complete bollocks and change his mind.
In fact, isn't it in the job description?
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Steve King, the Representative for Iowa: https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169
And per these screencaps posted by MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin, being praised by David Duke is a sure sign of being a waste of genetic material: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/841014593669468160
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As a politician, he reserves the right to talk complete bollocks and change his mind.
And I reserve the right to call him a despicable cunt.
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Even cooler. The Beeb article didn't have those figures earlier on.
I had it in the back of my mind that for libel cases, costs couldn't be awarded.
There's a Just Giving Page set up to meet her costs.
(No, there isn't. There's a Just Giving Page set up by Southend News Network, which at first glance says it's to meet Ms Hopkins costs. In reality it's going to the Trussell Trust)
Linky (https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/justiceforkatiehopkins)
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Steve King, the Representative for Iowa: https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169
And per these screencaps posted by MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin, being praised by David Duke is a sure sign of being a waste of genetic material: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/841014593669468160
Very prescient of NWA to write "Fear Of A Black Planet" about him all those years ago.
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Public Enemy! Even I know that. NWA's magnum opus was Fuck Tha Police.
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Public Enemy! Even I know that. NWA's magnum opus was Fuck Tha Police.
:facepalm:
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Don't they all look the same?
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John Cleese, for doing an ambulance-chasing PPI advert. Is he that desperate?
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Katie Hopkins
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Has Hatey Cockpins made a tit of herself yet again, Vince, or is this just for sustained Super-Twattery over a number of years, a sort of Lifetime Achievement Award?
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She was interviewed on Radio 4 yesterday and was trying to make out that she had nothing to be ashamed of and it was all an over reaction by the wronged party.
TBH it was the first time I had heard he speak and now I feel her position in this thread is only eclipsed by Piers 'Complete Bellend' Morgan.
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Hate trumps all. Pleased to see that the Dutch haven't fallen for hate.
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Piers Morgan (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39350775) - self-promoting super-twat (and, of course, colossal bell-end).
Or have we done him before ?
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However, that seems to be just drawing attention to the colossal bell-end.
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I'm sure if he offered to shut up for good they could raise enough cash for the BBC never to need to hold Comic Relief ever again.
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I look forward to this experiment being extended into a long-term trial, and possibly with its scope expanded to include such things as Piers "Morgan" Moron1 giving up appearing on the anbaric distacope and Piers "Morgan" Moron2 not writing anything for the newspapers.
1: the colossal bellend
2: the colossal bellend
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The journalist (or sub-editor) who doesn't know the definition of 'homely' and applies it to a singer in the title of this article
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/music/15180371.Why_homely_Amy_Macdonald_sticks_out_for_being_open__normal_and_very_honest/?action=success#comment_18231565 (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/music/15180371.Why_homely_Amy_Macdonald_sticks_out_for_being_open__normal_and_very_honest/?action=success#comment_18231565)
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I think you might be being unfair - I'd associate 'homely' in the headline with 'down to earth' in the body copy, not with her liking home.
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Homely when applied to a person has a specific meaning. Plain of face of appearance.
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Homely when applied to a person has a specific meaning. Plain of face of appearance.
Along with "Child bearing hips"?
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Piers Morgan (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39350775) - self-promoting super-twat (and, of course, colossal bell-end).
Or have we done him before ?
I very much doubt he's been mentioned on here before, what with all his self-deprecating comments and all.
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Homely when applied to a person has a specific meaning. Plain of face of appearance.
Hmm, I don't think it does. Homely means cosy and comfortable. In that context of the article its basically saying she's not risque rock star material.
In British English, that is. In American English it has different meaning and calling a lady thus will get you slapped.
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According to the Oxford English dictionary, in English English, it only has meaning applied to a place or object. Applying it to a person is the American usage and is the insulting definition.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/homely (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/homely)
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That link offers two definitions in British English: 1.1 is "simple and unpretentious," which I think fits admirably with the headline you complain about.
The example sentences make it abundantly clear that this usage is not merely of a place or surroundings. That restriction only applies to the first definition given.
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Homely when applied to a person has a specific meaning. Plain of face of appearance.
Hmm, I don't think it does. Homely means cosy and comfortable. In that context of the article its basically saying she's not risque rock star material.
In British English, that is. In American English it has different meaning and calling a lady thus will get you slapped.
This is absolutely my understanding of it. Now, shall we define 'fanny'? ;D
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Homely when applied to a person has a specific meaning. Plain of face of appearance.
Hmm, I don't think it does. Homely means cosy and comfortable. In that context of the article its basically saying she's not risque rock star material.
In British English, that is. In American English it has different meaning and calling a lady thus will get you slapped.
This is absolutely my understanding of it. Now, shall we define 'fanny'? ;D
Sour faced TV cook with a drunken Johnny?
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Paul Dacre. Responsible for the front page of the Daily Fail today. Words fail me. ("Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-it ?")
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GOOGLE, THE SEXIST'S FRIEND.
Yesterday it took the Daily Mail two minutes to use the INTERNET to find pictures of ladies' legs.
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POTD!!!!
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/28/landlord-fergus-wilson-said-coloured-people-leave-curry-smell
Fergus Wilson again. The type of chap who'd benefit from a brisk all over massage with a cheese grater, followed by a relaxing bath in a vat of lemon juice & vinegar :demon:
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Trump and his fossilsaur mentality.
In c21 USA will get left behind if they are not careful. I cannot believe the likes of Elon Musk can be happy with the trumpasaurus.
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Trump and his fossilsaur mentality.
In c21 USA will get left behind if they are not careful. I cannot believe the likes of Elon Musk can be happy with the trumpasaurus.
It can't have escaped your attention that Elon Musk is putting rather a lot of effort into getting the hell off this planet as soon as is practical...
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Surely everyone should hammer the US with carbon-taxalike trade tariffs or summat if they're daft enough to go ahead with this.
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Well, he does keep on saying ...
AMERICA FIRST
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He also keeps saying "Make America Great" but he's been mis-quoted1; what he actually keeps saying is "Make America Grate". And he's not talking about cheese-flavoured food product either.
1: Keeps happening to the poor fellow; can't think why.
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Jeremy Hunt, exercising his Life Membership of this thread yet again with his appalling mismanagement of interactions with an FGM survivor.
Oh, and for the insulting 1% pay increase after gods know how many years of freeze. But the first point is the worst.
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Whichever hypocritical scumbag chose today's Daily Hate headline & front page story.
Asylum seekers attacked in the street? Outrageous, what's happened to our friendly, welcoming society?
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They voted for insular, isolationist propaganda.
Because: Fuckwits
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Whichever hypocritical scumbag chose today's Daily Hate headline & front page story.
Asylum seekers attacked in the street? Outrageous, what's happened to our friendly, welcoming society?
The irony is not lost given the track record of the Daily Hate and many of it's overrated and overpaid regular columnists.
I wonder what Hopkins might have had to say on the matter. I recall gunships and wristbands...
Actually scrub that. I don't need vile and bigoted hatred in my life.
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Michael Howard, who seems to have forgotten that we don't really have a navy any more, and the Spanish are not the pantomime villains that the Argies were in 1982.
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Liam Fox and T May, if toadying up to murderers is getting our country back I don't want it.
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Liam Fox and T May, if toadying up to murderers is getting our country back I don't want it.
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T May: Top tip, if you're discussing the morality of selling arms to regimes with dodgy human rights records, it's probably best not to use terms such as "standing on the sidelines and sniping".
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I confess that I've never really understood why 'segregating' a substantial portion of your population based on skill colour is bad and rightly worthy of trade bans and sanctions but if you do the same on the basis of their sex, it's a-ok let's a do a trade deal. What, you're the world's leading supporter of terrorism and exporter of violence too? Excellent work, want some bombs to go with that? Makes me proud.
In other news, I had the misfortune of hearing parents whine on the radiogram because they can't get cheap holidays by pulling their kids out of school during term time. Bunch of twats.
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In other news, I had the misfortune of hearing parents whine on the radiogram because they can't get cheap holidays by pulling their kids out of school during term time. Bunch of twats.
There are legitimate reasons for doing that. I have a colleague whose son is autistic. He can't cope with crowds. They want a family holiday, so want to go out of season. School special needs department agrees that's a legitimate reason for going during term time but it isn't listed as a valid reason according to Ed depart. So family will be sanctioned if they go on holiday.
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That's an edge-case though. These were people who wanted to save a couple grand on Disneyland and whaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh it's so unfair. That petulant bone-drill of a whine that many people these days emit when they're told they can't do something. Just fucking deal with it.
We never had holidays as kids so it was moot. Occasional day trip to Skegness and my grandparents once took me to Blackpool. Oh, and my aunt lived in Cleethorpes. Now that was seriously exotic. The Grimsby Riviera.
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I got pulled out of school for a week to go to Disney World when I was, erm, 9. Things were different in those days, and my dad had a rare opportunity to be paid[1] to go to a conference in Miami (where he discovered laboratory robots and gunshot wounds and that USAnian health care worked like a third-world country). Anyway, once we'd done the token being-groped-by-Mickey-Mouse stuff, EPCOT was awesome, and then there was the real reason I came: the Kennedy Space Center (they vetoed my suggestion of skipping another week of school in order to see a shuttle launch, bastards). All in, about three orders of magnitude more educational than school, which is why this sort of thing should be banned with no exceptions[2].
But whining about it on the radio is like complaining that your luxury apartment is in the wrong area code. There's no way to not come across as an entitled cockwomble.
[1] Would anyone go to Miami without being paid?
[2] Personally, I think some sort of quota would be more reasonable. So you can take advantage of those rare opportunities, but stop people from repeatedly taking the piss.
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I do wish that the whining May would concentrate on the significant state matters in hand rather than pass wind, er I mean comment on every little matter. Perhaps she is trying to appear stateswomanlike but she is making herself look like a fool imo.
I also think that the state should not be backing up incalcitrant head teachers or whining parents and that the court have got is spectacularly wrong. There should be an acceptable measure of what is reasonable attendance, not a subjective measure which the court has now allowed to exist. Draconian.
I am disappointed with Hale.
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I do wish that the whining May would concentrate on the significant state matters in hand rather than pass wind, er I mean comment on every little matter. Perhaps she is trying to appear stateswomanlike...
Or perhaps she's trying to distract us from what's really going on [/world-weary cynic]
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It's less, to be honest, the actuality. I don't have kids and I don't much care as to the ins and outs of other peoples' kids time off during term time. I'm certainly fine with the concept of a once-in-a-lifetime experience being probably better than sitting in a classroom and I don't think an eight-year-old missing a couple of weeks of school will stop them becoming a brain surgeon for NASA. But given that everyone goes on holiday these days, I can see a point where it becomes disruptive and the majority of these holidays aren't life-changers, it's fish and chips on the Costa. Kids get plenty of time off. The holidays are more expensive during these periods. Deal with it. Either pony up the cash or go somewhere cheaper.
It's more that aspirated whine of entitlement. Bwaaaaaaaaah! That Farage-esque homunculus that withers inside these people. Every teeny nibble at their entitled worldview becomes an attack on their fundamental inalienable rights. How dare they! It's the same noise that emits from people when challenged over their parking for their oversized car etc. Bwaaaaaaaaah! The chap on the radio could have paid a £60 fine but, oh no, that foul little homunculus squeezes yet another BWAAAAAAAH out of his mouth.
Personally, I think when these overly-entitled pieces of shit start to shriek like angry kettles about their rights, we should just exercise our right to tell them to fuck off. I'd have love it if the Supreme Court had simply said 'having been forced to listen to your tedious arguments for an entire ten minutes, myself and my learned colleagues have hereby determined that you should fuck off. Shut up and fuck off. And take your fucking whiny kids too. Fuck the fuck off to fucked off land.' (And for the record, this is how I think judges should speak.)
If you know better about educating your kids and the think the rules don't apply to you, go educate them yourself. I can save some dosh on my council tax.
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^ POTD
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I was about to post a bit of 'I kind of support the parents a bit here as there is a point where the government can fuck off telling us what to do'
.. I still think that a little (and I may still be a teeny bit jealous of never having had a term time holiday because my Mum was a teacher :( )
... but given Ian's post above - yeah - I'm with you there - I am persuaded.
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^ POTD
It's a bit of a shame posts here can't go viral really isn't it
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I was about to post a bit of 'I kind of support the parents a bit here as there is a point where the government can fuck off telling us what to do'
I can't help feeling that the whole business tells us more about the smallness of Jon Platt's mind than it does about the education system.
Dammit, if I took my kids out of school during term time, I'd be more than happy to make a £60 contribution to the Teachers' Gin Fund seeing as I'd probably be saving considerably more than that on the cost of flights.
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I think in reality it tells us an awful lot about the small mindedness of all involved.
However, Mr. Platt has, just like all of us, a right to access to justice. He certainly got access to the justice system but whether he got justice or not really depends upon your point of view.
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I suppose what also narks me is the fact that many children around the world – a majority I'm sure – don't get access to a good education. Many get access to no education.
And we're whining about taking our kids out of that precious education for what in most cases is a nothing more than a crappy holiday filled with sunburn and family arguments.
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Meanwhile, not content with dribbling on about the Easteregggate non-scandal, Theresa Mayssolini is now sticking her neb into the internal business of the Labour Party with more unfounded nonse about Ken Leninspart, the big twatty twatter. Mrs Mayssolini, that is, not Ken.
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I confess to taking my kids out of school for the last week of term, once.
My dad had terminal cancer (one of the types that ain't going to get better but you get well spurts). He was having a well spurt for a few months. If we went during that period, they would get to see him (he lived in Australia) and it wouldn't disrupt study for GCSE exams in the following term. So we skipped school for the last week of term, went to Australia and got married out there.
The school said "Seems like good reason and timing to us".
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Father Tessa Mayssolini talking utter bollox about the nation coming together and the opportunities brexit will bring.
No doubt for the rich Tessa, no doubt.
This PM concentrates on the drivel rather than the serious business. She has many underlings to do drivel leaving the big stuff for her. Perhaps she is a control freak.
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Tess of the d'Underheads
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She is approaching the irritatingness of Thatcher. She's right up there with the condescendingness.
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The current private eye headline regarding the UK joining a future single market is most amusing. I hope that these politicians understand group think.
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That 'woman' AGAIN.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/katie-hopkins-faces-backlash-for-comments-about-prince-william-and-harrys-mental-health-campaigning-a3519016.html (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/katie-hopkins-faces-backlash-for-comments-about-prince-william-and-harrys-mental-health-campaigning-a3519016.html)
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Isn't there a name for the medical condition whereby one suggests all sorts of stuff be done to other people, whereas in fact this is a crie de coeur to have that exact thing done to one's self ? ("Put a sock in it.")
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Any super twat that believes the fake new of CNN. Easily frightened little minds.
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Ilie Nastase.
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Ilie Nastase.
Yup.
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Dementia kicking in?
Whatever, he's nasty.
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The berk of a S*n hack who lifted a Southend News Network story about a toddler being kicked out of a vegan child's birthday party for wearing a cow onesie and published it as Trufax.
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Richard Wellings of the Institute for Economic Affairs
https://twitter.com/RichardWellings/status/856103799529844736 (https://twitter.com/RichardWellings/status/856103799529844736)
Past form includes describing cycle commuters as 'low value road users", suggesting pavements should be removed wherever possible and describing inner city parks as a waste of valuable land that could be used for building.
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Comments are good, mind.
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Indeed. That's a pretty impressive original tweet in that all of the replies are anti. A thoroughly deserved nomination for this thread.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39717728
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It's the second that baffles me most. That's taking it to a higher level.
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Well, when you see a car stuck window deep in a flood under a railway bridge do you (a) stop and plan an alternative route or (b) carry on and attempt to drive around the first submerged car?
The answer it seems, for some people in South London, is (b).
The same rule seems to apply globally.
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Indeed. A very sensible algorithm for piloting a ton of mechanised material.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39717728
...one car drove through the tape and sank immediately into the wet cement.
Another car that followed the first one suffered the same fate...
::-)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39717728
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39717728
<Golf clap>
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I guess at that age the sensation of something gradually hardening is quite unfamiliar :demon:
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Will Donaldson
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Will Donaldson
Mr Google's magic computer is unhelpful on this. Care to shed a bit of light?
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Hatey Cockpins - again
Katie Hopkins’ Ramadan Tweet Investigated By Police In Wake Of London Terror Arrest
Katie Hopkins has been accused of a hate crime after remarks she made in the wake of the arrest of a man in Whitehall on suspicion of plotting a terror attack.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-katie-hopkins-brands-muslims-these-sods-in-wake-of-terror-arrest_uk_5902dc56e4b05c39767d6cd9 (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-katie-hopkins-brands-muslims-these-sods-in-wake-of-terror-arrest_uk_5902dc56e4b05c39767d6cd9)
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Will Donaldson
Mr Google's magic computer is unhelpful on this. Care to shed a bit of light?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38934822 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38934822)
S-T for implying that major email services are insecure (they aren't) and then selling a device that is insecure. When people point out the security flaws in said product (back doors include out of date software components using default passwords) he says end users can patch those if they want.
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Hatey Cockpins - again
Katie Hopkins’ Ramadan Tweet Investigated By Police In Wake Of London Terror Arrest
Katie Hopkins has been accused of a hate crime after remarks she made in the wake of the arrest of a man in Whitehall on suspicion of plotting a terror attack.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-katie-hopkins-brands-muslims-these-sods-in-wake-of-terror-arrest_uk_5902dc56e4b05c39767d6cd9 (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-katie-hopkins-brands-muslims-these-sods-in-wake-of-terror-arrest_uk_5902dc56e4b05c39767d6cd9)
I don't understand. If it's not yet Ramadan, why are Muslims hungry? And if they're hungry, why are they blowing up McDonalds? Surely a Big Mac would be more appropriate.
I'm hungry and I'm not even a Muslim.
O my brains, Katie-bat, O my blessed brains!
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Mr St Davids ... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/02/aristocrat-in-court-over-allegedly-racist-facebook-posts-rhodri-philipps-gina-miller
Get the guillotine set up.
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Mr St Davids ... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/02/aristocrat-in-court-over-allegedly-racist-facebook-posts-rhodri-philipps-gina-miller
Get the guillotine set up.
Please, please let him be sent to jail. I'd so love his privileged white smirk to be wiped off by some underpaid prison officers.
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Richard "Permanent degenerative" Graham MP
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Mr St Davids ... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/02/aristocrat-in-court-over-allegedly-racist-facebook-posts-rhodri-philipps-gina-miller
Get the guillotine set up.
Please, please let him be sent to jail. I'd so love his privileged white smirk to be wiped off by some underpaid prison officers.
I'm pretty sure that it will not be prison officers, more like his peer group:
He refused to stand in the dock until address as 'Lord'. Pompous ass.
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I'm surprised he deigns to use anything as plebeian as Facebook.
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The guy is a Prick (note the capital P) with a misplaced sense of entitlement. We are in the 21st century. He should fuck off back to the 18th/ 19th.
I bet he drives as if entitled.......
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Mr St Davids ... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/02/aristocrat-in-court-over-allegedly-racist-facebook-posts-rhodri-philipps-gina-miller
Get the guillotine set up.
Please, please let him be sent to jail. I'd so love his privileged white smirk to be wiped off by some underpaid prison officers.
I'm pretty sure that it will not be prison officers, more like his peer group:
He refused to stand in the dock until address as 'Lord'. Pompous ass.
OK, call me a pedant, but he isn't Mr St Davids AIUI. He is Mr Philipps.
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Mr St Davids ... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/02/aristocrat-in-court-over-allegedly-racist-facebook-posts-rhodri-philipps-gina-miller
Get the guillotine set up.
Please, please let him be sent to jail. I'd so love his privileged white smirk to be wiped off by some underpaid prison officers.
I'm pretty sure that it will not be prison officers, more like his peer group:
He refused to stand in the dock until address as 'Lord'. Pompous ass.
OK, call me a pedant, but he isn't Mr St Davids AIUI. He is Mr Philipps.
For some reason I think of him as Lord Twat Badger.
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How low can May stoop?
She's invoked Article 50 after wasting time at court, called an election wasting precious preparation and negotiation time, and now she wants to waste even more time bringing back fox hunting.
Clearly desperate to claw back as many ukippers as possible, she must be worried. Talking fox when she doesn't talk about the significant issues facing us.
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Mr St Davids ... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/02/aristocrat-in-court-over-allegedly-racist-facebook-posts-rhodri-philipps-gina-miller
Get the guillotine set up.
Wow. What a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
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How low can May stoop?
She's invoked Article 50 after wasting time at court, called an election wasting precious preparation and negotiation time, and now she wants to waste even more time bringing back fox hunting.
Clearly desperate to claw back as many ukippers as possible, she must be worried. Talking fox when she doesn't talk about the significant issues facing us.
Teresa "there are girl's jobs and boy's jobs" May. What is this, the 1950s?
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How low can May stoop?
She's invoked Article 50 after wasting time at court, called an election wasting precious preparation and negotiation time, and now she wants to waste even more time bringing back fox hunting.
Clearly desperate to claw back as many ukippers as possible, she must be worried. Talking fox when she doesn't talk about the significant issues facing us.
Teresa "there are girl's jobs and boy's jobs" May. What is this, the 1950s?
Who would have thought that a woman could be working at no. 10 who isn't a cook or a cleaner?
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The more she says, the more I find her views objectionable.
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How low can May stoop?
She's invoked Article 50 after wasting time at court, called an election wasting precious preparation and negotiation time, and now she wants to waste even more time bringing back fox hunting.
Clearly desperate to claw back as many ukippers as possible, she must be worried. Talking fox when she doesn't talk about the significant issues facing us.
Teresa "there are girl's jobs and boy's jobs" May. What is this, the 1950s?
For most Tories that does seem to be their dream decade. I blame the end of rationing.
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The more she says, the more I find her views objectionable.
Hence why they are studiously keeping her away from the general public, unvetted questions from journalists, and a debate with Corbyn.
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The late and not at all lamented Ian Brady, whom, it appears, might have specified a wish to have his ashes scattered on Saddleworth Moor.
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"No politician in history has been treated worse..."
Fuck off, you obnoxious orange c*nt!
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He really is a complete sodding "snowflake" isn't he?
How the bloody hell did he survive primary school?
Use the following words to complete a well known phrase or saying, "get" "kitchen" "heat" "out". Wimp.
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A legend in his own mind....
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Not much of a legend at all then.
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Obviously for specific values of "history", as in "In USAnia, in the last twenty years and not to a black man".
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I think Abraham Lincoln and JKF would disagree with him.
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The late and not at all lamented Ian Brady, whom, it appears, might have specified a wish to have his ashes scattered on Saddleworth Moor.
I sincerely hope that he is refused permission to be scattered anywhere, and most definitely his funeral and scattering should not be on consecrated ground. In fact it would be good if all funeral directors refused to have anything to do with him. Yes, I am being vindictive, and I'm not going to apologise for it.
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So what happens to his body if nobody will deal with it? Burn him, dump the ashes.
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flush 'im down the lav
There are murderers, there are unrepentant murderers and there is Ian Brady. Tormenting the mother of one of his victims, for decades.
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Traditionally it was burial in an unmarked grave within the prison bounds with added quicklime.
But the coroner has stated that he won't release the body until there is a funeral director and crematorium sorted.
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I suspect that he'll be cremated anonymously and the ashes disposed of in landfill. I would imagine that any surviving family would rather not advertise the association.
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Traditionally it was burial in an unmarked grave within the prison bounds with added quicklime.
But the coroner has stated that he won't release the body until there is a funeral director and crematorium sorted.
So he'll spend eternity in a fridge? Works for me.
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Traditionally it was burial in an unmarked grave within the prison bounds with added quicklime.
But the coroner has stated that he won't release the body until there is a funeral director and crematorium sorted.
So he'll spend eternity in a fridge? Works for me.
Waste of good electricity. If he wanted to be cremated stick his corpse in a waste to power incinerator at least that way society gets _something_ positive from him.
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Tonight's ITV leaders' debate should earn Paul Nuttall a permanent place in this thread.
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Piers Morgan
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You can't nominate him; he has a permanent seat on the Super Twat Council
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Piers Morgan
Erm, you mean That Colossal Bellend Piers Morgan' don't you?
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Oh god. What now ? Dare I look ?
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The grand-standing, blowhard moron in the U.S. Intelligence (intelligence?) services who leaked the name of the Manchester bomber to the U.S. press while H.M. Constabulary and others were doing their damndest to work out whether or not he was a standalone nutter or part of a network without alerting any possible accomplices that they had any sort of lead. I hope he's given the boot PDQ.
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I assume that horse-faced rabble-rouser and right-wing spunktrumpet Katie Hopkins also has a permanent seat on the ST council, so I won't nominate her for inciting a Holocaust of Muslims.
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Yes (http://newsthump.com/2017/05/24/katie-hopkins-threat-level-raised-from-public-irritant-to-toxic-shit-fountain/), Roger . . .
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LBC and Katie Hopkins have agreed that Katie will leave LBC effective immediately.
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Blimey ! A little scintilla of good news amidst all the gloom. Good riddance.
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I assume that horse-faced rabble-rouser and right-wing spunktrumpet Katie Hopkins also has a permanent seat on the ST council, so I won't nominate her for inciting a Holocaust of Muslims.
Just seen the news... Blimey! That's gobsmackingly stupid even by her standards.
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Jeremy Hunt
Apparently, the NHS will be better off after Brexit. I don't know where to begin...
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But it was written on the side of a bus, in
black red and white! And Bloody Stupid Johnson reiterated it at the weekend and told us it's right there in the manifesto1. And Mrs Mayhem has said there'll be eight billion extra sovs arising out of Strength Through Joy Stability. And
(Explodes)
1: It isn't.
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BoJo has rather disappeared of late. Have the Tories finally realised he is a liability ?
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Jeremy Hunt
Apparently, the NHS will be better off after Brexit. I don't know where to begin...
Well, they're probably thinking of all the money we'll save by not paying all them forrin' staff. I mean, they come over here and staff our NHS and make it one of the best health services on the planet, so it's about time something was done about the problem.
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Jeremy Hunt
Apparently, the NHS will be better off after Brexit. I don't know where to begin...
Well, they're probably thinking of all the money we'll save by not paying all them forrin' staff. I mean, they come over here and staff our NHS and make it one of the best health services on the planet, so it's about time something was done about the problem.
What he said on the Toady programme this morning was that Brexit will be good for the economy and therefore we'll have more money to spend on doctors and nurses.
And he actually sounded like he believed it, which probably makes it worse.
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These being the same people whose entire detailed plan for a successful Brexit is to 'negotiate a good deal for Britain.'
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BoJo has rather disappeared of late. Have the Tories finally realised he is a liability ?
He's lowering his profile so that when it all goes horribly wrong for the MayBot* he can put himself forward to the blue rinsed masses as their saviour.
*i.e. not the anticipated landslide
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BoJo has rather disappeared of late. Have the Tories finally realised he is a liability ?
He's lowering his profile so that when it all goes horribly wrong for the MayBot* he can put himself forward to the blue rinsed masses as their saviour.
*i.e. not the anticipated landslide
I take it that you haven't seen this:
http://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-and-labour-election-chief-andrew-gwynne-in-fiery-spat-10897829 (http://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-and-labour-election-chief-andrew-gwynne-in-fiery-spat-10897829)
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Margaret Court
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Goes without saying.
The Trumpster - about to pull the US out of the Paris Accord. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40108659)
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I heard that on the 5pm news on Radio 2.
My BRANE heard it as 'announcement by President CHUMP'.
My next thought was 'dipshit fucking wombat' . . .
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My BRANE heard it as 'announcement by President CHUMP'.
Interesting. I heard it the same way on the 6music news. Maybe it's a new BBC policy? ;D
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We can but hope. There's a precedent, of course, with their referring to Jeremy Rhyming-Slang by his proper name.
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The lesser brained Usasian orange-u-tang once again for it's position on the Paris climate change agreement.
There it stands proud and tall with it's knuckes dragging in the dirt beside Syria and Nicaragua. Three significant world powers influencing change for the benefit of, er, nobody.
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<PSA>
Syria wasn't expected to sign the deal on account of the civil war that's been raging for the last six years and Nicaragua didn't sign because they believe that the agreement does not go far enough. It is also worth noting that being a non-signatory to the Paris Agreement is not stopping Nicaragua from doing its bit in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
http://time.com/4799844/nicaragua-paris-climate-agreement-countries/
</PSA>
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The friend who posted a link on facebook to a book called 'The Feminist Lie'. And the other friend who 'liked' his post. And Bob Lewis who wrote the book. And all the idiots who gave the book a 5-star review on Amazon.
Here's a choice line from one of the reviews:
"How many more men must die because of a system more lopsided than these feminazis saggy tits?"
:facepalm:
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Well, I'm terrified to leave the house because feminists. And bears. I'm not sure if the ursines are male or female though.
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You still got yetis, or has the tidy hair scared the unkempt cryptids away?
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The yeti are at the top of the garden, behind the summer house, in The Wild Place. Only a brave man, tidy hair or not, attempts to sex a yeti. I am not that man.
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Well, I'm terrified to leave the house because feminists. And bears. I'm not sure if the ursines are male or female though.
As any fule kno, all bears are male. Big boy.
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Piers Fucking Morgan again, https://twitter.com/MxJackMonroe/status/873997941853257728 having a go at Jack Monroe over their suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
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My sister's had it since she was in her 20s. It's a right bugger. Pain, disability . . . .
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Piers Fucking Morgan again, https://twitter.com/MxJackMonroe/status/873997941853257728 having a go at Jack Monroe over their suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
You mean That Colossal Bellend Piers Fucking Morgan right?
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Piers Fucking Morgan again, https://twitter.com/MxJackMonroe/status/873997941853257728 (https://twitter.com/MxJackMonroe/status/873997941853257728) having a go at Jack Monroe over their suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
You mean That Colossal Bellend Piers Fucking Morgan right?
That is indeed the putrid, festering skidmark on the stained y-fronts of humanity I was referring to ;)
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Note also that it's properly spelled 'Piers "Morgan" Moron1'
1: the colossal bellend
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I suppose if he stopped being a colossal bellend then we'd have to call him something else. Maybe just bellend. Though it seems unlikely he'll stop being colossal any time soon, the colossal bellend.
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Surely Theresa May has appeared in this thread by now? If not, I nominate her for:
1. Calling a pointless election
2. Failing to do any real campaigning
3. Not resigning when it became clear she'd made the biggest political miscalculation since Hitler invaded the USSR
4. Failing to acknowledge anything had gone wrong in her Downing Street speech
5. Giving wet-lipped fist magnet Michael Gove a job
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The group think bubble appears to be made of some very flexible elastomeric substance. They are all legends in their own minds. The fact they have fooked the UK for years to come and that people have sussed this seems to escape them.
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I cannot be bothered to list all of the issues with Dolly the Thatcher1 but there are a dangerous number of hovering supertwats such as Bozo, Gove, Green, Brokenrecord, etc. to fill the void.
1: A clone in appearance but a very poor substitute, i.e. Dolly the sheep. Thatcher will be sleeping soundly knowing that her status as the ultimate superbitchtwat is safe.
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Has no one nominated Arlene Foster or Ian Paisley* yet?
* Junior or Senior. Senior was such a SuperTwat, he remains so in perpetuity and will never** change
** NEVER!!! NEVER!!! NEVER!!! NEVER!!!
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Ruining Wales' reputation in one post:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40347813
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I do not imagine that non-gentleman will be working for Eddie Stobart very much longer.
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Or ever working for his dad.
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The Collosal Bell End Piers Morgan is, as one might say, pwned
http://boingboing.net/2017/06/28/piers-morgan-owned.html
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I have a few doubts about the spontaneity of those remarks. The camera seems to move in on Morgan's face a little too early for the director not to have known what was coming. Whether Morgan knew, of course, is another matter.
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The Collosal Bell End Piers Morgan is, as one might say, pwned
http://boingboing.net/2017/06/28/piers-morgan-owned.html
Absolute class. :thumbsup:
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I have a few doubts about the spontaneity of those remarks. The camera seems to move in on Morgan's face a little too early for the director not to have known what was coming. Whether Morgan knew, of course, is another matter.
It's a multi camera setup, the director is cutting between shots and likely calling them. The video below shows that they have some previous & sport in that regard. The dawning realisation on the Bell End is a thing to behold.
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I reckon Catherine Faulks, RBKC councillor, deserves a nomination for her performance on the Home Service this morning. Asked about, inter alia, the report that some Grenfell Tower tenants have had rent payments taken out of their accounts, she said it was wrong to focus on such small matters.
(As she spoke, the realisation of how bad that sounded dawned, and she backtracked, saying that of course for the people concerned, this wasn't a small matter. I'm not convinced that helps very much.)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40556872
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40556872 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40556872)
Guilty super-twat :-D http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40574754
Sentencing on Thursday http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/viscount-convicted-after-death-thre/
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BBC News has just quoted $LEGAL_EAGLE: "he can expect a custodial sentence". LOL and, moreover, roffle.
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https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/885512922868441090
12 weeks, I hope he enjoys it & comes out a better person....
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Doubt he'll do more than 6.
Trying to incite murder should carry a far far greater tariff imo.
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https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/885512922868441090
12 weeks, I hope he enjoys it & comes out a better person....
Unfortunately I suspect he will have a seriously bad effect on the other inmates.
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Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull who is banging on anti-encryption laws, as if they wouldn't leave everyone's bank transactions vulnerable and as if terrorists planning murder would comply to some rules about no using the wrong sort of easily available program.
He said:- "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40606493 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40606493)
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Curt von Badinski.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170712-the-man-who-takes-a-plane-to-work-every-day
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Dean Littleford (http://road.cc/content/news/225996-lorry-driver-convicted-close-pass-baffled-verdict-video)
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Curt von Badinski.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170712-the-man-who-takes-a-plane-to-work-every-day
Bewildering. If you worked in San Francisco, why would you choose to live in LA?
Not on quite the same scale, but this reminds me of a character I worked with about 10 years ago. For tax purposes he was based in New York but in reality he spent the whole week in London. He would fly in overnight Sunday, getting into the office for the regular 08.00 Monday morning meeting that he chaired and fly back to NY late on a Friday evening so he could spend the weekend with his family in Connecticut. Of course, being a master of the universe, he would spend most of the weekend on the phone and when not on the phone, on his Blackberry. He was probably making about £10m a year, but what a miserable way to "live".
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Theresa May praises public wage cap 'sacrifice' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40653456)
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https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/885512922868441090
12 weeks, I hope he enjoys it & comes out a better person....
According to this morning's Metro they've let the fucker out already pending appeal >:(
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https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/885512922868441090
12 weeks, I hope he enjoys it & comes out a better person....
According to this morning's Metro they've let the fucker out already pending appeal >:(
Can't find anything anywhere else saying that. Or a mention on the Metro wibble either. So with luck he's still banged up.
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https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/885512922868441090 (https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/885512922868441090)
12 weeks, I hope he enjoys it & comes out a better person....
According to this morning's Metro they've let the fucker out already pending appeal >:(
Can't find anything anywhere else saying that. Or a mention on the Metro wibble either. So with luck he's still banged up.
The Scum says he's been released on bail pending appeal >:(
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Theresa May praises public wage cap 'sacrifice' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40653456)
Dear hellbitch. Please look up the difference between 'making a sacrifice' and 'being a sacrifice'.
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Theresa May praises public wage cap 'sacrifice' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40653456)
Dear hellbitch. Please look up the difference between 'making a sacrifice' and 'being a sacrifice'.
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Theresa May praises public wage cap 'sacrifice' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40653456)
Dear hellbitch. Please look up the difference between 'making a sacrifice' and 'being a sacrifice'.
Quite.
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It must have been all of a few hours since his last nomination, but Piers "Moron" Morgan (Who is a Colossal Bell End) needs calling out. Again.
This time, he has been tennisplaining to a 49-time Grand Slam champion. No, seriously...
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/887335192821731329
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Ian Collins.
Turning a review on an article on the Met's attempt to trap close passing motorists into an anti cyclist rant followed by 'I wouldn't ride in the city, it's too dangerous'.
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Donald J Trump (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym8emBsYdMs)
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Martin Shkreli -
https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae (https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca)
Not only does he behave like a parody of a heartless money-grubbing capitalist, but he's also a creepy weirdo.
That guy has serious issues. What a nob.
Well, yes. I think he's featured in this thread before for some reason...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/04/martin-shkreli-guilty-securities-fraud-new-york
Oh dear, how sad, never mind...
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Shot: https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/893547380334878720 :demon: ;D
Chaser:
Martin Shkreli at prison commissary:
"Can I buy shower sandals?"
"That'll be $700"
"I thought it was $13.50"
"The price suddenly went up"
https://twitter.com/BenjaminJS/status/893550402020417536
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Australian Liberal MP Kevin Andrews
https://twitter.com/i/moments/896906699772108800 (https://twitter.com/i/moments/896906699772108800)
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Twat of humungous proportions Charlie Alliston: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791)
Skittling peds while riding an illegal bike? I hope they throw away the key, you utter, utter twat.
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Twat of humungous proportions Charlie Alliston: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791)
Skittling peds while riding an illegal bike? I hope they throw away the key, you utter, utter twat.
I don't know the full details of the case, but there's something that I take issue with in the report:
If Mr Alliston had been riding a bike with proper brakes, he would have been able to avoid the collision with Mrs Briggs, prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said.
If he was "going 20mph" as claimed, he may not have been able to stop regardless of what types of brakes he was using. That said, I encounter pavement lemmings all the time while riding in London and so far I've managed to avoid killing any of them.
Besides which, it remains the case that his bike was not road legal, so he's left himself wide open to the charges.
ETA: apparently, it has also been brought up in court that he wasn't wearing a magic hat or hi-viz clothing. :facepalm:
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I don't know the full details of the case, but there's something that I take issue with in the report:
If Mr Alliston had been riding a bike with proper brakes, he would have been able to avoid the collision with Mrs Briggs, prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said.
If he was "going 20mph" as claimed, he may not have been able to stop regardless of what types of brakes he was using. That said, I encounter pavement lemmings all the time while riding in London and so far I've managed to avoid killing any of them.
From the first article about it in the YACF house newspaper (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/15/crash-cyclist-shouted-charlie-alliston-pedestrian-lay-wounded):
"Edward Small, a crash investigator who studied CCTV of the incident, concluded that Alliston, who was then aged 18, would have been able to stop and avoid a collision if the bike had been fitted with a front brake.
The defendant had been travelling at an average of 18mph before he noticed Briggs step into the road, jurors heard. He was a minimum of 6.65 metres (21.8ft) away when he swerved and tried to take evasive action.
Tests on a conventional mountain bike found a stopping distance of about three metres, but Alliston’s model had a stopping distance of about 12 metres, the court heard.
I couldn't comment on the accuracy of those numbers, but from todays report:
iving evidence, Alliston said he did not know a front brake was a legal requirement and insisted that having one would not have made a difference when he saw Briggs step into the road holding a mobile phone.
“I tried to go around,” he said. “Having a brake, I wouldn’t have had enough time to pull it. It was a few split seconds prior to the impact, which caused the impact, so a brake at the time wouldn’t have made a difference."
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I hope the little arsehole goes to jail.
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Well, as we all know, ignorance of the law is no defence. And I'm sure the crash investigator knows what he's talking about. And anyone who rides a track bike on busy city streets is a pillock of the first order.
Manslaughter still seems an excessively strong charge though. He would probably have got away with a caution if he'd hit a pedestrian with a car instead of a bike.
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Twat of humungous proportions Charlie Alliston: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791)
Skittling peds while riding an illegal bike? I hope they throw away the key, you utter, utter twat.
Alternatively, 18 year-old lad modifies his vehicle with scant attention to possible consequences, then operates his vehicle in stereotypical fashion.
While it's obviously right that vehicle operators should be held to account for their actions, I'm a bit concerned that this case has resulted in a manslaughter charge where others, even more egregious, have not.
It seems almost a truism that a dozen motorists1 presided over by a motorist in a wig will find it easy to decide that operating a Brakeless! Racing! bicycle at c18mph is self-evidently reckless, while operating a ton or more of metal well in excess of the speed limit, or when your eyesight does not meet the legal requirements, or when you can't see a cyclist right in front of you, or when you have been told by doctors that you must not drive in case you pass out, are all simple errors of judgment that do not amount to driving dangerously or even carelessly.
1: In fairness, a London jury may not be *quite* as likely to be full of motorists as one elsewhere.
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Saying he should get off because motorists get off is whattaboutery.
He shouldn't get away with it. A motorist who illegally modifies their vehicle, kills someone then disclaims responsibility should not get away with it.
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Who's said he should "get off" or "get away with it"?
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Bet there will be a lot of fixie hipsters buying front brakes now...
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Bet there will be a lot of fixie hipsters buying front brakes now...
Good!
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Agree with jsabine. Only that: I'm a bit concerned that other more egregious cases have not resulted in a manslaughter charge like this one did
Twat of humungous proportions Charlie Alliston: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40927791)
Skittling peds while riding an illegal bike? I hope they throw away the key, you utter, utter twat.
Alternatively, 18 year-old lad modifies his vehicle with scant attention to possible consequences, then operates his vehicle in stereotypical fashion.
While it's obviously right that vehicle operators should be held to account for their actions, I'm a bit concerned that this case has resulted in a manslaughter charge where others, even more egregious, have not.
It seems almost a truism that a dozen motorists1 presided over by a motorist in a wig will find it easy to decide that operating a Brakeless! Racing! bicycle at c18mph is self-evidently reckless, while operating a ton or more of metal well in excess of the speed limit, or when your eyesight does not meet the legal requirements, or when you can't see a cyclist right in front of you, or when you have been told by doctors that you must not drive in case you pass out, are all simple errors of judgment that do not amount to driving dangerously or even carelessly.
1: In fairness, a London jury may not be *quite* as likely to be full of motorists as one elsewhere.
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Geoffrey Boycott
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I hope the little arsehole goes to jail.
Well I see he has been cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of furious riding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41028321
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I hope the little arsehole goes to jail.
Well I see he has been cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of furious riding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41028321
Which very likely will result in a custodial sentence.
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I hope the little arsehole goes to jail.
Well I see he has been cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of furious riding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41028321
Which very likely will result in a custodial sentence.
The beak commented he hasn't shown the slightest remorse, so he hasn't done himself or anyone else any favours.
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He could have said sorry a lot, had his solicitor tell the court that this is the first time it's happened and he's of such previously good character, and then told the judge that he needs his bike to help his sick mum.
It usually works for drivers.
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If you would like to gauge the harshness of the sentence when he receives it, according to Road Peace, 27% of drivers found guilty of death by careless or inconsiderate driving are sent to prison, of whom 54% get a sentence of less than 12 months. It will be interesting to see what the judge gives as I would say the charge is roughly equivalent.
http://www.road-peace.org.uk/resources/RoadPeace%20Sentencing%20of%20Causing%20Death%20by%20Driving%20offences%20England%20Wales.pdf
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The owner of the Bath tipper truck, which also had no effective brakes, got 7 years and 6 months.
The law seems to be tougher on vehicle maintenance than on driver faults, possibly because they can be foreseen and the driver can't claim a momentary lapse of attention.
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He could have said sorry a lot, had his solicitor tell the court that this is the first time it's happened and he's of such previously good character, and then told the judge that he needs his bike to help his sick mum.
It usually works for drivers.
Actually, having worked on such matters it really is far from the simple task as portrayed by the daly hate, the sexpest and the scum.
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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/09/04/doctor-who-writer-hits-out-at-trannies-and-rainbow-cult/
Knob, from the pretentiously and peculiarly named Stephanie Anne. Now FOAD.
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Weird-looking Tory arsehole Jacob Rees-Mogg (again)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41172426 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41172426)
What a load of spherical objects this twat does spout
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Why do you say that?
All he has said is that he follows a particular religion and therefore accepts the teachings and dogma of that faith. There's no suggestion that he seeks to change the law, or would do if he became a minister, and, as the comment from BPAS makes it clear, Parliament and public opinion are predominantly pro-choice.
You may not agree with him. I don't agree with him. But surely he is entitled to make his own moral judgements, even if the majority of people may disagree.
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Because Tim Farron?
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Good point.
Again, without defending his views, I thought the way he was hounded by the media and others was disgraceful, especially when the PM - who has pronounced that her religion influences her decisions - appeared to be left alone, despite consistently voting against almost every bit of civilising legislation in recent years.
Ironically, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that Ress-Mogg would be in favour of a return to capital punishment...
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Rees Mogg is a pompous, patronising prig.
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Rees Mogg is a pompous, patronising prig.
that's putting it rather politely
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Rees Mogg is a pompous, patronising prig.
that's putting it rather politely
I popped into add him to the Hall of Shame but naturally I've been beaten to it.
What an utter @*!$):<^
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Rees Mogg of course suffers from the Catholic pro-life paradox. On the one hand, a life begins at conception and only God can give or take life. On the other hand, his chosen faith needlessly condemns millions to die from AIDS as a result on their failure to support the use of condoms. Presumably this is ok, because the Pope said so and his word is God's word but even so, they need to do a cost/benefit analysis here.
They weren't so fussy about life when they were crusading, or burning "witches", or throwing babies corpses in cess pits in Ireland etc. Pope Urban II wrote the Tony Blair rule book on "just war".
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Martin Shkreli -
https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae (https://www.ft.com/content/693ad306-9b6d-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/martin-shkreli-suspended-from-twitter-for-alleged-harrassment-of-lauren-duca)
Not only does he behave like a parody of a heartless money-grubbing capitalist, but he's also a creepy weirdo.
That guy has serious issues. What a nob.
Well, yes. I think he's featured in this thread before for some reason...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/04/martin-shkreli-guilty-securities-fraud-new-york
Oh dear, how sad, never mind...
More on everyone's favourite price-gouging pharma douchebro - bail has been revoked, he's off to the big house, pending sentencing in January.
A judge jailed former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli on Wednesday after finding that he violated his bail on a securities fraud conviction with a social media posting she agreed posed a threat to Hillary Clinton.
Defense attorneys had argued at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn that the post by Shkreli, offering a $5,000 bounty to anyone who could grab him one of Clinton’s hairs while she’s on a book tour, was political satire. But U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto didn’t see the humor, saying the offer could be taken seriously by fellow Clinton detractors.
The Clinton offer could be viewed as “a solicitation of an assault,” the judge said before revoking Shkreli’s $5 million bail.
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Shkreli, who is best known for hiking up the price of a life-saving drug and for trolling his critics on social media, was found guilty last month on charges, unrelated to the price-fixing scandal, that he cheated investors in two failed hedge funds he ran. The defense had argued that investors got their original investments back and even made hefty profits.
Shkreli faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing, set for Jan. 16.
https://apnews.com/fb8d75c32c704f5190996f81c8c69f2b/Pharma-Bro-Martin-Shkreli-has-bail-revoked,-heads-to-jail
(Morgan Freeman voice): Martin Shkreli crawled through five football fields worth of shit, but hilariously drowned 3 inches from freedom.
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/908117656443674624
Feel free to again channel your inner Battery Sergeant Major Williams...
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It says more about the 'America Dream' than about just on individually.
One person's dream made from the nightmares of thousands.
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It must have been all of a few hours since his last nomination, but Piers "Moron" Morgan (Who is a Colossal Bell End) needs calling out. Again.
This time, he has been tennisplaining to a 49-time Grand Slam champion. No, seriously...
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/887335192821731329
Piers Morgan says Jeremy Corbyn started speaking Spanish to Arsenal star Hector Bellerin to 'shut him out of the conversation' (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-speaking-spanish-piers-morgan-hector-bellerin-arsenal-gq-men-of-the-year-a7954511.html)
According to Mr Morgan’s Daily Mail column, he had been seated at the same table as Mr Bellerin, and earlier in the evening had been talking to him about Arsenal’s recent run of poor form.
He wrote: “Later, fellow Arsenal fan Jeremy Corbyn came over to speak to him. When I tried to interrupt, the Labour leader – whose wife is Mexican – promptly switched to fluent Spanish to shut me out of the conversation.”
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Points, laughs.
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You missed a couple of points. ;)
Collosal Bell End Piers Morgan says Jeremy Corbyn started speaking Spanish to Arsenal star Hector Bellerin to 'shut him out of the conversation' (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-speaking-spanish-piers-morgan-hector-bellerin-arsenal-gq-men-of-the-year-a7954511.html)
According to Mr Morgan*’s Daily Mail column, he had been seated at the same table as Mr Bellerin, and earlier in the evening had been talking to him about Arsenal’s recent run of poor form.
*Who is a Collosal Bell End
He wrote: “Later, fellow Arsenal fan Jeremy Corbyn came over to speak to him. When I tried to interrupt, the Labour leader – whose wife is Mexican – promptly switched to fluent Spanish to shut me out of the conversation.”
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Lewis Hamilton.
I have absolutely no problem with him choosing to go vegan but to claim that he is concerned about emissions and that emissions from animals exceeds those from cars is kinda missing the big point. Most people on the planet farm animals for food and thus their own survival. Driving a big, fast, polluting car or flying half way round the world in your private ozone slayer is really just being a bit of a spoiled brat rich hypocrite. Both you and your PR haven't really thought through your message chum.
Give up your ICE toys, campaign and live the right way and then I'll take notice of you.
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The investment manager from Blackrock who, on this morning's Today programme, was asked whether he had ever accidentally ordered something he didn't want when shopping online and responded with: "I'm married, so I don't have to deal with that sort of thing".
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Lewis Hamilton.
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FTFY
The rest of the post is superfluous . . .
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Lewis Hamilton.
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FTFY
The rest of the post is superfluous . . .
He's no more of a twat than most of them. The right wing gutter press like to run their anti coloured, anti working class hate campaign against him but I can ignore that. But the 'save the planet' thing really does beggar belief.
I'm wondering if he'll be moving to Formula E in 2019 when Mercedes are rumoured to be entering the fray.
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The investment manager from Blackrock who, on this morning's Today programme, was asked whether he had ever accidentally ordered something he didn't want when shopping online and responded with: "I'm married, so I don't have to deal with that sort of thing".
Mrs A is married, so she doesn't have to deal with that sort of thing.. Currently she wants to know when the printer cartridges are going to get here. Now I am thinking I hope I have ordered the right ones.. If not then I will be the super-twat :o
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The investment manager from Blackrock who, on this morning's Today programme, was asked whether he had ever accidentally ordered something he didn't want when shopping online and responded with: "I'm married, so I don't have to deal with that sort of thing".
My (married) brother works for Blackrock. I don't think he was on the radio this morning.
His wife is a formidable organiser. I think my brother is a nice chap.
But I would say that, wouldn't I?
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Tom Elvidge of Uber:
Shallow rhetoric not once referencing the reasons that their operators licence is not being 'renewed'.
How about telling the world what you are doing to address the issues and apologising for being a bunch of super twats?
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Have we had the B-movie star turned Trumpling-cum-poleznyy durak Stephen Seagal yet?
If not, here's an article that explains why the man who now appears to be masquerading as Sebastian Gorka's stunt double warrants a mention in this thread. But as you will see, Seagal being a douchebag is merely the bonus reason for posting... ;)
(Article quote edited for accuracy)
Seeing a washed-up star’s name trending on Twitter is a scary thing. That formerly famous person you basically forgot about could be dead—or, worse, ranting to Piers Morgan (http://www.thedailybeast.com/piers-morgan-trumps-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-boy-friday) (Who is a Colossal Bell End) about his good friend Vladimir Putin.
During Wednesday’s edition of Good Morning Britain, two white men connected via Skype to express their shared disappointment in NFL players who are taking a knee in protest of police brutality and racial inequality. What set this particular interview apart from legions of similarly structured cable news shows were the two players: London sewer monster (https://twitter.com/thedweck/status/908080976848330752?lang=en) Piers Morgan (Who is a Colossal Bell End), and ’80s action hero Steven Seagal. Even for a Piers "Colossal Bell End" Morgan interview—the man has made a career out of getting mad at female celebrities for showing too much cleavage—this exchange is painful.
To summarize: Seagal, speaking live from Russia, squints through a pair of comically small glasses to condemn “Obama-ites” and “the enemies within” America. He goes on to say that, while he believes in free speech, he doesn’t believe in these football players’ “outrageous, disgusting” protest, adding, “I myself have risked my life countless times for the American flag and I don’t understand or agree with this kind of behavior.”
When Piers Morgan (Who is a Colossal Bell End) asks—in a rare moment of lucidity—how anyone can take Seagal’s patriotism seriously when he’s literally Skyping in from Russia, the 65-year-old actor responds, “Every country is involved in espionage…However, for anyone to think that Vladimir Putin had anything to do with fixing the elections or even that the Russians have that kind of technology is stupid.” He blames the Russian collusion story on propaganda, before concluding that, “Russia and America should be great allies.” Then he and Piers (Who is a Colossal Bell End) seamlessly transition into a conversation about Seagal’s new kung fu movie.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-steven-seagal-transformed-into-a-bond-villain?via=twitter_page
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Boris Johnson in new gaffe storm after saying Libyan city can be the next Dubai once they 'clear the dead bodies away'
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-new-gaffe-storm-11282390
FFS you are the Foreign Secretary. You are supposed to be our representative to the world!
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FFS you are the Foreign Secretary. You are supposed to be our representative to the world!
It's easier to think of him as Prince Philip's stand-in.
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FFS you are the Foreign Secretary. You are supposed to be our representative to the world!
It's easier to think of him as Prince Philip's stand-in.
And now it all makes sense. Sort of ...
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It must be a couple of days at least since Jeremy Rhyming-Slang got nominated, but his statement to the Tory conference yesterday that the NHS was actually a Tory thing ranks alongside "I'll still respect you in the morning" and "the cheque is in the post" on the list of Twatty Things that are Clearly Bollocks.
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Michael Gove. And he thinks that he might have his dignity intact after his shameful involvement in the brexit referendum and Borisgate? Mwahahahahahahaha!
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Either way, he finished it off by making rape jokes on the Toady programme.
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Hence my comment. What a mega super twat!
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Peter Hitchens, Charles Moore...
:facepalm:
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Giles Coren. Fat shaming is bad. Fat shaming your son is unbelievable. And a bonus point for "there are uses for a fat woman."
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Giles Coren. Fat shaming is bad. Fat shaming your son is unbelievable. And a bonus point for "there are uses for a fat woman."
I'd never heard of him until this. Unpleasant little oik, isn't he? Really surprising that the talented and amusing Victoria Coren Mitchel is his sister.
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Common sense and decency clearly aren't genetic traits.
Seems to me to be a spoilt little establishment rich kid who has had life handed to him on a plate ...
Note: Pun as well as sentiment intended.
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Giles Coren. Fat shaming is bad. Fat shaming your son is unbelievable. And a bonus point for "there are uses for a fat woman."
I'd never heard of him until this. Unpleasant little oik, isn't he? Really surprising that the talented and amusing Victoria Coren Mitchel is his sister.
Giles and Victoria are the progeny of the late Alan, editor of 'Punch', a long-time resident of dentist waiting rooms.
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Giles Coren. Fat shaming is bad. Fat shaming your son is unbelievable. And a bonus point for "there are uses for a fat woman."
I'd never heard of him until this. Unpleasant little oik, isn't he? Really surprising that the talented and amusing Victoria Coren Mitchel is his sister.
He has called her fat too.
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He's always struck me as a bit of a demi-bosom.
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That indelible human shit stain Farage again.
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If this is some new piece of Farrago twattery, please elucidate.
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Oh, his big porky about Hope Not Hate which he's now made a mealy libel-dodging apology over, still bleating that he stung them for a £100k in costs (which they reasonably point out he didn't on the grounds he was the one making the apology, he paid his own legal bills other than a few small items the barristers agree to split).
Every single word that oozes out of his mouth is a lie.
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John Redwood, the treacherous creep.
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Oh, his big porky about Hope Not Hate which he's now made a mealy libel-dodging apology over, still bleating that he stung them for a £100k in costs (which they reasonably point out he didn't on the grounds he was the one making the apology, he paid his own legal bills other than a few small items the barristers agree to split).
Every single word that oozes out of his mouth is a lie.
It's nice to see that my donation to HNH's legal fund was put to good use Farage in the meantime had a bit of a rant in the EU parliament about George Soros having too much influence in the world, this is now being taken up enthusiastically by breitfart & similar organs.
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For such a staunch anti european the greedy mega twat keeps trousering our lolly.
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Another frequent flyer: Jeremy Hunt.
Yes, yes, I know he has pride of place in the MegaTwat Hall of Fame, but he's just been slapped down epically on Twitter by Ralf Little.
Yup, what with Johnny Vegas chastising Maria Caulfield over her poppy fascism, and Maxine Peake working hard to combat austerity & discrimination, it seems Northern Comedic Actors are our only hope...
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And aren't they both, erm, from Lancashire? :demon:
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Lancashire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester, respectively.
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Just read Vegas' tweet. He's gone up in my estimation.
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Another frequent flyer: Jeremy Hunt.
Yes, yes, I know he has pride of place in the MegaTwat Hall of Fame, but he's just been slapped down epically on Twitter by Ralf Little.
Yup, what with Johnny Vegas chastising Maria Caulfield over her poppy fascism, and Maxine Peake working hard to combat austerity & discrimination, it seems Northern Comedic Actors are our only hope...
Eddie Izzard for PM! :demon:
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Er, no. Not even Eddie Izzard for Labour National Executive Committee.
Besides, he's not a Northerner. Didn't he grow up in Bexhill?
Actually, he almost deserves to be in this thread, despite being a great campaigner, funny guy, and awesome runner.
Izzard failed to get on the NEC last year. This time, he is part of a trio of 'independent' candidates aiming for the new ordinary members' seats.
They are not independent. They are all Progress-backed Blairites, trying to pull the wool over members' eyes. >:(
Jon Lansman, on the other hand, is definitely a super-twat.
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Must be about time our favourite Colossal Bell End got another mention...
<narrator voice> "And there was that time Piers (who is a Colossal Bell End) crossed Tweets with Erica Jong's daughter..."
Happy #InternationalMensDay - if we’re still allowed to say anything positive about men without being summarily executed.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/932292808349712384
So funny, you really are a comic genius @piersmorgan
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/932296740388171776
Thanks Molly! Never knew I appealed to the soulless ginger feminist community.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/932298284705697792
I just watch you for your scintillating interviews, your discourse with international polymath and patriot Steven Seagal was the stuff that Walter Winchell dreamed of doing.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/932299868349091842
Pwned. ;D
In case anyone's wondering, the Walter Winchell comparison was more shade-throwing.
Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.
Winchell showed a particular talent for digging up embarrassing stories about famous people by exploiting his exceptionally wide circle of contacts, and trading gossip, sometimes in return for his silence. His uniquely outspoken style made him both feared and admired, and his column was syndicated worldwide. In the 30’s, he attacked the appeasers of Nazism, and later aligned with McCarthy in his campaign against communists. He damaged the reputations of Charles Lindbergh and Josephine Baker, among other lesser individuals who had earned his enmity. But the McCarthy connection would soon make him deeply unfashionable, his talents did not adapt well for television, and his career ended in humiliation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell
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Philip "There are no unemployed people" Hammond
>:(
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I'm still baffled by that.
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I'm still baffled by that.
It's Orwellian.
There are no unemployed.
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
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No wonder he doesn't budget enough for benefits.
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They aren't 'unemployed'; they are 'temporarily out of work' or 'in between gigs'.
You see, you just need to understand the words. Hammond was totally correct, completely clear. No unemployed people. Oh, and some of them aren't people.
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They're merely between jobs. Admittedly, it's easier to be between jobs with £9 million in the bank and a network of connections.
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I'm still baffled by that.
There are two elements to his wrongness. First, it was an appalling slip of the tongue that revealed his underlying nastiness and/or incompetence.
Second, even if you allow him what he meant rather than what he said, it's still appalling.
The claim is that technology isn't leaving people out of work because the government are creating new jobs to replace the ones that are being lost to robots.
This is entirely disingenuous and in fact a plain lie. All governments massage the unemployment stats but this current mob are the worst. They are despicable weasels.
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Also: Andrew Marr
In the same interview, when the subject of driverless vehicles came up, Marr tried to press Hammond on all sorts of spurious points, saying: "Jeremy Clarkson thinks they're incredibly dangerous."
If Hammond hadn't been so focused on sticking to the script, he would have jumped on that and shoved it back down Marr's throat. Very hard.
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They aren't 'unemployed'; they are 'temporarily out of work' or 'in between gigs'.
I thought the current buzz-phrase was "economically inactive"
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Maybe he'll announce funding for a Soylent Green factory in the budget.
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They are despicable weasels.
C'mon. Weasels are quite charming and a useful and necessary part of the food chain. Politicians have no redeeming features whatsoever.
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Each and every West Ham "supporter" who rings 999 every time their team loses (which appears to be every time they play at the moment). It's not big, or clever, or the slightest bit funny. Just stop it, and also die.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42070712
A nobber with a sense of entitlement. No wonder he's unemployed.
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And a twat of a different colour
Scientist', 61, prepares to prove the Earth is FLAT by launching himself 1,800ft above the Mojave desert in his homemade rocket built from scraps
'Mad' Mike Hughes plans to launch himself 1,800 feet (550 metres) high
This flight will mark the first step in his flat-Earth space programme
Ultimately his goal is to get ten miles high to prove the Earth is disc-shaped
I won't provide a link. If you want to know more it's in the science section of the Volkischer Beobachter Daily Mail
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He could just walk up a hill.
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He could just walk up a hill.
Or watch a ship with a tall mast approaching over the horizon. The ancient Greeks knew the world was banana-shaped spherical.
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A plane ticket would get him most of the way there, but then we wouldn't get to watch him crash and burn.
No doubt flat-earthers have complicated explanations for how aeroplanes distort your view, and that ships shrink as they travel rimwards.
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For those who don't want to get sucked into the Sidebar of Shame, here's the Associated Press' take on the story:
https://apnews.com/9d8e5e8e9245412ab80f5a1f58d885b7/Self-taught-rocket-scientist-plans-to-launch-over-ghost-town
Plus Ars Technica on previous steam rocket tomfoolery by Mr. Hughes:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/mad-mike-built-a-rocket-so-he-can-jump-the-grand-canyon-of-texas/
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I just like self-taught rocket scientist. I fear I chose the wrong option when I selected teach-yourself-brain surgery.
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Ah, so he's primarily a shed-fettled rocket suicide nutter, and the flat-earth thing is just a sideline. Makes sense.
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Could be worse, he could be standing for President.
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I quite liked "that's not science, it's just a formula"
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"I don't believe in eating" declares man chowing down at all-you-can-eat buffet
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Could be worse, he could be standing for President.
I dunno, at least the Flat Earther is consistent in his beliefs even if he is barking mad and can, to some extent, be reasoned with whereas Benito Orangini is an out and out lost cause who can't hold a consistent line of thought for much more than a few pico-seconds. Hells bells, Benito even manages to make Ronnie look like a bloody genius.
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Olly Murs
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Olly Murs
Presumably not just because he's squiring Melanie Sykes?
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Olly Murs
Presumably not just because he's squiring Melanie Sykes?
His live tweeting of the Oxford Circus fiasco was just hilariously boneheaded.
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Fuck it, you have to call time when you're being legitimately slapped down by Piers Morgan (the Colossal Bellend).
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Rich of the Heil to give him stick over it when they recycled a ten-day old tweet about what turned out to be a window cleaner injuring himself falling off his ladder and turned it into a story about a lorry being driven into pedestrians and blood everywhere.
Woman at tonight's gig: ...and we got locked in the pub by the police!
Her partner: Where's the problem?
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It would appear that even the Daily Hate (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42141325) cannot stand Hopkins any more.
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Twatanic MP and gobshite Kate "Hooey" Hoey for her über-twattish pronouncement that the Irish should pay for any Brexit-induced hard border. Twattiness of the highest standard.
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The people of Nottingham, who voted for Brexit and are now whining because the EU want their ball back.
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Oy, Citoyen, I hope you're not including me in that catch-all Super-Twat label! It might have been "The Willy of the People", but there were plenty of us who voted Remain! (I was rather bemused by the belated City of Culture bid, thobut.)
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Oy, Citoyen, I hope you're not including me in that catch-all Super-Twat label! It might have been "The Willy of the People", but there were plenty of us who voted Remain! (I was rather bemused by the belated City of Culture bid, thobut.)
No, just the ones who were whining on Radio 4 last night - mainly Rosie Millard. If the City of Culture bid people didn't personally vote leave then I can understand why they're miffed, but complaining about the EU is blaming the wrong people.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of it about at the moment - people whining because it turns out they're getting what they voted for. Fuckers should have thought of that.
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Donald Trump!
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Hell yeah. Even that colossal bell end Piers Morgan who is apparently a 'friend' suggested to him on Twitter that he should delete his vile postings.
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In all honesty, at this point he could go visit the Holocaust Museum dressed as Hitler and then tweet that 'he was having a joke' and I wouldn't even be surprised.
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Hell yeah. Even that colossal bell end Piers Morgan who is apparently a 'friend' suggested to him on Twitter that he should delete his vile postings.
Mind you, PM (WIACBE) is getting roasted for having supported Trump through the election campaign in the first place.
In related matters, I'm going to nominate Twitter's management, all the way up to CEO Jack Dorsey - because Trump is yet again breaching Twitter's Terms Of Service, but again, Twitter will do the cube root of sweet Fascinating Aida about it. ::-)
Twitter could - if it wanted to - deal with the trolls and the bots overnight (most of the accounts following Trump don't have a real person behind them), but Twitter won't, because such a reduction in the number of accounts, tweets and retweets will reveal that Twitter's valuation was built on artificially inflated membership and engagement numbers - a castle made of sand.
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Nabih al-Wahsh. What a super, super-twat.
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Well, quelle-fucking-surprise: Nigel Farage. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/03/nigel-farage-criticised-for-saying-he-will-keep-eu-pension
It must be for all that work he put in as an MEP :demon:
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You're just fishing for a reaction with that last comment.
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Well, quelle-fucking-surprise: Nigel Farage. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/03/nigel-farage-criticised-for-saying-he-will-keep-eu-pension
It must be for all that work he put in as an MEP :demon:
Trying to get elected to the uk parliament?
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Farage has always been a hypocritical slimeball.
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Nobody mentioned Nadine Dorries yet?
Sure, not offensive, but so bloody stupid.
[edit] a scan of wikipedia and a smattering of news stories suggests that she should have honorary permanent membership of this thread.
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I'm still having trouble believing that name, but anything in America... oh.
On a level with the 1960s Edinburgh City Councillor who once opined that Edinburgh police didn't need Jaguars and should have Minis because she had once seen a Mini pass a Jag. They got the Jags.
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Nigel Farage, the duplicitous weasel. I come here not to praise the EU, but to take my £73,000 pension from it.
He only occasionally turned up, and then it was just to slag them off.
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Rather ironically he used many of his few appearances to ask about the benefits of EU officials (to which the answer was always a weary 'they're published on our web site and can be found with a simple search').
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Inability to look beyond their own noses is a common failing in politicians - and the people they represent. In a previous life, part of my job was to review and sign off the replies to the numerous letters that we used to get from MPs. Most were questions simply passed on from constituents. I'd venture that a good 75% of the queries could have been answered simply by reading the relevant section of the web site and all that had been achieved had been to waste the MP's time (or, at least, their intern's time), my colleagues' time and my time.
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Nigel Farage, the duplicitous weasel. I come here not to praise the EU, but to take my £73,000 pension from it.
He only occasionally turned up, and then it was just to slag them off.
Weren't the EU pursuing UKIP over some of their more "imaginative" expenses claims?
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Nigel Farage, the duplicitous weasel. I come here not to praise the EU, but to take my £73,000 pension from it.
He only occasionally turned up, and then it was just to slag them off.
Weren't the EU pursuing UKIP over some of their more "imaginative" expenses claims?
Just a little. A smidgen. A tad. As in yes. To the tune of about 500 000
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St Treasy of Mayhem.
An additional entry for negotiating a soft border betwixt Ireland and Northern Ireland by agreeing a special economic status for the latter only to pop out fro a cup of tea and be told by the power behind the throne that no way would that be allowed under any circumstances at all, so she quite the talks. How rude.
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She's completely hopeless. 65 million people in the UK and she ends up at the top of the pile. My cat could do a better job of running the country. And, just to prove I'm not being sexist, it's really all that ham-faced chancer Cameron's fault, a man of whom Eton and Oxford must be truly ashamed. If he'd gone to a state school he'd probably still be walking on all fours.
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She's completely hopeless. 65 million people in the UK and she ends up at the top of the pile. My cat could do a better job of running the country. And, just to prove I'm not being sexist, it's really all that ham-faced chancer Cameron's fault, a man of whom Eton and Oxford must be truly ashamed. If he'd gone to a state school he'd probably still be walking on all fours.
Some people might OBJECT to that unwanted slur. It wasn't ham faced, it was ham fancied. Or summat.
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To quote my daughters: he's got a face like a bum and he left his baby in the pub. Cameron, not Ham. I don't know if Ham has ever left a baby in a pub ;D
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This whole farce was started by the bullyboys, er I mean bullingdon boys private agreement to let Dave Shamefaced win the referendum then pass the helm to his bestest buddy Bozo the clown as compensation for losing with the wild and unrestrained sycophantic support of the nauseous tory mob. Then Nigel the pension pot plunderer muddied the waters and that Daily Hate loving Cove chap persuaded the clown to say silly things about taking back our sovereignty and giving the NHS a squillion groats a second.
This is what happens when you have a murder of eton mess in control!
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Treason May and the whole of the Self-Servative Government. They are all criminals and should be jailed. In the same Call!
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It's gammon-faced, as in "gammon-faced pig-botherer".
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65 million people in the UK and she ends up at the top of the pile.
You have to remember, "Only cream and scum rise." Or, less politely, "Only cream and bastards rise."
Aren't we nearer to 70 millions than 65 now?
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65.64m in 2016. Maybe the other 4.5m are illegals, though, here to take our jobs, impregnate our women, establish a new caliphate and steal our precious bodily fluids. HARD BREXIT NOW.
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You forgot "scrounge benefits1", RZ. You'll never make a Daily Mail leader writer.
1: Ten-bedroom mansion, gold-plated Bentley and droits de seigneur over Amber Rudd.
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Phillip Hammond http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/philip-hammond-uk-productivity-rates-low-because-more-disabled-people-are-in-work_uk_5a281714e4b044d16726b7bd
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Are we allowed to nominate corporate entities?
If so, I give you Churchill Retirement Living, purveyors of retirement apartment complexes.
The bastards are building a block next to my house. We were more than happy with the prospect of retirement apartments on the site but, along with others took, issue with the scale of the development as we thought that it was too big for the plot, too close to some existing dwellings and included far too few parking spaces (31 or 32 apartments and 11 spaces). Our fear is that the already atrocious parking situation around here will only get worse. Churchill are of the opinion that old folk will jump at the opportunity to give up their cars- as if.
Anyway, today whilst visiting the post office I spied a little advertising poster for Peel Lodge (built on the site of the now demolished Police Station) singing the praises of such features as 24hr on site assitance, video entry system, visitors suite, owners lounge and FREE PARKING :demon: Free parking? You lying fucking toads. Limited parking more like.
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Are we allowed to nominate corporate entities?
If so, I give you Churchill Retirement Living, purveyors of retirement apartment complexes.
The bastards are building a block next to my house. far too few parking spaces (31 or 32 apartments and 11 spaces). Our fear is that the already atrocious parking situation around here will only get worse.
It's a common theme for retirement flats. Then health of said retired folks deteriorates, they become housebound and need a Community Nurse to visit. Oh what fun when the car park is full, or bars anyone but residents. Community Nurse spends 15 minutes finding a parking space 2 streets away, another 15 minutes walking back to the flats and battling with the automatic entry system that the resident can't operate, 5 minutes giving a B12 injection, followed by 20 minute return trip to their car and the rest of the day trying to regain the lost 40 minutes. IMHO it should be obligatory for builders of Retirement Flats to provide a pro-rata allocation of parking spaces for visiting Carers and Health Care Staff.
If I was purchasing such a flat, and I won't be, a key question would be "Where can the doctor/nurse park if they need to visit me at home?"
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Rubber-faced unlikeable rabble-rouser Michael Gove. Again.
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Justin Welby aka the Archbishop of Canterbury.
According to himself grammar schools perpetuate and fuel privilege .
Whereas going to prep school,then Eton and getting a place at Cambridge ,in a college where one’s great uncle is master , presumably doesn’t .
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I hadn't realised that having benefited from privilege yourself disqualified you from recognising or criticising it subsequently.
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Justin Welby aka the Archbishop of Canterbury.
According to himself grammar schools perpetuate and fuel privilege .
Whereas going to prep school,then Eton and getting a place at Cambridge ,in a college where one’s great uncle is master , presumably doesn’t .
Grammar schools are divisive, but religious schools aren't. >:(
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Just heard that there is one fewer.
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The perfectly vile and hateful Hopkins. She just doesn't get it that if you have nothing useful to say ...
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Just heard that there is one fewer.
Viz reposted an old letter about him to Faecebook, which I'm afraid made me laugh. The comments underneath it were even funnier, especially the outraged ones.
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Are we allowed to nominate corporate entities?
If so, I give you Churchill Retirement Living, purveyors of retirement apartment complexes.
The bastards are building a block next to my house. We were more than happy with the prospect of retirement apartments on the site but, along with others took, issue with the scale of the development as we thought that it was too big for the plot, too close to some existing dwellings and included far too few parking spaces (31 or 32 apartments and 11 spaces). Our fear is that the already atrocious parking situation around here will only get worse. Churchill are of the opinion that old folk will jump at the opportunity to give up their cars- as if.
Anyway, today whilst visiting the post office I spied a little advertising poster for Peel Lodge (built on the site of the now demolished Police Station) singing the praises of such features as 24hr on site assitance, video entry system, visitors suite, owners lounge and FREE PARKING :demon: Free parking? You lying fucking toads. Limited parking more like.
It might not be quite as bad as you fear though I understand your concerns fully*.
mllePB's father has moved into a retirement block in Rugby. It has 31 flats and a dozen parking spaces. There always appear to be two or three free. He came with his car and has had no trouble at all finding it a regular berth.
* We live in a victorian terrace. The BtL landlords and local property developers keep buying houses and converting them to multiple occupancy dwellings. Even worse, there are in progress or planned for progress extra developments which will lead to an extra 50 plus addresses in a street with less than 200 properties. We already have permit parking and at evenings and weekends you cannot park a matchbox toy in the street. Thankfully we don't own a car but it makes it difficult for visitors to the bear-o-drome if they do.
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Just heard that there is one fewer.
Took me a while to figure that one out. Imagine how his victims must suffer every time that name is mentioned.
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Just heard that there is one fewer.
Took me a while to figure that one out. Imagine how his victims must suffer every time that name is mentioned.
As someone who lived on publicity, not mentioning his name seems a fitting final insult to the scumbag.
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Just heard that there is one fewer.
Took me a while to figure that one out. Imagine how his victims must suffer every time that name is mentioned.
As someone who lived on publicity, not mentioning his name seems a fitting final insult to the scumbag.
Excellent. Like your thinking.
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I hadn't realised that having benefited from privilege yourself disqualified you from recognising or criticising it subsequently.
But he didn't criticise public schools in his speech, only grammar schools.
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So if you criticise one example of privilege, that criticism will be invalid unless you also criticise every other example?
Wouldn't that make it a little, um, unfocused?
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John Magufuli makes the all time greatest super twat list.
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Just heard that there is one fewer.
Took me a while to figure that one out. Imagine how his victims must suffer every time that name is mentioned.
As someone who lived on publicity, not mentioning his name seems a fitting final insult to the scumbag.
And I rather liked the fact that he died in prison* and wasn't able to sell his story when he got out.
*I know orspital, but he never let the facts get in the way of a good story so turn and turnabout.
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John Magufuli makes the all time greatest super twat list.
Name carved in stone >:(
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Diane Abbott
https://twitter.com/hackneyabbott/status/941386055684521984
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Page unavailable. Please enlighten us.
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Page unavailable. Please enlighten us.
“6 months on from #Grenfell – lessons are being forgotten. We know fire puts out water. Sprinklers in Tower blocks now”
(https://i.imgur.com/LCPQRRC.jpg)
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Isn't she just quoting (paraphrasing?) the head of the LFB?
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Isn't she just quoting (paraphrasing?) the head of the LFB?
Are you suggesting the LFB is saying fire puts out water????
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Ah, I corrected the error in my head when reading that and didn't notice. Hardly Super-Twat territory, though, is it?
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And besides, anyone in her office could have tweeted that...
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Ah, I corrected the error in my head when reading that and didn't notice. Hardly Super-Twat territory, though, is it?
I didn't notice this error initially either!
Agree is not Super-Twat territory.
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai is in with a good shout, and he's up there with Piers Morgan (Colossal Bell End) in being a Colossal Bell End, to boot.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-internet/u-s-regulators-ditch-net-neutrality-rules-as-legal-battles-loom-idUKKBN1E81HK
https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pai-thinks-youre-stupid-enough-to-buy-this-crap-1821277398
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The Daily Heil appears to have replaced Hatey Kopkins as front page rabble-rouser with her exact male equivalent, Richard Littlejohn. I thought he'd dissolved in his own vitriol years ago.
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Dear Gods, is Smellyface still doing the same shtick about broken BRITAIN from inside a gated community in the high-crime drainage ditch otherwise known as Florida?
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Cloaca Littlejohn.
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Nigel 'Skint' Farridge.
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Venice Allan/Allen/various other names.
You express your hopes that a teenager might commit suicide after stalking them everywhere, turn up at an event they are at and distribute hate speech leaflets, and then complain when you are asked to leave? FOAD!
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Nigel 'Skint' Farridge.
Hmmm. £4million Chelsea pad and a hefty EU salary. Perhaps he's 'skint' because he's been caught out and has to pay two lots of child maintenance now.
The super mega sleaze twat supported Roy Moore too. Not an ounce of morality in the twat.
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Take a bow, David Morris. Tory MP for Morecambe & Lunesdale, expenses fiddler and now proponent of the theory that reports of the effects of poverty from GPs and schools in his constituency are (a fabricated) part of a Momentum-driven smear campaign against him. Critical comments on his Farcebok page are deleted and the poster blocked, a policy which he apparently extends to constituents who try to contact him.
The honest burghers of Morecambe need to take the enormotwat walkies in the Bay just before the tide turns, and then run the fuck away.
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Said Twunt is my MP and only lives a half mile away from me. Can I have the job of Whipping him to the Sea front Prior to his Stroll?
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Only if you link us to the video.
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Take a bow, David Morris. Tory MP for Morecambe & Lunesdale, expenses fiddler and now proponent of the theory that reports of the effects of poverty from GPs and schools in his constituency are (a fabricated) part of a Momentum-driven smear campaign against him. Critical comments on his Farcebok page are deleted and the poster blocked, a policy which he apparently extends to constituents who try to contact him.
The honest burghers of Morecambe need to take the enormotwat walkies in the Bay just before the tide turns, and then run the fuck away.
I've been reading this, multiple complaints by constituents that he refuses to meet, won't reply to messages, blocks them on fb, etc.
Can't help but compare with my MP, who is endlessly contactable, see her on stands in public all the time, and in westminster. How do some of these arsewipes get elected?
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Can't help but compare with my MP, who is endlessly contactable, see her on stands in public all the time, and in westminster. How do some of these arsewipes get elected?
"Safe" seats in most cases. I used to live in a true blue constituency where the local MP was so conspicuous by his absence that his own constituency activists used to joke that they had to send him an A-Z every four years so he could find his way there on polling night. It's not that in every safe seat you will find a useless MP but I suspect that every useless MP is in a safe seat.
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<snippage>How do some of these arsewipes get elected?
Upward management and arselickery of the selection committees. Standard senior management tactics in fact.
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Our MP is a tory. His dad was the MP for the constituency from 1979 until 1997 when he lost to Labour. He had been a local councillor for a long time and was by all accounts quite a decent, conscientious and hard working constituency MP.
His son, our current MP since 2010 in stark contrast is a lazy self-publicist whose argument when all else fails is that 'it's government policy', who has his office find local good news then asks for an invite to turn up for a photoshoot, and who does sweet FA.
One of my clients has a matter which he is now involved in and even she, a staunch vote tory at all costs type, has had to admit that he is "worse than useless": her words.
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Godfrey Bloom .... :facepalm:
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Godfrey Bloom .... :facepalm:
ITYM Professor Godfrey Bloom ;D
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The ultimate bully (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-42424666), Donald Trump.
What a complete arse.
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Damian Green.
Lies, damned Lies, sleaze and pornophile.
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Gove and Cheese sort of go together.....
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The Tories seem to be a bit cheese-obsessed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0M1YEf9s0g
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Gove and Cheese sort of go together.....
Is there a British cheese which is slimy and stinky and generally odious?
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<snippage>How do some of these arsewipes get elected?
Upward management and arselickery of the selection committees. Standard senior management tactics in fact.
No, that is how they get selected. They get elected by the ignorant fuckwit public who, for example, could never vote red (or blue). Could never vote for him because of what his grandfather did. Could never vote for her as MP for BumfuckNowhere because of what her colleague the MP for somewhere the other side of the country said about X on Eastenders.
Nepotism gets you selected. Fuckwittery gets you elected.
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Royston Smith
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The ultimate bully (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-42424666), Donald Trump.
What a complete arse.
It is worse than arsery. Attempting to use global financial blackmail to influence a UN vote. That is simply, utterly disgusting.
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Jeez, they're 'taking names.' That's the sort thing my our form teacher did. When we were eight. It's as terrifying now as it was then.
Was it just me or did she have a look on her face that screamed RESCUE ME?
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Gove and Cheese sort of go together.....
Is there a British cheese which is slimy and stinky and generally odious?
We termed Lymeswold 'slime mould' when I was a Penniless Student Oafette.
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Gove and Cheese sort of go together.....
Is there a British cheese which is slimy and stinky and generally odious?
Stinking Bishop.
Let's all bash the Bishop.
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Gove and Cheese sort of go together.....
Is there a British cheese which is slimy and stinky and generally odious?
We termed Lymeswold 'slime mould' when I was a Penniless Student Oafette.
Dim memories of a bit in Private Eye many years ago.
"The answers to our Christmas Quiz. (d) Lymeswold is the odd one out. All the rest are cheeses."
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Lymeswold was the marketing strategy by which British Milk (or whatever it was called) intended to reduce its then overly stocked fat mountain/lake.
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BRITISH blue cheese withdrawn over Listeria concerns.
Today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42447306 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42447306)
Worrying that report does not state Listeria can cause DETH in unfortunate immunosuppressed folk.
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Royston Smith
Most Definitely
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15786295.Angry_bike_campaigners_hit_back_at_MP_s__unhelpful__comments_on_cycling___but_MP_says_his_views_have_been__misinterpreted_/
And not forgetting that he has been prosecuted for driving without insurance, which is hard to believe since we're constantly being told that all motorists pay road tax and insurance
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Damian Green.
What toppled Damian Green was the sleazy Damian Green and will remain being the sleazy Damian Green regardless of any right wing media and sympathetic Tory colleagues views otherwise.
Perhaps the Tories should get their house and pecadillos under control before going on wild witch hunts. Whistleblowing is in fact supposed to be respected, not disparaged.
Tories: The party of blame and shame.
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To be fair though, former police officers shouldn't be sharing information on investigations, closed or ongoing, under any circumstances. That affects us all. Especially those of us with hard drives filled with unicorn filth. I don't know who us is.
Mind you, other than that, ha ha. Then some more ha ha. That'll hopefully be the last time he splashes out on a new computer in the HoC.
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For almost anybody else having porn on your office computer would mean a P45. Why should MP's be unreasonably protected? Why hasn't he lost his job and why isn't there a by election? Nearly a further decade of MP''s pay and privilege instead.
One set of rules for the plebs...
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That's really between him and his 'employers' – my point was that it isn't and wasn't a police matter.
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Under normal circumstances I would agree but given that politicians appear to enjoy enhanced levels of job and other protection I cannot find any sympathy. If as part of an investigation by the police your work laptop was found to be riddled with porn and this was communicated to your employer, do you really believe that there would be no consequences for you?
The public purse has rewarded him handsomely for his employers complicity.
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Well, the police shouldn't be communicating that to my employer. I'm not breaking any law. Besides, any scut present on my hard drive was put there by the Porn Fairy or is a legitimate piece of Thought Leadership. Tidy hair is, of course, important in such matters. No one wants to see a poorly groomed unicorn.
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The escalator guy.
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That's really between him and his 'employers' – my point was that it isn't and wasn't a police matter.
Aren't we his employer?
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Surely it becomes a matter of what his employer's policy is re use of the company laptop? Have his contstituents who would be his employer's (surely?), told him that legal pron is a
floggingsacking offence?
In Ian's case, is there unicorn related fine print?
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Under normal circumstances I would agree but given that politicians appear to enjoy enhanced levels of job and other protection I cannot find any sympathy. If as part of an investigation by the police your work laptop was found to be riddled with porn and this was communicated to your employer, do you really believe that there would be no consequences for you?
The public purse has rewarded him handsomely for his employers complicity.
Green was forced to resign because he lied about whether he had been told about the porn find by the police not because of the porn .
He denied that he had been told at the time but this was proven to be untrue.
I know, POBI is that way>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>....
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Royston Smith
Most Definitely
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15786295.Angry_bike_campaigners_hit_back_at_MP_s__unhelpful__comments_on_cycling___but_MP_says_his_views_have_been__misinterpreted_/
And not forgetting that he has been prosecuted for driving without insurance, which is hard to believe since we're constantly being told that all motorists pay road tax and insurance
Royston Smith is a bag 'o shite. I've known him for years, and wouldn't trust a word the evil little weasel said. His policies and those of the Government also led to my redundancy in 2011, so I'm not inclined to be generous to him. And how, exactly, did it benefit the taxpayers of Southampton, to pay to make me redundant after 19 years service, and then to pay twice my salary to an outside organisation to provide less than half the services I provided. Super-twat indeed.
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Lewis Hamilton.
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Lewis Hamilton.
His "Apology" seemed so perfect that it could only have been computer generated!
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Smartphone in arse moment.
What's the betting that he appears clad in a sarong in the not too distant future?
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In a sane society, Lewis Hamilton would be forced to do his next Grand Prix dressed as Princess Peach from Mario Kart
https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/945962002832351238
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In a sane society, Lewis Hamilton would be forced to do his next Grand Prix dressed as Princess Peach from Mario Kart
https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/945962002832351238
Better would be for him to be beaten in his next Grand Prix by someone dressed as Princess Peach from Mario Kart. Not least because it wouldn't be perpetuating the same reasoning that earned him super-twat status in the first place.
Actually, Formula 1 would be greatly improved by borrowing from Mario Kart generally. Or Micro Machines.
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Or Wacky Races.
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Peter Perfect
The joke was, of course, that he was far from perfect, expecially his car, which often ran into mechanical trouble — or fell apart. Still, this studly do-right managed to end up tied for the most wins on the series. His persona and dragster just seem a little too bland. This is Wacky Races after all.
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Or Wacky Races.
The BHPC is thattaway -->
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You have to wonder whether Dick Dastardly would have done a lot better if he hadn't squandered so much time and effort on cheating.
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This much was elf-eveident at the age of 63/4.
An allegory for the tories...?
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Chrissy Teigen, whoever she may be
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42492467 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42492467)
First for using her phone to tweet away merrily from an airplane (unless it's now allowed) and secondly for thinking anyone gives a s--t.
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I believe that WiFi on planes is now A Thing.
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WiFi been on planes for yonks
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It's probably also more expensive per byte than an SMS message.
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Chrissy Teigen is normally more sensible than this would indicate
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To be fair, people tweet about all sorts of things that are far less significant. Indeed, back before it was a means of
being attacked by TERFs and gamergaters engaging with brands and celebrities, and was much more SMS-oriented, the one thing Twitter was obviously useful for was sending broadcast messages to anyone who cared when your travel plans were disrupted.
I've no idea who Chrissy Teigen is (I assume a celebrity brand to be engaged with), but that a flight would be diverted on the basis of what appears to be a ticketing issue is news to me. It seems spectacularly wasteful, not to mention needlessly disruptive. If it were a train, the passenger in question would be met by some stern transport police at the destination and/or directed to the next one heading back the way they came.
I can only assume it's a cover story for something unsavoury. A criminal fleeing the relevant jurisdiction, or some such.
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Well, the police shouldn't be communicating that to my employer. I'm not breaking any law. Besides, any scut present on my hard drive was put there by the Porn Fairy or is a legitimate piece of Thought Leadership. Tidy hair is, of course, important in such matters. No one wants to see a poorly groomed unicorn.
I've been thinking pretty much the same, but was too scared to say it; of course now that someone with Tidy Hair is onboard, I feel a bit safer owning up to this view :thumbsup:
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Premier-league sanctimonious tax-dodging sillybollocks and general twat Bonio excels himself: Bono Is Sad Men Have No Outlet For Their Anger Now That They Let Women Make Music (https://themuse.jezebel.com/bono-is-sad-men-have-no-outlet-for-their-anger-now-that-1821605203)
H/t to Ms Gallumbits for the link.
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Premier-league sanctimonious tax-dodging sillybollocks and general twat Bonio excels himself: Bono Is Sad Men Have No Outlet For Their Anger Now That They Let Women Make Music (https://themuse.jezebel.com/bono-is-sad-men-have-no-outlet-for-their-anger-now-that-1821605203)
H/t to Ms Gallumbits for the link.
Nah. Stupid, opinionated artlcle, ableit about an opinionated dickhead who is probably no more stupid than me but has the misfortune to have his opinionated comments broadcast as though they were more important than any other stupid opinionated dickhead's.
For all his faults, I do get the sense that he wants to use his fame for good, even if that means that he sometimes seems to be a bit of sanctimonious pratt. Rather that than Mick Hucknall telling us to vote Labour.
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Premier-league sanctimonious tax-dodging sillybollocks and general twat Bonio excels himself: Bono Is Sad Men Have No Outlet For Their Anger Now That They Let Women Make Music (https://themuse.jezebel.com/bono-is-sad-men-have-no-outlet-for-their-anger-now-that-1821605203)
H/t to Ms Gallumbits for the link.
Can't say I've ever taken any notice of him. Looks like I was right.
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[Bono] Rather that than Mick Hucknall
Oh jeesus. Is that the choice we have to make?
It's like choosing between May and ... well one of the other useless wannabe leaders. I think we're doomed ...
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Well, the police shouldn't be communicating that to my employer. I'm not breaking any law. Besides, any scut present on my hard drive was put there by the Porn Fairy or is a legitimate piece of Thought Leadership. Tidy hair is, of course, important in such matters. No one wants to see a poorly groomed unicorn.
I've been thinking pretty much the same, but was too scared to say it; of course now that someone with Tidy Hair is onboard, I feel a bit safer owning up to this view :thumbsup:
Ruffles hair:
We are supposed to be the employers of politicians and thus have a right not only to know what misdemeanours they are up to but also should have the ability to give them the very sharp and swift elbow to the hurty place imo. They have made up the rules to protect themselves whereas normally any other employee wouldn't have the same privilege of protection from their employer. When a politician blatantly lies then in my book the line is crossed. I don't care what party the politician is from and I believe that we should all be subject to the exact same rules.
If they were subject to the same rules as we are then I'd view this differently. An exception deserves an exception. Privilege should not protect.
Ok. so perhaps I should be ranting in POBI but I don't go in there.
That's my last word on this.
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I think you miss the point. The point is that it's not police business and I think there should be a reasonable expectation of confidentiality and certainly that the police (acting or former) don't use information they have in a political context. I think that's a dangerous path to take.
We're not, by-the-by, the employers of MPs. We elect them. I couldn't care less if he had scut, tbh. He's a bloke and I'd hazard not the only male to have glanced at ladies in sartorial distress and then blamed the Porn Fairy when caught. We had a chap once who didn't realise you had to empty the 'trash can.' Our official lab Frenchy made the point is splendidly gallic fashion by using said computer where full protective gear and gloves. "This," she loudly declared with the sort of withering disdain that only French women of a certain age can attain, "is because of your filthy nocturnal passions." Tbh, she's the only person I've ever met who has used the term 'filthy nocturnal passions.' Anyway, point made, he used someone else's computer for those filthy nocturnal passions. I will say that Emilie took about two hours sorting through that trash can to ascertain the precise level of filth, plot, and dialogue.
Of course, given that's Damian Green is an oleaginous smear of a man, schadenfreude isn't just a word I have trouble spelling.
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Actually, I think you miss my point but we could go on disagreeing forever.
I don't agree with the police state but the investigation was triggered by leaks of confidential home office material by the then opposition, something else they shouldn't be doing. the porn discovery was not made public at the time but only this year after Green's privilege of position contributed imo to Quick having to resign.
If any of us at our motherships was being investigated for one reason and porn was found on our computers, you can bet your bottom dollar that we'd be dismissed for gross misconduct and not simply shoved out of one high paying extra job but keeping at least two others.
It's funny how politicians see the police as the protectors of their tyranny until they get caught with the virtual jizz mag and outed for their behaviour toward a female journalist and daughter of a family friend if I am not mistaken. Politicians only give a shit about procedure and potential injustice when they find themselves in the spotlight.
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That sounds like two-wrongs-making-a-right logic to me.
Sure, you're right to observe that MPs get away with shit because of their position; but that doesn't justify throwing away the rulebook on their rights, and how the police should act.
(Just as you can't piss on someone that drops litter in your garden.)
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That sounds like two-wrongs-making-a-right logic to me.
Sure, you're right to observe that MPs get away with shit because of their position; but that doesn't justify throwing away the rulebook on their rights, and how the police should act.
(Just as you can't piss on someone that drops litter in your garden.)
But you can get them punished. Litter dropped from a public place into a private place is an offence.
Just saying, like ;)
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Toby Young.
When your best defence is from Boris Johnson ...
What are people really thinking when the like sof Young are appointed to such positions?
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What are people really thinking when the like sof Young are appointed to such positions?
As it's politics I suspect their own skin and little else. She needs to keep the Nazis right happy or they'll tear her to bits.
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That sounds like two-wrongs-making-a-right logic to me.
Sure, you're right to observe that MPs get away with shit because of their position; but that doesn't justify throwing away the rulebook on their rights, and how the police should act.
(Just as you can't piss on someone that drops litter in your garden.)
But you can get them punished. Litter dropped from a public place into a private place is an offence.
Just saying, like ;)
Yes, you follow a LEGAL PROCESS to get them convicted. You don't phone up some dodgy copper (whom you may or may not know from a cycling forum) and
get him to release embarrassing details of someone's life for public consumption (and prurient finger-pointing).
Do you see the difference? Just asking, like!
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John Dixon Hart
Guest house owner hangs sign saying women are not welcome because he 'doesn't really like them'
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/guest-house-owner-hangs-sign-955235 (http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/guest-house-owner-hangs-sign-955235)
Note: This is the HULL Daily Mail, *not* the English-language Volkischer Beobachter
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I'm going to nominate Nick Holland, for tagging Lily Cole just as a supermodel and running her down.
I have no particular opinion on Lily Cole but a cursory view of her shows this:
Double first in History of Art from King's College, Cambridge
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters for her "outstanding contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes" by Glasgow Caledonian University in 2013
So she sounds like she can do a fine job as a public face of the patron of the Bronte Society
I wonder if Nick has a problem with young women?
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Hah! You beat me to it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-42563759 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-42563759)
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I'm going to nominate Nick Holland, for tagging Lily Cole just as a supermodel and running her down.
You probably wouldn't like Andrew Orlowski (https://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=lily+cole&advanced=1&author=orlowski&date=the+dawn+of+time&results_per_page=20) either. He's pretty blunt about Ms Coles achievements.
I'm not that fond of her either which has nothing at all to do with her shape/colour/size/age or any other physical attribute. It's more to do with the way she hoovers up taxpayer cash and what she achieves with it. (hint: SFA, see the linked articles).
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That sounds like two-wrongs-making-a-right logic to me.
Sure, you're right to observe that MPs get away with shit because of their position; but that doesn't justify throwing away the rulebook on their rights, and how the police should act.
(Just as you can't piss on someone that drops litter in your garden.)
But you can get them punished. Litter dropped from a public place into a private place is an offence.
Just saying, like ;)
Yes, you follow a LEGAL PROCESS to get them convicted. You don't phone up some dodgy copper (whom you may or may not know from a cycling forum) and
get him to release embarrassing details of someone's life for public consumption (and prurient finger-pointing).
Do you see the difference? Just asking, like!
Did I put an emoji in there?
I'm SURE I put an emoji in there somewhere....
;)
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The Maytron for managing to seem even more ineffectual than any normal human would consider possible by bigging up a cabinet reshuffle with the intention of showing competent leadership only to be told by the reshufflees what they would and wouldn't do. could she be any less like Thatcher and yet so equally reviled by all
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42624410
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42624410
Given the number of GOP Congresscritters who aren't seeking re-election, expect more freaks like Arpaio to come out from under their rocks in the primaries for the mid-terms this year.
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The Maytron for managing to seem even more ineffectual than any normal human would consider possible by bigging up a cabinet reshuffle with the intention of showing competent leadership only to be told by the reshufflees what they would and wouldn't do. could she be any less like Thatcher and yet so equally reviled by all
I don't think May is reviled. It's worse than that. People have started to pity her. She really is just a place-holder until the fat clown Blo-Job thinks we've forgotten about the mess he helped create.
May thought she would make a good, "Strong and Stable" leader..but she was mistaken. She's naturally a shaky, stuttering, gurning, mess when the pressure is on. She suddenly transforms into the tea-lady from Acorn Antiques.
Jeremy Hunt is reviled but then he's only doing the job* that someone else would be doing if he weren't.
*Grinding down the NHS into broken pieces, ready to sell off, or outsource, to private companies whose profits will be subsidised by us mugs, the tax-payers.
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May thought she would make a good, "Strong and Stable" leader..but she was mistaken. She's naturally a shaky, stuttering, gurning, mess when the pressure is on.
Stable is a very apt word for the current government - as Jeremy Hardy observed, a stable is often a rickety building with no foundations, and is usually full of shit.
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May thought she would make a good, "Strong and Stable" leader..but she was mistaken. She's naturally a shaky, stuttering, gurning, mess when the pressure is on.
Stable is a very apt word for the current government - as Jeremy Hardy observed, a stable is often a rickety building with no foundations, and is usually full of shit.
Funniest thing that I've heard on radio for years that. :thumbsup:
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Stable is a very apt word for the current government - as Jeremy Hardy observed, a stable is often a rickety building with no foundations, and is usually full of shit.
I may have to borrow that ;D
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Agent Orange.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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Margaret Court again.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/42659896
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Nigel Garage. Just because.
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Agent Orange.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)
He really is excelling at making America grate.
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anyone who takes CNN, the NY Times and M$NBC seriously. People without brains should be sent to vegan reform school.
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What an utterly foul person
the 25-year-old model said Ms Markle would "taint" the Royal Family, that she had a "tiny brain" and that black people were ugly.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42679187 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42679187)
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What an utterly foul person
the 25-year-old model said Ms Markle would "taint" the Royal Family, that she had a "tiny brain" and that black people were ugly.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42679187 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42679187)
I wonder how long it will take for the Mail or Express to offer her a column...
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anyone who takes CNN, the NY Times and M$NBC seriously. People without brains should be sent to vegan reform school.
I think there is a long way to go to best Breibart and Fox, and that odious snivelling bully, Alex Jones. Trump too for that matter.
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Boris "lets build a bridge across the channel" Johnson
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Boris "lets build a bridge across the channel" Johnson
Will it be a garden bridge?
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Boris "lets build a bridge across the channel" Johnson
Amazing bridge structures have been achieved across the world. Not as outlandish as it was 25 years ago.
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I suppose that we can fund it from the £400 million a week which the NHS was promised.. .
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I cannot help but compare Johnson's recent utterings to those of Trump and wonder if Bojo is the Chump's apprentice.
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...or the Chump's chimp?
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Separated at girth?
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Boris "lets build a bridge across the channel" Johnson
Amazing bridge structures have been achieved across the world. Not as outlandish as it was 25 years ago.
So you think that building multiple piers across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world is sensible?
Johnson just wants to attach his name to mega-structures. He has no interest in practicality or whether they can be funded. He is a complete and utter S-T
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Well at least it isn't a wall. I expect Daily Hate and Sexpest readers to hate the idea. Oh wait: where do these people go on holiday ...
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Spain. He should build it to Spain. Malaga, I think. Or the Costa del Sol.
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Only if we can bury him in the foundations as an offering to Neptune....
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Spain. He should build it to Spain. Malaga, I think. Or the Costa del Sol.
I was thinking more broadly - Europe. Those mad Mr. Toads like to pop across the channel and poot poot along with the hood down stopping only to savour delicious french cuisine whilst sipping fine wines.
All a bridge would really bring would be a string of articulated lorries and toll booths as it's bound to be a PFI style project. Imagine the chaos with mid-bridge accidents, breakdowns and incidents.
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If it's anything nearly as successful as his cable car across the Thames drivers will get their own personal lane. It'll be like living in a car advert.
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Boris "lets build a bridge across the channel" Johnson
Amazing bridge structures have been achieved across the world. Not as outlandish as it was 25 years ago.
So you think that building multiple piers across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world is sensible?
Johnson just wants to attach his name to mega-structures. He has no interest in practicality or whether they can be funded. He is a complete and utter S-T
Look what I got in today's Twitter feed...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DT5OzxPX4AAdpXp.jpg:large)
1908 illustration of HG Wells book.
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Jeremy "Look, this chart shows pretty colours, including lots of red!" Hunt
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....
Johnson just wants to attach his name to mega-structures. He has no interest in practicality or whether they can be funded. He is a complete and utter S-T
^This
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Jeremy "Look, this chart shows pretty colours, including lots of red!" Hunt
Agreed - what an idiot.
It's difficult to see the full detail on the chart, but it looks like around 60 shifts not covered on the day in question, half of them qualified Nurses. One of the red flagged wards has 15 patients needing help feeding and 6-8 staff on duty at meal times, and ratio of qualfied nurses to patients is 1:14
I wouldn't really expect him to understand staff shortages though. I doubt that if an MP calls in sick their colleagues find they have an extra workload as a consequence.
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I keep saying this, that there seems to be a complete lack of comprehension that the staffing crises in public services are caused by treatment of the workers, and in particular pay, which feeds back into the cycle as overwork caused by the lack of retention, which...etc. It isn't cured by recruitment when said new recruits all immediately resign when they find out what the job is actually like.
The supetwat bit is that despite their blanket refusal to acknowledge those facts, the government knows that they are, indeed, facts.
That implies that they are doing it deliberately, that (concentrate on consonant) Hunt et al actively want the services to fail.
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Michael Gove (again)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/gove-rants-at-clock-watching-civil-servants-m9c3d3smx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter_119&utm_medium=email&utm_content=119_January%2021,%202018&CMP=TNLEmail_118918_2810975_119 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/gove-rants-at-clock-watching-civil-servants-m9c3d3smx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter_119&utm_medium=email&utm_content=119_January%2021,%202018&CMP=TNLEmail_118918_2810975_119)
An arrogant know-nothing ideologue who completely fails to understand that decisions are normally best made by those who know a little about the topic already (from years of experience) or are prepared to put in a bit of effort to learn a little about it.
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Elle Darby
And if you haven't heard of her, that's because she's not very good at her (self-appointed) job.
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She is only doing what thousands of vloggers on youtube are also doing. Personally I find it a vacuous and unsustainable industry but she is still making a legitimate living out of it.
I think the bigger knob is the hotel manager. This was of course his crude attempt to gain some free publicity. There is no excuse for the resulting hate mob from the lower half of the internet.
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She is only doing what thousands of vloggers on youtube are also doing. Personally I find it a vacuous and unsustainable industry but she is still making a legitimate living out of it.
Vacuous and unsustainable occupations are not good for society in the long term.
I think the bigger knob is the hotel manager. This was of course his crude attempt to gain some free publicity.
Sauce for the goose, and all that. She was attempting to blag free stuff, he exploited her request to his own ends. He seems a lot more clued up than her about how marketing works.
Bill Hicks was right.
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I keep saying this, that there seems to be a complete lack of comprehension that the staffing crises in public services are caused by treatment of the workers, and in particular pay, which feeds back into the cycle as overwork caused by the lack of retention, which...etc. It isn't cured by recruitment when said new recruits all immediately resign when they find out what the job is actually like.
The supetwat bit is that despite their blanket refusal to acknowledge those facts, the government knows that they are, indeed, facts.
That implies that they are doing it deliberately, that (concentrate on consonant) Hunt et al actively want the services to fail.
Totally
Add in firefighting job moves to cover leavers destroying career plans to the vicious cycle.
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She is only doing what thousands of vloggers on youtube are also doing. Personally I find it a vacuous and unsustainable industry but she is still making a legitimate living out of it.
Vacuous and unsustainable occupations are not good for society in the long term.
I think the bigger knob is the hotel manager. This was of course his crude attempt to gain some free publicity.
Sauce for the goose, and all that. She was attempting to blag free stuff, he exploited her request to his own ends. He seems a lot more clued up than her about how marketing works.
Bill Hicks was right.
She seems to have been substantially PWNED anyway. Good god, 'social media influencer' – people use those words to describe themselves without somehow combusting on the spot and leaving nothing other than scorch marks and a bad smell.
Ah, I'm getting old. And thank god for that.
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She is only doing what thousands of vloggers on youtube are also doing. Personally I find it a vacuous and unsustainable industry but she is still making a legitimate living out of it.
That's because you're watching the wrong ones. It's like television, in that respect, where 99% is crap, and about half of the remainder is interesting but unwatchable due to the production style.
The rule of thumb about people who are/seek to be famous for being famous also applies.
I think the bigger knob is the hotel manager. This was of course his crude attempt to gain some free publicity. There is no excuse for the resulting hate mob from the lower half of the internet.
Quite, though I'd say his crude attempt at gaining some free publicity was better than her crude attempt to gain a free hotel stay.
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She seems to have been substantially PWNED anyway.
If she'd carried out even the most basic research (how hard is it to read a few reviews on tripadvisor?), she'd have known better than to approach that particular establishment, which has a reputation for not giving a fuck. The owner may well be a nobber but he appears to be running a successful business that's actually providing a genuine service to paying customers, many of whom seem to appreciate his style.
Reminds me a bit of Wong Kei, which people used to go to specifically for the pleasure of being insulted by the waiters. I was most disappointed when I had lunch there to find them perfectly courteous, and the food was quite acceptable too.
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It seems she just believed she could use the same MO everywhere to get free stuff. She's so special, you know, she has followers. It's that she didn't just suck it up, she then whines about not getting a freebie like it's so unfair because, you know, she has followers. I mean, don't people understand that? Cynically trading virtual popularity. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
And yes, a bit a research would have told her that perhaps it wasn't the establishment to target (and really, are they going to give a shit about her followers, they're unlikely to comprise the kind of the people who'd pay to stay).
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I think the bigger knob is the hotel manager. This was of course his crude attempt to gain some free publicity. There is no excuse for the resulting hate mob from the lower half of the internet.
Quite, though I'd say his crude attempt at gaining some free publicity was better than her crude attempt to gain a free hotel stay.
Worth noting that he didn't name her in his open letter that he posted on facebook. Nor was his letter personally abusive. Rude, perhaps, but not personally abusive.
She would have remained anonymous had she not outed herself by posting that ridiculous video. And even if he had named her, he is not responsible for the arseholes giving her personal abuse on social media - they're just the kind of nasty idiots who will jump on any excuse to abuse women online.
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Is she a slightly more advanced version of Max Headroom? Real people do not have skin like that.
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The twats behind this http://www.earthnotaglobe.co.uk/ (http://www.earthnotaglobe.co.uk/) who paid for a massive billboard advert in Macclesfield
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Heh heh, the videos on that site are hilarious.
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Venice Allan/Allen/various other names.
You express your hopes that a teenager might commit suicide after stalking them everywhere, turn up at an event they are at and distribute hate speech leaflets, and then complain when you are asked to leave? FOAD!
And take lots of photos of them...
Just been suspended from the Labour Party. Yay!
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Michael Gove (again)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/gove-rants-at-clock-watching-civil-servants-m9c3d3smx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter_119&utm_medium=email&utm_content=119_January%2021,%202018&CMP=TNLEmail_118918_2810975_119 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/gove-rants-at-clock-watching-civil-servants-m9c3d3smx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter_119&utm_medium=email&utm_content=119_January%2021,%202018&CMP=TNLEmail_118918_2810975_119)
An arrogant know-nothing ideologue who completely fails to understand that decisions are normally best made by those who know a little about the topic already (from years of experience) or are prepared to put in a bit of effort to learn a little about it.
Paywall in the way for me.
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Heh heh, the videos on that site are hilarious.
The statements on the first video are classics. "Priests of the science religion claim that moon phases are caused by the shadow of the Earth. No they don't.
"The Michelson-Morley experiment proves the Earth doesn't rotate". No. It proves there is no luminiferous aether.
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A bulk entry of pram-toy-tossers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42795710
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A murder of MPs enact political vengeance!
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Heh heh, the videos on that site are hilarious.
The statements on the first video are classics. "Priests of the science religion claim that moon phases are caused by the shadow of the Earth. No they don't.
"The Michelson-Morley experiment proves the Earth doesn't rotate". No. It proves there is no luminiferous aether.
Do they explain what sort of weird physics were involved in forming a flat earth-sized object in zero gravity out of floating space rocks?*
* I don't want to explore their web site in case it helps generate revenue for them.
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Robert Peston.
He's annoying bordering on inarticulate. Who heard him talk and thought he'd be a great TV host?
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Heh heh, the videos on that site are hilarious.
The statements on the first video are classics. "Priests of the science religion claim that moon phases are caused by the shadow of the Earth. No they don't.
"The Michelson-Morley experiment proves the Earth doesn't rotate". No. It proves there is no luminiferous aether.
Do they explain what sort of weird physics were involved in forming a flat earth-sized object in zero gravity out of floating space rocks?*
* I don't want to explore their web site in case it helps generate revenue for them.
From the comments re space ("so-called space") I gather they don't actually believe there is any 'space' as such, and that the Sun is a lot smaller and closer than it really is.
After the stupidity of the 'as any fule kno scientists claim moon phases are caused by the Earth's shadow' (no they don't), followed by "if that were true moon phases in Winter would go backwards' (why?) I gave up watching. There is amusingly stupid, and then there is interminably stupid.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5410098/britain-strictest-headteacher-expel-pupils-love-school-sweetheart/
Toby Belfield, who writes the most twattish memos I've ever seen.
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Sadiq Khan - the most anti cycling mayor ever. Fuck me even Ken wasn’t this bad. Cancelling safety projects left right and centre!
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5410098/britain-strictest-headteacher-expel-pupils-love-school-sweetheart/
Toby Belfield, who writes the most twattish memos I've ever seen.
I have just read about this. Seconded.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2018/jan/25/britains-ghastliest-financial-sublebrities-a-whos-who?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=261824&subid=7864904&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Gathered together for your delectation
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Time for Leave.EU campaigner Andy Wigmore to take his turn...
The Sun are reporting that he was pulled over last week on suspicion of driving without insurance and using illegal diplomatic plates. ;D
Leave.EU’s communications director Andy Wigmore was pulled over by cops in his car for using illegal diplomatic plates as well as an expired diplomatic ID card.
The officers also suspected he was driving without insurance when he was detained on the A3 on January 19 last week.
Mr Wigmore is a key ally of Nigel Farage and one of the self-declared four “Bad Boys of Brexit”.
Wigmore was snapped with Farage when the former UKIP leader became the first British politician to meet Donald Trump after he was elected president in 2016.
The prominent campaigner, who has dual nationality with Belize, held diplomatic status for the tiny central American country until it was revoked a year ago.
But Mr Wigmore kept up the pretence, angering the Belizean High Commission in London who asked FCO chiefs to enforce action to halt him.
The police patrol who spotted Mr Wigmore seized his diplomatic plates and ID card on the spot.
The arrest is a big embarrassment for Mr Wigmore and his boss, the multi-millionaire hard Brexit advocate Arron Banks.
It is a criminal offence to impersonate a diplomat, but Mr Wigmore insists he won’t be prosecuted.
After a long roadside row, he also insists he was able to prove he was insured to drive.
Confronted by The Sun, Mr Wigmore admitted last night: “It’s very embarrassing, but it was all just an administrative error.
“I was unaware my number plates had been decommissioned.”
Mr Banks founded the Leave.EU campaign, which fought a bitterly rivalry with Vote Leave, fronted by Boris Johnson.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “Former diplomats would be treated by the police in exactly the same way as any other member of the public”.
I've spotted a few interchanges he's had on Twitter with the Graun's Carole Cadwalladr and others, and he comes across as a weapons-grade tool. And it's surely the CPS who have the final word on whether he gets done for impersonating a diplomat. :demon:
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:-D :-D
And his mate Aaron Banks is encouraging all spewKIP members to join the tories & push for a hard Brexit >:(
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He won't have diplomatic status in the UK even if he IS a diplomat, unless he has magically gained it as an accredited rep for another country. A UK dip in the UK is just another member of the public.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2018/jan/25/britains-ghastliest-financial-sublebrities-a-whos-who?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=261824&subid=7864904&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Gathered together for your delectation
Thanks for the link. Marina Hyde deserves some sort of award for her achievements in Super-Twat studies.
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He won't have diplomatic status in the UK even if he IS a diplomat, unless he has magically gained it as an accredited rep for another country. A UK dip in the UK is just another member of the public.
The Sun piece says he used to have accreditation from Belize, but that it was withdrawn a year ago.
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He won't have diplomatic status in the UK even if he IS a diplomat, unless he has magically gained it as an accredited rep for another country. A UK dip in the UK is just another member of the public.
The Sun piece says he used to have accreditation from Belize, but that it was withdrawn a year ago.
Presumably we would be perfectly within our rights to send him back there then ;)
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No, Belize don't want anything to do with him any more - he's too toxic even for a notoriously corrupt banana republic. That's why they dobbed him in to the police for continuing to use his CD plates after they'd disowned him.
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The orange-u-tang accused the FBI of abuse of power.
Oh, the irony ... :facepalm:
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Dave, van driver by appointment to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. What a bastard!
#DaveDidIt
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Piers Morgan. His latest rant on Twitter.
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Piers Morgan (Colossal Bell End). His latest rant on Twitter.
Hope you don't mind if I make the appropriate edit? :)
Regarding Piers Morgan (Colossal Bell End) getting his pants in a twist, it's a spectacular piece of self-pwnage. ;D
Whether you want to look at a (non-explicit) picture of Morgan (Colossal Bell End) with his nose between Trump's arse cheeks is up to you, but the Daily Beast's Ben Collins has the receipts: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/959525809823207425
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Thing is that he makes a good point initially then goes and completely ruin it.
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Heh heh, the videos on that site are hilarious.
The statements on the first video are classics. "Priests of the science religion claim that moon phases are caused by the shadow of the Earth. No they don't.
"The Michelson-Morley experiment proves the Earth doesn't rotate". No. It proves there is no luminiferous aether.
Do they explain what sort of weird physics were involved in forming a flat earth-sized object in zero gravity out of floating space rocks?*
* I don't want to explore their web site in case it helps generate revenue for them.
From the comments re space ("so-called space") I gather they don't actually believe there is any 'space' as such, and that the Sun is a lot smaller and closer than it really is.
After the stupidity of the 'as any fule kno scientists claim moon phases are caused by the Earth's shadow' (no they don't), followed by "if that were true moon phases in Winter would go backwards' (why?) I gave up watching. There is amusingly stupid, and then there is interminably stupid.
Just spotted this (I think we may have already discussed this particular loonspud er... eccentric).
"Mike Hughes is a limo driver and self-taught rocket scientist. On Feb. 3, he plans to launch himself into the stratosphere in a rocket built in his garage. His ultimate goal is to get to outer space and prove that Earth is flat. This will be his third attempt."
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/can-self-taught-rocket-scientist-mike-hughes-prove-earth-is-flat-1151204931647?v=b&cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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Heh heh, the videos on that site are hilarious.
The statements on the first video are classics. "Priests of the science religion claim that moon phases are caused by the shadow of the Earth. No they don't.
"The Michelson-Morley experiment proves the Earth doesn't rotate". No. It proves there is no luminiferous aether.
Do they explain what sort of weird physics were involved in forming a flat earth-sized object in zero gravity out of floating space rocks?*
* I don't want to explore their web site in case it helps generate revenue for them.
From the comments re space ("so-called space") I gather they don't actually believe there is any 'space' as such, and that the Sun is a lot smaller and closer than it really is.
After the stupidity of the 'as any fule kno scientists claim moon phases are caused by the Earth's shadow' (no they don't), followed by "if that were true moon phases in Winter would go backwards' (why?) I gave up watching. There is amusingly stupid, and then there is interminably stupid.
Just spotted this (I think we may have already discussed this particular loonspud er... eccentric).
"Mike Hughes is a limo driver and self-taught rocket scientist. On Feb. 3, he plans to launch himself into the stratosphere in a rocket built in his garage. His ultimate goal is to get to outer space and prove that Earth is flat. This will be his third attempt."
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/can-self-taught-rocket-scientist-mike-hughes-prove-earth-is-flat-1151204931647?v=b&cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Respect to the man for following a dream, but the Darwin awards beckon.....
A
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42929071
J R-M, Minister for the 19th Century, again. Mind you, I'd quite like him to be Tory leader as he would do for them what The Wrong Miliband did for Labour's electoral chances.
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JRM is such a slimy toad. His position on the morals and ethics of abortion and personal gain show him to be happy to forego a principle for pure personal gain. How can anybody trust a word he says except perhaps for Daily Hate readers perhaps?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42929071
J R-M, Minister for the 19th Century, again. Mind you, I'd quite like him to be Tory leader as he would do for them what The Wrong Miliband did for Labour's electoral chances.
Like Trump did fro the Republicans, you mean?! People will vote for ANYTHING.
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...but you have to vote for a lizard. If you didn't the wrong lizard might get in.
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Remember in the movie Independence Day, the big aliens turn out to be suits for 'greys' inside. You do the same and pop the seal on the average (and that's as much as they can aspire to be) Daily Mail reader and inside there's a little mucoid homunculus that looks just like Rees-Mogg working the levers.
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Hatey Cockpins - again. This time the horse-faced empathy vacuum has had to be hospitalised in South Africa after OD'ing on ketamine. Ironically, a substance originally used as a horse tranquiliser.
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Remember in the movie Independence Day, the big aliens turn out to be suits for 'greys' inside. You do the same and pop the seal on the average (and that's as much as they can aspire to be) Daily Mail reader and inside there's a little mucoid homunculus that looks just like Rees-Mogg working the levers.
I have a shameful confession, and a sort of relevant one. I watched the Scooby-Doo film. In it...
The big bad beasty is a robot driven by that irritating little blowhard Scrappy. I think you may gather my point
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Remember in the movie Independence Day, the big aliens turn out to be suits for 'greys' inside. You do the same and pop the seal on the average (and that's as much as they can aspire to be) Daily Mail reader and inside there's a little mucoid homunculus that looks just like Rees-Mogg working the levers.
Sounds like the idea behind the Daleks, nasty slimly lumps of bubbling hate in an impervious outer layer....
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Hatey Cockpins - again. This time the horse-faced empathy vacuum has had to be hospitalised in South Africa after OD'ing on ketamine. Ironically, a substance originally used as a horse tranquiliser.
The Mirror (https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-ketamine-drugs-11969054) 'reveals' she was on Special K after dislocating something (perhaps her sense of humanity, I'm not sure), but then turns it into an excuse to remind us of some of her more charming utterances.
Nicely done, chaps, nicely done. (Oh, and apparently there's a crowdfunding effort going on to buy her 'mansion' - sale required to pay Jack Monroe's legal bills - and turn it into a centre for refugees. Again, to be commended I feel, were it not for the fact it involves giving La Hopkins any money.)
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Hatey Cockpins - again. This time the horse-faced empathy vacuum has had to be hospitalised in South Africa after OD'ing on ketamine. Ironically, a substance originally used as a horse tranquiliser.
Sounds like the idea behind the Daleks, nasty slimly lumps of bubbling hate in an impervious outer layer....
There appears to be a confluence of separate sub-threads ;D
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The tangerine shitgibbon for slagging off the NHS. Even Jeremy *unt slapped hin down.
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First time I agreed with *unt!
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But Twunt isn't exactly helping to resolve the issues, rather he seems to be deliberately making the whole NHS a steaming pile of shite and ripe for the gathering of low hanging fruit by the likes of Branson.
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The tangerine shitgibbon for slagging off the NHS. Even Jeremy *unt slapped hin down.
Damn right - that's Jeremy Rhyming-slang's job.
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Corbyn's slapdown was, of course, better.
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As was Bernie Sanders' :demon:
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John Redwood.
You know, the same slimy shit for brains scumbag who was telling his eurosceptic chums to take their money out of Britain and yet has the bare face cheek to criticise predictions of economic disadvantage based upon varying brexit scenarios.
What a total hypocrite, slimy bastard and super mega twat.
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Redwood could easily be Rees-Mogg's slightly dodgy uncle, the one with no clear occupation who is only reluctantly allowed out for major weddings and funerals as he tends to upset everyone with his world view.
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TWAT. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42974641)
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As they say, justice was well and truly served! :thumbsup:
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Redwood could easily be Rees-Mogg's slightly dodgy uncle, the one with no clear occupation who is only reluctantly allowed out for major weddings and funerals as he tends to upset everyone with his world view.
Isn't that the very definition of a back bencher?
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Money for old rope then.
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The Freemasons. All of them. They can just fuck right off.
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Oh! OK, then . . .
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Oh! OK, then . . .
Is it not just a little bit rich that an organisation with an exclusively male membership is now complaining about discrimination?
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To be fair you can have all female lodges
Somewhere else...
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Robert Peston.
I caught the opening of his 'Peston on Sunday' show last night. Does he expect to be take seriously after a performance like that, or is he aiming for a more TWTWTW vibe?
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The prospect of a lying, deceitful and imo completely dishonest establishment self-entitled brexidiot Bullingdon bully boy trying to TELL me to get behind his plan to further destabilise the UK and usurp Mayhem into the bargain just makes me want to vomit.
No thanks Bozo. It's difficult to name anybody beside Trump and Farage who have even less credibility than you.
Cue long list below ... ;)
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Oo, what has Blojo been saying now <fx:scurries of to investigate>
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Oo, what has Blojo been saying now <fx:scurries of to investigate>
He's planning to make a speech today calling for national unity in support of Brexit.
The irony is lost on the divisive, destructive, entirely self-interested arsehole.
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one does wonder why these politico types actually need to make speeches these days, as the script of said enunciation is generally 'leaked' via the electronic medja well before the event
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The only thing that self-indulgent weasel could say to reassure me on the topic of brexit would be to say that he is sincerely and extremely sorry, he got it badly wrong, he knowingly misled the public and that brexit must be cancelled immediately.
Then he must resign and do 10,000 hours of unpaid community service at the arse end in a care home.
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On top of all that, he's using (or will use*) the phrase "Reach Out."
[Placeholder for Four Tops flow chart]
* I know it's a lost battle, but the reporting of things that are yet to happen, especially politicians speeches, as news, is more than a bit annoying.
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'Cor talk about watching a slow motion train crash. I notice the word betrayal is in there, true to type.
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Is there any chance we could stop defaming weasels? It's really not fair to compare them to that constantly lying halfwit.
If you want a thought exercise, try to imagine a piece of paper small enough to write all Boris's achievements on.
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Does he have children or has he spared the world his DNA?
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Is there any chance we could stop defaming weasels? It's really not fair to compare them to that constantly lying halfwit.
If you want a thought exercise, try to imagine a piece of paper small enough to write all Boris's achievements on.
Yes indeed. Poor weasels.
As for my imagination: I freely admit that it is not up to the task.
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Does he have children or has he spared the world his DNA?
Quite a few. Some with his wife.
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Cue long list below ... ;)
May I start with hypocritical über-ponce Jacob Grease-Smugg?
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Not to mention brexiteer campaign funders obtaining Maltese nationality for themselves and famille.
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Oo, what has Blojo been saying now <fx:scurries of to investigate>
He's planning to make a speech today calling for national unity in support of Brexit. Boris Johnson
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IRTA Borexit, which sounds like a much better idea.
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Well, that was a right pile of superciliously smug brexcrement. :sick:
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Does he have children or has he spared the world his DNA?
Quite a few. Some with his wife.
POTD!
Well, that was a right pile of superciliously smug brexcrement. :sick:
Oh well, sounds like you've read it so I don't have to. That'll be good for my blood pressure....
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Is there any chance we could stop defaming weasels?...
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/965434374d830573524296c3d404a8bf210160f9/0_0_4821_2983/master/4821.jpg?w=940&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=98ad26dae0914a03efd02dbc714daf66) (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2018/feb/14/martin-rowson-on-boris-johnsons-brexit-speech-cartoon)
Even though they're stoats, grumble, grumble...
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I can't be bothered listening or reading any of the vacuous buffoonish that emits from Boris's blowhole, but how long did it take for him to invoke the 'will of the people?'
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I saw on C4 News that it was used, but I don't know exactly when.
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I didn't listen either, but it's going to be great for carrots. ORGANIC carrots! Organic carrots WITH BLUE PASSPORTS!!1!
Or something.
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Apparently he mentioned the Thai sex trade and dogging, too.
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I considered that he was just thinking out loud at that point.
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I made the mistake and glanced. Yes, he did and it didn't take long. Lots of stuff that might happen, though we're not sure how it will happen and have no plans to make it happen, but hey it might.
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Let us, for a moment, cross the stormy North Twatlantic to consider the case of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). Mr Rubio is "devastated" and "saddened" by 2018's 18th school shooting. That's the same Senator Rubio who, in the course of his political career, has received more than three million dollars in donations from the NRA. Natch, he's also said that now is not the time to politicise yadda yadda, and is therefore eminently worthy of a seat high in the pantheon of Official Super-Twats.
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Ted Cruz. Same story.
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Richard Littlejohn.
Mind you, anything that causes a reduction in revenue at The Hate is good news in my opinion.
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Anybody who thinks that leaving the EU is a good idea. For any reason what ever. They’re wrong!
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Florida gun show goes ahead this weekend despite Parkland massacre a few days beforehand.
“We’re very, very sensitive to what happened in Parkland, we want everyone to know that we don’t want them to think that we’re being insensitive by having the show go forward,” Mr Fernandez said.
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Paul Ryan, for holding a fundraising party in Florida...
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Paul Ryan, for holding a fundraising party in Florida...
FTFY...
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Paul Ryan, for holding a fundraising party in Florida...
FTFY...
;D :thumbsup:
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Well yes.
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It's David Davis in the firing line today. :hand:
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Although Damian Green did a splendid impersonation of a kebab on Today.
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I've given up listening to that depressingly trite shite and it has improved my daily outlook considerably.
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It was that or Ken Dodd while I drove to work...
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Are those the only two options in your motorbox?
+1 for Damian Green. I've just read what he said, and didn't say of course.
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Chris Evans?
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Have you considered taking up singing.
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Group award: Bath Conservative Association.
What is the collective noun for a bunch of political super twats? Is it a conservative of twats, maybe a party of twats, or even a totalitarian of twats. My favourite is a nasty of twats at the moment.
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Group award: Bath Conservative Association.
What is the collective noun for a bunch of political super twats?
A Conservatory, of course.
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Very good. :thumbsup:
Or, a scum of ...
I like that. I like that a lot.
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The person that decided redundacy payments should be taxable, how low can you go......fs.
http://www.claytonandbrewill.com/redundancy-payments-april-2018/
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Isabel Oakeshott >:(
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577 (https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577)
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The person that decided redundacy payments should be taxable, how low can you go......fs.
http://www.claytonandbrewill.com/redundancy-payments-april-2018/
Clearly tories know that mass redundancies happen under their watch and they want to pick the pockets of the unfortunate. It's pre-budget draft legislation so I guess that sits with the Sheriff of Runnymede and Weybridge though of course prince(ss) MAY no doubt approves.
The big hit of course will be for where the numbers added on to annual earnings take the victim into higher rate tax.
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Isabel Oakeshott >:(
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577 (https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577)
I dunno, it was worth it for...
...I don't think you understand how averages work, Isabel.
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This is specifically payment in lieu of notice, not severance pay, according to the article, so I'm surprised it wasn't taxed already. If you work your notice instead of taking gardening leave, you'd expect to pay tax as it's just normal salary.
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Sometimes you don't get the opportunity to work out your 'notice' though.
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This is specifically payment in lieu of notice, not severance pay, according to the article, so I'm surprised it wasn't taxed already. If you work your notice instead of taking gardening leave, you'd expect to pay tax as it's just normal salary.
Just take .5% more off those that earn over 200k instead...?
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Isabel Oakeshott >:(
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577 (https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'political correctness' non-ironically belongs here.
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Used to be a £30,000 allowance thinks. Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.
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My understanding from our union bods in the wake of our pensions shafting is that the tax only affects pay in lieu of notice. The actual redundancy (or voluntary severance pay) is still tax free up to £30k.
It becomes complicated if you plan to take your severance pay over into the next FY if you've got pay in lieu to consider as well, and of course there's a gotcha in that many larger companies have a 3 month notice period but generally only operate a 1 month notice period. It could be argued that some of your severance pay is pay in lieu of the unenforced 2 months.
But like most things, most of us won't look into the detail in any detail until it actually affects us, by which time it'll be too late to kick off about the changes.
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Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.
Unemployment figures mostly reflect the effectiveness of the various ways that successive governments have found to cook the unemployment figures, they don't really indicate anything useful.
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Isabel Oakeshott >:(
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577 (https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'political correctness' non-ironically belongs here.
I liked the suggestion to replace the words 'political correctness' with 'common decency' at all times. :)
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Used to be a £30,000 allowance thinks. Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.
Since The Wrong Hammond assured us there were no unemployed people not long ago, they could hardly go down ;)
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My understanding from our union bods in the wake of our pensions shafting is that the tax only affects pay in lieu of notice. The actual redundancy (or voluntary severance pay) is still tax free up to £30k.
I am almost sure that PILON was already taxable, if your employment contract gives the employer the right to impose it - which most do. Certainly that's what I was told in 2012 or so.
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Donald J. Shitforbrains.
Assailants and crimes use guns not only because they make the task easier, not only because they think that it makes them cool, not only because it depersonalises the assault, but also because law enforcement also carry and use guns. Adding more guns to the cocktail is like pouring paraffin on a fire.
A fool and their brane should be forever parted.
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A fool and their brane should be forever parted.
I think that we should make sure that they are kept together, but maybe have a word with the nice Elon chap to find a role for the fool AND his brane as a component of the ballast of his next heavy lifter rocket.
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A fool and their brane should be forever parted.
I think that we should make sure that they are kept together, but maybe have a word with the nice Elon chap to find a role for the fool AND his brane as a component of the ballast of his next heavy lifter rocket.
I think that's mighty unfair on the aliens.
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NRA chief Wayne LaPierre: https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/966691126416760835
A truly evil creature.
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Donald J. Shitforbrains yet again.
So, the shootings are the fault of the armed deputy who didn't enter the building are they? So, arming a member of staff will deter and prevent such incidents will they?
You Donald J. Shitforbrains and the NRA are primarily responsible for promoting and defending gun ownership in the way that you do and therefore you must take some of the blame for the ongoing problems faced (https://www.snopes.com/2018/02/16/how-many-school-shootings-in-2018/) in the US.
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I feel rather sorry for the officer involved. The gunman in the school had a semi-automatic assault rifle and heaven only knows how many rounds of ammunition in an undetermined number of magazines. The police officer had a hand-gun with, I assume, somewhere in the region of half a dozen to a dozen rounds and very likely a much shorter killing range than the gunman's rifle.
Just how much difference do idiots like the orange buffoon expect anyone to be able to make in that sort of a situation? It isn't Die Hard or Rambo or any other Hollywood "Lone Hero" fantasy story. "Pluck" and "grit" do not make up for that kind of difference in fire-power.
As far as I can see there's being brave and there's being a suicidal idiot. Trying to take on someone with that sort of disparity in weaponry is simply stupid and suicidal.
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I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.
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I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a suspiciously convenient sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.
FTFY :D
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I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.
Couldn't agree more.
I feel rather sorry for the officer involved. The gunman in the school had a semi-automatic assault rifle and heaven only knows how many rounds of ammunition in an undetermined number of magazines. The police officer had a hand-gun with, I assume, somewhere in the region of half a dozen to a dozen rounds and very likely a much shorter killing range than the gunman's rifle.
Just how much difference do idiots like the orange buffoon expect anyone to be able to make in that sort of a situation? It isn't Die Hard or Rambo or any other Hollywood "Lone Hero" fantasy story. "Pluck" and "grit" do not make up for that kind of difference in fire-power.
As far as I can see there's being brave and there's being a suicidal idiot. Trying to take on someone with that sort of disparity in weaponry is simply stupid and suicidal.
Of course, what the NRA and the Orange One clearly do not want to understand is that by having weapons so freely available the idiot simply loads up with as much as they can carry. If you think that you might be shot at you take a bigger gun.
The term 'arms race' means nothing to the orange-arsed baboon.
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Ben Bradley - Grand Master Twitter Twatter!!!
Points and laughs: HA HA! :smug:
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Jeremy Hunt, for receiving (and awarding to himself) recognition of his sterling efforts in the field of Patient Safety.
SuperTwat!
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UBER-Twat.
Wonder if he's got shares . . .
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Why doesn't the uber-twat just get on with sorting the huge problems with the NHS on his watch and not bother to get involved in the brexit debate.
I with that these politicians would just do their jobs. It's what they get rather excessively rewarded for.
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I would actually award the S-T to the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, for giving the patient safety award to JH
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Aye, but, since the misprint is apparently a member of the awarding panel, that's double Giga-Twat...
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I think you are all using the wrong word for Jeremy Rhyming slang >:(
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It's a synonym, Shirley.
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Apparently Trump is saying he would have been the first into the school without a weapon, bone spur and all. Look forward to him charging in next time given he gets all the intelligence reports. There have been 8 incidents ytd so will be plenty of opportunities to put his mouth in order.
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It's just a pity that in his tiny mind he believes his own hype.
Would be happy to see him go in and take many many many hits for 'the team'. In reality he'd be sending in the poor underpaid and underappreciated cannon fodder whose job it is to take one for him instead.
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It's just a pity that in his tiny mind he believes his own hype.
About as much as my granny did in proclaiming how she was going to ram a hot pratie down Hitler's throat with a beetle.
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You know what really p!zzes me off about trump's rantings over the latest atrocity-inna-school?
He keeps going on about 'gun-free-zones'. This school wasn't a 'gun-free-zone'. It had an armed guard. That made sweet eff all difference. A load of people died anyway, and a bloke who misunderstood the situation (he says he thought the shooter was outside, as did 4 sheriff's deputies) is going to live with a terrible guilt for the rest of his life.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, what a collosal twunt.
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Bozo the clown.
Exploiting an issue like the Irish border or perhaps the NHS would be completely unacceptable: wouldn't it Bozo?
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It's hardly exploiting the issue when talking about the Irish border though, because it's rather a major issue with respect to leaving the EU and the CU.
As anyone who cares to consider it, if we aren't in a reciprocal tax arrangement with a neighbouring country we have to have a customs post at every point of entry, and it doesn't really matter if we do r don't the neighbouring country will have them on their side of the border. The whole of Tess's cabinet are a set of colossal bellends.
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Nadine Dorries. Too many reasons to list.
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It's hardly exploiting the issue when talking about the Irish border though, because it's rather a major issue with respect to leaving the EU and the CU.
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Indeed. Which is why Bozo is such a super mega twat for taking a pop at Major for instance accusing him of exploiting the border issue. Boris wouldn't do anything like that would he? No...
Hypocrite.
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You know what really p!zzes me off about trump's rantings over the latest atrocity-inna-school?
He keeps going on about 'gun-free-zones'. This school wasn't a 'gun-free-zone'. It had an armed guard. That made sweet eff all difference. A load of people died anyway, and a bloke who misunderstood the situation (he says he thought the shooter was outside, as did 4 sheriff's deputies) is going to live with a terrible guilt for the rest of his life.
You aren't thinking ti through properly. You need to think like Trump.
4 highly trained law enforcement officers didn't engage with the shooter. Trump called them cowards, in public.
Therefore, if highly trained law enforcement officers won't engage with a nut-job with an assault rifle, who is more likely to? Of course...Geography and Biology Teachers.
Do you see now? It's you wot's stupid, not the Donald.
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While on the subject of Twats du Brexit, let us spare a thought for Walter the Softy, aka Jacob Grease-Smugg. Not content with having his nanny crib Stuffs from The Scum to use in his election propaganda, he compounds the idiocy by telling John Major that he needs a speech writer. This a scan twenty-four hours, or fewer, after retweeting some mathematically- and factually-wrong shite from his favourite "newspaper" telling us how mozzarella will be cheaper post-Brexit. My bollocksometer overloaded at that one and is now sulking.
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Not forgetting his bare-faced lie about Corbyn's voting on the GFA
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You know, I was never really quite convinced of Jeremy Corbyn's credentials until every little fascist and establishment prig this side of Pluto's Gate started taking pops at him.
What can they be so scared of?
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You know, I was never really quite convinced of Jeremy Corbyn's credentials until every little fascist and establishment prig this side of Pluto's Gate started taking pops at him.
What can they be so scared of?
The fact that someone like Corbyn is an electoral threat really is an indictment on just how monumentally this lot suck at governance!
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Not forgetting his bare-faced lie about Corbyn's voting on the GFA
He has now apologised for this but, as far as I know, has not yet done so to Desmond Swayne over his assertion that no pro-Brexit MP voted against it :demon:
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Jacob Smugg-Gitt calling John Major 'elite'.
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Jacob Uber-Twat really is living proof that some people would vote for a pig if it was wearing a blue ribbon . . .
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As no pig was available they had to vote for Pigfucker Dave instead, who deserves a permanent place in this thread for calling that fucking stupid referendum.
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Not forgetting his bare-faced lie about Corbyn's voting on the GFA
He has now apologised for this but, as far as I know, has not yet done so to Desmond Swayne over his assertion that no pro-Brexit MP voted against it :demon:
He has issued a correction. Whether that counts as an apology is moot.
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It's the closest you'll get from Grease-Smugg.
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Hatie Kopkins again
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins (https://twitter.com/KTHopkins)
I can't get the video link separately.
No words
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Hatie Katie yet again :sick:
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The Orange 45. Again Again Again Again Again
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What's the hooting shitgibbon said/done now?
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Quentin Lett.
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What's the hooting shitgibbon said/done now?
Complained publicly that every country that does business with Leftpondia rapes it mercilessly.
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Quentin Lett.
Just in general or has he been extra odious?
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Quentin Lett.
Just in general or has he been extra odious?
Patronising and snobbish towards Mhairi Black.
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To be fair, he's patronising and snobbish towards everyone. He's the sort of chap that manages to offend his own reflection.
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Quentin Letts
@thequentinletts
Went to the 'ban wolf-whistling' debate just now. Few there. Mhairi Black (SNP) gave a speech full of rude words but I'm not sure anyone fully understood them. It's not an easy accent.
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This Twat, who's going to be spending the next 7 years wearing orange :-D https://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison?utm_term=.gr3MJ7QkPR&bftwnews#.qxxnk32L0P
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(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/b1/f0/2fb1f0ff1589fb03ffa4814f3aef0929.jpg)
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/e/e9/Nelson_Ha-Ha.jpg)
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What's the hooting shitgibbon said/done now?
Complained publicly that every country that does business with Leftpondia rapes it mercilessly.
Just ask his erstwhile associates.
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Steve Bannon. The French fascists don't need any bloody encouragement >:(
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The NRA, for suing the Florida state government, who are trying to implement some (slightly) restrictions on gun ownership, including giving police the right to take guns off people whose behaviour is giving them concern.
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This Twat, who's going to be spending the next 7 years wearing orange :-D https://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison?utm_term=.gr3MJ7QkPR&bftwnews#.qxxnk32L0P
Just chanced across a couple of gems from transcripts of pre-trial jury selection for the Shkreli case.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DX3qXI9X0AUfMBk.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DX8LPZ6WAAEd7E1.jpg)
Source: https://twitter.com/BranPart/status/972190783825694721
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The NRA, 《 snip 》 ...
No further explanation required.
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Steve Bannon. The French fascists don't need any bloody encouragement >:(
And his interpreter, who said just about any bloody rubbish when his bloody rubbish didn't make sense. And mixed up Ted Cruz and Tom Cruise. :thumbsup:
Come to that, the entire Front National and their supporters, who actually do need all the encouragement they can get because they're not getting a lot just now. Stuff 'em.
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Quentin Lett.
Just in general or has he been extra odious?
Patronising and snobbish towards Mhairi Black.
What Letts actually wrote was “Happily,Miss Black has such a formidably strong accent that the dreadful words she uttered ( she was repeating some rude words that she had been called on social media) were almost completely incomprehensible to your sketchwriter’s soft southerners ear.”
My wife’s uncle was born and brought up in South Lanarkshire and had an accent that was that strong that I never mastered it.
And that was after he had lived in East Anglia for 50 years. I know plenty of people in Yorkshire who would struggle to decipher Geordies or Pitwackas from 30 miles away. I have never heard Mhairi Black but as you are living in Edinburgh your ears are more tuned in to the Scots accent than many of us.
Letts’ column is the Parliamentary Sketch. Given that most of the business of Parliament is as dull as ditchwater, the aim of the sketch writer is to try to present the action in more than the deadpan of Hansard.
It’s not meant to be serious reporting .
Letts is sarcastic about anyone and everyone even Mother Theresa. It’s his schoolboy style.
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Letts is still an S-T of epic proportions.
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Quentin Lett.
Just in general or has he been extra odious?
Patronising and snobbish towards Mhairi Black.
What Letts actually wrote was “Happily,Miss Black has such a formidably strong accent that the dreadful words she uttered ( she was repeating some rude words that she had been called on social media) were almost completely incomprehensible to your sketchwriter’s soft southerners ear.”
My wife’s uncle was born and brought up in South Lanarkshire and had an accent that was that strong that I never mastered it.
And that was after he had lived in East Anglia for 50 years. I know plenty of people in Yorkshire who would struggle to decipher Geordies or Pitwackas from 30 miles away. I have never heard Mhairi Black but as you are living in Edinburgh your ears are more tuned in to the Scots accent than many of us.
Letts’ column is the Parliamentary Sketch. Given that most of the business of Parliament is as dull as ditchwater, the aim of the sketch writer is to try to present the action in more than the deadpan of Hansard.
It’s not meant to be serious reporting .
Letts is sarcastic about anyone and everyone even Mother Theresa. It’s his schoolboy style.
What he said on twitter was "Went to the 'ban wolf-whistling' debate just now. Few there. Mhairi Black (SNP) gave a speech full of rude words but I'm not sure anyone fully understood them. It's not an easy accent."
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An opinion held by a lot of Anglophones.
Is it patronising then when the BBC introduce subtitles even when the person is speaking English?
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It's disingenuous - he understood her well enough to recognise the rude words.
Clearly he has nothing interesting or informative to say about the content of her speech and can only muster enough wit to make a cheap personal attack.
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Is it patronising then when the BBC introduce subtitles even when the person is speaking English?
What is patronising is when the subtitles for the hard of hearing are deliberately edited so that the reader may not see rude words. It is OK to hear them but not read them.
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Letts is a bit of a twat who does that upper-middling class schtick that for some reason appeals to some people despite being neither especially funny or entertaining. It's probably a valid point to say making the average events at Parliament interesting an uphill struggle and he looks like the kind of chap who would struggle with any kind of gradient literal or figurative. Most parliamentary 'sketch' type things follow the same script. No one really gripes when they take the piss out of May or Corbyn on a similar basis.
Of course, any sympathy should be tempered by the fact he writes for the DM.
Re subtitles for accents. Sometimes it's a bit bizarre as they don't seem difficult (as here, but then I lived in Edinburgh for several years), but some British accents are obviously a struggle especially to foreign ears who expect us all to sound like we've escaped from a Richard Curtis movie (I've spent a couple of decades making my original dialect understandable on account I've never managed to will realtime subtitles into being).
I hate the entire censoring for expletives, they're words that's all, we're not in primary school.
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Mhairi Black's words are very clear and easy to understand, even for someone who has barely even visited Scotland (me, for example). Letts is being a snob and a tosspot.
And a supertwat by managing to belittle women, people of a different social class, residents of the regions etc.
This is a very serious and important subject, and he only distracts from it (perhaps because calling out sexism is a little too close to home for him?)
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It's a good job none of us has taken the piss out of May's mannerisms or accent then.
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Remember this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaadphJyy50
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It's a good job none of us has taken the piss out of May's mannerisms or accent then.
She's so far beyond having the piss taken out of her because the things she says and supports have effectively killed political satire
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People who make personal attacks on May based on the way she speaks rather than what she says are twats as well.
And that doesn't stop Letts being a twat either. As Clarion says, he's trying to undermine the serious point she's making in her speech by belittling her as a person. This goes beyond party political allegiances.
In a similar vein, my wife tells me that the two women off the Nationwide adverts have been receiving death threats, which I find utterly flabbergasting. Their songs are incredibly twee and slightly irritating, but FFS, death threats? That goes beyond mere supertwattery and into the realms of something altogether more vile.
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Indeed. I rather like Flo & Joan, but I can imagine the style might irritate some people. But....death threats???
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Tbh, I don't think he is trying to undermine anything, he's making a cheap joke on the supposed unintelligibility of Scottish accents, which is about as ha-ha as it sounds and deservingly twattish. We could make similar jokes about people called Quentin, few of whom I'd hazard are born on council estates. Leastways, not a lot of Quentins in my school, though it would have been a early death sentence so possibly they didn't survive the first day. There's plenty of parliamentary sketch material featuring May's robotic mannerisms. Admittedly it's a bit funnier. No one would make a robot that useless, of course. Some of them can negotiate stairs these days (though that's a lot of steps below negotiating Brexit).
I've no idea about Nationwide adverts and death threats, but if there's one thing social media has taught us, it's that there certainly are a lot of fuckwits out there (and I'm getting less convinced that there is really any upside to social media). I suspect they aren't actually planning to kill someone over a twee song (leastways, not unless it's the Birdy Dance) but lack any filter. Of course, as a cyclist, I'm familiar with people threatening to kill me for any mild to negligible inconvenience I might have caused them. Give these shitbags any kind of anonymity and power and they'll abuse it.
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Wales! Well specifically Nick Jones : http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-43343710
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Tbh, I don't think he is trying to undermine anything,
I think referring to the meeting as a "ban wolf-whistling debate" is undermining and belittling it.
I wouldn't threaten death to the irritating women in the Nationwide adverts, but I wouldn't mourn the death of whoever approved them for broadcast.
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Having read his comments and heard her speech, I think he did a good job of making her point for her.
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I knew a Quentin when I was a Penniless Student Oaf, from one of the rougher parts of
Mos Eisley Portsmouth. But he was of Italian ancestry, so probably in the Camorra.
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We had a Clareon. It was merciless and horrible. Anyone who thinks their children are nice, not they're not, they're fucking evil little proto-Hitlers.
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Is it patronising then when the BBC introduce subtitles even when the person is speaking English?
It's certainly a fascinating insight into what the programme makers think is hard to hear. Bad audio gets them about half the time. Accents seem to be completely random. Even relatively mild speech impairments seem to get them.
Seems daft, given that they should be subtitling everything in a way that makes them selectable by the user. But I habitually have the subtitles turned on and almost never watch live TV. If you're watching live and you've got to go digging in a menu to enable them for a 10 second clip, it's less practical.
Censoring of words in subtitles should be done consistently with censoring the audio and indeed video. Obviously. I can understand the production process means this consistency is sometimes lost. IME it goes both ways - I've seen programmes where the audio has been bleeped or ducked (presumably due to a last minute scheduling decision) and the subtitles are full of glorious swearing.
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Presumably censoring the subtitles is pointless if the deaf viewer can lip-read.
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Presumably censoring the subtitles is pointless if the deaf viewer can lip-read.
Isn't there a clip on Youtube or similar where the singer's mouth gets pixelated to avoid Bad Swears escaping? I might have imagined/mis-remembered this though.
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Some Americans get very upset by swearing, even the thought of it. As an habitual swearer and part-time grown-up, I find it a bit odd. Like all words, they have their place, but they're genuinely quite useful and I'm pretty sure that, like most people, I had a thorough command of them long before I left school. Do we really need the protection of 'f*ck'? Is it just me to whom this practice seems well, a teensy bit peculiar?
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Presumably censoring the subtitles is pointless if the deaf viewer can lip-read.
Sort of. Lipreading video is hard, and subtitles are generally an easier and more reliable altternative to having to do it.
But who you're writing subtitles for is one of those subtle problems that there's no right answer to.
Many of the deaf viewers will be native English speakers with some degree of hearing, and they generally benefit from the subtitles staying as faithful to the audio as possible (they perhaps only look at the subs to pick up the odd word). But others will be profoundly deaf sign language natives who don't care about the audio, but benefit from re-phrasing to make the English grammar less confusing. Others will be somewhere in between. Hearing non-native English speakers may go either way, depending on whether their main objective is to improve their English or access the content.
And of course many of those signers would rather have an interpreter on screen in their own language. But some of them have good English and would rather have subs because reading is faster than signing and it gives you more time to watch the content.
DVDs sometimes have multiple subtitle tracks, and sometimes the 'hearing impaired' track does more than just add captioning of noises to the English language subtitles.
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Some Americans get very upset by swearing, even the thought of it. As an habitual swearer and part-time grown-up, I find it a bit odd. Like all words, they have their place, but they're genuinely quite useful and I'm pretty sure that, like most people, I had a thorough command of them long before I left school. Do we really need the protection of 'f*ck'? Is it just me to whom this practice seems well, a teensy bit peculiar?
See also: Sex.
It's the censorship of a little harsh language in a programme in which people are blowing each other to bits that always baffles me. I mean, as appropriate times for swearing go, when you're being shot at must be pretty high up the list, and it's unlikely to be appropriate viewing for smalls anyway.
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As a profoundly deaf person myself, I find it highly irritating when subtitles are simplified! I do not wish to be patronised. I don’t get enraged by naughty words displayed in full either.
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It's the censorship of a little harsh language in a programme in which people are blowing each other to bits that always baffles me. I mean, as appropriate times for swearing go, when you're being shot at must be pretty high up the list, and it's unlikely to be appropriate viewing for smalls anyway.
It's good for kids to watch films with shootin' in. Gets them ready to defend their Second Amendment RIGHTS against commies like you and Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
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Some Americans get very upset by swearing, even the thought of it. As an habitual swearer and part-time grown-up, I find it a bit odd. Like all words, they have their place, but they're genuinely quite useful and I'm pretty sure that, like most people, I had a thorough command of them long before I left school. Do we really need the protection of 'f*ck'? Is it just me to whom this practice seems well, a teensy bit peculiar?
I never understand the pointless typing of the word f*ck. You've said f*ck. In the full knowledge that everyone knows you mean fuck. Therefore you have said fuck.
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Oh yes he was a character?
Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk
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Some Americans get very upset by swearing, even the thought of it. As an habitual swearer and part-time grown-up, I find it a bit odd. Like all words, they have their place, but they're genuinely quite useful and I'm pretty sure that, like most people, I had a thorough command of them long before I left school. Do we really need the protection of 'f*ck'? Is it just me to whom this practice seems well, a teensy bit peculiar?
See also: Sex.
It's the censorship of a little harsh language in a programme in which people are blowing each other to bits that always baffles me. I mean, as appropriate times for swearing go, when you're being shot at must be pretty high up the list, and it's unlikely to be appropriate viewing for smalls anyway.
It's a variety of fun to read those 'parental guidance' movies reviews. Profanity and nipples score far more highly than the occasional mass slaying.
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Some Americans get very upset by swearing, even the thought of it. As an habitual swearer and part-time grown-up, I find it a bit odd. Like all words, they have their place, but they're genuinely quite useful and I'm pretty sure that, like most people, I had a thorough command of them long before I left school. Do we really need the protection of 'f*ck'? Is it just me to whom this practice seems well, a teensy bit peculiar?
I never understand the pointless typing of the word f*ck. You've said f*ck. In the full knowledge that everyone knows you mean fuck. Therefore you have said fuck.
Sometimes, it gets round automated censor programs.
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On swearing, I’ve never really sworn much1, largely due to an authoritarian father who was also a bit of a bully (although he’d be horrified to be told that) and indeed my children in particular are shocked when I do occasionally swear. However, I’ve sworn more in the last 18 months, since June 2016 in fact, than I had in the 55 years preceding that event. I find that I am more often lost for words than I’ve ever been.
1. With the noticeable exception of the word Bastard, which I find I can really wrap my tonsils around with my broad Yorkshire accent. Although I suppose that’s not technically swearing. 😇
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Why do we need automatic censor programs? Honestly, will anyone explode with shock if they learn f*ck is actually fuck. Can there being anything more pleasurable than a good well-deserved swear? People who bundle that stuff inside turn weird.
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1. With the noticeable exception of the word Bastard, which I find I can really wrap my tonsils around with my broad Yorkshire accent.
Yorkshire accents do indeed lend themselves well to swearing, especially the word 'bastard'...
https://youtu.be/Z0YSbEtna4A
https://youtu.be/lWkiwru0sfQ
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I never understand the pointless typing of the word f*ck. You've said f*ck. In the full knowledge that everyone knows you mean fuck. Therefore you have said fuck.
The style guide for the late lamented Rockall Times required the use of "f*uck", "c*unt", etc.
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The daft thing is words considered outrageous in the here and now were common parlance in the day.
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An opinion held by a lot of Anglophones.
Dear God yes. I still remember clearly the fuss some Little Englanders made when Susan Rae joined the BBC and you couldn't want clearer diction in an announcer.
Is it patronising then when the BBC introduce subtitles even when the person is speaking English?
I thought that for a while and then it was pointed out to me that if you have even mild hearing impairment it can be very difficult to decipher what someone speaking English as a second or third language is saying. In part because of unusual / atypical stressing of words and phrases and in part because of that person's accent.
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It's a variety of fun to read those 'parental guidance' movies reviews. Profanity and nipples score far more highly than the occasional mass slaying.
I remember when I was a tweenager (which was before that term had been invented, thankfully), that the preamble of rented films on VHS[1] would include a guy in a suit in front of a BBFC logo promising us, amongst other things, "sexual swear-words". I was most disappointed when I realised that just meant someone would say "fuck".
As for the USAnian attitude to nipples, it's a lost cause. Alarmingly, those nipple cover things (for censoring nipples in real life so people don't mistake the presence of normal anatomy for a sign of sexual arousal) seem to have migrated across the pond since I first became aware they were a thing. ???
[1] Teenagers: Ask your parents.
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The Tory politician who was on the Today programme just now.
Yes, it was the usual avoidance and slimy words you’d expect, but this knob had a slightly new approach. He was of course making his statements but when they deviated too far from the question the interviewer interjected to steer him back. He mearly paused momentarily then carried on exactly whatever bullshit he was spouting.
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That's a common illness known as Politician's Gob. Unfortunately they almost all do it but somehow the nauseating gobshite that spews from the mouth of a tory seems more insincere, more offensive and less caring than that of almost any other tribe of controlling narcissists.
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Perhaps it was because he was less subtle about it than most normally are. He just came over as a completely arrogant tosser. Which I suppose he is if he is a member of the club you have to be in to get selected as a tory candidate.
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Can there being anything more pleasurable than a good well-deserved swear? People who bundle that stuff inside turn weird.
I listened to a very timely podcast last night - the latest episode of Helen Zaltzman's Allusionist (https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/swear-pill), which just happens to be all about swearing. The special guest was Emma Byrne, who has written a book called Swearing Is Good For You (http://amzn.eu/05G6Ezu), which claims to offer scientific proof of this assertion.
On the podcast, one of the things they discussed was Washoe the chimpanzee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe_(chimpanzee)), who was taught ASL as an experiment to prove that chimps have the concept of language. I've heard of Washoe before but didn't realise that part of her lessons included swearing, and apparently she was very good at it. This fills me with great joy.
They also discussed one of my old favourites - the preposterous notion that swearing is a sign of limited vocabulary. In fact, it's precisely the opposite - people who swear lots are generally more linguistically adept than non-swearers. I have always known this to be true, and indeed have got into many arguments by defending the idea, so it's good to have it confirmed by SCIENCE.
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Whoo, that's good, must listen.
The profanity dodgers all sound like they're ready to pop. You know, if they eased back at a moment of exasperation and realeased a withering 'oh for fuck's sake' on the exhale, they'd feel a lot better. You don't get that through a 'oh for eff-star-cee-kay's sake.' You feel ten times better for it and that urge to take your guns to work retreats. Similarly, sometimes someone is such a cunt that there's really only thing to call them but a cunt. Nigel Farage, for instance. He's not a c*nt. He's not a cu*t. He's a cunt. It's a splendidly rude and vicious word that keeps a little of its power to shock, but it's called for. He's not an unpleasant little man. He's not merely a tosser. He's the full on, gloriously uncensored article. He's earned it so give it up. Not noodling around with one of the stupid characters that make you forget your password (a practice that of itself deserves a hearty fuck).
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Apropos of nothing in particular, in a different life part of my duties included the operation and maintenance of exhibits for one of the museums in South Ken.
Amongst other things, I had to occasionally re-programme the message on a scrolling display - a bit like the ones you have on trains telling you where the train will be stopping - Imagine my disappopintment on finding that the software had a profanity filter - so no, if your train was due to stop at Scunthorpe - you'd not find out about it via the scrolling display.
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if they eased back at a moment of exasperation and realeased a withering 'oh for fuck's sake' on the exhale, they'd feel a lot better.
That's pretty much exactly what Emma Byrne says and she's a SCIENCE-ist so she ought to know.
You don't get that through a 'oh for eff-star-you-kay's sake.' You feel ten times better for it and that urge to take your guns to work retreats. Similarly, sometimes someone is such a cunt that there's really only thing to call them but a cunt.
I've always thought "see you next tuesday" is far too many syllables to bother with - by the time you get to the end of that mouthful, you've lost all impetus. It's also ridiculously twee, which entirely defeats the object of calling someone a cunt.
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Apropos of nothing in particular, in a different life part of my duties included the operation and maintenance of exhibits for one of the museums in South Ken.
Amongst other things, I had to occasionally re-programme the message on a scrolling display - a bit like the ones you have on trains telling you where the train will be stopping - Imagine my disappopintment on finding that the software had a profanity filter - so no, if your train was due to stop at Scunthorpe - you'd not find out about it via the scrolling display.
About fifty years ago the BBC went for a new look for on screen graphics. The name of the day was included, animated to spice it up a bit. The middle two letters appeared in the centre of the screen, followed by the next two; THUS, ND... ONDA... MONDAY. It went well... Until Saturday.
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Apropos of nothing in particular, in a different life part of my duties included the operation and maintenance of exhibits for one of the museums in South Ken.
Amongst other things, I had to occasionally re-programme the message on a scrolling display - a bit like the ones you have on trains telling you where the train will be stopping - Imagine my disappopintment on finding that the software had a profanity filter - so no, if your train was due to stop at Scunthorpe - you'd not find out about it via the scrolling display.
About fifty years ago the BBC went for a new look for on screen graphics. The name of the day was included, animated to spice it up a bit. The middle two letters appeared in the centre of the screen, followed by the next two; THUS, ND... ONDA... MONDAY. It went well... Until Saturday.
So somebody had an "oh, shit" moment, then? ;D
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^^^^ second <splort> of the day, that. :D
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Have we had Noel 'Negative energy causes cancer, think positive and you won't get it' Edmunds?
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I don't think so but thought he spoke well today about a suicidal phase a few years ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-43385847/noel-edmonds-humbled-by-suicide-attempt-response (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-43385847/noel-edmonds-humbled-by-suicide-attempt-response)
That didn't seem at all twattish to me.
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John Humphries >:(
https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/status/973835915952091138?s=21 (https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/status/973835915952091138?s=21)
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Yeah. I heard that and winced.
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Given that all his published papers will have been reviewed anonymously it's be difficult to say the least.
It just shows a complete lack of understanding of the academic process by JH.
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John Humphries >:(
https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/status/973835915952091138?s=21 (https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/status/973835915952091138?s=21)
Best response was by a William Huw
Is John Humphreys "cut a bit of slack" by his colleagues because he is so desperately stupid?
Time for JH to be sacked I think. Does anyone like listening to the antiquated, misogynistic, old fool?
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John Humphries >:(
https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/status/973835915952091138?s=21 (https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/status/973835915952091138?s=21)
Best response was by a William Huw
Is John Humphreys "cut a bit of slack" by his colleagues because he is so desperately stupid?
Time for JH to be sacked I think. Does anyone like listening to the antiquated, misogynistic, overpaid old fool?
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One of the worst things I have heard on the Toady prog recently was John Humphries interviewing John Cleese. They just sounded like two out-of-touch old duffers chatting in the pub. Awful.
I missed the Hawking piece but he came across as pretty incompetent when talking to the guy from Russia Today this morning as well.
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B. Johnson Esq. Double super twat with added twatish bits.
Putin is undoubtedly a very dodgy character and up to all sorts of unsavoury activities. But Hitler he is not.
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B. Johnson Esq. Double super twat with added twatish bits.
Just when you thought he couldn't sink any lower, he goes and pulls that out of the bag. Quite astonishing, really.
And this man is supposed to be our representative on the international stage? He makes Prince Philip seem like a model of tact and diplomacy.
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"Killer Mike" (I shit you not): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43531528
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David Warner. A cheating thug masquerading as a cricketer.
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He was good in The Omen, though.
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Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
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Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...
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Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...
Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?
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Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...
Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?
Yes. Looking for scholarly references, I see there was a strong 'don't bother' meme until recently.
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Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...
What, the Rick Santorum who didn't come off so well from his anti-gay views either? (warning, probably NSFW link!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22
;D
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Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...
Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?
Yes. Looking for scholarly references, I see there was a strong 'don't bother' meme until recently.
I have just gone through our company H+S induction programme( big plant handling phenols and chlorine gas). One of the stories told was how the site first aiders actually saved a guy who had a full cardiac arrest in the middle of the factory area , even though he was “dead” on several occasions . He is now able to talk about it but will probably never work again.
So it is possible but quite rare, hence the push for more defibrillators out in the community.
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Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...
Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?
Yes. Looking for scholarly references, I see there was a strong 'don't bother' meme until recently.
I have just gone through our company H+S induction programme( big plant handling phenols and chlorine gas). One of the stories told was how the site first aiders actually saved a guy who had a full cardiac arrest in the middle of the factory area , even though he was “dead” on several occasions . He is now able to talk about it but will probably never work again.
So it is possible but quite rare, hence the push for more defibrillators out in the community.
Well done all of you! Various chemicals can precipitate VF in an otherwise intact and salvageable body.
CPR has rather less chance of success if the victim has bled out and/or has catastrophic damage from a bullet...
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I am reminded of an American definition of 'waste of time'---like a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound.
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There are times when it is really worthwhile. People who have gone into very cold water. Snakebite/blue-ring-octopus bite victims. People who have had electric shocks.
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There are times when it is really worthwhile. People who have gone into very cold water. Snakebite/blue-ring-octopus bite victims. People who have had electric shocks.
Indeed. None of these are smashed to smithereens. A high-velocity bullet causes a blast wave and cavitation way beyond the missile's track. Cardiac arrest from such catastrophic damage is much less likely to be reversible.
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Super twat = Boris Johnson
Super not a twat = John Bercow (at least on this occasion.
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/978594893030412288
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Say what you want about Bercow, but he does dispense a good bollocking.
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Yes. Good on JB. I see the S-T did his usual apology-notapology though >:(
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Chris Grayling (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43590387)
Amazingly, fuel from a service station in the middle of nowhere for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is more expensive than fuel bought from a loss-leading exercise attached to a supermarket.
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Is there an election in the offing?
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The Tory government, all of the fuckers.
£3m to sort out the homeless problem. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43594359)
Greg Beales, campaigns director at homelessness charity Shelter, said that while the new measures would make "a genuine difference", most people become homeless because they cannot afford anywhere to live - "a situation made far worse by welfare cuts".
The government's strategy should include "building more social homes to rent, and making sure housing benefit is fit for purpose," he added."
This was echoed by shadow housing secretary John Healey, who said: "You can't help the homeless if you won't provide the homes, and the money announced here is less than 1% of the Conservatives' annual cut to funding for new low-cost housing."
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Chris Grayling (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43590387)
Amazingly, fuel from a service station in the middle of nowhere for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is more expensive than fuel bought from a loss-leading exercise attached to a supermarket.
The cost of capitalism and the free market.
The Tory government, all of the fuckers.
£3m to sort out the homeless problem. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43594359)
Greg Beales, campaigns director at homelessness charity Shelter, said that while the new measures would make "a genuine difference", most people become homeless because they cannot afford anywhere to live - "a situation made far worse by welfare cuts".
The government's strategy should include "building more social homes to rent, and making sure housing benefit is fit for purpose," he added."
This was echoed by shadow housing secretary John Healey, who said: "You can't help the homeless if you won't provide the homes, and the money announced here is less than 1% of the Conservatives' annual cut to funding for new low-cost housing.""
Why house them when it's cheaper to let somebody else find them a bed?
It's simply the tory PR machine trying to change their nasty image.
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That is £30m thinks but still woefully inadequate. The government appears to be trying to demonstrate additional spending power arising from a Brexit 'dividend'. However the reality is another £100+ billion of borrowing. You may remember we were supposed to be in surplus from 2020 (Osborne) hence Austerity hence rapidly rising homelessness. Additional taxes here we come.
http://citywire.co.uk/money/obr-pins-59bn-of-ballooning-borrowing-on-brexit/a973318 (http://citywire.co.uk/money/obr-pins-59bn-of-ballooning-borrowing-on-brexit/a973318)
http://obr.uk/ (http://obr.uk/)
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All the councillors in this article! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/29/tour-de-france-has-led-copycat-cyclists-struggling-country-roads/
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All the councillors in this article! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/29/tour-de-france-has-led-copycat-cyclists-struggling-country-roads/
so the article is about North Yorkshire’s poor provisos for increased cyclist numbers but the accompanying picture is of the peloton failing to struggle up the cobbled high street of the famous
West Yorkshire village of Haworth. The level of journalism doesn’t improve does it?
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Alan Sugar. Vile little shit imo.
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Nadine Dorries. Seems like she can only dish it out.
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4779/40885845931_7aba742185_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/25hWDy8)
Here's one I prepared earlier (https://flic.kr/p/25hWDy8) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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That cannot be right. She's still in the circle.
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Boris 'The Clown' Johnson.
The twat that keeps on twatting... ::-)
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The clown who doesn't know when to stop digging.
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He doesn't need to know because it seems he's unsackable.
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Sarah Montague.
Don't compare apples and oranges. Mishal Husain and Nick Robinson, for example, are always on the telly news, whereas I've never seen her sour face on screen before.
Should I feel like a sap because she earns 4x what I do, while seemingly being a dunderhead?
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I think you'll find that is or was her salary for 'Today' just as the quoted is for the others. She does in fact do other work including television presenting and is a former presenter of Newsnight for instance.
I think that she's a super twat though for being a strike breaker. She, like many who break strikes are only concerned for themselves. She is IMO greedy but then she did start her working life in the financial sector.
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No. The figure quoted are for all (or almost all) of their work for the BBC, so Chumphrys' includes things like that dreadful Mastermind.
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Morrissey
If you don't know what he's done now, spare yourself. It's most unedifying and doesn't need to be repeated.
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Morrissey
If you don't know what he's done now, spare yourself. It's most unedifying and doesn't need to be repeated.
I think I gave him lifelong Twat status about 30 years ago, I've not seen any reason to change my mind since.
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Morrissey
If you don't know what he's done now, spare yourself. It's most unedifying and doesn't need to be repeated.
I think I gave him lifelong Twat status about 30 years ago, I've not seen any reason to change my mind since.
I once fell out with a friend through defending Morrissey. That was around the time of the Finsbury Park debacle. I finally realised a few years ago that my loyalties were misplaced and that I owe that friend an apology.
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Morrissey
If you don't know what he's done now, spare yourself. It's most unedifying and doesn't need to be repeated.
I think I gave him lifelong Twat status about 30 years ago, I've not seen any reason to change my mind since.
I once fell out with a friend through defending Morrissey. That was around the time of the Finsbury Park debacle. I finally realised a few years ago that my loyalties were misplaced and that I owe that friend an apology.
From David Quantick's twitterings: (https://twitter.com/quantick/status/986292921015177217)
Would anyone care if a journalist erroneously called Morrissey a racist these days?
With handy poll options below.
(On 3 April 2008, music magazine The Word was forced to apologise in court to Morrissey, over an article by Quantick that accused the singer of racism and hypocrisy.)
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Morrisey is a c**t. Always has been. Didn’t care for his music either.
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That's turning Twattiness into an art form by the daffodil-twirling ponce. 10/10 for style, Mr Morrissey, but minus several million for joined-up thinking.
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Mike Huckabee (https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/988803488082792448)
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Mike Huckabee (https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/988803488082792448)
I suppose that's modern life. Just make something up.
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Amber Rudd: disingenuous, sleazy, misleading political scum.
Even if she didn't see 'the memo', she should have been aware from many meetings, discussions, briefing papers etc. of performance against these targets. If she was not then she was not doing her job at all. If she was then she either is really really really stupid or a brazen bare-faced liar. Either way, Rudd is a massive super twat.
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Can we reclassify the category so the entire Cabinet can, collectively, be one colossal uber-twat?
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Can we reclassify the category so the entire Cabinet Tory party & their supporters can, collectively, be one colossal uber-twat?
I've just reclassified your reclassification...... ;)
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Fair one . . .
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Amber Rudd: disingenuous, sleazy, misleading political scum.
Even if she didn't see 'the memo', she should have been aware from many meetings, discussions, briefing papers etc. of performance against these targets. If she was not then she was not doing her job at all. If she was then she either is really really really stupid or a brazen bare-faced liar. Either way, Rudd is a massive super twat.
Liars. They're all just liars. They've realised that with the support of the media they can get away with it with impunity, so why bother doing anything else? Can't really fault them for that, it makes things so much more efficient when you don't have to worry about your actions affecting your electability.
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And these are the people deciding upon the future of our country, strewth.
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Yes, they have learned from Trump.
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My tory shoe in claims that he has the most at risk job in the country. I mean, MAYnot could call a general election at any time and he might lose his seat. :facepalm:
He actually claimed this at a public meeting last July.
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Almost as bad as, immediately following a montage exposing Rudderless as a lying liar who tells lies, the Mouth of Sauron herself, Taury Kuenssberg, stating "that wasn't quite true".
No, you wonky-faced shill, it wasn't even a little bit true >:(
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Well, the Tory Gubermint is now Rudderless. We can only hope she’s feeling more spiteful than usual and opts to jump ship all together thus forcing a by-election.
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She's on a waffer-thin majority as it is - 346 after a Several of recounts - so I doubt she'd have the bottle.
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I'd only imagine she'd do it to get back at the Maybot and leave politics altogether. Unless she fancies her chances as ousting Mayhem and installing herself in No 10
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Nah, she'd wait for somebody else to pull the trigger. History shows that the assassin doesn't get the gig. We need Bozo the Buffoon to pull the trigger ...
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Nah, she'd wait for somebody else to pull the trigger. History shows that the assassin doesn't get the gig. We need Bozo the Buffoon to pull the trigger ...
I'd prefer it if he were pointing the gun at himself at the time. However, I think it unlikely that he would be the one to trigger a leadership challenge, for the reason Polar Bear gives. A low ranking 'stalking horse' seems more likely, with the Johnsons, Hunt, Gove and whatever else crawls out of the cabinet, joining in for the second round.
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The chief highheidun of Sainsbury's. What an eejit.
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We're in the money?
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Name me a person that wouldn’t say that???
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But to say so while in range of a meeja camera? Tis a bit stupid
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Kayne West seems to have entered the running and not for his usual lack of talent. He's Trumped himself.
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He's been a long time fanboy of the orange one. Perhaps he fancies himself as a runner for office!
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Too much time spent in the company of Kardashians has rotted his head-branes. He has recently claimed that slavery was a "choice".
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And now it's got seriously weird...
Tune in to today's broadcast for an Infowars exclusive featuring @KanyeWest & @RealCandaceO!!
https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/991721835816505344
Kanye West's recent antics smell rather a lot like provokatsiya.
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Our new HomeSec and other adopters of the ridiculous "power stance", accompanied by a sinister leer*.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6176527/new-home-secretary-sajid-javid-mocked-after-becoming-latest-top-tory-to-adopt-ridiculous-power-stance-as-he-poses-for-pictures/
*Gideon could only manage his usual Father Dougal Maguire expression
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Don't they realise it just makes them look stupid?
Sorry - more stupid.
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This may be the funnest thing I've seen all week:
(http://s4.b3ta.com/host/creative/24613/1525183318/sajid1b3ta.gif)
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Pisses me off that they swan around in expensive BMW's and yet JLR make perfectly good alternatives. They could try using vehicles built in this country even in the company is also foreign owned.
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Pisses me off that they swan around in expensive BMW's and yet JLR make perfectly good alternatives. They could try using vehicles built in this country even in the company is also foreign owned.
IME the probability of politicians doing that increases with the number of votes they need from the population of Longbridge.
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Jaguar Land Rover is based over at Gaydon these days and they are building a facility for electric car batteries in Coventry. Longbridge was the old BL / Rover site, opened a few years back by the Chinese owned MG company but now closed once again I believe.
I would have thought that rural Warwickshire would be good for a few tory votes.
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Jaguar Land Rover is based over at Gaydon these days and they are building a facility for electric car batteries in Coventry. Longbridge was the old BL / Rover site, opened a few years back by the Chinese owned MG company but now closed once again I believe.
I would have thought that rural Warwickshire would be good for a few tory votes.
They probably don't need to try that hard round there.
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"No surprise future customs plans with EU are taking time" - Davis
Liam Fox "The free trade agreement we will have to come to with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history."
So that's clear then.
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Liam Fox is like an apprentice Rees-Mogg. Reality has passed these super twats by.
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I think the other "Dr" Fox would do a better job tbh.
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The fascist, loofa-faced shitgibbon AGAIN
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44007312
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Trump only knows what a war zone looks like from rewatching episodes of M.A.S.H.
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In which he played a blood-soaked swab.
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Trump (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44017172) yet again!
This guy is like the arsehole of humanity. Whenever it opens there is an outpouring of shit.
If he truly represents right wing americans that country is in one hell of a mess.
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If Paris allowed its citizens guns it wouldn’t have happened because there are so many more gun killings in France than the USA, right?
Arse.
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Just like knife wounds are far more deadly than gunshot wounds but somehow guns miraculously deter knife crime.
The latter part of that statement is of course true - faced with a gun a knife-weilding attacker would be wise to scarper, and get themself a gun...
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BJ fails to save Iran deal.
BJ calls Maybot crazy.
BJ still has a job.
Why?
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BJ has nude photos of Maybot?
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BJ fails to save Iran deal.
BJ calls Maybot crazy.
BJ still has a job.
Why?
Keep your friends close, keep you enemies closer still.
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BJ fails to save Iran deal.
BJ calls Maybot crazy.
BJ still has a job.
Why?
Keep your friends close, keep you enemies closer still.
I don't think Maybot is that clever.
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My phone went into a mini frenzy with notifications from this thread and sure enough.... Fucking Trump does it again.
World War 3 inches ever closer daily with that idiot and his board of alt-right wing goons making systemically stupid decisions.
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BJ fails to save Iran deal.
BJ calls Maybot crazy.
BJ still has a job.
Why?
Keep your friends close, keep you enemies closer still.
I don't think Maybot is that clever.
Indeed but she does have advisers.
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BJ fails to save Iran deal.
BJ calls Maybot crazy.
BJ still has a job.
Why?
Keep your friends close, keep you enemies closer still.
I don't think Maybot is that clever.
Indeed but she does have advisers.
Great. Swivel eyed advisers are all we need right now. :facepalm:
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None so blind that will not see. A black day in history.
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BJ fails to save Iran deal.
BJ calls Maybot crazy.
BJ still has a job.
Why?
He’s made so many attempts to get sacked that it’s clear that he’s completely untouchable as far as Mayhem is concerned. He needs her to sack him so he can make a bid for leadership, well under normal circumstances he can would. These are far from normal times though, so at some point he’s going to lose patience and find another way to start that ball rolling. Then $diety help us!
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$deity had better because the nose has been well & truly thumbed at €deity.
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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/piss-off-you-old-ratbag-its-my-go-says-boris-20180509164421
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Time for Piers Morgan (who is a Colossal Bell End) to make an unwelcome return to the Two Minute Hate thread...
This time, he's tried to Catholicsplain to the Pope. In the Daily Mail.
lord grant me the supreme blowhard confidence to explain Catholicism to the actual Pope
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcvQT3VVQAAW_ZQ.jpg
theologians and cardinals are convening in the libraries of St Peter's Basilica, hard at work on the next papal encyclical entitled "SUCK A FART, PIERS MORGAN"
https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/994117192454213632
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W H Smith - the business
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44084638 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44084638)
When you always felt they were no good, then they prove it - again
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What concerns me about that story is how long it took for any action.
89 tubes of paste were sold at that price, hundreds of people must have seen them.
I reTweeted this on Thursday and it made local news yesterday.
Shaun Lintern is an investigative journalist with Health Service Journal and has rather bigger fish to fry at present.
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Anyone who puts "L'Eroica" in the title of a Bay Of Thieves listing, especially when it's for a shite 80s Raleigh or Sun gaspiper.
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What concerns me about that story is how long it took for any action.
89 tubes of paste were sold at that price, hundreds of people must have seen them.
I reTweeted this on Thursday and it made local news yesterday.
Shaun Lintern is an investigative journalist with Health Service Journal and has rather bigger fish to fry at present.
The array of junk food options in Hospital cafes is something to behold as well. It's probably more unhealthy than a typical shopping mall.
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Probably better than the slop they serve the patients, though - OH is in at the moment and I am on a regular delivery schedule for fruit and salads...
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Godfrey Bloom. :sick:
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Godfrey Bloom. :sick:
Did you mean *General* Godfrey Bloom? He of the racist Twitter account?
I thought his racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny had already earned him a permanent place in here.
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I was going to ask "What has he done now?" but on second thoughts, I don't think I want to know.
I wish I could believe he was a satirical creation but alas, I fear that like JRM, he is all too genuine.
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No, you don't want to know. Suffice it to say that, a bit like the Hopkins creature, since the Brexit vote he seems to have stopped making any effort to disguise his racist tendencies.
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No, you don't want to know. Suffice it to say that, a bit like the Hopkins creature, since the Brexit vote he seems to have stopped making any effort to disguise his racist tendencies.
^^^^
This. In spades
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No, you don't want to know. Suffice it to say that, a bit like the Hopkins creature, since the Brexit vote he seems to have stopped making any effort to disguise his racist tendencies.
Brexit and Trump have acted as "enablers" for the bigots and the ignorant.
They've always been there of course but they used to be told to sit down and shut up. The stuff they thought, and said, privately would have got them sacked in the good old days.
Now it's fine for Foreign Secretaries to call black children "Pickaninnies" and for Presidents to grope Pussies with out the thought of an honourable resignation crossing their mind. In fact they now "double-down" when challenged and get even more bigoted.
It's all gone very backwards and it's depressing.
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Roseanne Barr - and the ABC executives who commissioned a reboot of the sitcom Roseanne, despite the fact that they knew since it was last produced, she'd turned into a racist conspiraloon*.
Today, she went far enough over the line on Tw@tter that ABC couldn't brush it under the carpet - sorry, ignore the fact that lots of people were pointing out who had advert slots on the show, and how ABC uses its other shows to tout its commitment to diversity - and they have cancelled the show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44294632
* https://www.thedailybeast.com/roseanne-keeps-promoting-qanon-the-pro-trump-conspiracy-theory-that-makes-pizzagate-look-tame
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Well, she is (famously) white trash with money.
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it's the drugs that done it, apparently :demon: These fwits just can't stay off Twatter tho'
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it's the drugs that done it, apparently :demon: These fwits just can't stay off Twatter tho'
Does Sanofi make a burn ointment? :demon:
The drug maker of Ambien responds to Roseanne Barr:
"...While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication,” Ashleigh Koss, Head of Media Relations, North America, Sanofi US tells @Cnn
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1001830931668393984
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Yeah, but if it wasn't for her racism, we wouldn't have discovered https://www.reddit.com/r/ambien/
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Lawson for his hypocracy.
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Lawson for his hypocracy.
Blimey, what a way to make a return to the public sphere.
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FOR
FUCK
SAKE
DUP leader Arlene Foster to attend Orange parade in Fife (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-44328000)
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Kirsty Alsop
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44353321?ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook
I'd like to say that my opinion of her has fallen, but as I've never thought much of her in any case that statement would contain some LIE
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Kirsty Alsop
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44353321?ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook
I'd like to say that my opinion of her has fallen, but as I've never thought much of her in any case that statement would contain some LIE
Surely the averagely mature 10 and 12 year old should be able to supervise themselves for a couple of hours? It's not like they need the legroom.
Most kids of that age behave better when their parents aren't around.
I honestly don't see the problem.
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Kirsty Alsop
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44353321?ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook
I'd like to say that my opinion of her has fallen, but as I've never thought much of her in any case that statement would contain some LIE
Surely the averagely mature 10 and 12 year old should be able to supervise themselves for a couple of hours? It's not like they need the legroom.
Most kids of that age behave better when their parents aren't around.
I honestly don't see the problem.
Agreed. I presume they sit in schoolrooms all day without parents' presence.
There's little more to being a passenger than sitting down, shutting up and following instructions, is there?
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Nowt wrong with Kirsty's approach. Kids needs to know not all will be given to them on a plate.
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I can't see a particular problem either.
I'm guessing those complaining would take their kids to a special romantic weekend to celebrate a wedding anniversary, or to work...
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It would seem that I’m out of step with the collective. It’s not about them travelling apart from me and indeed my off spring have travelled to more places than I have, other with school parties or just cousins. Equally, we’ve left our children with friends and relativeswhen we’ve had weekends away without them. But if I’m traveling with my children then I travel with my children.
Ah well.
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It would seem that I’m out of step with the collective. It’s not about them travelling apart from me and indeed my off spring have travelled to more places than I have, other with school parties or just cousins. But if I’m traveling with my children then I travel with my children.
Ah well.
To be honest though, the kids probably have a lot more fun being left to their own devices. As will the parents, who can chill out without really having to worry, I'm pretty sure they lock the doors on a plane. I think it's win-win. And kids of that age are mostly a lot more scared of the censure of the random other adults than their parents.
I was reading an article in the WSJ the other day about unsupervised kids and there's an actual initiative (in the US) to issue unsupervised children cards explaining to other 'concerned' adults why they shouldn't interfere or call the police.
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Kirsty Alsop
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44353321?ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook
I'd like to say that my opinion of her has fallen, but as I've never thought much of her in any case that statement would contain some LIE
This isn't why she's a twat.
She's a twat mainly because of her self-entitled view on life and that, due to making an occasional set of gingham curtains for a children's playhouse, she's got where she is today by sheer hard work and determination (and why doesn't every one stop complaining and drag themselves up by their bootstraps?).
Another privileged fucker who thinks they did it all by themselves and can't understand why everyone can't.
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It would seem that I’m out of step with the collective. It’s not about them travelling apart from me and indeed my off spring have travelled to more places than I have, other with school parties or just cousins. But if I’m traveling with my children then I travel with my children.
Ah well.
To be honest though, the kids probably have a lot more fun being left to their own devices. As will the parents, who can chill out without really having to worry, I'm pretty sure they lock the doors on a plane. I think it's win-win. And kids of that age are mostly a lot more scared of the censure of the random other adults than their parents.
I’ve nothing against unsupervised children, though I’ve had to go on a few rescue missions when they’ve made mistakes (thankfully, they’ve always felt able to call me when it’s gone base over apex, no matter what the cause). I suppose the bit I took exception to is that she reckons her kids aren’t worth spending the extra money on, when she’s clearly not prepared to travel cattle class.
I was reading an article in the WSJ the other day about unsupervised kids and there's an actual initiative (in the US) to issue unsupervised children cards explaining to other 'concerned' adults why they shouldn't interfere or call the police.
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When I was a teen, I travelled to the US in economy with my sis while my parents were in first. To be fair, my dad’s employer was paying for his and my mum’s tickets since he was making the trip for work reasons. I was just getting a free holiday out of his air miles. Can’t really complain about that.
Kirstie Allsopp is a super-twat for all sorts of other reasons though, as LEE suggests.
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Nothing affirms in my mind the adage about fools and their money more than the existence of other-than-cattle classes on airlines. Seriously, the kind of things that I'd pay thousands of pounds for are limited to
- not having rusty pins jabbed into my eyeballs, and
- not being kicked repeatedly in the twig and berries.
The list does not include
- having a bit more legroom - it's still less comfortable than your own bed, and
- drinks.
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The irony is that airlines specifically make economy travel worse so the upgrade seems more justified (there's only so much they can do, waiting for a long time to be crammed in a tin can for an even longer time is never going to be fun). It also thrives on status, people want to be seen to travelling business or first (or those ludicrous designations – super diplomat envoy class and the like, not you're not).
Other than flights to Australasia, the far-east China and LATAM, the mothership insists on economy for this minion. The price difference for business is often 3 or 4x the economy fare, which is a lot for a small bed, silverware, and cabin crew that have have to learn your name (it's only time I get called doctor, and I never want to be a doctor on a plane). I don't mind, of course, as the mothership is paying. I'm stingy when I pay for myself (my wife is a bit more grouchy as she's tall – she's joining me in SE Asia later this year, I'm in business, she's premium economy, and I'm never going to hear the end of that).
That said, I won't say no if someone else is picking up the tab. The lounges are usually far nicer than being in general population.
(The one thing that does annoy me is fast-track security for business/first, I can let the rest go, but I'm pretty sure my taxes pay for border patrol, as do everyone else's.)
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Super NOT twat: read through to find a gem about TCBEPM.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jun/04/neville-southall-flak-sex-workers-lgbt-issues
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Nowt wrong with Kirsty's approach. Kids needs to know not all will be given to them on a plate.
Except that she's a no-talent assclown born into a life of privilege herself.
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How's this Nix fellow shaping up? I'm afraid I don't think I can cope with investigating whether he has forever tainted the word 'chapeau'.
Though, to be fair, 'chapeau' does have to be used sparingly, in a matter of fact manner without the merest hint of condescension if you are hoping to steer well clear of being considered twattish. I don't rate his chances.
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Morrissy. Again.
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Morrissy. Again.
Fuck me. I know he's a twat, but support for Anne Marie Waters? As it says somewhere on Twitter:
Just to be crystal clear: Anne Marie Waters is a howling racist, For Britain are a racist party supported by literal neo-nazis, and Morrissey can get to absolute fuck.
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Morrissy. Again.
Fuck me. I know he's a twat, but support for Anne Marie Waters? As it says somewhere on Twitter:
Just to be crystal clear: Anne Marie Waters is a howling racist, For Britain are a racist party supported by literal neo-nazis, and Morrissey can get to absolute fuck.
That and 'expressing sympathy for Tommy Robinson'.
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Bloody R4! That's several times today you've informed me that Farridge (that's the excellent Brummie pronunciation of his name) has said something. Who cares?
Oh, of course, you do. You're the BBC.
Surely you didn't sent someone to a venue to listen to him, did you?
Listen BBC. No one cares. Probably not even his ex BNP Lite Ukip members.
Give up, for heaven's sake.
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Bloody R4! That's several times today you've informed me that Farridge (that's the excellent Brummie pronunciation of his name) has said something. Who cares?
Oh, of course, you do. You're the BBC.
Surely you didn't sent someone to a venue to listen to him, did you?
Listen BBC. No one cares. Probably not even his ex BNP Lite Ukip members.
Give up, for heaven's sake.
The BBC News is merely an entertainment organisation now. "News-a-tainment" if you will.
It's almost as full of "click-bait" as the Mail online. Farage and Katie Hopkins are used for this purpose.
The online BBC news channel is bordering on sickening, the way they mix stories of mass murder in Syria with Mary Berry's new recipes..etc.
What makes it worse is when they refer to Russian news channels as "State Sponsored Broadcaster".... and fail to see any irony.
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Christopher Chope.... :facepalm:
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Christopher Chope.... :facepalm:
I object to his inclusion in this thread on the basis that blocking the 'upskirting' ban is reprehensible and beyond understanding. we need another thread where he can fuck off to and die.
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Christopher Chope.... :facepalm:
I object to his inclusion in this thread on the basis that blocking the 'upskirting' ban is reprehensible and beyond understanding. we need another thread where he can fuck off to and die.
His wiki preview page might not be all his own work:
Sir Christopher Robert Chope OBE MP (born 19 May 1947) is an utter twat and absolute muppet with no conscience whatsoever. His best friend is Neil S Walker ...
(I think it's been edited back now, chiz)
ETA: This one survived the edit though:
On 15 June 2018 Chope blocked the passage of a private member's bill that would have made upskirting a specific offence by crying "object" in the House of Commons, which drew immediate criticism from fellow MPs.[23]. He was, however, too busy trying to get an angle up PM Teresa May's skirt to care much about his colleague's ire.
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The Belvoir Hunt & all who sail in them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-44488533
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TBF, Chope's issue seems to be private members bills rather than looking up women's skirts (does it apply to kilts, I hope not, that's another hobby off the list). He's an unhealthy reminder that the Tory party is choked with these slightly barmy old folks who seem to have failed to successfully exit previous decades.
Personally, I'm not keen on defining laws for every specific offence. Voyeurism is already on the statute books. Otherwise, you get into the legal hinterlands, but your honour, it says skirt and it was clearly a dress. Etc. Voting against legislation isn't necessarily the same as approving of the activity.
Anyway, if you can 18 months suspended for GBH, I suspect you've have to look up a lot of skirts to get significant time at HM's pleasure.
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I'd have slightly more sympathy if Chope weren't a right-winger of the rabid kind, whose ire seems to be most raised by progressive bills. And while I broadly agree with your point about the creation of specific new criminal offences, wasn't the impetus for the bill the fact that the police claimed to be unable to prosecute incidences as the victims were wearing underwear and therefore the images weren't technically obscene?
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I'm not denying Chope is bonkers. He quite probably is. They usually are, the Conservative party in particular seems to have no shortage of them. (Ok, I just googled, he does tick all the boxes, and adds a few more, we're going to need a bigger checklist.) I'm not entirely sure where Christchurch is, but we should take the precaution of bombing it out of existence. Sorry chaps, but it's for your own good, some of you are voting for him.
That said, I'm not convinced the best way to fix existing broken legislation is by creating more legislation.
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It also says something about the archaic nature of our legislature. The rules Chope (and others, notably Rees Mogg) exploit, evolved in a time before we had a strong party system, when most bills were private members bills. The farce of people having to stay up all night to be first in the queue to promote a bill, only to see it talked out or otherwise scuppered is a joke. There has to be a better way of getting suggestions from ordinary MPs onto the statute book without everything having to come from the civil service.
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In the light of recent events it seems that objections to bills being passed without debate are a tad selective.
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He got 70% of the vote. I am pretty sure the remaining 30% of the Christchurch constituency will sacrifice themselves to a fiery death and welcome the friendly bombs that fall.
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I'm not entirely sure where Christchurch is, but we should take the precaution of bombing it out of existence. Sorry chaps, but it's for your own good, some of you are voting for him.
That said, I'm not convinced the best way to fix existing broken legislation is by creating more legislation.
Christchurch is my David's hometown. It's just east of Bournemouth, on the Dorset1 coast. It is populated by folk like David's Dad: ancient conservatives who supported UKIP until it fizzled out and are staunch Brexiteers.
1) This area was previously Hampshire.
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I fear many of his constituents are still serving in the Napoleonic wars.
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There are a few dicks like Chode and the equally odious Philip Davies who take great delight on talking out private member's bills because "democracy". Or possibly just cuntiness.
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I don't think the level of cuntiness is debatable for Philip Davies (it's absolute). Him, however, I already knew about. Sir Chode-hole is a new one for me. I think they may be manufacturing them in some weird Willy Wonka factory, in goes pulped copies of the Daily Mail, and eventually out pop these loathsome, greased extra-sized homunculi spluttering 'gays! women! abortion! europe!'
OK, I don't do party politics, but I do find it hard to believe people vote en masse for individuals like these. Then I realise that people really do adhere to these peculiar reactionary views. Not in small numbers, there's lots of them. Which makes me sad and a feel a bit weird, I can't honestly get my head around much of what they believe in. if there was a Venn diagram of my beliefs and theirs, we'd have to draw circles on different sheets of paper. Then someone would have take my sheet, get on a plane and fly to the other side of the planet. Where there's a rocket pad. At which point he'd hand it to the waiting astronaut and she'd take it and clamber into the pilots seat. The rocket would launch into space and several month later arrive in the orbit of Saturn. Where's there's a wormhole to a very, very distance star, so impossibly distant that it takes the light a million years to reach earth. She'd toss it in and it would be whisked away to that very, very distant star.
That's really an accurate depiction of how much our beliefs overlap.
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Chope used to be my MP when he was first elected. He got into parliament for Southampton Itchen, a safe Labour seat, when the sitting MP moved over to the Social Democrats. That split the left-of-centre vote and let the Tory in.
He did get kicked out of Southampton after two terms, but I suspect he will be a fixture in Christchurch until he retires or we get PR.
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...until he retires or we get PR
One is inevitable, the other will happen when porcine aviation becomes commonplace . . .
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Seems that the Chode apologists who claim "he does this with all private member's bills" are being a tad disingenuous. Because Chode himself has sponsored no fewer than forty-seven, usually on the subject of making the NHS not-free. This is supremely twatty on its own demerit.
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Seems that the Chode apologists who claim "he does this with all private member's bills" are being a tad disingenuous. Because Chode himself has sponsored no fewer than forty-seven, usually on the subject of making the NHS not-free. This is supremely twatty on its own demerit.
Alexander Cole-hamilton MSP has come up with a useful term:
You’ve been an MP since 1983, that’s 35 years and the one thing you’ll be remembered for, 👏THE 👏ONE👏THING👏, is for allowing lads to take photos up women’s skirts without fear of jail a while longer. Take a bow #ChristopherChope you unrepentant thundertwat. #upskirtingbill
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Nick's daughter Sophie Tweeted thus.
Get real dad - what an ignorant and thoughtless comment. Upskirting can quite easily happen even when women dress conservatively... but the responsibility still lies with the woman? This is for sure one of the top 3 stupidest comments you’ve ever made. #EngageBrainAndReassess
Credit to her!
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You seem to be missing a bit of context there helly. Try this, from all round charmer and Super Twat extraordinaire, Nick "loophole" Freeman:
Whilst this is totally unacceptable conduct, if women
assumed some responsibility for their attire, they would not be in jeopardy. Prosecutions will only utilise valuable police and CPS
resources that should be prioritised elsewhere. #upskirting
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Thanks Tim!
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In the light of recent events it seems that objections to bills being passed without debate are a tad selective.
On Chope’s and Davies’ part, certainly.
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While I don't think upskirting is the biggest threat the country faces, it seems a rather odd thing to support, even by proxy. It's a bit like standing up for the right of flashers to get their knob out for public playtime.
As for Nick Freeman (really, stop making me google these people, it's depressing), I guess he's down with that too. If people didn't insist on looking at the man deliberately twiddling their cock in front of them, we wouldn't waste valuable police time tracking them down.
I've paid the Xarg'ox-AT'chu of that distant galaxy to toss my Venn diagram circle into the very big black hole at the centre of their very distant galaxy. That opens out in a different universe entirely.
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You seem to be missing a bit of context there helly. Try this, from all round charmer and Super Twat extraordinaire, Nick "loophole" Freeman:
Whilst this is totally unacceptable conduct, if women
assumed some responsibility for their attire, they would not be in jeopardy. Prosecutions will only utilise valuable police and CPS
resources that should be prioritised elsewhere. #upskirting
You know how we say Piers Morgan the colossal bell end ?
Could we not start Nick Freeman, Mr Poophole ?
Let's give it a go.
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As for Nick Freeman (really, stop making me google these people, it's depressing...
Rule of thumb. If someone is mentioned in this thread and you don't know who he or she is... keep it that way. Works for me. Blissful ignorance. If only I didn't know about Donald - look at me I'm a dimwitted psychopathic* orange lunatic - Trump, my life would be perfect.
I've paid the Xarg'ox-AT'chu...
Bless you. It was the common cold that did for the Selenites you know.
*I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that he is clinically psychopathic.
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*I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that he is clinically psychopathic.
I would be surprised if he weren't.
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*I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that he is clinically psychopathic.
I would be surprised if he weren't.
The Orange Hate Goblin definitely ticks a lot of the boxes for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
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Fox News Trump-fluffer Ann Coulter achieves twatscendence (sic):
Ann Coulter on Fox News calls crying immigrant children "child actors" and looks directly into the camera to warn Trump not to fall for it.
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1008726102850797568
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Yessiralan Sugar
Cretin
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Yessiralan Sugar
Cretin
Lord Alan Sugar made a hilarious, "All Black People look the same" joke on Twitter *
* You know the equivalent of the hilarious, "All Jews are tight with money" jokes that he apparently objects to on the grounds of negative Jewish stereotypes.
Hypocritical cretin...from the 1970's. He's channelling Bernard Manning.
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Jacob-Fucking-Rees-Cockwomble- Mogg.
I'd Love to Beat him to Death, using Ian Duncan-Cunt-Smith as the Hammer!
I hate, really, those two Pieces of Seagull Shit More than anybody else.
Trump is, of course, a Top of the Form Fuckwit but, I pity him and disdain him, rather than waste good Hate on the Regressive.
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The airhead trophy wife of the orange shitgibbon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44570688
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Jacob-Fucking-Rees-Cockwomble- Mogg.
I'd Love to Beat him to Death, using Ian Duncan-Cunt-Smith as the Hammer!
I would pay to watch that.
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Interesting to read that Rees Mogg's investment company is moving business to Eire. The hypocracy is certainly sloshing around.
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Interesting to read that Rees Mogg's investment company is moving business to Eire. The hypocracy is certainly sloshing around.
That on top of arch-Brexitoid and Super-Twat John Redwood advising the clients of his investment firm to move their wedge out of BRITAIN and into — gasp — Europe.
Grease-Smugg's genius solution to the thorny issue of the Irish border? Ireland should leave the EU too. This is S-Tdom elevated to airy realms of abstract Twattitude.
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Jacob-Fucking-Rees-Cockwomble- Mogg.
I'd Love to Beat him to Death, using Ian Duncan-Cunt-Smith as the Hammer!
I would pay to watch that.
I'd Pay for the Pleasure of doing it!
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Celebrity Super-Twat Death Match... :demon:
When do MTV sign it up?
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Boris “f**k business “ Johnson. Will someone rid us of this turbulent tosspot....
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Jermy Rhyming-Slang, again.
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Every columnist and commentator churning out "how far can this incredible England team go now?" pieces, on the basis of one win against a bunch of no-hopers.
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Every columnist and commentator churning out "how far can this incredible England team go now?" pieces, on the basis of one win against a bunch of no-hopers.
I’ll be nominating those same columnists and commentators again when they’re calling for Gareth Southgate’s head on a silver platter after Thursday’s defeat.
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Every columnist and commentator churning out "how far can this incredible England team go now?" pieces, on the basis of one win against a bunch of no-hopers.
A bunch of no hopers whom they allowed to score a goal! You'd thing they'd already won the bloody thing the way some commentators have been going on!
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IDS, using the wrong organ there to draw tenuous links to past appeasement don'cha think?
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Micky Gove. Not only is he an odious little prick, but he's had the temerity to suggest that replacing one bunch of free loading immigrantsTM with another bunch of free loading immigrantsTM is a solution to our post Brexit farming and car cleaning concerns. Is he not aware that the reason many people voted for Brexit was to stop all that cheap labour coming over here and taking our jobsTM
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Milo Yiannopoulos - first, for suggesting to journalists asking him for comment a couple days ago that they ought to be shot1, and second, after a shooting spree at a newspaper in Annapolis on Thursday (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44645986), claiming in a Facebook post that he was only trolling, that it's the journalists' fault, and for good measure, serving up a side order of transphobia.
https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1012438438702768128
1 Background:
https://observer.com/2018/06/milo-yiannopoulos-encourages-vigilantes-start-gunning-journalists-down/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-youtube-stars-plan-takeover-of-ukip (Milo response to DB near the end of the report)
https://twitter.com/amymrusso/status/1011737417060179970
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Micky Gove. Not only is he an odious little prick, but he's had the temerity to suggest that replacing one bunch of free loading immigrantsTM with another bunch of free loading immigrantsTM is a solution to our post Brexit farming and car cleaning concerns. Is he not aware that the reason many people voted for Brexit was to stop all that cheap labour coming over here and taking our jobsTM
Think Kier Hardy has the copyright to these.
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Can we grant Danny Dyer a Temporary Release on Licence from the Super-Twat hall of fame for calling the chief architect of our current political miseries, David Cameron, a twat? Twice.
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I guess we'd have to ask Mark Kermode...
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Can we grant Danny Dyer a Temporary Release on Licence from the Super-Twat hall of fame for calling the chief architect of our current political miseries, David Cameron, a twat? Twice.
Absolutely.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=107133.msg2299880#msg2299880
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Me. Missed the bottom step going down the stairs, fell forward, landed on my knees and gave my right thigh a violent stretch with the quad contracted, and now badly pulled for certain. I didn't put my hand down as I was carrying a cup. Outer element of quad is now as stiff as a plank & hurts like a swine when I bend the leg, even with no load. I've slathered on enough ketoprofen gel to grease a slipway, but I doubt if I'll be on the bike again this week.
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^^ One for the 'Div' thread, surely . . . ?
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Twat, div, what's the difference? End result is that I'm sitting in my office looking out at a perfect cycling day - forecast said 20 kph following breeze for the outleg dropping to zero over lunch - hopping mad. Which takes some doing when you're sitting down.
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Twat, div, what's the difference? End result is that I'm sitting in my office looking out at a perfect cycling day - forecast said 20 kph following breeze for the outleg dropping to zero over lunch - hopping mad. Which takes some doing when you're sitting down.
From your initial report on this matter I suspect that hoping is all you'll be doing for the next few days ;D
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Neymar. What a fucking bell-end.
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Twat, div, what's the difference? End result is that I'm sitting in my office looking out at a perfect cycling day - forecast said 20 kph following breeze for the outleg dropping to zero over lunch - hopping mad. Which takes some doing when you're sitting down.
From your initial report on this matter I suspect that hoping is all you'll be doing for the next few days ;D
Hoping, trusting and spraying - aiming's hard when you've got a wobbly leg. Now I understand the saying "the weakest go to the wall".
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-44692396
No contrition, no remorse.
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oh he can be a twat in many more ways than one!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44767140
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Melanie Phillips.
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Melanie Phillips.
I take it this is about Mad Mel's completely upminster suggestion of sacking May, giving Garbage a peerage and making him PM? Or has she done something else of epic Twattiness recently?
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Melanie Phillips.
I take it this is about Mad Mel's completely upminster suggestion of sacking May, giving Garbage a peerage and making him PM? Or has she done something else of epic Twattiness recently?
The first, but we cannot be sure that the second does not apply at present, although it soon will.
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oh he can be a twat in many more ways than one!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44767140
That one really makes me livid. Firstly because he's a fascist Knut, but also the lie about 'I returned the shark alive.' You don't hold a live shark in your hands on your lap. He killed it and threw it away. I hate his guts.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44643037
"How much will the funeral cost?"
Sometimes, I wish I hadn't woken up.
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Boris Johnson. Again. According to C4's fact check, he lied about EU safety regulation in his resignation letter. Linky (https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-boris-johnson-lied-about-eu-safety-regulation-in-his-resignation-letter)
What's more it was about cyclist safety.
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It seems that Boris will lie in front of most types of vehicle.
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Don't tease...
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It seems that Boris will lie in front of most types of vehicle.
To paraphrase a classic Latin insult*, Bojo est sicut Bojo facit...
* Stultus est sicut stultus facit (stupid is as stupid does).
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Elon Musk
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Elon Musk
Hell's teeth. Just read up on his latest outbursts. That's pretty vile stuff.
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Yeah, not a good look at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter
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When I read of the submarine proposal, I thought "not a chance, it will be too rigid".
The flexible tube idea had some merit.
However, this attack, on someone who even before this latest cave rescue was already acknowledged to be an international expert in cave rescue, is beyond the pale.
Musk, you've jumped the shark.
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^what they said
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Yup. Knee-jerk response of the angry
artist jerk.
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From what I've seen, the diver wasn't exactly Mr Tactful to start with, but that in no way justifies what can only be described as an outburst by Elon Musk. I think that the submarine was PR lead, though it served as a proof of concept for further research.
As Dr Beardy (Mrs) put it this morning, I think that both men would have been better served if they'd kept their mouths shut.
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The Daily
Hiel Mail for perpetuating the myth that sharks are dangerous just of themselves.
Experts warn of fearsome Sharks heading to British waters.
Assuming1 of course it isn't actually an anti-imigration story in disguise.
1. What? You expect me to click a link to that rag and actually read the article?
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It's the fearsome
sharks dorks swimming towards N°10 you have to worry about.
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Sniff Petrol nails Elon Muskrat (https://sniffpetrol.com/2018/07/17/electric-car-showdown-jaguar-i-pace-v-tesla-model-s/).
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44924264
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Normal for Trowbridge.
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BJ for his current input of fuckwittery.
BJ once again displays what an utter shit he is. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45096519)
Whilst he's holding out on the apology front the pressure is on. Even Maybot has said she wants him to apologise.
What's the betting the slimy bastard words an apology along the lines of "I'm sorry if anyone took offence at my jolly jape" ?
Just man the fuck up you bastard and apologise for what **YOU** said. Twat.
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These people (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/science/birds-alabama.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=3&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F08%2F07%2Fscience%2Fbirds-alabama.html&eventName=Watching-article-click).
Beachgoers in Alabama who descended on the breeding ground of a threatened seabird species this summer scared adults away from their nests and used the eggs to decorate the sand, most likely killing hundreds of chicks, wildlife experts say.
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Me. Because I'm trying to answer as many threads as possible before someone else posts. did I mention I was bored? ;D
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So, when faced with the information that the manufacturing sector was now in recession for the first time since the vote to leave the EU, the moron in charge of the economy is quoted as saying the following:
" Philip Hammond, the chancellor, said: “We are working hard to build a stronger, fairer economy – dealing with the deficit, helping people into work, and cutting taxes for individuals and businesses.”
Yeah that's right, a bland soundbite will do the plebs....
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Elon Musk
Karma, thy name is the Securities & Exchange Commission? :demon:
Tesla is likely to face investigation by US securities market regulators following the CEO Elon Musk’s extraordinary tweet that he had “funding secured” to take the company private, according to a media report.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/09/tesla-elon-musk-funding-secured-tweet?CMP=twt_gu
There's also a class action suit alleging market manipulation (h/t https://twitter.com/SpicyFiles/status/1028076794484858880):
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.330489/gov.uscourts.cand.330489.1.0.pdf
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Ryan Zinke: Don't blame wildfires on climate change – it's environmentalists' fault, says Zinke (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/13/us-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-climate-change-environmentalists).
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Ryan Zinke: Don't blame wildfires on climate change – it's environmentalists' fault, says Zinke (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/13/us-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-climate-change-environmentalists).
well, he is right, if you chop the trees down then they can't burn! :facepalm:
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They also skip around the fact they're building houses in places that need to periodically burn (on a smaller scale). I suspect the householders wouldn't be so keen to see their house burn every several years.
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The contributor who submitted this gem of dangerous advice:
Adjusting your cleat float can also help to solve achey knee issues. Cleat float is simply your ability to move your feet from side to side while they’re clipped in. A lot of riders attach their cleats to their pedals so tightly to maximise power that they allow for very little movement of the foot, if any at all. In most cases, however, this doesn’t allow your knee to track in its most natural line or your foot from being in its most natural position, meaning that you’re essentially forcing your body to move in unnatural ways. So try loosening your cleats off. The recommended range of float or rotation is between 5-13°.
:facepalm:
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The contributor who submitted this gem of dangerous advice:
Adjusting your cleat float can also help to solve achey knee issues. Cleat float is simply your ability to move your feet from side to side while they’re clipped in. A lot of riders attach their cleats to their pedals so tightly to maximise power that they allow for very little movement of the foot, if any at all. In most cases, however, this doesn’t allow your knee to track in its most natural line or your foot from being in its most natural position, meaning that you’re essentially forcing your body to move in unnatural ways. So try loosening your cleats off. The recommended range of float or rotation is between 5-13°.
:facepalm:
What the actual ever-loving frak? :o
Whoever they are, they have surely achieved twatscendence.
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The contributor who submitted this gem of dangerous advice:
Adjusting your cleat float can also help to solve achey knee issues. Cleat float is simply your ability to move your feet from side to side while they’re clipped in. A lot of riders attach their cleats to their pedals so tightly to maximise power that they allow for very little movement of the foot, if any at all. In most cases, however, this doesn’t allow your knee to track in its most natural line or your foot from being in its most natural position, meaning that you’re essentially forcing your body to move in unnatural ways. So try loosening your cleats off. The recommended range of float or rotation is between 5-13°.
:facepalm:
What the actual ever-loving frak? :o
Whoever they are, they have surely achieved twatscendence.
Maybe they use speedplay cleats? Not sure if others have adjustable float, I know shimano make you change the cleat.
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Maybe they use speedplay cleats?
Nope. It's an example of the dangers of copying things you read on the internet when you don't understand them properly.
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My nomination, if only for the Shroedingers Cyclist, is Cllr Caroline Patmore of Hambleton District Council.
Just why is an exercise for the reader...
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My nomination, if only for the Shroedingers Cyclist, is Cllr Caroline Patmore of Hambleton District Council.
Just why is an exercise for the reader...
Seconded.
There aren't may creatures that are more venomous than Yorkshire Tories.
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My nomination, if only for the Shroedingers Cyclist, is Cllr Caroline Patmore of Hambleton District Council.
Just why is an exercise for the reader...
Seconded.
There aren't may creatures that are more venomous than Yorkshire Tories.
well, doesn’t she wear her ignorance in full view.
People who seek power really should be the last to be given any power.
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Sadly, isn't that just how most people think. They're the most important thing in the universe and everyone else must get out of their way because they're very important people doing very important things. I mean, how dare they be delayed by other people using the roads they have paid for.
Same attitude in Surrey, people are 'trapped in their houses' by an annual cycling event that closes a few roads for a couple of hours. And they often can't go out because cyclists may hold them up, sometimes for up to an entire minute. It's so unfair.
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Same attitude in Surrey, people are 'trapped in their houses' by an annual cycling event that closes a few roads for a couple of hours. And they often can't go out because cyclists may hold them up, sometimes for up to an entire minute. It's so unfair.
We went up a closed road to the Col d'Ornon this morning. I made sure to offer a Bonjour! to all the people (presumably volunteers) sat at the entrances to all the adjoining roads blocking traffic :thumbsup:
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I understand that the plastic surgery disaster on the increasingly desperate Big Brother has used the n-word rather a lot. I wasn't offended as I would rather lick the shed clean than watch such crap, but he's a twat for not realising there would be A Lot of complaints.
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I understand that the plastic surgery disaster on the increasingly desperate Big Brother has used the n-word rather a lot. I wasn't offended as I would rather lick the shed clean than watch such crap, but he's a twat for not realising there would be A Lot of complaints.
By the looks of it, he failed to take the hint. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45307058
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Didn't think I'd ever be putting this name in this thread. Geraint Thomas.
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Didn't think I'd ever be putting this name in this thread. Geraint Thomas.
Really? What's he done/said?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45312756
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Came straight here to say Geraint Thomas. However I see his name is already up. So he gets it again.
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Also he's too scared to ride a bike in London traffic. He should try the provinces; it's MUCH worse as traffic is faster and cyclists are regarded by drivers as sex fetishists from another planet, they're so rare.
(Any mention of the h-word in the appropriate board, of course).
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That was the part that sealed his nomination, admits to a narrow field of experience but see that as no reason to stfu.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45312756
Twat!
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Geraint Thomas... your head of polystyrene won't protect your feet of clay.
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The article quotes him as saying “there is no reason” not to wear one, so the journalist is already paraphrasing him. This shows a lack of knowledge on the subject.
But he isn’t quite as saying he thinks they should be compulsory so I suspect the headline is extrapolation on the part of the journo for comic effect.
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The article quotes him as saying “there is no reason” not to wear one, so the journalist is already paraphrasing him. This shows a lack of knowledge on the subject.
But he isn’t quite as saying he thinks they should be compulsory so I suspect the headline is extrapolation on the part of the journo for comic effect.
The BBC article is quoting a piece in the Sunday Times, so you'd probably have to read that to get the full, accurate version of what he said.
I have no interest in his opinions on this subject so won't bother.
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The Tour de France champion, Geraint Thomas, has called for cyclists to be forced to wear helmets.
“I would certainly make helmets compulsory,” Thomas said. “I always wear a helmet.
“I’ve put on a helmet more times than I’ve buckled a seatbelt.
“Helmets have come on a lot — well ventilated, not too hot, you don’t look stupid — no reason not to.”
Not a lot of options for misquoting there. It’s front page on the digital edition too. Why do these wankers carry on with this. What does he actually know about cycling?
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This imbecile has clearly never had his bus cancelled going in to town and had the only convenient way to get in be a mobike from your change.
Why can't he just shut his mouth? Moron has just played into the hands of the motor lobby because he's too thick to just fucking think for a second before he starts blathering on.
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Why can't he just shut his mouth?
To be fair, it's not that simple. He is expected to front up to the media and answer whatever questions they put to him.
He could be a bit more canny about how he answers those questions but it's not like he's actively campaigning for mandatory helmets, unlike that idiot Cracknell.
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Musk has earned lifelong membership, methinks, with his latest brainless chunterings.
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Musk has earned lifelong membership, methinks, with his latest brainless chunterings.
Judging by a meme I spotted earlier, I take it he's doubling down in his spat with the British guy involved in the Thai cave rescue, then?
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Musk has earned lifelong membership, methinks, with his latest brainless chunterings.
Judging by a meme I spotted earlier, I take it he's doubling down in his spat with the British guy involved in the Thai cave rescue, then?
With spades on.
Either Musk is suffering from extreme sleep deprivation and has no mental faculties left, or he has been snorting something he shouldn't have.
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I assume BoJo is already in the lifetime members' lounge? He's likely to find that his only friends in the Tories are the swivel-eyed loons of the ERG. The man's only talent is writing flowery prose in a slightly racist 1930s vernacular.
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I assume BoJo is already in the lifetime members' lounge? He's likely to find that his only friends in the Tories are the swivel-eyed loons of the ERG. The man's only talent is writing flowery prose in a slightly racist 1930s vernacular.
Well, if he hadn't already, he's definitely achieved twatscendence with the "suicide vest" comment.
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Carlos Ramos
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Romano Fenati
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That's what I thought I had typed...
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;D
Spillchucker for you.
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Romano Fenati
Yep, pulling the front brake lever of your rival after he'd nerfed you off-track in a botched overtaking move definitely qualifies.
I'd give an honourable mention/nomination to Andrea Dovisioso and Jorge Lorenzo for apparently exculpating Fenati because of Manzi's actions, and Dorna for only suspending him for 2 races.
Props to Marinelli Snipers for taking the correct decision in dropping him for the rest of the season after MV Agusta and Forward Racing said they'd be looking to break the contract they'd signed with Fenati for next season.
ETA - Fenati definitely has issues, he was booted from Valentino Rossi's Sky VR46 team in August 2016 after they suspended him for being abusive towards his pit crew, and he was involved in a clash with Niklas Ajo at the 2015 Argentina GP.
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2015/04/19/fenati-starting-last-after-clash-with-ajo-in-moto3-warm-up/174212
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Romano Fenati
Just watched the video... FFS! That's insane.
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He has since apologised.
Which make it ok, I suppose.
Not.
His rival could've spent the rest of his days being fed soup.
Whilst spending the rest of his days being unaware that he is being fed soup.
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Romano Fenati
Just watched the video... FFS! That's insane.
He has form.
11 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fep8y0X2w
ETA - Just realised I'd X-posted with Spesh.
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Though oddly enough, VR46 didn't boot him out for that - it was being an arse towards his pit crew in 2016 that was the final straw.
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Switching Ajo's bike off on the line was quite funny, to be fair. Still a super-twattish and very unsportsmanlike thing to do but at least it's not dangerous. If you're going to be an arse anyway, that's a better way to do it than grabbing your rival's brakes at 130mph.
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Wow, he really is a c***
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Wow, he really is a c***
You'd not be jumping at the opportunity to share Tarmac with him.
No.
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When I was involved in motor sport (a very log time ago) that sort of behaviour would have led to a sound thrashing as soon as he returned to the paddock.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-45488294
ST as well as DOTD.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-45488294
ST as well as DOTD.
I read that one earlier and reckoned there ought to be some sort of Darwin award equivalent for criminals who are caught because of doing something particularly stupid.
Glad they caught the bastard.
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Romano Fenati
Just watched the video... FFS! That's insane.
He has form.
11 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fep8y0X2w
ETA - Just realised I'd X-posted with Spesh.
and he's actually riding a Sky sponsored bike - delightful!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-45488294
ST as well as DOTD.
I read that one earlier and reckoned there ought to be some sort of Darwin award equivalent for criminals who are caught because of doing something particularly stupid.
Glad they caught the bastard.
I can't decide whether it's Dunning-Kruger, cargo-cult watching of CSI or whatever, but there's something of an Elmore Leonard level of dumb-con fuckery about the clipping of the nails and leaving the evidence. Or maybe they thought the clippings wouldn't be found? Good on the forensics there.
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On the same theme there was a clip the other day of a robber who, while trying to rob a vape store, tried to pull out a gun (this was the US, of course, so there's nothing that's not improved by more guns) fumbled it and dropped it over the counter. So he tried to leap the counter and dramatically overestimated his athleticism. At which point, he opted to run off first pausing to deliver a less-than-ninja kick to the shop door and then running into the parking lot. Whereupon his load-riding trousers fell down. Unfortunately he failed to fall flat on his face.
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Mark Serwotka - yet another Labour anti-Semite out of the closet.
And separately, the Church of England, whose hypocrisy knows no bounds. (I wonder how much tax they pay themselves?)
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Mark Serwotka - yet another Labour anti-Semite out of the closet.
And separately, the Church of England, whose hypocrisy knows no bounds. (I wonder how much tax they pay themselves?)
Serwotka and his wife are both rabid transphobes. There have been repeated instances of him voting against the union's mandated position on trans issues, i.e. he goes along to a conference to deliver the union's agreed position---and reverses it.
I left the union because of him. I still get 'your mates liked this page' stuff on FB, and the first time I did I posted a comment on it to the effect of what I said above. I now find I can neither comment nor read the existing ones.
Utterly vile couple.
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Looks like Hatey Kopkins is in the soup and I can't find the Schadenfreude thread!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-secretly-forced-file-13254535 (https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-secretly-forced-file-13254535)
:'( :sick: :smug: :demon:
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Musk has earned lifelong membership, methinks, with his latest brainless chunterings.
Judging by a meme I spotted earlier, I take it he's doubling down in his spat with the British guy involved in the Thai cave rescue, then?
With spades on.
Either Musk is suffering from extreme sleep deprivation and has no mental faculties left, or he has been snorting something he shouldn't have.
Vernon Unsworth is now suing Musk.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45551895
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Looks like Hatey Kopkins is in the soup and I can't find the Schadenfreude thread!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-secretly-forced-file-13254535 (https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-secretly-forced-file-13254535)
:'( :sick: :smug: :demon:
I found it by selecting "Search in topic subjects only" before clicking on the search button. ;)
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=86888.0
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Ah thanks!
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http://deadstate.org/ex-gop-senator-who-voted-for-anti-trans-bathroom-bill-gets-15-years-for-child-sex-trafficking/
No surprises there, but he did do such sterling work defending ickul kiddis and mommas from dem evil transers.
Hint to him: 'saving children' doesn't mean collecting them.
In the meantime, the count of trans people attacking women and children in public toilets remains.... nil.
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Whilst on the subject of American right wingers who love children in the worst possible way...
Cody Rutledge Wilson, the 31-year-old Texas man who’s been fighting with the U.S. government to publish instructions for 3D-printed guns on the internet, was charged today with the sexual assault of a child. Wilson allegedly met the girl on a website called SugarDaddyMeet.com.
https://gizmodo.com/3d-printed-gun-activist-cody-wilson-charged-with-sexual-1829168263
Wilson's known mainly for his 3d-printed gun advocacy, but he also set up a (now apparently moribund) crowdfunding site for right-wingers called - wait for it - "Hatreon".
In June 2017, Wilson launched a new website titled “Hatreon.” The website, complete with a name riffing off of popular crowdfunding site Patreon, is deliberately intended to supplant traditional fundraising sources, which have increasingly moved to mitigate the amount of hate speech on their platforms.
By October 2017, the site had moved from its quiet “soft launch” to allowing many from across the alt-right to open platforms, including weev, Andrew Anglin of The Daily Stormer and Richard Spencer.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/cody-rutledge-wilson
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Amit Amin, acting head of Stanley Park High, Carshalton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45636870?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45636870?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter)
https://www.stanleyparkhigh.org.uk/intro/blog (https://www.stanleyparkhigh.org.uk/intro/blog)
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This sort of thing makes me hop a bit when I witness the daily kamikaze car drivers dropping off and picking up their kids from school, parking all over the place, and zooming up residential access roads like land speed record hopefuls. I am convinced if they could throw the kids into school during a drive by they would do so. Ho hum.
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The rest of the scheme looks good -Discounted equipment, training, maintenance workshops etc. It's just that having to wear a bike number plate doesn't fit with the aim of the scheme - 'To promote cycling as healthy, fun and a means of transport'. I can't find any description of the form that these bicycle number plates will take.
This sentence in his blog jarred
We were informed last week that one of our students was involved in a collision between their bicycle and a car, fortunately one which did not involve injury – but this has been a timely reminder that action is necessary
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If he's the best teacher at the school I'd be glad not to be sending my kids there. Honestly, has he not noticed the sludge of badly driven and parked cars that stall outside his school twice a day. It's a good (and sad) example that it's become invisible through ubiquity.
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This sort of thing makes me hop a bit when I witness the daily kamikaze car drivers dropping off and picking up their kids from school, parking all over the place, and zooming up residential access roads like land speed record hopefuls. I am convinced if they could throw the kids into school during a drive by they would do so. Ho hum.
I am surprised no one has considered adapting this for school collection/despatch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYmda6DMuUs
I am sure there is plenty of room on the "cars" most people drive now days..... I HATE SUV's!
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My son has just started secondary school. The school has a small forecourt, through which all pupils enter or leave the site. I was pleased to see in the (very thick) school manual that we were given on day one that this area was not to be used by parents dropping off or picking up their kids. I was less pleased on the first day that I went to pick him up to see that the entire area was a jam of cars - mainly SUVs - with their engines running.
Oddly enough, today I've had an email from the school inviting me to an open meeting to discuss parents' concerns about air quality around the school (it's next to a busy road, although the buildings are set well back from the road itself). I wonder what I might suggest.
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I live next door to a high school, and although our road is not have the main enterance to the school, there is a pedestrian gate at the top of the road. At his time of day (coming up.to 4pm) our road becomes a car park, and there has been more than one occasion when I have had to ask someone to move from across my drive so,that I might enter or exit. My children went to this school, so over the years I’ve known a fair few parents who have parked outside my house, and the short distances some of them regularly drive amazes me.
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Yes, but while navigating a sea of inconsiderately parked cars driven there by distracted parents focused on their phones, a schoolchild could be run down by an errant bicyclist.
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Oddly enough, today I've had an email from the school inviting me to an open meeting to discuss parents' concerns about air quality around the school (it's next to a busy road, although the buildings are set well back from the road itself). I wonder what I might suggest.
This is what I wrote:
Dear Mrs -
Thank you for this. I was at the presentation a couple of weeks ago and, as the schools’ proximity to the main road was a factor that weighed against it when making our decision to take up the offer of a place, was reassured by your comments that the levels of pollution around the school buildings and proposed play areas are immaterial when compared with those around the road itself.
That said, I was very surprised when I came to the school at 4.15 one evening last week for the first time (my son normally takes one of the minibuses) to see the drive in front of the school packed with waiting vehicles, many with their engines running. I had noted in the parents’ handbook that the school “actively encourages all parents to limit congestion by avoiding use of the front drive” and had assumed this would mean that vehicles were not allowed in. By permitting vehicles to idle just a few yards from the school buildings the school is, in effect, inviting in the pollution about which parents have expressed concern.
I suggest that as a first step, irrespective of any plans connected with the new build proposal, you make the school grounds a car-free zone (with the exception, of course, of staff vehicles and the school buses). Aside from reducing pollution, this would also make it safer for pupils entering and leaving the building. There are more than enough places in surrounding streets and retail sites for parents to park when dropping off or collecting children. None of these is more than a short walk away, even for those who do not wish their children to be unaccompanied.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the meeting on October 2 but I hope that this suggestion will be given consideration, perhaps as part of a wider drive (sic) to encourage more environmentally-friendly travel to and from school.
It will be interesting to see what response I get.
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Amit Amin, acting head of Stanley Park High, Carshalton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45636870?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45636870?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter)
https://www.stanleyparkhigh.org.uk/intro/blog (https://www.stanleyparkhigh.org.uk/intro/blog)
Is he Idi's brother? Idi had some pretty bizarre ideas too.
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Councillor Bob Frost suspended over Liverpool abortion clinic slur
A Conservative councillor has resigned from the party in Kent following controversial Twitter posts about abortion clinics and slavery.
Dover District councillor Bob Frost tweeted the remarks to a prospective parliamentary Labour candidate.
He said abortion clinics in Liverpool were a form of "crime prevention", and joked that he had "bought two of the staff" from the city's slavery museum.
His move follows a decision by the local party to suspend him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-45670445 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-45670445)
Only a person with the intelligence of a salt-encrusted slug would find his remarks even remotely funny
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David Beckham, the slimy scumsucker.
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David Beckham, the slimy scumsucker.
Who has he been shagging now?
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David Beckham, the slimy scumsucker.
Blame the prosecuting authority for failing to process the paperwork smartly enough.
Then chastise the scumsucker for being 19mph over the limit.
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Nick Ferrari? Nick Clapped-out Morris Marina, more like...
http://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/5372/cycle-superhighway-advert-criticised-for-showing-no-cars
The irony is that his complaint could apply to every car advert ever - you know, the ones that show happy, smiling drivers enjoying mile upon mile of empty road... :facepalm:
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Actually, if you ride up that road on a Sunday, there are bugger all cars anyway. Presumably, on that basis we should assume that car drivers don't need it and close it off.
Having read the story, I'm not entirely sure what he's complaining about.
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Having read the story, I'm not entirely sure what he's complaining about.
Even he doesn't seem to really understand what he is complaining about. I think he's one of those people who is triggered by the mere mention of bicycles. The TFL ad has simply set off his Ronco Automatic Verbiage Spewer and he doesn't know how to turn it off.
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Is he, by any faint chance, a fat, middle-aged, overprivileged, affluent, and yet inexplicably perpetually angry white man?
[Googles and fails to be surprised.]
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Is he, by any faint chance, a fat, middle-aged, overprivileged, affluent, and yet inexplicably perpetually angry white man?
[Googles and fails to be surprised.]
He is. He lives in Blackheath (as do I) which likes to refer to itself as a village, so at least now we can boast that we also have an idiot.
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I'm pretty angry too. I went to the National Gallery and they had no pictures with badgers in them. I'm writing to someone because, you know, well, I am.
I just so wish someone in the ASA would write back and say Dear Mr Ferrari, we've reviewed your complaint and arrived (some seconds later) at the conclusion that we really don't give a shit, you corpulent fuckatoon, but thanks for thinking of us anyway, yours sincerely, your friends at the ASA.
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Is he, by any faint chance, a fat, middle-aged, overprivileged, affluent, and yet inexplicably perpetually angry white man?
[Googles and fails to be surprised.]
He’s the man responsible for News Bunny and Topless Darts.
If “responsible” is the right word.
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With that sort of knee-jerk response, I am always reminded of the closing moments of the Python 'nudge nudge wink wink' sketch, where Idle simply makes 'sexy noises'.
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Is he, by any faint chance, a fat, middle-aged, overprivileged, affluent, and yet inexplicably perpetually angry white man?
[Googles and fails to be surprised.]
He’s the man responsible for News Bunny and Topless Darts.
If “responsible” is the right word.
His parents ran (run?) a local news agency in Deptford and gave über-Gammon Kelvin McKenzie his first job in journalism. I think the principle of sippenhaft applies here.
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Is he, by any faint chance, a fat, middle-aged, overprivileged, affluent, and yet inexplicably perpetually angry white man?
[Googles and fails to be surprised.]
He’s the man responsible for News Bunny and Topless Darts.
If “responsible” is the right word.
His parents ran (run?) a local news agency in Deptford and gave über-Gammon Kelvin McKenzie his first job in journalism. I think the principle of sippenhaft applies here.
Having looked up sippenhaft, because I only know German terms for things that I could eat and drink, I have to agree.
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The very drunk woman on this Marylebone-Oxford train telling her extremely boring (and full of bullshit, you can tell) life story at 150dB to a bunch of strangers.
EDiT: They've told her to FOAD now
EDIT EDIT: she's sharing too much now. She suffers from severe depression and anxiety. Probably because she gets ratarsed and everyone tells her to FOAD.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: she got off (well, more fell out) at Bicester. I pity Bicester.
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Suffering from depression and anxiety is a problem. Dismissing it in others is a bigger problem. Just saying.
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Yes, but putting up with a depressive for long hours is depressing. We had a chronic depressive in our club for a couple of years: after outings where he went along, everyone came home glum.
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It moved onto the benefits of the gym, how to have a butt like "Kim K" and how to work for a really prestigious employer by the end. The drunk lads sitting near me even stopped their own conversation in amazement and one of them gasped, "I thought WE were bad".
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Recent regular nominee Elon Musk has to step down as chairman of Tesla for three years and pay the SEC $20 million after they filed suit against him for his tweets about taking the company private.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45696150
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind...
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Oh Kanye... I don’t know what to say.
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Shouldn't that be "Oh-Ye, Oh-Ye! I have an announcement to make!"
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Has anyone seen him recently, or has he literally disappeared up his own arse?
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Oh Kanye... I don’t know what to say.
Truly, Ye has achieved twatscendence, especially with that picture on his Tw@tter feed of him in a MAGA hat.
He talks about repatriating jobs to the USA, but the MAGA hat is - like his Yeezy-branded trainers - made in China.
Also, someone needs to explain to him - using short words - why abolishing the 13th Amendment (which bans slavery*) in its entirety is throwing the baby out with the bath water when all he is really after is the abolition of the exemption therein which allows for the use of prison inmates as cheap/free labour.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
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Michael McCormack.
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Matt Hancock.
Anyone who thinks chasing stray crutches back to hospital will save the NHS anything is a sadly deluded self-publicist.
A pair of crutches is around £15 retail on Amazon.
Any returned equipment must be logged, checked and certified.
Strikes me returned crutches might actually cost the NHS more than new, unused stock...
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Any returned equipment must be logged, checked and certified.
Don't forget cleaned.
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Strikes me returned crutches might actually cost the NHS more than new, unused stock...
When I tried to return mine to Lewisham Hospital, I was told that they were not allowed to take them back. Thus, they served the dressing up box as pirate props for some years before finding their way to the recycling centre.
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Any returned equipment must be logged, checked and certified.
Don't forget cleaned.
Thanks! :)
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Strikes me returned crutches might actually cost the NHS more than new, unused stock...
When I tried to return mine to Lewisham Hospital, I was told that they were not allowed to take them back. Thus, they served the dressing up box as pirate props for some years before finding their way to the recycling centre.
Seems eminently sensible!
There are some things for which return is uneconomical, crutches and toilet frames being a case in point. Having a pair of crutches in a household of accident-prone teens seems wise to me!
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On the subject of toilet frames, why do the molishers put the adjusty bit right where the standing pissers are going to dribble on them?
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On the subject of toilet frames, why do the molishers put the adjusty bit right where the standing pissers are going to dribble on them?
Because neither the molishers not the standers are likely to be the ones required to make the adjustments.
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Dear Julian,
Time you moved out and got a place of your own now, don't you think?
No Love,
Ecuador
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/16/ecuador-embassy-tells-assange-clean-bathroom-feed-the-cat-do-laundry
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“It’s virtually a prison regime,” Carlos Poveda, Assange’s lawyer in Quito told the Guardian. “This new regime goes against his basic human dignity as an asylee,” he said.
He's still free to leave any time he likes, Carlos. And in spite of what the Daily Heil and its readers think, claiming asylum does not automatically entitle you to a seven-bedroomed chunk of real estate and a gold-plated supercharged Range Rover.
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I'm led to understand that Piers Morgan, who is a Colossal Bellend, has done little to dissuade us, his public, from that belief. Some tosh about Daniel Craig carrying his baby in a baby sling.
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I'm led to understand that Piers Morgan, who is a Colossal Bellend, has done little to dissuade us, his public, from that belief. Some tosh about Daniel Craig carrying his baby in a baby sling.
I loved carrying my off-spring in a baby sling, and if it upsets that super-twat, then I’ll take the bonus points as well. In fact, I’d go as far to say that any father that turns down an offer to carry one of their children because it’ll ‘make them look less of a man’ is nothing but a feeble facsimile of human being. And a mega twat.
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I wonder if the CBE does this as a way of injecting a bit of life into his Twatter feed. He's an irredeemably obnoxious twat, and surely people aren't born that way. Perhaps he feels insecure if he hasn't caused a shit storm for a couple of weeks.
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http://newsthump.com/2018/10/17/piers-morgan-basically-katie-hopkins-with-a-smaller-penis-confirm-scientists/?fbclid=IwAR2dTE1CKxk7sqJw3xmxzpf7pUHaq6Bw71w6ZM9tstNOTLUKSVHtezzsv2I
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When a video entitled "Is Jacob Rees Mogg as fun a he seems?" popped up in my Youtube feed, I had to click (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBdEl9xdO8) and was glad I did
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Larysa Switlyk (trailer trash name). A sheep or a goat is not exactly a difficult and worthy adversary for your hunting rifle. And yes, I do eat lamb.
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Larysa Switlyk (trailer trash name). A sheep or a goat is not exactly a difficult and worthy adversary for your hunting rifle. And yes, I do eat lamb.
If she'd used the goat as bait to hunt a veloceraptor, I might be impressed...
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Larysa Switlyk (trailer trash name). A sheep or a goat is not exactly a difficult and worthy adversary for your hunting rifle. And yes, I do eat lamb.
Nor are pheasants, hares, partridges etc etc. but you don't comment on those. I think what we find objectionable is the glee the (mainly American) hunters show for the results. If the goats were culled normally by rangers/ghillies no-one would turn a hair.
I saw a TV programmer recently about big-game hunting in South Africa, and one US huntsman (after the "big 6" I think it was - Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Giraffe, Rhino etc.) stated "God gave man dominion over all the animals, so I'm perfectly entitled to kill them".
CF Ree-Mogg and his attitudes (also religion driven) to abortion.
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Though she seems perfectly loathsome in that US I'm-gonna-shoot-your-hamster-with-my-gunz kind of way, wild goats, deer etc. don't have any predators other than (wo)man, so someone has to kill them to avoid the goat-o-geddon. Either with guns or cars. Probably better to hunt the animals that need hunting rather than the endangered ones.
That said, she can fuck off back to America.
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More to this story. Acc to Brian who does The Washing Machine Machine Post (and the local paper) those goats are wild but can follow you in a friendly manner. I mean really - a scoped rifle for something that might walk up to you? there might be an issue that she was shooting on someone property illegally but that is being looked into
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I'm OK with practical hunting for food. I don't pretend an abattoir is a happy alternative route to a dinner plate.
It's when people take a weird pleasure from killing another creature that it creeps me out.
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It’s the whole posing with the carcus <sp?> thing that is just strange to our sensibilities. And it’s hardly hunting when the animals are being culled because you can’t move without tripping over one of them.
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Gary Larson had the best take on hunters...
https://goo.gl/images/ewCK1v
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An even better one was the aliens in their spacecraft with the rednecks strapped to the bonnet...
I just can't fnd it right now.
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An even better one was the aliens in their spacecraft with the rednecks strapped to the bonnet...
I just can't fnd it right now.
I think it's on Pinterest, but you have to be logged in to see it properly, so the next best thing is this t-shirt that someone made:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IoYAAOSwRLZUJM7i/s-l1600.jpg
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Reminds me of https://youtu.be/s88r_q7oufE
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"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal'" was my fave Farside. Can't find a picture though.
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"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal'" was my fave Farside. Can't find a picture though.
Funnily enough, I came across that one while looking for the one linked to earlier but it didn’t have the caption on it, which kind of spoils the gag.
Gary Larson - very much not a twat.
Philip Green, on the other hand... now why was I not at all surprised when his name surfaced in connection with that story? He goes way beyond mere twattery, into far more sinister territory.
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"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal'" was my fave Farside. Can't find a picture though.
https://goo.gl/images/x0Cxrk
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Did anyone ever think, oh Philip Green, what a nice chap!
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Philip Green's mother?
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Even that seems doubtful.
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Mind you, Johnson Sr seems to be just as much of a twerp as his son, so who knows?
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As a PSO I had a job as a barman for a posh events company. Among the many junkets for the rich and famous i worked was PG's 50th birthday party, which was every bit the bastion of understated good taste you might expect...
(Actually, I vaguely recall being treated better than some gigs on that one - it was a very long shift, but we were fed and watered ok)
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As a PSO I had a job as a barman for a posh events company. Among the many junkets for the rich and famous i worked was PG's 50th birthday party, which was every bit the bastion of understated good taste you might expect...
(Actually, I vaguely recall being treated better than some gigs on that one - it was a very long shift, but we were fed and watered ok)
Ooh, sounds like you could have such a lot of dirt to dish.
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I would have so pissed in the soup for that one.
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This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment.
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A) what's he been doing now?
B) that's surely a parody C4 account?
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"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal'" was my fave Farside. Can't find a picture though.
Gary Larson - very much not a twat.
Part of me disagrees, especially when he states:
These cartoons are my “children,” of sorts, and like a parent, I’m concerned about where they go at night without telling me. And, seeing them at someone’s web site is like getting the call at 2:00 a.m. that goes, “Uh, Dad, you’re not going to like this much, but guess where I am.”
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A) what's he been doing now?
B) that's surely a parody C4 account?
It's genuine, and it's all for charidee. :D
Ok, Twitter. Today we’re gonna raise some serious cash for @StandUp2C. Below is a donation menu: the more you give, the better the reward. Using #SU2CRewards, tell us what you donated and the reward you want. Oh and guys, this is for cancer…don’t be a dick and lie about donating
https://twitter.com/Channel4/status/1055748086159605761
For £20, we’ll ask your boss to give you a raise, retweet one of your tweets or rate your breakfast, lunch, dinner…or pet!
Donate £50 and we’ll insult @PiersMorgan, throw Twitter shade at a TV rival or we’ll draw a cartoon of your avatar! #SU2CRewards
http://channel4.com/SU2C
https://twitter.com/Channel4/status/1055777324208177152
ETA - for example:
Dear @PiersMorgan. Unfortunately our lawyers wouldn't allow us to say you're the single biggest wanker in the history of human civilisation. But you're in the top 1. #SU2CRewards
https://twitter.com/Channel4/status/1055799976750661634
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That is brilliant. Disappointed that the rewards for the larger donations are not similarly irreverant tho!
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This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment.
TV proggy: "Killer Women with Piers Morgan" - how many of them over how many episodes does it take to do the job, FFS?!!
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Lord Hain
>:(
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Lord Hain
>:(
srsly?
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yes
as a consultant for the law firm, although denying knowledge, does feel vindictive.
The name would have come out in the foreign press.
Will there be ramifications for parlimentary privilage? as he has pissed off a lot of people
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Bloody Stupid Johnson. agen. Even if it’s not true!
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/boris-johnson-deeply-regrets-going-down-brexit-route-close-sources%EF%BB%BF-reveal/07/09/ (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/boris-johnson-deeply-regrets-going-down-brexit-route-close-sources%EF%BB%BF-reveal/07/09/)
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yes
as a consultant for the law firm, although denying knowledge, does feel vindictive.
The name would have come out in the foreign press.
I'm no fan of Peter Hain and there are things he has done in the past that could be enough to earn him super-twat status, but on this occasion? Questionable action for apparently questionable motive but right result, which I think is enough to let him off the hook. It would have come out sooner or later anyway so all he has done is bring forward the inevitable.
Will there be ramifications for parlimentary privilage?
No. HTH.
And in any case, if it did, what of it? Is parliamentary privilege a cause worth defending?
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Two wrongs don’t make a right
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Two wrongs don’t make a right
Platitudes aren’t always true.
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Where's the Like button?
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Don’t get me wrong
If the allegations are true I hope he is treated with the full weight of the law (some hope with his money)
But due process needs to be followed.
Will the court look (un)favourably on this, especially with Lord Hain’s association with the law firm??
Will Sir Phillip be able to claim that he would now be unable to have a fair trial??
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Bit obvious but, David Cameron.
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Aaron Banks. But not for the obvious reason, no, the twat said on the Andrew Marr show this morning that Brexit is going so badly we’d be better of remaining. How the fuck did he think it was going to go?
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Aaron Banks. But not for the obvious reason, no, the twat said on the Andrew Marr show this morning that Brexit is going so badly we’d be better of remaining. How the fuck did he think it was going to go?
He's an arse. With a capital F.
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While the place of Bloody Stupid Johnson in the pantheon of Super-Twats has been assured since he first embarked on his career as a Minor Twat, his utterances of yesterday assure him of a place in the Hors Categorie class of Twattery. If we accept Mayhem's EU deal proposal, sez he, it will be the first time in a thousand years that "we" don't have control over our own laws.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, Bloody Stupid, but wasn't a fundamental tenet of the Leave campaign the assertion that "we" had already ceded control of Just About Everything to the Unelected Bureaucrats of BrusselsTM? I have to conclude that
- You were lying in 2016, or
- You were lying yesterday, or
- You were lying in 2016 and are still lying now
#3 seems the most likely.
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Tickles me how reluctant the Tories have been to allow Parliament a vote on Brexit issues given the Leave campaign's BS about Sovereign Parliament etc.
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Yeah. Ha ha fucking ha. :facepalm: ::-) :(
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The irony of hard Brexit MPs using the meaningful vote forced on them against their will by their bête noire* Gina Miller to try and defeat rhe draft agreement.
*no racist interpretation intended
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Christopher Chope......again.
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What's the idiot done now?
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'Object !' to an amendment to an FGM bill.
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Someone needs to take him around the back of the parliamentary bike sheds and kick him repeatedly and hard in the goolies until he is so hoarse from screaming in pain he can never never articulate the word, "object" or, for that matter, any other word, ever again.
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Someone needs to take him around the back of the parliamentary bike sheds and kick him repeatedly and hard in the goolies until he is so hoarse from screaming in pain he can never never articulate the word, "object" or, for that matter, any other word, ever again.
I'll do it.
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Will the court look (un)favourably on this, especially with Lord Hain’s association with the law firm??
"Lord" Hain, ye gods. I can remember when he was just another pain-in-the-ass student.
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If you turn one letter of his name upside down, he's Christopher Chode. Appropriate for someone unusually thick.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46345721
A former friend of mine was at school with this turd. When he was arrested for the first trial, my friend's reaction was a complete lack of surprise.
When he was acquitted, I recall the response of the police when asked "Are you looking for anyone else?2 was, effectively, "No. We know who killed those girls".
When he was nicked the second time, just about hands-on the victim, I wonder how the jurors in the former trial felt?
Anyway, it wasn't his fault. He didn't kill the first two, and he only attacked the third kid Because People Were Being Nasty To Him.
Like you do.
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Have we had Johnny Mercer recently?
https://twitter.com/johnnymerceruk/status/1066855481539469312?s=21 (https://twitter.com/johnnymerceruk/status/1066855481539469312?s=21)
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https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1067433184130809859?s=19
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Corbyn. Give him the No Balls Prat Prize.
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Jose Mourinho, the Twattish One.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46397858
Noel Edmonds. Although "twat" is a bit mild for the slimy fascist turd.
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Actually, "the slimy fascist turd" is a bit mild for the Mega Twat!
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my daughter asked thsi morning "who is Piers Morgan?"
I refrained from the answer "a collossal bellend"
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Morrissey. What has the super-dooper-uber twat done now?
Covered the Pretenders' classic 'Back on the Chain Gang' and made a total bollox of it.
Some things can't be forgiven . . .
Also Dermot O'Dreary for daring to inflict it on listeners.
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All the Tories (Raab, and the local Furrybootoon wanker Ross Thompson, for two) Tweeting pictures of themselves smiling at the local supermarkets helping out/donating at the foodbank donation point.
What.
The.
Actual.
Fuck.
You.
Arseholes.
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Wankers. Hypocritical bastards.
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Quentin Letts was just on R4. What a braying slimy twunt.
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PETA - bacon's greatest ally. :demon:
Not content with just one giant self-own in a week, PETA made its latest harebrained attempt to co-opt the language of social justice with this bad tweet on Tuesday asking people to drop common euphemisms which reference violence to animals, and replace them with extremely dumb bullshit like “feed a fed horse.”
https://twitter.com/peta/status/1070066047414345729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Their explanation of why they did this was even worse, comparing shit like “Bring home the bacon” to racism (???):
https://twitter.com/peta/status/1070066205170397184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://splinternews.com/peta-needs-to-log-the-fuck-off-1830877739 (FWIW, the author identifies as a vegan in the opening paragraph)
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PETA - bacon's greatest ally. :demon:
I did see someone semi-seriously suggesting that they were a false-flag operation to make people hate vegans...
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"Feed two birds with one scone" was my favourite. After all the time people have spent telling us not to give bread to ducks.
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"Feed two birds with one scone" was my favourite. After all the time people have spent telling us not to give bread to ducks.
Surely feeding two birds with one scone is a form of deprivation and therefore cruelty? Shouldn't the birds be entitled to at least one scone each? How can these people claim to be for the ethical treatment of animals if they're depriving them of food? Tut, tut, tut.
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And that time comes round again, so soon...
Piers Morgan (who is a Colossal Bell End) apparently wants to be Chief of Staff for a Super-colossal Bell End:
Piers Morgan wants to be Trump's next Chief of Staff
https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1072496562977341442
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"Feed two birds with one scone" was my favourite. After all the time people have spent telling us not to give bread to ducks.
Surely feeding two birds with one scone is a form of deprivation and therefore cruelty? Shouldn't the birds be entitled to at least one scone each? How can these people claim to be for the ethical treatment of animals if they're depriving them of food? Tut, tut, tut.
surely that would depend on the birds,
two sparrow, or robin sized birds - plenty left over
2 blackbirds or starlings - about right
two fat ba$tard pigeons, they'll be back for more
one seagull and it'll be going for your eyes for afters
one kestrel and it'll be asking who's bringing home the bacon?
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Try feeding this Sparrow with one scone!
Might be okay as long as I'd had 2 Kebabs, a pizza and a bag of chips already.
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Piers Morgan (who is a Colossal Bell End) apparently wants to be Chief of Staff for a Super-colossal Bell End:
Holy carp, it appears he's dead serious! :o I may have added some judicious edits to the following quote though... ;)
Piers Morgan (who is a Colossal Bell End) is set to 'quit' Good Morning Britain and leave the country to take on a new role for Donald Trump.
The Good Morning Britain presenter has put in an application to be the President's Chief of Staff behind his co-hosts' back.
Susanna Reid confessed she was "insulted" and claimed he was pretending to be ill so he could head off for an interview in Washington D.C. next week.
Piers (who is a Colossal Bell End) famously won The Celebrity Apprentice USA and is hopeful of hearing Trump say the words "you're hired" for a second time.
This is no joke, as The White House released a statement saying: "The White House is aware of Mr Morgan's interest in the job."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/piers-morgan-set-quit-gmb-13722577
GMB's loss is GB's gain? :demon:
h/t: https://twitter.com/J_amesp/status/1072952120482152448
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Glorious !! Bring it on ! We might finally get rid of the twat (and CBE). With a bit of luck he'll get the job and then go down with the orange one.
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Bye then!
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Graham Linehan, he of 'Father Ted'. He has taken up the cause of transphobic bigotry, for some reason, and now rails on and on about lesbians and how he is defending them and...on and on.
He has received a police warning for targeted harassment of a trans woman, and now has stepped into the lottery funding arena.
The lotto people announced an award to Mermaids, a family support group that helps parents and their trans children. They are of course hated by such vile groups as Transgender Trend, who are behind the bogus bollocks of ROGD* and are led by a former religious cult member and failed sculptor with no relevant qualifications at all. Anyway, "Glinner2 decided to post in the hatefest that is the Mumsnet forum, urging people to write to the Lotto people to demand the grant be withdrawn. As one of the people involved said to my face, they would rather see a child dead through suicide than what they call "transed". These people really ARE that vile. The thread has been taken down by Mumsnet, just as they did with their campaign to retain "conversion therapy" (torture) for trans kids, but the result is that the Lotto people are reviewing their grant.
Twat. Twats and Terfs.
*For those interested... rapid onset gender dysphoria. Invented by a hate group calling themselves "fourth wave now" and taken up by Transgender Trend and other hate groups. Disavowed as bollocks by all reputable medical groups but 'supported by research' by a woman called Lisa Littman, who published a paper on an obscure forum. Her research consisted entirely of sending questionnaires to TT, fourth wave now and "Young trans critical". And nothing else. The paper was disavowed by her university and has not been properly peer-reviewed as such a process would demonstrate that it is, in fact, bollocks.
The idea of ROGD is best summed up this way:
"Well, our little Tommy was never one of those trannies. Once he turned 18 and left home, though, he was straight down the gender change clinic and calling himself Susan. It's all so bloody sudden! It can only be contagion by social media, and being trendy. He never showed ANY signs while he was at home. Dad and me, we told him what utter perverts those tranny paedos are, so he was fully informed. I mean, there were those times when he was about ten, and he kept saying he should have been a girl, but Dad soon sorted him out with a few slaps and stopped that nonsense. It's all so sudden!"
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More on that one
https://www.onroadmedia.org.uk/2018/12/in-support-of-our-friends-and-colleagues-at-mermaids/?fbclid=IwAR1RD5VRZRXD-BwwHV33nQxH-dq4keOC0xTNDGLw7NCSl5asLCcYWe3oa5o
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The Colossal Bell End who joined in with the "drone" hysteria.
He is well known here; I have no need to name him?
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The Colossal Bell End who joined in with the "drone" hysteria.
He is well known here; I have no need to name him?
I think you just did. I suspect even his family call him that.
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The thief that has stolen £20,000 of turkeys and beef from a village butcher near Huntingdon.
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The thief that has stolen £20,000 of turkeys and beef from a village butcher near Huntingdon.
Was probably feeling peckish.
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:thumbsup:
The Colossal Bell End who joined in with the "drone" hysteria.
He is well known here; I have no need to name him?
I think you just did. I suspect even his family call him that.
:thumbsup:
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The thief that has stolen £20,000 of turkeys and beef from a village butcher near Huntingdon.
Was probably feeling peckish.
Shame they didnt go to one of the other animal pens, they farm crocadiles there for the food market ;D
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John Redwood, knighted. For services to politics FFS. Basically a knighthood for managing to tell enough lies often enough to stay in the house of commons for a lifetime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46700430 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46700430)
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To be fair, it's pretty hard for a Vulcan to impersonate a human for that long and still fool most people of Wokingham
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To be fair, it's pretty hard for a Vulcan to impersonate a human for that long and still fool most people of Wokingham
well, he’s certainly managed to avoid anything like logical deduction for all that time.
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John Redwood, knighted. For services to politics FFS. Basically a knighthood for managing to tell enough lies often enough to stay in the house of commons for a lifetime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46700430 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46700430)
The knighthoods for Philip Pullman and Michael Palin in no way atone for this craptacular piece of political bribery.
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Although he has said it won't change its vote. We'll see.
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Although she can’t easily take it off him and none of the tories are particularly good at keeping their word, so who knows...
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Grayling, for defending this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46748193 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46748193)
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Grayling looks like a man who knows he's incompetent and doesn't care...probably already got his exit strategy sorted.
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Hatie Cockpins & UKIP are tweeting away blaming Sadiq Khan for todays train stabbing. I wasn't aware his Mayoral powers extended to leafy Surrey.
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Can't be that leafy, if the trains were running. Knife crime does seem somewhat beyond his remit, thobut.
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We might have started something (https://www.facebook.com/maltmanalan/posts/2295547417164369)...
It is a facebook link but should be public.
Featuring Piers Moron - The Colossal Bellend
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Morrissey. What has the super-dooper-uber twat done now?
Covered the Pretenders' classic 'Back on the Chain Gang' and made a total bollox of it.
Some things can't be forgiven . . .
Also Dermot O'Dreary for daring to inflict it on listeners.
Actually, I didn't think it was that bad; not much worse than the original. Not a big fan of The Pretenders. But Morrissey's still a S-T, obviously.
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The current edition of Viz has a double-page spread:
"The future of kicking Piers Morgan [that CBE] in the bollocks"
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Piers "Morgan" Moron shares picture from his hospital bed: "Bad news, I'm not dying" (https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a25856774/piers-morgan-hospital-bed-photo-picture/)
Bah. I was hoping the fragrant Susanna Reid had kicked the crap out of the colossal bellend after one ill-judged and creepy remark too many.
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Maybe she neglected to follow the advice in Viz?
(I'm astounded that Viz is still a thing. Surely it went out with Tizer and hedge pornography?)
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Maybe she neglected to follow the advice in Viz?
(I'm astounded that Viz is still a thing. Surely it went out with Tizer and hedge pornography?)
you’re showing your age there Kim, it was a kind of low grade replacement for the afore mentioned.
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We might have started something (https://www.facebook.com/maltmanalan/posts/2295547417164369)...
It is a facebook link but should be public.
Featuring Piers Moron - The Colossal Bellend
There's something similar now doing the rounds for Fox News host Tucker Carlson (who can be filed under the same categories as Piers Morgan CBE):
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1084137938982715394
Inspired by: https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1083893938031939584
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/05/missouri-rep-calls-pregnancy-by-rape-gods-silver-lining/?fbclid=IwAR12NN4Lt-5-PCnVQUf1b0wK-LmTFSvtjCYmv3pcDYs2t23PKDXPKLKrWKY
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Have we had slumlord Fergus Wilson yet ? https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jan/14/familes-facing-homelessness-after-tycoon-issues-eviction-notices
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Have we had slumlord Fergus Wilson yet ? https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jan/14/familes-facing-homelessness-after-tycoon-issues-eviction-notices
Nice guy.
Not.
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James Dyson getting a brexit bonus in the sunlit uplands.
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I'm sure he's going there for the weather. Maybe he can be persuaded to take Tim Martin with him. They can invent some kind of plastic pub that really sucks.
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They can invent some kind of plastic pub that really sucks.
Very good.
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Liam Fox. Generally, but especially today for spouting total bollox. Apparently a delayed Brexit would be worse than No Deal.
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What a complete twat that man is.
He's probably got sand in his vagina because he's being reminded of this:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxRseY1X0AAv3Q-.jpg)
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And note....other countries need to do more work to form new trade agreements with the UK. This from the man who said they would all be in place by the time the UK left the EU.
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There are so many Brexit twats, it's hard to keep track. Is Liam Fox the irony-proofed fat and lazy one who's only palpable contribution is calling other people 'fat and lazy'?
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You mean the fat, lazy, useless, not gay*, expenses-fiddling, disgraced former defence secretary and sometime GP Liam Fox? Yes.
*which he had to strenuously deny, after taking his best mate on official jollies with him and sharing hotel rooms
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You mean the fat, lazy, useless, not gay*, expenses-fiddling, disgraced former defence secretary and sometime GP Liam Fox? Yes.
*which he had to strenuously deny, after taking his best mate on official jollies with him and sharing hotel rooms
He was being economical with the Werrity.
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You mean the fat, lazy, useless, not gay*, expenses-fiddling, disgraced former defence secretary and sometime GP Liam Fox? Yes.
*which he had to strenuously deny, after taking his best mate on official jollies with him and sharing hotel rooms
He was being economical with the Werrity.
ROFL ;D
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Almost lost my coffee all over my tablet reading this description of the foppish twat JRM
If you had to distil into one personage the British people’s gibbering historical deference to terrible ideas advanced by low-to-middlebrow post-feudal shitlords who openly detest them, this plastic aristocrat would be it. Rees-Mogg is the logical end of whole centuries of barking up the wrong tree.
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I am absolutely livid at all the institutions that act as a rostrum for the likes of Mogg. Super twats like him know the easy way to get media bandwidth is to be a complete prick, and the lazy bastards at aforementioned outlets know the easy way to get attention to their respective 'streams' is to host them. It's a ghastly revolving door of super twats welcoming super twats and I'm sick of it. Don't even bother watching or listening to BBC news now. Channel 4 some other days and that's all I can be arsed with.
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Almost lost my coffee all over my tablet reading this description of the foppish twat JRM
If you had to distil into one personage the British people’s gibbering historical deference to terrible ideas advanced by low-to-middlebrow post-feudal shitlords who openly detest them, this plastic aristocrat would be it. Rees-Mogg is the logical end of whole centuries of barking up the wrong tree.
The entire article is recommended reading for multiple Super Twats :)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/25/rees-mogg-brexit-emergency
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You mean the fat, lazy, useless, not gay*, expenses-fiddling, disgraced former defence secretary and sometime GP Liam Fox? Yes.
*which he had to strenuously deny, after taking his best mate on official jollies with him and sharing hotel rooms
He was being economical with the Werrity.
Pingu wins the internets!
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Note to 'Big Alan' Hardy: it's easier to avoid 'accidentally' posting pictures of your penis to Twitter if you don't keep such pictures on your phone.
Thankfully, I haven't seen said picture, but I can't help thinking it's more likely to be a 'Little Norm', not even an 'Average sized Jill Swinburne'
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I've no idea who 'Big Alan' is, but I guess he's put that moniker to the test.
That said, it's a penis – half the population have one, and the other half have probably seen one, I'm never sure why we get so het up over such small things.
It could be worse, when I lived in the US a local school teacher inadvertently sent a picture of himself naked to his entire K12 class, rather than the appropriately adult woman he'd intended. I doubt even the US being a nation of moral prudes made it any worse.
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I'm never sure why we get so het up over such small things.
Me neither, but apparently, accidentally* posting a picture of one's penis to Twitter is a serious enough offence to require one to sell one's League Two football club.
Which is why it's stupid to keep pictures of one's penis on one's internet-connected mobile device if one wants to avoid such outcomes.
Mind you, I blame the people who thought it was a good idea to put cameras in telephones in the first place. It's a truism that if you give a boy a gadget, he will at some point either try to stick his cock in it or take a picture of his cock with it. Or both.
*assuming it really was an accident, it's not really a big deal, just a bit embarrassing. I understand that women often receive unsolicited penis pictures on social media that are sent deliberately and that's a different matter.
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Blimey, I'd better wipe my phone, I don't even have a second division football club to sell.
I obviously am of such a vintage that courtship didn't involve the mutual exchange of photos of each others' genitalia. For which I'm grateful (as were the staff on the photo desk of Boots). Possibly it's just me, but they're never the most attractive bits of a person.
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The old gammon interviewed on BBC News tonight who said food shortages would do us good and make us appreciate things more.
Can't there be a dementia test before these old bastards are allowed to vote?
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Christopher Chope is a very bad swear indeed.
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Christopher Chope is a very bad swear indeed.
You mean the chrome-plated ocean-going thunderclunge who's blocking an anti-FGM bill?
What a spoogetrumpet...
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He's done it again!
I have nothing positive to say about this chap.
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One has to wonder what damage a man carries for him to oppose a bill against FGM. I know he’s got history of opposing any legislation to do with women’s rights but to oppose stopping FGM indicates some serious damage
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The "p" in his surname appears to have been rotated accidentally through 180 degrees,
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His brain appears to have been rotated 180° inside his head, more like.
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Jim Ratcliffe.
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(Googles)
Indeed. Twatmungous to the nth degree.
Is is worth mentioning that #ColossalBellend Piers "Morgan" Moron got knocked out of the Gammon World Cup at the semi-final stage and then lost the third-place playoff to Hatey Cockpins? The final is still being played: Nigel Farage vs. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Andrew McMaster aka Paul Harris aka Tommy Robinson.
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/withoutacrystalball/2019/02/wife-prayed-instead-of-reporting-husbands-rape-of-children/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=share_bar&fbclid=IwAR09PdlvkKkC6Th_YgpS8tHmxePZGChQsDQaXgB-U2JOpoKRbzUox_Bug_s#YAwRivGOyCHV9aDK.01
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Jim Ratcliffe.
+1
his planning application for his uber-palace alone earns him the moniker Super-Twat never mind his opposition to environmental laws/taxes and remaining in Europe. But now he is off to a European tax haven because he can have more £billions to add to his other £billions.
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Here we see a BOGOF on super twats. Rapist and lawyer.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/27/cardinal-pell-will-go-straight-to-jail-as-bail-application-is-withdrawn?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZGF5cy0xOTAyMjc%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email
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Pell is an 'interesting' read. he did his early years in some seminary where there might have been some homosexual activity but he neither knew of or saw any. And the further up the ladder he got the more he hammered out the Church's doctrines on IVF/Homosexuality etc etc. Basically anyone who isn't Catholic and obeys the Church will be toasting in Hell. I guess he will be repenting at leisure and if he does believe in Catholic doctrines then Hell might be a bad place to be. Hopefully Il Papa will be sending him a note saying You are excommunicated, no forgiveness/redemption/do not pass GO. Still, he can compare notes with Lucifer :demon: as to who has fallen further
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And once more down under
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2019/03/11/one-nation-aboriginal-indigenous-dna
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Sajid Javid :demon:
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Paul Mitchell, the twat who ran on to the pitch at Birmingham vs Aston Villa on Saturday and decked Jack Grealish.
14 weeks inside sounds like a pretty harsh punishment, but there's definitely an element of pour encourager les autres that perhaps justifies it - there was another incident at the Arsenal vs Man United match yesterday, so I guess the authorities need to be seen to be stamping down hard and fast.
I blame Thatcher Brexit.
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Not my own observation, but -
Its incredible how quickly our justice system can move for some things and not others.
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Isn't that partly a magistrates vs crown court thing?
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Well, when it comes to football, police forces that would normally shout 'no resources' find hundreds of officers to stand around every matchday.* Oddly, unlike traffic policing, no one demands those officers go and catch 'proper criminals.'
I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if the same applied to the courts.
*I know, they contribute to costs, though a quick Google says 'not very much' – direct policing for Tottenham Hotspur for instance cost £1.2 million of which they paid £62k (2017/2018).
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The problem with policing football however is that, if we didn't, the crime rate in a lot of areas would escalate rapidly once the 'fan' groups recognise that there isn't anyone trying to prevent their meet ups and fisticuffs.
In addition, the attention paid by a lot of fans to stewards and safety officers is poor. This is with the potential of police intervention if it gets a bit tasty. No police and the situation WILL get worse. Football atracts thugs and sometimes it needs a bit of policing to keep the control to a barely noticeable level.
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The problem with policing football however is that, if we didn't, the crime rate in a lot of areas would escalate rapidly once the 'fan' groups recognise that there isn't anyone trying to prevent their meet ups and fisticuffs.
In addition, the attention paid by a lot of fans to stewards and safety officers is poor. This is with the potential of police intervention if it gets a bit tasty. No police and the situation WILL get worse. Football atracts thugs and sometimes it needs a bit of policing to keep the control to a barely noticeable level.
Absolutely. I've never understood why players get away with obvious violence on the pitch, where there are thousands of witnesses and CCTV and so on. These players belong in the stands.....
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The problem with policing football however is that, if we didn't, the crime rate in a lot of areas would escalate rapidly once the 'fan' groups recognise that there isn't anyone trying to prevent their meet ups and fisticuffs.
In addition, the attention paid by a lot of fans to stewards and safety officers is poor. This is with the potential of police intervention if it gets a bit tasty. No police and the situation WILL get worse. Football atracts thugs and sometimes it needs a bit of policing to keep the control to a barely noticeable level.
I'd imagine any other event that resulted in this level of disruption and violence would be banned. I'm not really arguing with the outcome, just the fact that police can't both have no resources for dull stuff like road policing and at the same time have hundreds of officers available every match day. I suppose it says something about society's priorities.
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Police target their resources where they have best impact on the targets that are set. There are targets for everything so the powers that be concentrate on those with the biggest impact on their budget.
If the Whitehall Meddlers stopped meddling and let the police take their steer from the communities they are supposed to serve, we might actually get the results we, as the communites, wish.
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I'd assumed that match day officers will have a fair proportion of "beat bobbies" (ok, I know they don't exist anymore) on overtime, and "specials" on expenses, pulled in just for that days activities, so not really an additional resource.
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Depends.
Low category games that require policing yes but, get intel that it might get a bit rowdy and then PSU's (public order trained Police Support Units or riot squads) will get deployed. A PSU is one Inspector, 3 Sergeants, 18 Constables as foot troops and 3 roads policing constables as drivers for the riot vans.
One PSU is expensive. I have policed matches outside of the major connurbations where 4 or more have been deployed.
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Boris Johnson, https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-says-spending-child-14127681 (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-says-spending-child-14127681)
Hopefully this will come back to haunt him in any leadership bid.
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Boris Johnson, https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-says-spending-child-14127681 (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-says-spending-child-14127681)
Hopefully this will come back to haunt him in any leadership bid.
unlikely as it is the leadership of the nasty party we’re talking about.
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Lord Steel picked a good day to bury bad news - oops, I mean admit to a crime of omission at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse...
Extraordinary evidence at #IICSA today - Lord Steel admits that Cyril Smith confessed to him in 1979 that abuse allegations against him were true – but Steel still did nothing about it, & made no effort to investigate whether Smith posed any continuing risk to children.
https://twitter.com/Richard_Scorer/status/1105848593762668549
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Queensland's Senator Fraser Anning. How the hell this right vile PoS thought this was a remotely acceptable response to an Australian terrorist murdering 40 people in mosques in New Zealand I'm glad I will never comprehend.
https://twitter.com/fel_caldwell/status/1106432989011959808
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https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2019/mar/suspended-sentence-for-woman-who-delivered-insulin-overdose-to-her-partner-97764852.html?fbclid=IwAR3M0dBjmg4y2Wyr7GnH4tn_RPnWHdgGcM7AcOApL-WvMiKJDTIMXKjij9U (https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2019/mar/suspended-sentence-for-woman-who-delivered-insulin-overdose-to-her-partner-97764852.html?fbclid=IwAR3M0dBjmg4y2Wyr7GnH4tn_RPnWHdgGcM7AcOApL-WvMiKJDTIMXKjij9U)
With the boyfriend asleep this could have been fatal. According to the article 24 units administered before he noticed, my daily dose is around 6-8.
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Queensland's Senator Fraser Anning. How the hell this right vile PoS thought this was a remotely acceptable response to an Australian terrorist murdering 40 people in mosques in New Zealand I'm glad I will never comprehend.
https://twitter.com/fel_caldwell/status/1106432989011959808
>:( Utter racism! Disgusting.
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Any long statement that begins along the lines of 'I'm not a [whatever]ist but...' and then goes on for several paragraphs can be succinctly edited to a more precise 'I am a [whatever]ist.'
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He’s apparently got form.
https://twitter.com/beneltham/status/1084780103362502657?s=21 (https://twitter.com/beneltham/status/1084780103362502657?s=21)
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Any long statement that begins along the lines of 'I'm not a [whatever]ist but...' and then goes on for several paragraphs can be succinctly edited to a more precise 'I am a [whatever]ist.'
Likewise, "Some of my best friends are...".
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Yes, but that doesn't even start with a trigger phrase, just straight into why these people deserved what they got.
Saddest part is he's either trumpeting what his constituents think or influencing them to think that way
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I believe that nice Mr Yaxley-Lemon was planning an Australian speaking tour. I wonder who he was meeting over there & who his target audience was ? :sick:
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"Just because these people were going about their business in a peaceful way and not bothering anyone else, that doesn't mean it wasn't entirely their own fault that they got gunned down in cold blood by a lunatic."
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Yes, but that doesn't even start with a trigger phrase, just straight into why these people deserved what they got.
Saddest part is he's either trumpeting what his constituents think or influencing them to think that way
All 19 of them that voted for him.
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Yes, but that doesn't even start with a trigger phrase, just straight into why these people deserved what they got.
Saddest part is he's either trumpeting what his constituents think or influencing them to think that way
All 19 of them that voted for him.
And he's only a senator because the actual winner was ruled ineligible and he got in by default.
https://twitter.com/beneltham/status/1106505202465538050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Chosen_Chaos/status/1106506187049062400
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Blimey.
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I believe that nice Mr Yaxley-Lemon was planning an Australian speaking tour. I wonder who he was meeting over there & who his target audience was ? :sick:
He was meeting mugs who'd coughed up somewhere north of five hundred quid for the Access All Areas ticket. And then The Man wouldn't let him in. And they wouldn't let Adolf Hipster in either. And the Victoria police have a few questions, and a large bill, for Milo Flobbadopoulos. So he's not going either. And the fash are getting all tearful because they've paid up front and haven't had their money back.
(Points; laughs)
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Indeed!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/16/australian-government-urged-to-ban-milo-yiannopoulos-after-christchurch-massacre?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZW5kLTE5MDMxNg%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email
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Anning again...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/16/australian-senator-fraser-anning-punches-teen-after-being-egged
https://twitter.com/TheRealPBarry/status/1106810210931240961
Former X-factor nobody wades into the discussion, picks the wrong side...
https://twitter.com/stevebrookstein/status/1106856809292283905
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Bit of a bogan, isn't he?
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1y5wkkXcAAwmUj.jpg)
https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1106963863432507392
Nigel knows all the best people.
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Eggboy is being encouraged to repeat his performance inna-vegan-stylee. Using a brick.
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That hideous carrion eater Hopkins again, who is apparently live tweeting from Utrecht about todays shooting.
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I am prudish and squeamish.
I refuse to taint my mind or computer by looking at anything from that specimen.
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Not so much Trump Jr, whom you'd expect to be a twat, but the Torygraph for giving him airtime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47634365
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Chris Grayling - everything he touches turns to sheet.
Alastair Stewart - he used to front those Death Kill Road Slaughter Murder Police Chase programmes, shaking his head in dismay and telling us what a bunch of tools we are, yet he himself is a 2 times convicted drink driver.
David Lammy - he seems to have lost his edge since Motorhead broke up.
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Not so much Trump Jr, whom you'd expect to be a twat, but the Torygraph for giving him airtime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47634365
It's actually a rather shocking article, full of right-wing tropes about the 'deep state operatives' and the 'global elite.' He's more nuts than a squirrel put in charge of the KP production line.
Mind you, an entitled bazillionaire attacking the 'global elite' should be amusing. These people have all the self-reflective capabilities of a vampire in a dark room with the lights off.
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I have managed to find myself on the Telegraph's mailing list - probably due to making the mistake of registering with them so I could read an article - so I regularly get emails from them with links to their leaders.
One of their recent leaders was a piece arguing that a no-deal Brexit was the best option for Britain. It appeared to be serious, not satirical.
I used to have respect for the Telegraph as a paper that despite its political leanings was a source of quality journalism. My mother-in-law, a one-time member of the British Communist Party, used to read the Telegraph to inform herself what the other side were thinking (one of very few people I've known who don't treat their choice of daily newspaper as an echo chamber for their prejudices).
Strangely, the decline seems to coincide more or less exactly with the takeover by the Barclays.
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I actually like reading varying opinions (even if it makes me swear occasionally) – I'm genuinely curious about, say, the arguments for a no-deal Brexit being a good thing (they do share one thing: they're awful and leave me scratching my head). I'm minded that everyone should do this. OK, I might draw the line at the Daily Mail, just a glance at the headlines makes my eyeballs feel dirty.
But I think that piece cross the line, firstly because I'm not sure why Donald Trump Jr's opinions have any weight other than he's related to the current President of the USA, and secondly it's a clear dog whistle of right-wing tropes that could have easily been published on InfoWars or similar.
They may as well have asked a squirrel for its opinion. It would have been just as informative. Mmm, nuts, said the squirrel.
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Not so much Trump Jr, whom you'd expect to be a twat, but the Torygraph for giving him airtime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47634365
It's actually a rather shocking article, full of right-wing tropes about the 'deep state operatives' and the 'global elite.' He's more nuts than a squirrel put in charge of the KP production line.
Mind you, an entitled bazillionaire attacking the 'global elite' should be amusing. These people have all the self-reflective capabilities of a vampire in a dark room with the lights off.
I am SO stealing that ;D
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https://t.co/xeW0quW2M7 Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said he made sure all his nine children were exposed to chickenpox and caught the disease instead of giving them a vaccine.
I'd say this chap qualifies for the award. Shades of John Selwyn-Gummer feeding his daughter a BSE burger.
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The anti-vaxxer movement is essentially biological warfare by other means - instead of catapulting dead cows over city walls or dropping cluster bombs filled with infected insects or bacteria/viruses, it's using the internet and human stupidity.
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Im gonna have to point out most people here aren't vaccinated against chicken pox and plenty of parents seek out children with the pox so their kids get it.
You can also get it twice. I like many others didn't know that till my youngest got it for the second time
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Im gonna have to point out most people here aren't vaccinated against chicken pox and plenty of parents seek out children with the pox so their kids get it.
There used to be chicken pox parties when my boy was little - do people still have those? He had the MMR jab but I don’t recall there being a chicken pox vaccine.
He managed to catch it anyway when he was 3.
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Im gonna have to point out most people here aren't vaccinated against chicken pox and plenty of parents seek out children with the pox so their kids get it.
You can also get it twice. I like many others didn't know that till my youngest got it for the second time
You are correct. Chicken pox is not one of the routine vaccinations in the UK, as it is considered a minor illness in children.
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Some places (the US, for instance) vaccinate against chicken pox. Chicken pox during childhood is mostly a mild illness, hence the parties. Less so when you're older (or pregnant), when there's a higher risk of complications (I got it during university, I mostly remember it being annoying, it's not a phase of your life where you want to be sitting around in your grungy student digs nursing your scabs). And then there are shingles. Also scars etc. tend to be worse if you get when you're adult. I'm not sure where the evidence stands on the overall benefits of inoculation, as always there's a balance of risks.
(Once you are infected with the virus you stay infected forever, you don't catch it again, you just become symptomatic.)
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Chicken pox is seldom a problem in healthy kids aged 1-15.
Leukaemia and its treatment are another matter.
It can be lethal in pregnancy and chickenpox pneumonia is serious.
The virus stays dormant in the body after primary infection and kicks folks when they are down with shingles.
Shingles can be painful and threatens the sight if it affects the eye.
Shingles vaccine is offered to people in their 70s - no more, no less.
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There is no chicken in chicken pox.
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Boris Johnson, again. He doesn't half write some shite. He must fancy himself as a sort of Poundland Churchill.
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Caroline Farrow. Again.
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Boris Johnson... Poundland Churchill.
Over-priced. Not worth a brass farthing.
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Nigel Farage - all the time!
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Robert Winston. For saying that numberplates make sense for cycles.
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Seems to me Parliament needs to open the doors and let a bit of fresh air in.
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Seems to me Parliament needs to open the doors and let a bit of fresh air in.
Maybe we could go back to the original idea with papal conclaves. Lock them in, no food, and take the roof off (or at least threaten to)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1268–71_papal_election (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1268–71_papal_election)
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Seems to me Parliament needs to open the doors and let a bit of fresh air the Thames in.
:demon:
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/08/boris-johnson-under-fire-failing-declare-house-somerset-commons-standards
The committee noted with concern that two investigations by the commissioner in rapid succession demonstrate a pattern of behaviour by Mr Johnson which reinforces their previous view that he had displayed an over-casual attitude towards obeying the rules of the house.
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Peter Griffin, er. Twatty Francois.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/08/mps-mark-francois-call-for-confidence-vote-in-theresa-may-to-block-further-brexit-delay
I didn't get the result I wanted first time so let's have another go. Ironic, much?
Also, you have no place slagging off people for eating too much pizza, you deep fried gammon moron.
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Tony Tinderholt, Representative for the 14th century...
Texas lawmakers are considering a bill (https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/pdf/HB00896I.pdf#navpanes=0) that would ban abortion in the state and charge women who have abortions with homicide, which can carry the death penalty in the state.
Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican, introduced the “Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act,” or House Bill 896, in January to "protect the rights of an unborn child" but it was granted its first committee hearing on Monday and Tuesday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-lawmakers-consider-death-penalty-women-who-get-abortions-n993171
Might as well lock the thread after this one...
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Special Super-Twat with Oak-Leaves-on-the-Line award for all the Twitter- & Facebook-dwelling idiots who photoshopped something into the middle of the M87 black hole.
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Phillip Davies https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/26/tory-mp-philip-davies-to-speak-at-us-mens-rights-conference?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/26/tory-mp-philip-davies-to-speak-at-us-mens-rights-conference?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
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The Dishonourable S-T for Shipley is surely a perma-Twat by now, along with his equally twatty colleague Christopher Chode.
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I've never been to Shipley but it seems to have a thing for electing complete bastards as MPs. Anyone remember the hideous Marcus Fox in the 80s?
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And while I’m at it John Rhys-Davies.
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I've never been to Shipley but it seems to have a thing for electing complete bastards as MPs. Anyone remember the hideous Marcus Fox in the 80s?
That was the ward that I lived in for a time while living in Yorkshire, though I believe that boundary changes have moved the village into a different ward these days. We now have the useless Theresa Coffey. I do often wonder why I bother voting because my vote has never once been of any use.
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If it's anything like here, it doesn't matter who they put up for election, people are going to vote for the party anyway. The candidate is mostly irrelevant. I've said it before, people around here would vote for a brick and the promise to lob it through their window if someone glued a blue rosette to it.
Well, Glenda, the Conservatives have put a Mr Hitler on the ballot, and well, I know he had a bit of a reputation, but I am certainly not voting Labour and that Mr Jesus chap they've put up.
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Carl Benjamin :sick:
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If it's anything like here, it doesn't matter who they put up for election, people are going to vote for the party anyway. The candidate is mostly irrelevant. I've said it before, people around here would vote for a brick and the promise to lob it through their window if someone glued a blue rosette to it.
Ditto. Hence Nadine Dorries (who is a twat on so many levels).
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The IAAF
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Teh Tommeh got his tartan suit fucked twice in two days. One strawberry and one bananananananananana...
Diddums...
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Hatie Cockpins spouting anti vaccination shite again.
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Hatie Cockpins spouting anti vaccination shite again.
Joke about lethal injections goes here ==>
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The Oxford Union & all who sail in her. :sick:
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Cast your minds back to events in Thailand - a flooded cave, a group of lads trapped in same, a British cave-diver trying to rescue said lads, and a Twat called Musk calling that diver a "pedo" on twitter.
Well, Super Twat Musk is going to appear in court to try and justify his unjustifiable tweet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48238576 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48238576)
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ASO
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/6445/aso-bins-li-ge-bastogne-li-ge-and-fl-che-wallonne-from-womens-worldtour-after-refusing-tv
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Bethany (9): | Oh dear, M. Prudhomme. Youse are going to regret that. |
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/19/model-railway-lovers-devastated-vandals-lincolnshire?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZGF5cy0xOTA1MjA%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email
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Suella Braverman.
It's not often you come across someone as repellent, odious and irritatingly self-righteous as her. (On R4 now.)
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Suella Braverman.
It's not often you come across someone as repellent, odious and irritatingly self-righteous as her. (On R4 now.)
Andrea Loathesome. ‘Nuff said.
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Oooo. This is like a game of evil-tory-bastard poker.
I'll see your Andrea Loathsome and raise you Dominic Raab.
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Oooo. This is like a game of evil-tory-bastard poker.
I'll see your Andrea Loathsome and raise you Dominic Raabid.
Autocorrect not working so I sorted it for you.
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Don't forget that "Dominic Raab" is an anagram of "Midair Bacon". This fact deserves to be more widely known.
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:-)
That's right up there with 'I'm an evil tory bigot'.
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'twas HTFB of this parish who came up with it. I have been trying to popularise it on Farcebok, with zero success, and the task is now harder as I'm doing 30 days in FB gaol for lying about not suggesting someone should break Nick Griffin's nose with a hammer. No sense of humour, those Zuckerbots.
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'twas HTFB of this parish who came up with it. I have been trying to popularise it on Farcebok, with zero success, and the task is now harder as I'm doing 30 days in FB gaol for lying about not suggesting someone should break Nick Griffin's nose with a hammer. No sense of humour, those Zuckerbots.
A steam hammer one hopes.
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Clarkson
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jeremy-clarkson-car-crash-police-london-hammersmith-road-closed-a4-a8951096.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HjK3oDguvTExam2fQB35qslcy5vcMutkO_ecgRt6MCrQ8fCdrWqbvvQA#Echobox=1560093068 (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jeremy-clarkson-car-crash-police-london-hammersmith-road-closed-a4-a8951096.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HjK3oDguvTExam2fQB35qslcy5vcMutkO_ecgRt6MCrQ8fCdrWqbvvQA#Echobox=1560093068)
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To be fair, he's just summarizing the feeling of most drivers. Yes, someone is dead, it's awful, but really just shove them to the side of the road because I really need to get to the supermarket right now.
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ASDA (Assuming corporate entities are allowed)
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/asda-sacks-worker-for-sharing-17113134 (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/asda-sacks-worker-for-sharing-17113134)
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/19/model-railway-lovers-devastated-vandals-lincolnshire?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZGF5cy0xOTA1MjA%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email
Thanks for posting that Steph. It leaves one speechless. I was dropping my son off to the airport this morning, and we heard a news report that, statistically, there has been (and here I'm relying on my memory!!!) an 80% increase of attacks on LGBT folks. And I just don't understand it – the intolerance. Why can't people just accept NOT EVERYONE is the same as they are. And judging by the mentality of the 'haters', I'm glad I have substantially more than the 2 brain cells these people possess. My only hope is, we can avoid them. It's just dawned on me that these scum can vote too – little wonder all that is required is a 'x'.
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I was dropping my son off to the airport this morning, and we heard a news report that, statistically, there has been (and here I'm relying on my memory!!!) an 80% increase of attacks on LGBT folks.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gay-lgbt-hate-crimes-stats-rise-four-year-physical-verbal-homophobic-abuse-community-a7933126.html
As ever with these stats, it's unclear how much is a rise in incidents, and how much is better police action/reporting, but I doubt the police get all the credit :(
And I just don't understand it – the intolerance. Why can't people just accept NOT EVERYONE is the same as they are. And judging by the mentality of the 'haters', I'm glad I have substantially more than the 2 brain cells these people possess.
Part of it is down to Brexit'n'Trumpism giving people confidence to share their hateful views in a way that simply wasn't acceptible back in the golden age of 2012 or so. But much of it is down to the extremely successful hate campaign against trans and nonbinary people (particularly trans women and girls) being fought in the mainstream press and on social media. Steph has posted about the background to this before (it's a strategic attempt by the USAnian Christian right to undermine LGBT+ and women's rights, starting with the T). Parallels to how the press treated gay people (particularly men with HIV) in the 80s are uncanny.
It's got to the point where it seems like every other day we discover that an otherwise reasonable celebrity or friend has, perhaps out of well-intentioned ignorance, allied themselves with the TERFs and potentially (we can only assume by association), the biphobes, homophobes and pro-lifers.
It's fucking scary, is what it is. But it's also bringing out some of the best in the wider QUILTBAG and feminist community. #BwiththeT (http://www.bicommunitynews.co.uk/9025/bi-organisations-and-campaigners-unite-around-b-with-the-t/) #LwiththeT (https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/xw9537/why-i-cofounded-lwiththet) #GwiththeT (https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-statement-gwiththet) https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-feminists-warn-away-british-terfs
My only hope is, we can avoid them.
Only if you have enough cis-het/male/non-disabled/white-British privilege not to appear on their radar. For now.
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Perhaps we are in or entering the trough of a natural tolerance cycle?
Over time, the attitude of society as a whole, towards those that are not seen as 'The Norm' improves.
We then reach a peak of positive attitude adjustment at which time, someone like Trump or Farrage or Tommy Fucking Robinson comes along and there is a period of retrograde movement in tolerance until we hit the bottom of the trough at which point, the attitude of society as a whole, towards those that are not seen as 'The Norm' improves to a point above the previous peak.
We then reach a peak of positive attitude adjustment at which time, someone like Trump or Farrage or Tommy Fucking Robinson comes along and there is a period of retrograde movement in tolerance until we hit the bottom of the trough at which point, the attitude of society as a whole, towards those that are not seen as 'The Norm' improves to a point above the previous peak.
And repeat.
Just a theory.
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Just a theory.
Quite possibly, but as one of the people likely to be killed - along with many of my family and friends - in the coming rise of fascism, I'm reluctant to accept the "It's a natural cycle, nothing we can do about it *shrug*" approach. :-\
I'm also wary of falling into the trap of assuming that things naturally improving over time as being a law, rather than a short-term trend that many of us have been fortunate enough to have lived through.
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I was dropping my son off to the airport this morning, and we heard a news report that, statistically, there has been (and here I'm relying on my memory!!!) an 80% increase of attacks on LGBT folks.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gay-lgbt-hate-crimes-stats-rise-four-year-physical-verbal-homophobic-abuse-community-a7933126.html
As ever with these stats, it's unclear how much is a rise in incidents, and how much is better police action/reporting, but I doubt the police get all the credit :(
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/boy-12-arrested-over-disgusting-16487483 >:(
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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/boy-12-arrested-over-disgusting-16487483 >:(
BloodyCyclists.
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I was dropping my son off to the airport this morning, and we heard a news report that, statistically, there has been (and here I'm relying on my memory!!!) an 80% increase of attacks on LGBT folks.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gay-lgbt-hate-crimes-stats-rise-four-year-physical-verbal-homophobic-abuse-community-a7933126.html
As ever with these stats, it's unclear how much is a rise in incidents, and how much is better police action/reporting, but I doubt the police get all the credit :(
And I just don't understand it – the intolerance. Why can't people just accept NOT EVERYONE is the same as they are. And judging by the mentality of the 'haters', I'm glad I have substantially more than the 2 brain cells these people possess.
Part of it is down to Brexit'n'Trumpism giving people confidence to share their hateful views in a way that simply wasn't acceptible back in the golden age of 2012 or so. But much of it is down to the extremely successful hate campaign against trans and nonbinary people (particularly trans women and girls) being fought in the mainstream press and on social media. Steph has posted about the background to this before (it's a strategic attempt by the USAnian Christian right to undermine LGBT+ and women's rights, starting with the T). Parallels to how the press treated gay people (particularly men with HIV) in the 80s are uncanny.
It's got to the point where it seems like every other day we discover that an otherwise reasonable celebrity or friend has, perhaps out of well-intentioned ignorance, allied themselves with the TERFs and potentially (we can only assume by association), the biphobes, homophobes and pro-lifers.
It's fucking scary, is what it is. But it's also bringing out some of the best in the wider QUILTBAG and feminist community. #BwiththeT (http://www.bicommunitynews.co.uk/9025/bi-organisations-and-campaigners-unite-around-b-with-the-t/) #LwiththeT (https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/xw9537/why-i-cofounded-lwiththet) #GwiththeT (https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-statement-gwiththet) https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-feminists-warn-away-british-terfs
My only hope is, we can avoid them.
Only if you have enough cis-het/male/non-disabled/white-British privilege not to appear on their radar. For now.
Yes, we pondered whether the increase, was down to the Police 'keeping-an-eye-out' more for this and making sure reports are filed, and not just binned.
Trump and Brexit does seem to embolden bullies who now feel whatever bigoted, racial, misogynistic crap they spat out amongst their friends, somehow now legitimises it for them to openly spit it out in public.
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Just a theory.
Quite possibly, but as one of the people likely to be killed - along with many of my family and friends - in the coming rise of fascism, I'm reluctant to accept the "It's a natural cycle, nothing we can do about it *shrug*" approach. :-\
I'm also wary of falling into the trap of assuming that things naturally improving over time as being a law, rather than a short-term trend that many of us have been fortunate enough to have lived through.
I'm not saying we should put up wityh it. I am offering it as a theory as to why this shit happens.
I despair of the likes of Trump, Farrage, Tommy Fucking Robinson and all the other hate mongers. Why TF can't we just get on and let folk be the folk they want to be?
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Yes, we pondered whether the increase, was down to the Police 'keeping-an-eye-out' more for this and making sure reports are filed, and not just binned.
There's been a steady increase in hate crime since they started recording it as a specific thing in the early 2000s. Historically, that's been attributed to the police becoming more approachable by the victims, and better at recording it as such, but post-2016 is less clear.
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I despair of the likes of Trump, Farrage, Tommy Fucking Robinson and all the other hate mongers. Why TF can't we just get on and let folk be the folk they want to be?
Because there's always someone to come along and point at someone who's a bit different and present them as an easy answer to complicated problems? Human nature, I think...
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Parallels to how the press treated gay people (particularly men with HIV) in the 80s are uncanny.
Having lived through it I think this shit storm has produced a rebound of the type that Fuzzy described, it forced discussion of gay people and gay sex - when I think back to the late 70s and early 80s we knew very little about even the possibility of people not being dead straight.
I remember a girl in my class struggling with why her relationships with boys never amounted to anything - it took her until university to work out she was doing the wrong thing right and work out what the right thing was.
I remember a dramatic change in the visibility of (mostly gay) lbgt people around then.
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Parallels to how the press treated gay people (particularly men with HIV) in the 80s are uncanny.
Having lived through it I think this shit storm has produced a rebound of the type that Fuzzy described, it forced discussion of gay people and gay sex - when I think back to the late 70s and early 80s we knew very little about even the possibility of people not being dead straight.
Still pretty shitty for all the trans and nonbinary people who thought everything was getting better up till about 2014 or so, and are now having their right to exist 'debated' all over again like it was in the 1990s.
I remember a girl in my class struggling with why her relationships with boys never amounted to anything - it took her until university to work out she was doing the wrong thing right and work out what the right thing was.
That sort of thing was normal and ordinary for queer people of my generation and before, who didn't get to be teenagers when we were teenagers. I can't really express how awesome it is that (some) youth today don't have to go through that, and it saddens me that the recent Birmingham protests, systematic attacks on organisations like Stonewall and Mermaids, and the usual posturing by right-wing politicians might bring us back to the dark days of Section 28, or indeed 1930s Germany.
I suppose at least they'll have the Internet. I was in an incredibly privileged position of being able to get on FidoNet in my early teens, and safely access queer resources - limited as they were - without parental knowledge. Before that, the de-facto source of support and role models for vulnerable youth was the Gay Scene. Old men in pubs distributing condoms is no basis for a system of safeguarding, and all that.
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All this stuff can't be true, because Slithy Gove said BRITAIN is more tolerant of The Others than anywhere else in Europe. And he wouldn't lie to us. Would he?
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...Slithy Gove...
As if by magic, we were back on topic.
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To his minor credit Gove did slag off Aron Banks when he had a nasty go at Angela Eagle earlier in the week.
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Gove always has that look. The startled expression of somebody caught doing something he shouldn't. Like running this country.
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Damian Bates, Trump apologist.
Surely if you 'stabilise' dunes by planting marram grass you've stopped them moving, and therefore shouldn't complain when their designation as an SSSI is removed because they're no longer 'dynamic' because they don't, er, move.
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Bloody Stupid.
AGEN.
This time for rejecting responsibility for the British woman who is locked up in Iran. It seems to have slipped his mind that he was the Foreign Secretary at the time of her being gaoled, and it was his interventions that totally failed to have any positive impact whatsoever.
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It wasn't that they failed to have any positive impact, they had an actual very negative impact, since he announced she was there to teach journalism which is just about the worse possible thing to say considering the circumstances. And also untrue, but he's a busy man and can't be expected to pay attention to a briefing before he opens his mouth and, despite holding the title 'foreign secretary' appeared to have no knowledge of foreign policy or geopolitics in the region. I mean, seriously, don't we already have Priti Patel for that.
And the mealy-mouthed motherfucker still can't cop to even the briefest wheedling apology.
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Damian Bates, Trump apologist.
Surely if you 'stabilise' dunes by planting marram grass you've stopped them moving, and therefore shouldn't complain when their designation as an SSSI is removed because they're no longer 'dynamic' because they don't, er, move.
I heard that interview. What an arse. "It is only 5% of the dunes"
Followed by an actual, you know, expert, explaining that the golf course covers 30% of the dunes . . .
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Piers "Morgan" Moron, the colossal bellend's colossal bellend, is at it again. Seems the USAnian womens foopball team are "arrogant". Yes, you did read that right.
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Andrea Orcel who is suing Santander for 100 million Euros. I understand they offered him the job but he wanted 50 million just for 'signing -on'. How much do you need?
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There's a bit more to it than that, but it looks like most places reporting on the lawsuit are paywalled. However, from what I've been reading from earlier this year when the job offer was withdrawn, you could knock a few zeroes off the monetary amounts mentioned and Orcel would be a bit of an arse all the same:
... according to the early news reports, Orcel and Santander had both presumed that he would get some sort of “good leaver” status with respect to his enormous accrued deferred pay. This presumption was based on the fact that Santander doesn’t compete directly with UBS and has been a very good investment banking client over the years. Unfortunately, it turned out to be wishful thinking. UBS demanded the full gardening leave period (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/ubs-is-said-to-require-orcel-to-wait-until-april-for-new-ceo-gig) in Mr Orcel’s contract and uncategorically ruled out allowing Orcel to collect all his deferred bonuses. These were substantial - at around €50m. Santander might have been prepared to compensate Orcel up to €20m, but felt that €50m was an amount that simply couldn’t be justified to their stakeholders. Orcel himself wasn’t prepared to walk away from all that money in order to get the job, and so the deal collapsed.
If this is all there is to this story, then it looks very much like one of Europe’s most successful investment bankers of the last few decades has made some rookie errors. Literally the first instruction in Leaving Your Investment Banking Job 101 (https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3000027/how-to-leave-your-job-in-an-investment-bank) is that if something is important enough to jeopardize the move, you need to get it locked down, in writing, before you resign. The details of UBS’s deferred compensation scheme should have been known to Mr Orcel (and to his lawyer) and if they’re like most other schemes, the starting point is likely to be that if you leave, you lose. If Orcel assumed that the rules would be waived for him because he’s so important (not entirely impossible given what people have said about his management style (https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/324394/orcel-didnt-well-ubs-bankers-celebrate-departure)) then well, he’s just found out what happens when you assume.
Having made that error, though, why let it destroy the deal? The clawback details of Mr Orcel’s compensation package aren’t public, but it’s not usually the case that you can get the money back if your job offer falls through. It seems to have always been assumed that Orcel would sacrifice some of the money in order to make the move happen – and to trade UBS share price exposure for Santander with the hope of making more money in the long term. It seems that he’s done the one thing that experienced M&A bankers usually tell their clients not to do; he’s let a strategically vital transaction get away because of price. After all, fifty million euros is a lot of money to most of us, but Orcel was paid $30m in a single year once when he was at Merrill Lynch. Seems like it’s harder to do your own mega-deals than to advise someone else.
https://news.efinancialcareers.com/se-en/331651/andrea-orcel-santander-move
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Or perhaps these people simply aren't as good at their jobs as their stratospheric salaries and compensation packages might suggest?
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AIUI the stock market is largely a betting syndicate and the results are often the same. The more dispassionate observers will tell you that long term, tracking funds consistently outperform fund managers, and any superstars are in fact just lucky bastards.
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Despite dozens of studies, there's not one that has ever found even a vague correlation between salary and compensation packages for executives and any measure of a business's performance.
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Despite dozens of studies, there's not one that has ever found even a vague correlation between salary and compensation packages for executives and any measure of a business's performance.
Given the payoffs I’ve seen some of those I’ve seen fail have received, that doesn’t surprise me at all.
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Despite dozens of studies, there's not one that has ever found even a vague correlation between salary and compensation packages for executives and any measure of a business's performance.
Is there a correlation between the salary/compensation package and the size of the executive's ego?
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My former colleague, who I only remain friends with on facebook to remind me that there are people who really do think like this...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48320601766_a7968a21c7_c.jpg)
Sometimes I think he's just trolling to wind up his liberal lefty mates, but no, he actually means it. He's not even that stupid, he's just the product of a classic 80s West Midlands working-class Tory upbringing. Fortunately, going by the responses to his post, he has friends who are willing to call him out. Personally, I just can't face getting involved.
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I've seen about half a dozen Quitlers, hamsteaks and quasi-literate biffers trot this one out. When I tell 'em a former employer started its Y2K project in 1992 they usually go a bit quiet, though sometimes I have to point out that checking a few million lines of code for a single poxy merchant bank is rather less daunting than preparing an entire country for a leap into the unknown.
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Andrew Bolt. On multiple levels
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(Googles)
What an appalling worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpig.
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(Googles)
What an appalling worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpig.
I think you are being too kind. However, to top that, I give you the UK Home Secretary..... and no, I cannot bring myself to type her name.
A super twat on so many levels.
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(Googles)
What an appalling worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpig.
I think you are being too kind. However, to top that, I give you the UK Home Secretary..... and no, I cannot bring myself to type her name.
A super twat on so many levels.
ey. I’ve read something of her current bullshit this morning and she makes Home Secretary May seem like a positive bleeding heart. I’m thinking we need a lower level than Super Twat, to cover the vermin that seem to be taking over public office.
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(Googles)
What an appalling worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpig.
I think you are being too kind. However, to top that, I give you the UK Home Secretary..... and no, I cannot bring myself to type her name.
A super twat on so many levels.
I have had to set up a keyboard shortcut thingie on my iPad, so that the phrase "disgraced former International Development minister Piggi Patel" can be entered just by typing "ppat".
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Liz Truss
https://twitter.com/glintingframe/status/1157670470038298624?s=19
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Cheese-obsessed nebbish.
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What a Buerk...
https://news.sky.com/story/michael-buerk-let-obese-people-die-early-to-save-nhs-money-11778620
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What a Buerk...
https://news.sky.com/story/michael-buerk-let-obese-people-die-early-to-save-nhs-money-11778620
He spent too much time with the fascist shitbags in The Moral Maze.
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The vileness the talking head STs will descend to just to stir up outrage to get themselves on Good Morning Britain to 'be held to account' (i.e. get more publicity) knows no limits.
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The vileness the talking head STs will descend to just to stir up outrage to get themselves on Good Morning Britain to 'be held to account' (i.e. get more publicity) knows no limits.
Exactly.
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And this before we start shoving American fructose down people's throats.
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Although wrong on so many counts, having spent time running NHS clinics (chronic wounds) where people denied that they were overweight/obese/morbidly obese, or that being overweight/obese/morbidly obese had no effect on there health (or condition I was trying to help them with) I can see why there could be sympathy for this.
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The Australian government and high court
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49259942 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49259942)
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Nigel Farage, who once again has proved that however low you think he has set the bar, he can go lower...
It takes a really special kind of twat to make me feel any kind of sympathy for Prince Charles.
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Nigel Farage, who once again has proved that however low you think he has set the bar, he can go lower...
It takes a really special kind of twat to make me feel any kind of sympathy for Prince Charles.
I saw that and thought that he was sai;ing particularly close to the wind even for him, especially with his comments about the Queen Mother -godrestersou-l. Gammons have always had a soft spot for the royal family and revered the Queen Mum -godrestersoul- in particular.
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Nigel Farage, who once again has proved that however low you think he has set the bar, he can go lower...
It takes a really special kind of twat to make me feel any kind of sympathy for Prince Charles.
I saw that and thought that he was sai;ing particularly close to the wind even for him, especially with his comments about the Queen Mother -godrestersou-l. Gammons have always had a soft spot for the royal family and revered the Queen Mum -godrestersoul- in particular.
Yebbut, Prince Charles doesn't enjoy the same love and he seems to be Farage's main target. At risk of going full Godwin, Kaiser Wilhelm's lack of popularity was something the Fascists used to their advantage post WWI...
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Going full out against environmentalists as well. Spreading the coal & oil gospel from the Koch's.
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The problem with the Farage is that he may have started out to make a cynical living out of being anti-Europe, but like most of his ilk, after a time of being surrounded by nodding dogs, all baying for more and agreeing with everything he says, they start to believe their own bullshit and feel empowered to spout even more.
Of course, they have the easiest audience, which is why they chose it in the first place. Most of the right-wingnuts in the US (Anne Coulter and the like) started on this path, and Haty Katie is own brand of this phenomenon. That it makes them easy money, of course, helps.
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Godfrey Bloom on R2 calling Yasmin Alibhai Brown first 'Mrs Brown', then 'Yasmin Alibaba'.
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Godfrey Bloom on R2 calling Yasmin Alibhai Brown first 'Mrs Brown', then 'Yasmin Alibaba'.
Godfrey Bloom... Poe’s law applies.
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While on the subject of odious right-wing pissweasels:
Dick "Richard" Braine is complaining about "bullying" (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-leader-richard-braine-dickbraine-twitter-george-osborne-a9055681.html). You've publicly endorsed Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Andrew McMaster aka Paul Harris aka Tommy Robinson, Hatey Cockpins and Milo Flobbadopoulos, Dick. Your party thought that having irredeemably repulsive arses like Count Wankula and Sardine of Yakult on board was a Good Idea. And it was your parents who called you "Richard". But the horrid lefteyes are calling me names waaaah not fair! Dickbrain.
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Isn't it the usual ploy of right wingnuts to claim they're being bullied and silenced by horrid liberals?
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Isn't it the usual ploy of right wingnuts to claim they're being bullied and silenced by horrid snowflake liberals?
FTFY
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Clarkson
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jeremy-clarkson-car-crash-police-london-hammersmith-road-closed-a4-a8951096.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HjK3oDguvTExam2fQB35qslcy5vcMutkO_ecgRt6MCrQ8fCdrWqbvvQA#Echobox=1560093068 (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jeremy-clarkson-car-crash-police-london-hammersmith-road-closed-a4-a8951096.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HjK3oDguvTExam2fQB35qslcy5vcMutkO_ecgRt6MCrQ8fCdrWqbvvQA#Echobox=1560093068)
I'm sure Clarkson has qualified several times since his last nomination, so I thought I might share this comment on him. I happened to come across it last night in a 1995 book of collected TV columns by Victor Lewis-Smith, who seems to have cottoned on the man's true nature earlier than most:
"...a man with the self-awareness of Alan Partridge and the physique of an endomorphic Stephen Fry. I bet he was the sort of boy who placed lolly sticks in his bicycle spokes so it sounded almost like a moped."
He's not very complimentary about the other presenters either ;)
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Isn't it the usual ploy of right wingnuts to claim they're being bullied and silenced by horrid snowflake libtards?
FTFY
FTFY
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Isn't it the usual ploy of right wingnuts to claim they're being bullied and silenced by horrid low-T snowflake beta libtard cucks?
FTFY
FTFY
FTFY
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Isn't it the usual ploy of right wingnuts to claim they're being bullied and silenced by horrid low-T snowflake beta libtard traterus cucks?
FTFY
FTFY
FTFY
FTFY
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Isn't it the usual ploy of right wingnuts to claim they're being bullied and silenced by horrid low-T snowflake beta libtard traterus cucks?
FTFY
FTFY
FTFY
FTFY
I was going to amend this to put 'soy boy' in there, but someone beat me to it with 'low T''.
Actually saw that used in a discussion the other day. Thought of responding with "bro, do you even lift?", but decided I couldn't be bothered. Playing chess with pigeons and all that.
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Arron Banks yet again demonstrates why, in a sane world, it would be him in the sea. (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/15/arron-banks-jokes-about-greta-thunberg-and-freak-yachting-accidents)
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The person who thought up this "rule" and the person who made the decision to implement it.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/15/winning-triathletes-jess-learmonth-georgia-taylor-brown-disqualified-tokyo-hand-in-hand-triathlon
:facepalm:
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I was going to amend this to put 'soy boy' in there, but someone beat me to it with 'low T''.
Actually saw that used in a discussion the other day. Thought of responding with "bro, do you even lift?", but decided I couldn't be bothered. Playing chess with pigeons and all that.
It's fascinating that some men take the modern expectation not to behave like a caveman as a threat to their very identity.
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The person who thought up this "rule" and the person who made the decision to implement it.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/15/winning-triathletes-jess-learmonth-georgia-taylor-brown-disqualified-tokyo-hand-in-hand-triathlon
:facepalm:
It does seem somewhat harsh, and not a little bit partisan given that both were British.
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Down at one of our local retail parks: The Hough, a couple of homeless men had taken up home under a bike shelter, first rocking up with a tarp and then a tent. They did no one any harm, kept themselves to themselves and kept the place clean. There was never an issue with finding somewhere to leave a bike as, well frankly who cycles to a retail park?
Anyway, this morning I turn up to discover some super twat has decided that they cannot have a couple of homeless people ruining their retail park so they have removed the shelter.
Pointless, vindictive and a generally twattish thing to have done.
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The individual (s) who thought it funny to set fire to a local highschool on a Sunday afternoon... Rumour has it, it was a pair of 14 year olds...
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I know they're all super twats, but some twats are more equal than others. Sajid Javid for example.
https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1167131108418433024?s=19
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Piers "Morgan" Moron, the colossal bellend, hasn't done anything notably twattish recently but when he does, the Liverpool Uni team are ready for him:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48728212528_66261c5c25_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2heWPVj)
P9130038 (https://flic.kr/p/2heWPVj) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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I am not sure whether wonky-mouthed Conservative propagandist Taury Kuennsberg has been nominated for S-T status before, but she has been now. The twat.
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She went up in my estimation earlier this week - she was actually asking BSJ some difficult questions AND kept the pressure on for a couple of rounds. She’s since crashed again though, I assume through same tweet that has prompted this nomination.
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Julia Heartless-Brewer again.
https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1175763311369031680?s=21 (https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1175763311369031680?s=21)
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Ugh
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49815731
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Serial Super-Twat BJ excelled himself today.
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Doesn't he already have a lifetime award, like Trump and Piers Morgan CBE?
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Not named in the article, but they know who he is.
Wombat stoning: Australian police officer investigated over video
Video footage of an off-duty police officer stoning a wombat, and possibly killing it, is being investigated, South Australia Police have announced.
The video was posted on Facebook and shows a shirtless man repeatedly throwing rocks at a wombat as it tries to run away.
Encouraged by the person filming, the man hits the wombat in the head several times before it rolls over.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said the actions were "totally abhorrent".
He confirmed the man in the video was a police officer in a statement on Wednesday...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49918800 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49918800)
>:(
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Anne Sacoolas
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Joint award to Harry Redknapp and Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council.
Plans by football manager Harry Redknapp to convert homeless accommodation into flats and houses have been approved.
His company, Pierfront Properties, will redevelop the former Belgravia Hotel in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth...
...The majority of objections to the plans were from people living in the building, including Edward Hyde who told BCP it would exacerbate the homeless situation and put the welfare of residents at risk.
He said: "I am pleading with yourselves to refuse the planning of our homes to give us continuing support for people who are the most vulnerable in our society."
Another occupant, Christopher Whitely, told the council he and others in the building had been issued eviction notices for 27 September, and added: "All residents are in complete limbo for their futures."
Karen Hunt, who oversaw the homeless accommodation, had urged Pierfront to withdraw the plans, saying the lives of people living there had been transformed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-50052815 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-50052815)
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Anne Sacoolas
The White House, particularly National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, and the Mango Monster, managed to make a bad situation worse:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/anne-sacoolas-grieving-parents-ambushed-by-trump-who-was-hiding-spy-wife-at-the-white-house
It's not that the Dunns don't want to meet Anne Sacoolas, but trying to turn it into something from reality TV was monumentally crass.
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Louse Mensch, for Twitter outburst about the Belgian King's aunt.
And all the proto fascist shitbags who echoed it.
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Rod Liddle, and Andrew Neil for giving him a platform.
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Yes.
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https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1190250795515744257?s=21 (https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1190250795515744257?s=21)
Oh, a Cummings link as well.
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(Fires up Mr Google)
The day after I lead the Panzers down Whitehall Rod Liddle will be forbidden to vote, because customers of the Reëducation Camps will have voting rights withdrawn until they learn how to be civilised.
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Miay i suggest that we refer to Rod Liddle as Weird Bloke?
He's bound to be back here soon.
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The award of Super-Twat with Oak Leaves, Bars and Diamonds and a gold-plated bone saw goes to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
I need everyone to pay attention to what @Uber CEO @dkhos is saying here.
Not only is he running cover for the Saudi government by saying the pre-planned murder of a @washingtonpost writer was a "mistake", he compares the murder of a human being to Uber making a tech glitch.
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1193856709124444160
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Got to keep those investors happy...
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To say nothing of the board.
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Megasupertwat Hatey Cockroach is in dire straights as her libel case closes.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/katie-hopkins-libel-case-appeal-lose-jack-monroe-food-blogger-daily-mail-sun-a8155661.html
I am astonished at Monroe's response. They are a far bigger and better person than I could ever be.
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Twitter
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I presume you refer to the business with the Lying liars behind @CCHQ. Curiously, they slapped a ban on both Ralf Little and Technically Ron for similar behaviours.
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I presume you refer to the business with the Lying liars behind @CCHQ. Curiously, they slapped a ban on both Ralf Little and Technically Ron for similar behaviours.
I'm referring to their double standards in slapping the ban on Ralf Little etc but not CCHQ.
Absolute STs
Add in 'nobody gives a toss' Dominic Raab
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So it's quite in order for a serving government to mislead the population. Not called the nasty party for nowt.
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From what I have seen over the last 2-3 years, Twitter being a tad... idiosyncratic... in their enforcement of their Ts & Cs is nothing new.
The USA's biggest stochastic terrorist hasn't been suspended despite meriting such a sanction several times over, and I've seen enough instances of the complaints system being abused to silence people (the biggest exponents of "fratting" being pro-Trump/Russia/Assad accounts/botnets and the FBPE hashtag cargo cult).
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I presume you refer to the business with the Lying liars behind @CCHQ. Curiously, they slapped a ban on both Ralf Little and Technically Ron for similar behaviours.
I'm referring to their double standards in slapping the ban on Ralf Little etc but not CCHQ.
Absolute STs
Add in 'nobody gives a toss' Dominic Raab
Raab really is turning out to be a loathsome piece of crap.
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Priti Vacant Patel. Again.
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This ^^^^. Tell us, disgraced former International Development minister Piggi Patel, WHY local authorities don't have any money. I think you'll find it's not because they went to Paddy Power and bunged it in the fixed odds fruit machines.
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Godfrey Bloom . A weed who should be drowned in paraquat.
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Godfrey Bloom . A weed who should be drowned in paraquat.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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His wiki entry is, umm, interesting:
Bloom was removed as Honorary President of the Ludwig von Mises Centre in December 2017, the organisation citing him as an obvious nazi sympathiser and all round cockwomble, while also pointing to his comments on Twitter
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Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has accused Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio of "giving money to set the Amazon on fire"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50613054 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50613054)
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Bloom has taken to calling himself General Godfrey Bloom QC on Twitter which ought to be an arrestable offence1 and confirms that he is indeed a Super-Twat even before hecwrites anything.
1: It certainly will be after we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party seize power.
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Bloody Stupid Johnson.
Just his existence seems to qualify him these days.
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Everybody who voted for,the nasty party, probably include you Father, F-in-L and S-I-L.
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Charles Moore, former Telegraph editor and all-round pompous prick.
From today's Today: Listen from 2.43.35
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000c4rh (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000c4rh)
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Charles Moore, former Telegraph editor and all-round pompous prick.
From today's Today: Listen from 2.43.35
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000c4rh (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000c4rh)
Caught a few seconds of that, made my blood boil.
Sent from my moto x4 using Tapatalk
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Irritable Bowel Smith.
'Work sets you free (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jn504jJCjo&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2stExgPYVwR_98HFdYveknaMCMibv08ZoaM4zIk8pnTplMsMOflzP0ixo)', apparently. Or something.
If that goes up over the gate of a big compound near Didcot...
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Think I will go for Carlos Gosn of Nissan. On house arrest in Japan, he jumped bail, smuggled out of the country and private jet to Lebanon a country which he has a passport for. He has 3 passports all in Japan but money talks and he now resides in the mid east, a fugitive.
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I'm ambivalent about Ghosn. He's probably not a very nice man, and he comes across as an arrogant knob, but I have some sympathy for the theory that the Japanese are throwing the book at him because he's not Japanese.
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I'm ambivalent about Ghosn. He's probably not a very nice man, and he comes across as an arrogant knob, but I have some sympathy for the theory that the Japanese are throwing the book at him because he's not Japanese.
There is also the theory that they took him down to prevent Nissan being completely absorbed by Renault - double the reason to make an example of the gaijin:
Renault bailed out Nissan in the 90s in exchange for a 36% stake in Nissan with voting rights, and Ghosn becoming Nissan CEO. Since then, Renault's stake has increased to 43%, while Nissan has only been able to buy a 15% non-voting stake in the smaller French company.
...
https://qz.com/1470647/carlos-ghosn-planned-to-merge-renault-and-nissan/
https://jalopnik.com/was-carlos-ghosn-whacked-1830569053
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Given the recent trade spat between Japan and S. Korea its not hard to imagine a political dimension at work with Ghosn.
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I’m quite amazed that no one has put Lawrence Fox on here, particularly as he seems to have doubled down at least a couple of times over the weekend. The ladies in my life have gone right off him, which given the attitude he is demonstrating towards women in general, isn’t really surprising.
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Until last week I'd never heard of the bloke. Seems to merit inclusion though. :sick:
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https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1219007860388044802?s=20 Faux Pas. He's being groomed as a media player :sick:
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2020/jan/20/id-never-heard-of-laurence-fox-until-he-started-lecturing-us-about-racism
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I'd never heard of the bloke either but - serious question - why was he on Question Time? Does he have a track record of commenting on current affairs or some particular expertise that qualifies him being invited to share his analysis? I know the programme can't get any heavyweight politicians very often these days, and seems content to fish the same handful of 'commentator' guests from a small cesspit of tired media whores, but I'm puzzled as to how it selects the other people that appear.
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Televisual clickbait, I guess. People will get offended on Twitter about, when it comes down to it, one person's opinion (and I can't be bothered to look what that opinion is because I just don't care).
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It appears that Radio DJ Liz Kershaw merits inclusion on our Twat list. https://twitter.com/LizKershawDJ/status/1219321284405944320?s=20 :sick: Checking her timeline she was pushing that Fox chap's music recently as well. :sick:
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It appears that Radio DJ Liz Kershaw merits inclusion on our Twat list. https://twitter.com/LizKershawDJ/status/1219321284405944320?s=20 :sick: Checking her timeline she was pushing that Fox chap's music recently as well. :sick:
Jeez - some of the comments under that :o :o :o
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Ms Kershaw has form for the Gammonic variety of Twattery but I'm blowed if I can remember what the story was the last time round and CBA to Google it.
I'm sure colossal bellend Piers "Morgan" Moron has been back at it too. Something to do with adopting cod-FOREIGN accents while the fragrant Susannah Reid rolls her eyes and prays for it all to Just Stop, but I couldn't find the story. My Google-fu is weak today.
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John Humphrys
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/25/john-humphrys-attacks-bbc-for-prioritsing-eq?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true
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John Humphrys
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/25/john-humphrys-attacks-bbc-for-prioritsing-eq?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true
John Humphrys.
Writing for The Daily Wail?
Who'd have thought it......
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Humphrys has always been a knobend.
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John Humphrys
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/25/john-humphrys-attacks-bbc-for-prioritsing-eq?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true
Guardian on form again - "prioritsing" ;D
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Some good news on this bad day. That long standing and recurring member of this thread, Hatie Katie, has been band from twitter.
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And then she got "invited" to go to Prague to collect a non-existent award. This is hilarious. Her acceptance speech was not.
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The person who put up the notice in Norwich about Brexit and how only English can be spoken.
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Rominic Daab again. This time for spouting more bollocks on the Andrew Marr show.
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And then she got "invited" to go to Prague to collect a non-existent award. This is hilarious. Her acceptance speech was not.
I hope she paid her own fare and hotel bill.
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The person who put up the notice in Norwich about Brexit and how only English can be spoken.
If E Minor and I should end up in Ingerland I'm minded to converse wih him in Cymraeg.
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PM, that CBE, is unhappy.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1239849628947951617
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Daddy Johnson deserves a
neckshot mention https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1239889857066999808?s=20
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One of our regulars: https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/1240914856468975616
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Jair Bolsonaro (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-says-coronavirus-crisis-is-a-media-trick)
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Tim Martin
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Lieutenant governor Dan Patrick (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/older-people-would-rather-die-than-let-covid-19-lockdown-harm-us-economy-texas-official-dan-patrick)
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Lieutenant governor Dan Patrick (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/older-people-would-rather-die-than-let-covid-19-lockdown-harm-us-economy-texas-official-dan-patrick)
Ha! I was going to post the same link but you beat me to it.
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That one's a Super-Twat with Bar, Oak Leaves and Diamonds.
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Incurable gammonella virus-carrier and Torygraph hack Allison Pearson opens mouth, inserts foot. Again. (https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/03/24/allison-pearson-says-made-in-china-should-be-a-badge-of-shame-after-the-coronavirus-only-5-replies-you-need/)
She appears to be gunning for the job of Colossal-Bellend-in-Chief in the wake of the recent spate of 'Piers "Morgan" Moron talking sense' incidents.
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The 5 suggested responses are quite amusing
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I liked the University Challenge one :)
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Tim Gammon has outdone himself...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/25/jd-wetherspoon-refuses-pay-suppliers-until-uk-coronavirus-lockdown-ends
He has always been an utter cunt towards suppliers, it's the core of his business model, but not paying for goods already delivered is beyond the pale.
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There's a picture doing the rounds of the tastefully redecorated exterior of the 'spoons in Crystal Palace, which I'd link to if I was on the Proper Computer.
Edit: (https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thelondoneconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/8a4b7a84-swns_spoons_graffitied_01-1200x858.jpg)
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Mike Ashley, another well-known businessman from the Tim Gammon mould... after trying to claim that selling cheap sport-related tat was an essential service, now this:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/25/newcastle-fans-angry-with-club-for-not-halting-season-ticket-payments
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Tim Gammon has outdone himself...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/25/jd-wetherspoon-refuses-pay-suppliers-until-uk-coronavirus-lockdown-ends
He has always been an utter cunt towards suppliers, it's the core of his business model, but not paying for goods already delivered is beyond the pale.
I wonder if telling his ex-staff to work at Tesco was his big Ratner moment? I suppose the sort of people who frequent Spoons are either gammonati or the sort of people who don't care as long as they can get drunk cheaply.
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We can only hope so Roger.
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Tim Gammon has outdone himself...
... not paying for goods already delivered is beyond the pale.
That sounds awfully like theft* to me. I bet he's hoping that the suppliers go to the wall so he never has to pay them or only has to pay the liquidators a fraction of what's owed.
*I expect he's got some weaselly clause in his contracts that lets his Co. arbitrarily extend deadlines for payment so we won't be treated to the delightful sight of him being frog-marched in handcuffs into the back of a Black Maria. Pity.
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I'd like to see him being shoved into the back seat of a Ford Consul in the customary manner by Regan and Carter. It might take a few goes to get all the hair in.
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I suppose the sort of people who frequent Spoons are either gammonati or the sort of people who don't care as long as they can get drunk cheaply.
My parents like to walk to Ramsgate and stop at the Megaspoons for breakfast. They don’t like Tim Gammon and they aren’t especially enamoured of their fellow clientele, but the lure of the eggs benedict and unlimited coffee is too strong. They’re not part of the 11am Stella brigade at least.
I’m an occasional user of Spoons (they’re very convenient!) but will be boycotting them from now on. Could make life interesting on future audaxes...
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People have long memories and the likes of Martin, Ashley and others might do very well to consider thus and change their outlook and behaviour.
Money will be scarce for millions for years to come so they will be careful how they spend remembering how these greedy and thoughtless fools treated society during this crisis.
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People have long memories...
I wish that were true. People like me are mostly hypocrites and convenience/price usually outweighs principles.
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I occasionally had a quick pint (and toilet break) when waiting for a bus or train but since he sought to use his (and they're not actually his, doesn't he have a minority shareholding) pubs as a platform for his views, I've not been in one since. It's not a stance I'll be changing.
Sadly, I think the lure of cheap, convenient beer won't make this sort of behaviour stick in people's minds.
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Many people will boycott and many more will unfortunately by virtue of economic circumstances.
Ashley clearly understands - he has apologised to the gubbishment. Should have apologised to the country though.
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There is a scurrilous rumour doing the rounds that the COVID-19 virus did not originate in China but rather in the carpet of a 'spoons in Stoke. Seems legit.
One of the suppliers Horst Würzel is declining to pay is Wimbledon Brewery. Wimbledon Brewery make a BEER called "Pitbull", so named because it is brewed "in association with" Brian Moore. No, not the one whose head looked uncannily like London Planetarium, the former England hooker. Who is also a qualified solicitor. Now I do not believe you wanted to do that, Horst.
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There is a scurrilous rumour doing the rounds that the COVID-19 virus did not originate in China but rather in the carpet of a 'spoons in Stoke. Seems legit.
One of the suppliers Horst Würzel is declining to pay is Wimbledon Brewery. Wimbledon Brewery make a BEER called "Pitbull", so named because it is brewed "in association with" Brian Moore. No, not the one whose head looked uncannily like London Planetarium, the former England hooker. Who is also a qualified solicitor. Now I do not believe you wanted to do that, Horst.
Mr Moore is angry, I think the gammony one may regret this particular bit of twattery.
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People have long memories...
I wish that were true. People like me are mostly hypocrites and convenience/price usually outweighs principles.
I still refuse to buy any Murdoch products, and that started with my disgust at their P3 feature in the Sun when I was old enough to realise this was completely out of order, in my teens.
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There is a scurrilous rumour doing the rounds that the COVID-19 virus did not originate in China but rather in the carpet of a 'spoons in Stoke. Seems legit.
One of the suppliers Horst Würzel is declining to pay is Wimbledon Brewery. Wimbledon Brewery make a BEER called "Pitbull", so named because it is brewed "in association with" Brian Moore. No, not the one whose head looked uncannily like London Planetarium, the former England hooker. Who is also a qualified solicitor. Now I do not believe you wanted to do that, Horst.
Mr Moore is angry, I think the gammony one may regret this particular bit of twattery.
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And you don't want to make Mr Moore angry. (I was at Uni with him.)
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I used to love 'spoons' pubs: no muzak, cheap soft and hot drinks, cheap meals, no smoking (before other pubs had this indoors; I'm showing my age).
Then they closed the pub in Stanmore; no meal pre CTC clubroom.
Then the Hatch End pub had no wheelchair bog.
Then they closed the Tally Ho; no pre Barnet Cyclists meal
Then Brexit
I won't go to a 'spoons again...
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Out of 'spoons, huh?
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I have to confess that I have for brief spells worked for both Mike Ashley* and Rupert Murdoch.
When you have a wife and son to feed, and mortgage to pay, well-paid jobs trump principles.
*Indirectly, although the job involved being in regular contact with some pretty senior SD people.
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Three people died in a house fire in Hemel Hempstead the other day. Fire investigators and the police are still poring over the wreckage when who should come a-running but our old friend "Daily Mail Reporter", hassling both the neighbours (including my grate frend Chairman Al) and relatives of the deceased. On the plus side, Plod has threatened to arrest them for breach of lockdown regulations if they show up again.
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So many , so bloody many.... but it's Toby again .... https://twitter.com/byers90/status/1244962254006685696?s=20
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There is a scurrilous rumour doing the rounds that the COVID-19 virus did not originate in China but rather in the carpet of a 'spoons in Stoke. Seems legit.
One of the suppliers Horst Würzel is declining to pay is Wimbledon Brewery. Wimbledon Brewery make a BEER called "Pitbull", so named because it is brewed "in association with" Brian Moore. No, not the one whose head looked uncannily like London Planetarium, the former England hooker. Who is also a qualified solicitor. Now I do not believe you wanted to do that, Horst.
Mr Moore is angry, I think the gammony one may regret this particular bit of twattery.
Isn't Mr Moore always angry, mostly at the ref
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Amey
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/uk-firm-wont-pay-higher-sick-pay-as-covid-19-less-severe-than-flu/ar-BB11WIvM?li=BBoPWjQ
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Nigel Oddy, CEO of New Look. C**t
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David Icke.... again.
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David Icke.... again.
Has he wibbling about:
a) Covid-19 being an engineered pathogen, intended for use by the NWO to cull the global population?
b) Covid-19 being spread by 5G transmissions?
c) Prince Charles social-distancing because Covid-19 temporarily negates his shape-shifting abilities, revealing his true lizard-like form?
d) All of the above?
:demon: ;) :demon: ;) :demon:
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a) sort of - apparently the vaccine with include nanotechnology to allow us to be controlled, and it's all Bill Gates' doing and he (Gates that is) should be jailed.
b) yep
c) not that I'm aware of, but seems distinctly possible (the wibbling, not the shape-shifting)
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Matt Hancock.
"Don't use more PPE than you need to".
WAC.
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His continual dodging of direct questions makes me want to throttle him.
In a time of crisis we need credible, non-slippery leadership.
WAC indeed.
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Matt Hancock.
"Don't use more PPE than you need to".
WAC.
Appalling specimen. “I’m not blaming anyone but...” - disingenuous cunt.
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His continual dodging of direct questions makes me want to throttle him.
In a time of crisis we need credible, non-slippery leadership.
WAC indeed.
I’m not that fussy. Any kind of actual leadership would be better than what we’ve got.
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His continual dodging of direct questions makes me want to throttle him.
In a time of crisis we need credible, non-slippery leadership.
WAC indeed.
I’m not that fussy. Any kind of actual leadership would be better than what we’ve got.
I agree it would be nice if one felt there was a proper grown-up in charge rather than a set of sixth-formers who have realised they've bitten off more than they can chew, but console yourself with the thought that at least we don't have someone for whom the intellectual rigour of the kindergarten would be insuperably challenging "in charge". Thankfully the sixth formers have the wit to know they need people like that nice Mr. Whippy sorry, hot day would kill for an ice-cream cone, Prof. Whitty to help out.
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Bozo McBozoface - who, despite what he personally has been through over the past week, is still spouting the same gung-ho blitz spirit bullshit.
No, you cretin, the NHS is not “powered by love”, it is powered by highly trained professionals who spent years in training learning medical science, and by vast sums of money - which you and your cronies have been eroding for years, which is why we are now experiencing the effects of this pandemic more harshly than better prepared, better funded nations.
Surely even a moron like Bozo can join the fucking dots on this one?
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Bozo McBozoface - who, despite what he personally has been through over the past week, is still spouting the same gung-ho blitz spirit bullshit.
No, you cretin, the NHS is not “powered by love”, it is powered by highly trained professionals who spent years in training learning medical science, and by vast sums of money - which you and your cronies have been eroding for years, which is why we are now experiencing the effects of this pandemic more harshly than better prepared, better funded nations.
Surely even a moron like Bozo can join the fucking dots on this one?
But love's really cheap - and, anyway, they fixed him up ok so it obviously doesn't need any more funding.
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Bozo McBozoface - who, despite what he personally has been through over the past week, is still spouting the same gung-ho blitz spirit bullshit.
No, you cretin, the NHS is not “powered by love”, it is powered by highly trained professionals who spent years in training learning medical science, and by vast sums of money - which you and your cronies have been eroding for years, which is why we are now experiencing the effects of this pandemic more harshly than better prepared, better funded nations.
Surely even a moron like Bozo can join the fucking dots on this one?
Which better prepared, better funded nations were you thinking of ?
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Which better prepared, better funded nations were you thinking of ?
Germany and South Korea, for a start. You know - countries where they follow scientific guidance and pay attention to organisations like the WHO, rather than relying on bulldog spirit.
While on the one hand Bozo is praising the NHS for saving his life, he is on the other hand massively insulting them by coming out with this crap.
ETA: obviously being better prepared and better funded is not in itself sufficient to prevent/contain the spread of the virus (viz France) but it is necessary.
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Can I nominate the pustule in the arse of humanity also known as Allison Pearson?
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South Korea spends less per capita on health than we do. Germany slightly more. The biggest difference with Germany is that their system is one of compulsory health insurance and a much more privatised system (only half the hospitals are state owned). As far as I can see the government is following the advice of its scientists. South Korea level of preparedness is quite extreme. Here is an article from two years ago https://gpinvestigations.pri.org/in-south-koreas-war-panic-economy-sales-thrive-on-nuclear-angst-edb1dbf0731b
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Which better prepared, better funded nations were you thinking of ?
Germany and South Korea, for a start.
ETA: obviously being better prepared and better funded is not in itself sufficient to prevent/contain the spread of the virus (viz France) but it is necessary.
https://data.oecd.org/chart/5UVF
Looking at the data, the link between better funded and better prepared is surely difficult to determine?
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South Korea spends less per capita on health than we do. Germany slightly more. The biggest difference with Germany is that their system is one of compulsory health insurance and a much more privatised system (only half the hospitals are state owned). As far as I can see the government is following the advice of its scientists. South Korea level of preparedness is quite extreme. Here is an article from two years ago https://gpinvestigations.pri.org/in-south-koreas-war-panic-economy-sales-thrive-on-nuclear-angst-edb1dbf0731b
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Although Germany has done relatively well in this particular crisis, it’s health service is far from being a model we’d necessarily want to follow.
I do recommend people read the Mirror, Mirror Report. (https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2017/jul/mirror-mirror-2017-international-comparison-reflects-flaws-and)
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As far as I can see the government is following the advice of its scientists.
It's worth noting that the chief medical officer is a political appointment...
Looking at the data, the link between better funded and better prepared is surely difficult to determine?
I didn't say the two were directly linked in the way you're implying. There may be other factors in play, hence necessary but not sufficient.
There's a lot of sticking of heads in the sand going on over this. Not least by our own government.
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Although Germany has done relatively well in this particular crisis, it’s health service is far from being a model we’d necessarily want to follow.
The problem with the NHS is not the model, it's that it's currently in the hands of people who are ideologically opposed to that model.* Which is why Bozo's platitudes are so insulting.
*I don't mean you, obviously. Mirror, Mirror report saved to read later...
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As far as I can see the government is following the advice of its scientists.
It's worth noting that the chief medical officer is a political appointment...
Looking at the data, the link between better funded and better prepared is surely difficult to determine?
I didn't say the two were directly linked in the way you're implying. There may be other factors in play, hence necessary but not sufficient.
There's a lot of sticking of heads in the sand going on over this. Not least by our own government.
I was thinking of the scientists making up SAGE and SPI-M rather than the chief medical officer, but he seems competent to me.
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As far as I can see the government is following the advice of its scientists.
It's worth noting that the chief medical officer is a political appointment...
Looking at the data, the link between better funded and better prepared is surely difficult to determine?
I didn't say the two were directly linked in the way you're implying. There may be other factors in play, hence necessary but not sufficient.
There's a lot of sticking of heads in the sand going on over this. Not least by our own government.
I was thinking of the scientists making up SAGE and SPI-M rather than the chief medical officer, but he seems competent to me.
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The “scientists” making up SAGE? Hmmm?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/coronavirus-whos-who-on-secret-scientific-group-advising-uk-government-sage
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Matt Hancock is such a feckless cunt :sick:
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Matt Hancock is such a feckless cunt :sick:
What did you expect from one, or any, of the BloJo Ar5elicker Army?
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As far as I can see the government is following the advice of its scientists.
It's worth noting that the chief medical officer is a political appointment...
Looking at the data, the link between better funded and better prepared is surely difficult to determine?
I didn't say the two were directly linked in the way you're implying. There may be other factors in play, hence necessary but not sufficient.
There's a lot of sticking of heads in the sand going on over this. Not least by our own government.
I was thinking of the scientists making up SAGE and SPI-M rather than the chief medical officer, but he seems competent to me.
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The “scientists” making up SAGE? Hmmm?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/coronavirus-whos-who-on-secret-scientific-group-advising-uk-government-sage
SAGE and SPI/M are made up of several independent groups of scientists, primarily academic groups from several of our top universities. Representatives from these groups meet discuss their separate research which does not always agree. Much of their work is published so you can read it for yourself. The current strategy is pretty much verbatim from the Imperial College group led by prof Neil Fergusson. You could imagine that there was discord in the meeting and as Cummings was present he chose this rather than rival suggestions. I find this unlikely.
This is quite interesting reading https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61968/flu_pandemic_science_paper1.pdf
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This is quite interesting reading https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61968/flu_pandemic_science_paper1.pdf
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Do you know what date that report was issued? It mentions dates pre-2010 but nothing later I can find.
. Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-uk-ministers-were-warned-last-year-of-risks-of-coronavirus-pandemic)
Whitehall sources concede that turning “plans on the page to real life” was always proving a challenge, but said that in some respects the Brexit planning had helped.
:facepalm:
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And now it appears that the government has been following Cumming's rather nasty and ideological brand of SAGE advice ...
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You could imagine that there was discord in the meeting and as Cummings was present he chose this rather than rival suggestions. I find this unlikely.
That’s not the only possible scenario.
Cummings has no business being anywhere near Sage. If you don’t think there’s anything fishy about him even being present at their meetings, you are incredibly naive.
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[quote author=Davef... .
This is quite interesting reading https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61968/flu_pandemic_science_paper1.pdf
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Do you know what date that report was issued? It mentions dates pre-2010 but nothing later I can find.
The end of the main body of the report is dated November 2007
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The end of the main body of the report is dated November 2007
Whereas this is from last year:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-uk-ministers-were-warned-last-year-of-risks-of-coronavirus-pandemic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
But hey, as long as we get Brexit done, that’s the most important thing, right?
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This is quite interesting reading https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61968/flu_pandemic_science_paper1.pdf
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Do you know what date that report was issued? It mentions dates pre-2010 but nothing later I can find.
. Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-uk-ministers-were-warned-last-year-of-risks-of-coronavirus-pandemic)
Whitehall sources concede that turning “plans on the page to real life” was always proving a challenge, but said that in some respects the Brexit planning had helped.
:facepalm:
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This is quite interesting reading https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61968/flu_pandemic_science_paper1.pdf
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Do you know what date that report was issued? It mentions dates pre-2010 but nothing later I can find.
. Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-uk-ministers-were-warned-last-year-of-risks-of-coronavirus-pandemic)
Whitehall sources concede that turning “plans on the page to real life” was always proving a challenge, but said that in some respects the Brexit planning had helped.
:facepalm:
I agree.
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How long have countries been expecting an influenza pandemic ? Since 1918. The advice is updated regularly. The one I posted was from 2013 I think. The most recent was November 2018, but to say “ministers were warned last year” is misleading. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756738/SPI-M_modelling_summary_final.pdf
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You’re clutching at straws. There hasn’t been a pandemic on this scale since 1918, so the level of advice on preparedness and relevant action taken by governments over the last 100 years is a moot point. We’re talking about the current situation and the decisions made by the current government.
And what is clear is that they decided that the risk of a pandemic was low enough that they didn’t need to heed the advice and instead have focused their efforts on preparing for Brexit. You could say they’ve been unlucky, but this is the kind of scenario where you make your own luck to a large extent.
What is also clear is that they are interfering politically with supposedly independent bodies, and this may provide some insight into why they have set their priorities as they have.
Stop being an apologist for these criminals.
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This is quite interesting reading https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61968/flu_pandemic_science_paper1.pdf
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Do you know what date that report was issued? It mentions dates pre-2010 but nothing later I can find.
. Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-uk-ministers-were-warned-last-year-of-risks-of-coronavirus-pandemic)
Whitehall sources concede that turning “plans on the page to real life” was always proving a challenge, but said that in some respects the Brexit planning had helped.
:facepalm:
I agree.
How long have countries been expecting an influenza pandemic ? Since 1918. The advice is updated regularly. The one I posted was from 2013 I think. [/quote]
As Vernon says up there, it's dated (on p63) as November 2007, so you think wrong. (The fact it's advice to Ed Balls and Rosie Winterton makes it clear it's before May 2010 in any case.)
The most recent was November 2018, but to say “ministers were warned last year” is misleading. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756738/SPI-M_modelling_summary_final.pdf
I'm not quite sure why you think it's 'misleading' to suggest that a 2019 Cabinet Office risk assessment might constitute a warning to ministers.
Either they ignored it completely, or they read it and dismissed it (both of which would be a touch negligent), or they read it and set priorities which aren't currently looking terribly clever.
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What scientific advice was ignored ? Blame the scientists, or the government or people who voted for brexit or even a malevolent god. This was expected to happen at some point. That does not mean you can stop it.
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You’re clutching at straws. There hasn’t been a pandemic on this scale since 1918, so the level of advice on preparedness and relevant action taken by governments over the last 100 years is a moot point. We’re talking about the current situation and the decisions made by the current government.
And what is clear is that they decided that the risk of a pandemic was low enough that they didn’t need to heed the advice and instead have focused their efforts on preparing for Brexit. You could say they’ve been unlucky, but this is the kind of scenario where you make your own luck to a large extent.
What is also clear is that they are interfering politically with supposedly independent bodies, and this may provide some insight into why they have set their priorities as they have.
Stop being an apologist for these criminals.
While not excusing the lack of preparedness, the statement that we haven't had a pandemic on this scale since 1918 is not correct. The pandemics of 1957/58 (H2N2) and 1968 (H3N2) both killed a million or more. The 1968 pandemic involved an effective (though not mandated) shutdown across industries and schools not dissimilar to what we're seeing now.
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Thanks, TimC, happy to stand corrected on that point.
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What scientific advice was ignored ? Blame the scientists, or the government or people who voted for brexit or even a malevolent god. This was expected to happen at some point. That does not mean you can stop it.
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But don’t hold the government in any way responsible for their own actions. Righto.
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And don't forget the 2016 readiness scenario showing just how unprepared we were. And it appears to have got worse since then with training being shelved and stockpiles not renewed.
You then have to ask why the UK didn't follow the Track, Trace, Isolate advice and why sick oldies were pushed back into care homes regardless of the covid-19 contagion issues.
All a bit stinky from a very stinky cohort of ideological fascists imo.
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I'm not sure you need to include the word 'ideological' in your post.
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We did follow the test and trace until it escaped. It only works when number infected are in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands. You need to successfully track 70% of the average 2500 contacts per infected person. Once beyond that it becomes impossible. When this is all investigated I think we will find there was a very early infection in the uk in January probably in the east of the country and so the efforts of tracing incoming people from wuhan was doomed as it was already here. Once the numbers are down in a few months time, with a tracking app and testing capacity, we can have another go.
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Test, trace and isolate has been used very successfully by a small number of countries prepared to make the effort. The key is to follow through on every single known case and then you can reduce the spread by identifying potential spreaders and testing and if necessary isolating them.
Our government clearly decided on the pathetic herd immunity option simpky because they were too busy partying and holidaying. They were also way too complacent with thee turd in chief openly shaking hands and being a bullish oaf. Nearly cost him his life and has potentially cost thousands theirs.
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Thanks, TimC, happy to stand corrected on that point.
We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.
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We did follow the test and trace until it escaped.
Actually, we didn't, PHE did a partial test and trace process... and not very successfully. They then abandoned it when 'herd immunity' became the policy.
We still don't have the infrastructure in place to do testing at scale - despite repeated offers from private sector labs, university labs, etc.
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We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.
OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.
I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.
Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.
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We did follow the test and trace until it escaped.
Actually, we didn't, PHE did a partial test and trace process... and not very successfully. They then abandoned it when 'herd immunity' became the policy.
We still don't have the infrastructure in place to do testing at scale - despite repeated offers from private sector labs, university labs, etc.
Initially everyone coming from at risk area were quarantined (on the Wirral and in mk) but it was doomed to failure as it is highly likely as I said on Saturday it was already spreading in the uk in January. This is very likely the case in Italy too.
The move from suppression to mitigation and back to suppression were based on the scientific advice at the time.
The problem at the moment with testing is not the PCR testing itself it is the logistics of collecting the samples. This would not be helped by having more private sector or university labs. Incidentally the biggest testing facility is a private sector lab.
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We did follow the test and trace until it escaped.
Actually, we didn't, PHE did a partial test and trace process... and not very successfully. They then abandoned it when 'herd immunity' became the policy.
We still don't have the infrastructure in place to do testing at scale - despite repeated offers from private sector labs, university labs, etc.
Initially everyone coming from at risk area were quarantined (on the Wirral and in mk) but it was doomed to failure as it is highly likely as I said on Saturday it was already spreading in the uk in January. This is very likely the case in Italy too.
You seem to be equating quarantining with tracking and tracing. Quarantine is one aspect of tracking and tracing.
The move from suppression to mitigation and back to suppression were based on the scientific advice at the time.
We don’t know that as, unlike in other countries, the scientific advice the government has acted on hasn’t been published. The government also took actions which were contrary to the established public advice from organisations such as the WHO.
The problem at the moment with testing is not the PCR testing itself it is the logistics of collecting the samples. This would not be helped by having more private sector or university labs. Incidentally the biggest testing facility is a private sector lab.
Again, you’re cherry picking one aspect and presenting it as *the issue*. Sampling is just one issue that is hampering the testing and tracking effort. Another is a lack of capacity to test the samples, which has been amplified by a lack of engagement with providers of potential and decisions taken by PHE early on (such as centralising testing equipment).
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Professor Fergusson says “there are a number of observers at these meetings who, I have to say, have not interfered with the business of those meetings at all”.
Obviously our top academic modeller of pandemics might be a liar in which case we have other issues too.
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We did follow the test and trace until it escaped.
Actually, we didn't, PHE did a partial test and trace process... and not very successfully. They then abandoned it when 'herd immunity' became the policy.
We still don't have the infrastructure in place to do testing at scale - despite repeated offers from private sector labs, university labs, etc.
Initially everyone coming from at risk area were quarantined (on the Wirral and in mk) but it was doomed to failure as it is highly likely as I said on Saturday it was already spreading in the uk in January. This is very likely the case in Italy too.
You seem to be equating quarantining with tracking and tracing. Quarantine is one aspect of tracking and tracing.
The move from suppression to mitigation and back to suppression were based on the scientific advice at the time.
We don’t know that as, unlike in other countries, the scientific advice the government has acted on hasn’t been published. The government also took actions which were contrary to the established public advice from organisations such as the WHO.
The problem at the moment with testing is not the PCR testing itself it is the logistics of collecting the samples. This would not be helped by having more private sector or university labs. Incidentally the biggest testing facility is a private sector lab.
Again, you’re cherry picking one aspect and presenting it as *the issue*. Sampling is just one issue that is hampering the testing and tracking effort. Another is a lack of capacity to test the samples, which has been amplified by a lack of engagement with providers of potential and decisions taken by PHE early on (such as centralising testing equipment).
I was not cherry picking. I was pointing out the the pcr testing capacity is not the problem any more. It was previously and I agree the small boats approach would have in the short term brought more capacity to test nhs staff etc but I believe the current policy of using labs with high capacity sample handling provides higher capacity now and in the future.
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We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.
OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.
I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.
Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.
It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.
I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.
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We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.
OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.
I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.
Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.
It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.
I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.
Perhaps we should sell him to Trump?
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We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.
OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.
I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.
Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.
It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.
I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.
He gave a chat at mini's school, and from what mini reported, his principal obsessions appeared to be that both politicians and the Civil Service were a waste of space.
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Sounds like a British version of Grover Norquist*, but observation of the happenings in the House of Commons through last year, when MPs showed that despite not wanting May's withdrawal agreement, they couldn't agree on what they wanted instead, and the general inability of many MPs to grasp the issues, would suggest that Cummings isn't completely wrong. :demon:
* Best known for the following infamous quote (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist): "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." (said during an interview on NPR's Morning Edition, May 25, 2001)
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It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.
No, it's a fair point and I'm happy to be corrected.
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We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.
OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.
I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.
Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.
It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.
I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.
As an aside, the WHO doesn't class HIV as a pandemic... but as a 'global epidemic' - which is basically a pandemic by another name. I'm sure there's some politics behind there somewhere.
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As an aside, the WHO doesn't class HIV as a pandemic... but as a 'global epidemic' - which is basically a pandemic by another name. I'm sure there's some politics behind there somewhere.
Oh no, there's no politics involved at all, all decisions are purely science-based. ::-)
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Sadly, the cruel intersection of politics and homophobia is one of the reasons there's 30 million-plus dead from HIV and why it's still often not mentioned in the context of pandemics (people will cast back to a pandemic of 1918, but not the one – however you define it – that we're in the middle of).
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The pandemic preparedness documents are specifically about novel influenza and influenza like viruses.
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Sounds like a British version of Grover Norquist*, but observation of the happenings in the House of Commons through last year, when MPs showed that despite not wanting May's withdrawal agreement, they couldn't agree on what they wanted instead, and the general inability of many MPs to grasp the issues, would suggest that Cummings isn't completely wrong. :demon:
* Best known for the following infamous quote (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist): "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." (said during an interview on NPR's Morning Edition, May 25, 2001)
See also P.J. O'Rourke's statement about how Republicans claim government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it.
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We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.
OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.
I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.
Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.
It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.
I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.
As an aside, the WHO doesn't class HIV as a pandemic... but as a 'global epidemic' - which is basically a pandemic by another name. I'm sure there's some politics behind there somewhere.
I am slightly surprised hiv/aids is currently classed as an epidemic. I would have thought it is now in endemic in most parts of the world.
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Sadly, the cruel intersection of politics and homophobia is one of the reasons there's 30 million-plus dead from HIV and why it's still often not mentioned in the context of pandemics (people will cast back to a pandemic of 1918, but not the one – however you define it – that we're in the middle of).
Absolutely!
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Matt Hancockwomble.
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Matt Hancockwomble.
Does he get anything for making repeat appearances on this thread?
I think I've seen him mentioned here three times now.
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Pratt Hancock has been on here at eleventy twelve times* if you count those times that he will appear in the future.
*Pritti Patel counted for me.
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She's only in the cabinet to make up the numbers.
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An honourable mention for David “you can’t catch a virus by shaking hands but 5g will give to you” Icke.
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She's only in the cabinet to make up the numbers.
:thumbsup:
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Oh yes, that is excellent. I am totally nicking it.
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I think, post Question Time, we'll have a new name on here:- Luke Johnson.
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Yes, Luke Johnson. Twat.
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Isabel Oakeshott
https://twitter.com/isabeloakeshott/status/1260836984941088769?s=21 (https://twitter.com/isabeloakeshott/status/1260836984941088769?s=21)
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Ah yes, Isabel Talkshite, the woman who thinks the only difference between North Kensington and South Kensington is geography.
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I'm finding myself in agreement with Piers Morgan, who no longer appears to be a CBE.
Apologies for Daily Heil link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html)
Things must have come to a pretty pass!
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I'm finding myself in agreement with Piers Morgan, who no longer appears to be a CBE.
Apologies for Daily Heil link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html)
Things must have come to a pretty pass!
I’ve found that he’s become the real voice of reason in these troubled times. It’s a most perplexing conundrum.
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What's the way to get to a Daily Heil article without providing them click revenue ?
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I'm finding myself in agreement with Piers Morgan, who no longer appears to be a CBE.
Apologies for Daily Heil link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html)
Things must have come to a pretty pass!
Careful you don’t speak too soon. He’s got a lot of ground to make up, and even a stopped clock etc.
If I were a betting man I’d put money on him reverting to type soon enough.
(I don’t know what it is you’re agreeing with though, since I don’t click on DM links - but I trust your judgment so I’m sure it’s very reasonable!)
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I'm sure others will tell how to get DM stuff without boosting click revenue.
In the mean time Piers Morgan's Tweets might be informative.
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Thing is, it’s all very well Morgan lambasting Johnson now, but let’s not forget he was complicit in getting him installed in No 10 in the first place.
He’s simply doing what he has always done, which is to be a weather vane for popular opinion. He’s a very competent journalist but utterly cynical and unscrupulous.
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Thing is, it’s all very well Morgan lambasting Johnson now, but let’s not forget he was complicit in getting him installed in No 10 in the first place.
He’s simply doing what he has always done, which is to be a weather vane for popular opinion. He’s a very competent journalist but utterly cynical and unscrupulous.
So like Johnson...
...but competent.
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Bozo wasn’t even competent as a journalist - long track record of making shit up.
Otoh, he never hacked the phones of dead schoolgirls.
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Bozo wasn’t even competent as a journalist - long track record of making shit up.
Otoh, he was never caught hacking the phones of dead schoolgirls.
FTFY
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Bozo wasn’t even competent as a journalist - long track record of making shit up.
Otoh, he never hacked the phones of dead schoolgirls.
To be fair, he didn't do any actual journalism (at least not the digging through bins, hacking phones, and knocking on doors kind), he just expectorated some inky doggerel at the page and left an editor to turn it into something vaguely coherent. Only vaguely, it was mostly the Telegraph after all.
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Bozo wasn’t even competent as a journalist - long track record of making shit up.
Otoh, he never hacked the phones of dead schoolgirls.
To be fair1 to the colossal bellend, nor did Piers "Morgan" Moron. Probably because the scumbags at News International beat the Mirror hacks to it it.
1. Said Mr L, gritting his teeth so hard they resemble sandpaper.
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I think Henry Smith is crawling into the lower reaches of the Twat table. https://twitter.com/HenrySmithUK/status/1263394101002674176?s=20
Allison Pearson deserves a league of her own though.
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To be fair1 to the colossal bellend, nor did Piers "Morgan" Moron. Probably because the scumbags at News International beat the Mirror hacks to it it.
And to be far more fair than he deserves, he never did any actual hacking himself - he just got others to do it then pretended he knew nothing about it.
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I think Henry Smith is crawling into the lower reaches of the Twat table. https://twitter.com/HenrySmithUK/status/1263394101002674176?s=20
Allison Pearson deserves a league of her own though.
Her and Sarah Vine...
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I think Henry Smith is crawling into the lower reaches of the Twat table. https://twitter.com/HenrySmithUK/status/1263394101002674176?s=20 (https://twitter.com/HenrySmithUK/status/1263394101002674176?s=20)
Allison Pearson deserves a league of her own though.
Her and Sarah Vine...
Enough of your perverted fantasies Greg...... :hand:
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I think Henry Smith is crawling into the lower reaches of the Twat table. https://twitter.com/HenrySmithUK/status/1263394101002674176?s=20
Fuck me, that's choice.
For reasons unfathomable to me he gets invited to our Scout AGM and barbecue. Last year he skedaddled before the burger frenzy. I'm beginning to see why.
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The "Independent" Office of Police Conduct...
Nothing to see here, move along.
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Joe Biden
Did he really think it was wise to say that out loud?
Idiot.
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Classic Dom
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Rod Widdle https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1264666139306704898?s=20
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Dominc Raab.
Talk about missing the zeitgeist.
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Dominc Raab.
Talk about missing the zeitgeist.
Dominic of House Raab, Lord of Dragonstone, is the elder of Robert Baratheon's younger brothers. A brooding, humorless man known for a hard and unyielding sense of justice, he is obsessed with slights real and imagined. With the ruler dying, Ned sends him a letter appointing him as the legitimate heir
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I think there may be some illegitimate ones who'll dispute the ascendancy.
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I think there may be some illegitimate ones who'll dispute the ascendancy.
They’re all illegitimate SOBs it’s just some of them were born within wedlock.
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Can we just nominate the entirety of the current cabinet and be done with it?
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She'a a Super Twat but this must be a good thing
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/19/katie-hopkins-permanently-removed-from-twitter
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She'a a Super Twat but this must be a good thing
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/19/katie-hopkins-permanently-removed-from-twitter
(Does happy bounce; tolchocks gulliver against ceiling)
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Matt Cock.
Again.
Taking the knee.
Twat Supreme.
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Novak Djokovic https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53148053 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53148053)
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And his wife, Jelena, who promotes the crackpot theory that 5g is linked to covid-19.
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yebbut he's really sorry
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Oh. That's OK then. ::-)
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It could quite conceivable end his tennis career.
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Was he running for mayor there ?
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Message to self. Proof reading is a good idea.
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Message to self. Proof reading is a good idea.
:-)
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717
Every single one of these idiots.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-53187158 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-53187158)
...and these ones...
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Desmond Swayne, MP.
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Desmond Swayne, MP.
This is Sir Desmond Swayne. An actual MP. Acting like an over privileged manchild at the thought of doing something simple, that will help him, the entire population & The NHS. What chance do we have with fools like this involved in running our country?
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Desmond Swayne, MP.
This is Sir Desmond Swayne. An actual MP. Acting like an over privileged manchild at the thought of doing something simple, that will help him, the entire population & The NHS. What chance do we have with fools like this involved in running our country?
Also - saying he'll not go to the shops again? As if he does his own shopping, yeah right.
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I dunno, Desmondo needs to learn that this face-covering lark isn't all bad, the other week I out to collect a new table leg, so I popped that in a carrier bag and then on the way home remembered I needed to go to the bank. Realising I didn't have any face mask, I bought a pair of 60 denier stockings from Boots and popped one of those over my head. Job done. The bank were pretty appreciative and gave me a bag full of free money.
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Huff post says:
Labour MP Chris Bryant told Swayne as he was “a knight of the realm” he “should just consider it a visor”.
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I dunno, Desmondo needs to learn that this face-covering lark isn't all bad, the other week I out to collect a new table leg, so I popped that in a carrier bag and then on the way home remembered I needed to go to the bank. Realising I didn't have any face mask, I bought a pair of 60 denier stockings from Boots and popped one of those over my head. Job done. The bank were pretty appreciative and gave me a bag full of free money.
YA Harry Stanley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Harry_Stanley) AICMF... oh, wait. You ate'nt dead!
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Desmond Swayne, MP.
This is Sir Desmond Swayne. An actual MP. Acting like an over privileged manchild at the thought of doing something simple, that will help him, the entire population & The NHS. What chance do we have with fools like this involved in running our country?
Also - saying he'll not go to the shops again? As if he does his own shopping, yeah right.
There is a vibe about Sir Desmond Swayne that always makes me think CEOP might be interested in his hard drive...
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Nick Ferrari.
(This thread leads a totaliser/leader board)
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Ian Duncan Smith. Who knew?!
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Ian Duncan Smith. Who knew?!
What have the twins done this time?
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Ian Duncan Smith. Who knew?!
What have the twins done this time?
Whinging about the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, which he voted for but didn’t read properly. Unless he's indulged in further Super-Twattery in the last 24 hours, which is far from unlikely.
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which he voted for but didn’t read properly
Was he not one of those saying they didn't need extra time to read it?
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Yep, he was...
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/video-of-ids-commons-speech-against-wa-scrutiny-found-on-twitter-1-6778151
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Yes, that Mr O’Brien had a go at him about it in his radiogram show yesterday
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/two-contradictory-statements-iain-duncan-smith/
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James Cleverly.
Apart from the opposite of nominative determinism, he must have featured here before.
Anyway.
Son of migrant describes people concerned about migrants to be virtue signalling. (https://twitter.com/ElRaynerista/status/1293481465129381888)
At least they have some fecking virtue.
I know all mums love their kids, but James makes it hard for Evelyn.
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Perhaps he should really be called James Stupidly, or perhaps James Callously. More appropriate would be James Uncaringly or James Stupidly.
Tory MP's and their advisors have clearly shown over the past six months what they are all about and it's all about them.
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Andrew Bowie, MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.
From 11 last night:
The whole world tweeting about #KamalaHarris and #JoeBiden2020...except it seems Edinburgh...where apparently it's raining.
Dismissing the people of Edinburgh for tweeting about some very heavy rainstorms - storms which would go on to cause severe flooding in his own constituency and, possibly, cause a landslide and rail derailment - rather than US politics. I don't know where that puts him on the unlucky/twat/supertwat scale, but I was unsurprised to learn that he was a Tory.
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James Cleverly.
Apart from the opposite of nominative determinism, he must have featured here before.
Anyway.
Son of migrant describes people concerned about migrants to be virtue signalling. (https://twitter.com/ElRaynerista/status/1293481465129381888)
At least they have some fecking virtue.
I know all mums love their kids, but James makes it hard for Evelyn.
In a parallel universe there is a professor of quantum physics called Jim Verystupidly.
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James Cleverly.
Apart from the opposite of nominative determinism, he must have featured here before.
Anyway.
Son of migrant describes people concerned about migrants to be virtue signalling. (https://twitter.com/ElRaynerista/status/1293481465129381888)
At least they have some fecking virtue.
I know all mums love their kids, but James makes it hard for Evelyn.
I don't disagree. I must however point out this is not a person, this is a company using the plight of humans as an advertising opportunity. Ben & Jerrys have stopped advertising on antisocial media (laudable IMO). This has likely had an effect on sales, I doubt they'd be shouting look-at-me look-at-me look-at-me if it were a positive impact.
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Well, B&J are owned by Unilever but they do trade on the brand identity of their original Vermont 'hippy cred' so there's reasonable grounds for cynicism, though I'm not sure the purchasers of ice cream really think too much about it. Haagan Daz is a completely made up brand.
But, tbh, if they're selling a bit more ice cream on the basis of saying something decent, we should probably encourage it and perhaps ponder how we got to a place where our moral leadership comes from corporate ice cream.
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Well, B&J are owned by Unilever but they do trade on the brand identity of their original Vermont 'hippy cred' so there's reasonable grounds for cynicism, though I'm not sure the purchasers of ice cream really think too much about it. Haagan Daz is a completely made up brand.
Unilever could post pictures of their CEO torturing kittens and I would still buy Magnums. That's because Magnums are fucking awesome.
I can't stand Ben & Jerry's though. Every one of their flavours I've tried tastes of generic sickly gloop to me.
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According to Wikinaccurate the literal translation of “Häagen-Dazs” – at least the way they pronounce it – is “the chin toilet”. Also it's owned by Nestlé, so the CEO actually does play that game involving a washtub full of kittens, a tennis racket and an RAF-surplus Rolls-Royce Avon.
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B&J make Cinnamon Buns ice cream, which I've only ever had once, in Vienna, and been unable to find elsewhere, bah.
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I like cookie dough B&J (the ampersand is important, people) some of the other flavours are a bit meh. There's an ice creamtruck in London that does proper ice cream sandwiched between proper cookies, that's good and further proof, should it be needed (no), that sandwichification improves everything.
I did, a billion years ago, do a tour of the B&J factory in Vermont. I tried all the flavours, admittedly because I was trying to put off the rest of the day, which promised being driven around the state by a by driven wannabe purchaser of Shaker chairs (far less fun than they sound, you can't put a quarter in them and be pleasantly vibrated like those cheap hotel beds that are fun till you realise the sort of other activities on those very sheets that a quarter has enhanced).
The best ice cream I ever had was at a fair in Tenterden, Kent, which was made proper with nothing other than double cream, egg yolk, sugar and chocolate (as was explained by the very earnest young lady). I can't be bothered making my own because I don't eat that much ice cream, but good god, nothing since has come close.
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I find that my shower head produces enough water to get me clean and keep my hair washed.
Not everyone does
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I find that my shower head produces enough water to get me clean and keep my hair washed.
Not everyone does
A flow rate of 9.5l/min sounds to me like it ought to be plenty for washing even the most luxuriant orange nylon rug.
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Hold on, you're showering in ice cream?
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I don't think B&J do a luxuriant orange nylon rug flavour.
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Have I slipped into an alternative dimension? Or am I just missing some cutler piece of information?
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The best ice cream of all time is from Gelateria Linus in Castel Bolognese, in Emilia-Romagna.
The second est was from Lumb's Dairy (sadly long gone) in Wakefield.
The third best was made by Danny Oates* in Cudworth, near Barnsley.
*Oates was discovered washing his dog (this is not a euphemism) in his mixing tank. Sales declined rapidly and he went bust.
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Have I slipped into an alternative dimension? Or am I just missing some cutler piece of information?
Yes, but that was four years ago.
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Have I slipped into an alternative dimension? Or am I just missing some cutler piece of information?
Donald Trump has water on the brain.
ian just has ice cream on his brain.
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The best ice cream of all time is from Gelateria Linus in Castel Bolognese, in Emilia-Romagna.
The second est was from Lumb's Dairy (sadly long gone) in Wakefield.
The third best was made by Danny Oates* in Cudworth, near Barnsley.
*Oates was discovered washing his dog (this is not a euphemism) in his mixing tank. Sales declined rapidly and he went bust.
"I'll have a cone of shame with a flake, please."
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Gavin Williamson. We need to recalibrate the irony meter now.
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https://twitter.com/JimBethell/status/1293905136687804417?s=20
The French had the right idea about the aristocracy........
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I don't know what he studied at univeristy (sic) but I hope it wasn’t English.
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I think this chap deserves a mention .... ;) https://twitter.com/MichaelTakeMP/status/1294567906777477120?s=20
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I think this chap deserves a mention .... ;) https://twitter.com/MichaelTakeMP/status/1294567906777477120?s=20
i believe it that Micheal Take MP is a fictional character. :)
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It's getting hard to tell....
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It's getting hard to tell....
In this case, the name is a big clue.
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Trouble these days is you don't know if a site emanates from an office just outside Moscow.
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Trouble these days is you don't know if a site emanates from an office just outside Moscow.
Is that where the Fascist Information Bureau (otherwise known as Conservative Party Head Office) is situated these days?
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Harry Maguire. Colossal bellend.
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Oh yes. An industrial-strength sillybollocks.
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Supposedly the old Etonian away on a camping trip and now the subject of a super injunction ;)
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Should a sitting prime minister ever be a subject of a super injunction? Actually, come to that should ANY serving member of Parliament be a subject of a super injunction? If their activities are not covered by security protocols then we have a right to know.
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It is at this point that a Sir Humphrey senior enough to be neither civil nor servile explains the difference between “the public interest” and “the public's interest” :demon:
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I had to check who 'arry is.
Apparently his nickname is "Slabhead". I suspect that he is proud of that...
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Harry Maguire. Colossal bellend.
They don’t muck about, those Bubbles. He’s already been tried and found guilty. Sentencing in due course but unlikely to be custodial chiz.
Anyone using the phrase or saying “Do you know who I am?” after we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party seize power will be ruthlessly asset-stripped before being sent to a Reëducation Camp with a name-badge sewn to their old flour sack reading “Nobody”.
Edit: 21 months suspended.
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a name-badge sewn to their old flour sack
As I read that I was expecting 'forehead'. I'm afraid that disappointment drops the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party a few points in my personal popularity poll.
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Any such identification on the forehead would be nailed there, like wot Ivan The Terrible did to Leonard Cohen's hat. According to one reliable source anyway.
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I think it’s a shame that he had to ask who he was, though I’m assuming his forgetfulness was due to ethanol I’m imbimation so I’m less sympathetic towards him.
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Harry Maguire. Colossal bellend.
They don’t muck about, those Bubbles. He’s already been tried and found guilty. Sentencing in due course but unlikely to be custodial chiz.
Anyone using the phrase or saying “Do you know who I am?” after we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party seize power will be ruthlessly asset-stripped before being sent to a Reëducation Camp with a name-badge sewn to their old flour sack reading “Nobody”.
Edit: 21 months suspended.
Policeman: Yes, you're the captain of a nation that didn't win the European Championship in 2004 - or any other year, for that matter.
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Harry Maguire. Colossal bellend.
And again.
Can you smell that? What is that? Sheep is it? It's cows? No, no, I know what it is...
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Grant Shapps.
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Grant Shapps.
Mr Hypocrisy.
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Grant Shapps.
Mr Hypocrisy.
He's changed his name yet again?
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He calls himself “George Hypocrisy” when he's editing Wikinaccurate.
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Tony Abbott
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Ree-Smug, again
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/03/rees-mogg-plays-rule-britannia-commons-celebrate-proms-u-turn
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Liz Truss - The Equality Minister who accused all of us who criticise Tony Abbott for his misogyny and homophobia of "virtue signalling"
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Everything after her name was surplus to requirements, cheese-obsessed soulless android that she be.
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Everything after her name was surplus to requirements, cheese-obsessed soulless android that she be.
Why Cheesoid exist? Cheesiod hate self... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_m17HK97M8)
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Why Cheesoid exist? Cheesiod hate self... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_m17HK97M8)
My favourite ever sketch in the history of comedy sketch shows. I can't even say petrol any more, it comes out as petril.
(NB you need the full version for the set-up - https://youtu.be/6Ofesgkhikg )
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Why Cheesoid exist? Cheesiod hate self... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_m17HK97M8)
My favourite ever sketch in the history of comedy sketch shows. I can't even say petrol any more, it comes out as petril.
A couple of years ago, I was pleased to note that someone at Nottingham hackspace was molishing a Cheesoid:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2018_03_26_14_26_18.sized.jpg)
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2018_03_26_14_26_12.sized.jpg)
I have a dial-a-cheesoid extension on our Asterisk server. Because sometimes you need arbitrary help with a binary decision. Or to check the phone still works.
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Sammy Wilson.
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Two fer one.
Hancock for complaining that asymptomatic people are using the CV testing system. Of course they are you utter fucking simpleton. You don't need a test to tell you you're ill when you're showing symptoms, you need to know if you're carrying the virus if you're *not* showing symptoms so that you don't spread it to others.
Bloody Stupid Johnson (aka Bozo the Clown) for finally, officially, turning Britain into a Banana Republic, or whatever the Constitutional Monarchical equivalent thereof is, by deciding to ignore a legally binding international agreement.
Christ, but this is the most piss-poor excuse for a government I have *ever* seen.
Hmm, perhaps this should have been in "Rants".
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"Banana Monarchy" does have something of a ring to it though. We would at least be world beating. The world's most bananaiest banana monarchy.
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"Banana Monarchy" does have something of a ring to it though. We would at least be world beating. The world's most bananaiest banana monarchy.
And we dunt hafter ,,,,,,,,,,,, acept bannana rools. ,, from teh FASHIST EU!!!2!
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Sebastian Fox, Michael Green and Grant Shapps (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/hammersmith-bridge-fed-up-waiting-grant-shapps-a4544366.html). If it was my bridge, I'd bung big notices on Hammersmith Bridge saying “Warning: clever buggers with engineering degrees think this bridge is unsafe. Use at your own risk. Don't come crying to us if it collapses and you or yours are killed utterly to DETH, go and shout at Super-Twat Shapps instead.”
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It's not a major artery, it's a narrow Victorian-era bridge never engineered to carry modern traffic in any volume. The far larger Wandsworth bridge is not very far away and frankly, do all those people need to be driving anyway? No.
So fuck off, twats.
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I suspect someone has closed a very key artery in Grant Shapps’s neck. His brain has clearly been starved of oxygen for a considerable period.
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"Banana Monarchy" does have something of a ring to it though. We would at least be world beating. The world's most bananaiest banana monarchy.
Yes, but we have no bananas...
Cabbages, yes.
Brassica Monarchy?
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"Banana Monarchy" does have something of a ring to it though. We would at least be world beating. The world's most bananaiest banana monarchy.
Yes, but we have no bananas...
Cabbages, yes.
Brassica Monarchy?
:-)
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I think Turnip Monarchy would be more appropriate.
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Ruled by swedes? But we had a referendum...
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Well, BSJ keeps trying to pretend that he has a cunning plan. :facepalm:
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A Cummings plan?
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There's a plan? ;D
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/25/sir-jim-ratcliffe-uks-richest-person-moves-to-tax-free-monaco-brexit-ineos-domicile
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I thought he was there already. These hypocritical bastards who agitated for Brexit and then swan off to live in Europe >:( >:( >:(
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I thought he was there already. These hypocritical bastards who agitated for Brexit and then swan off to live in Europe >:( >:( >:(
Yebbut Monaco ain’t really Europe. He still a tax avoiding unmentionable tho.
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Laurence Fox
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Laurence Fox
Living proof that raddled poshos have the Gammon Nature.
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Laurence Fox
I dunno why you are all so negative about him launching his political party.
Hopefully it will split the tory/gammon vote.
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Laurence Fox
Sometimes, one can see the attraction of hunting with a pack of hounds...
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Makes you wonder just where this cash is coming from. Strange forces at work out there.
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Laurence Fox
I dunno why you are all so negative about him launching his political party.
Hopefully it will split the tory/gammon vote.
It is a very good point you make and one that I continue to make to friends and family. The right really only has the tories. Fromage gamed the GE by withdrawing candidates in seats to ensure that tories won. On the left we have Lib Dems, Labour, and Green in England with PC and SNP in Wales and Scotland respectively. The left is killing itself.
The fascist strategy is to hold onto power at all costs and the left wing is helping them achieve this.
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Makes you wonder just where this cash is coming from. Strange forces at work out there.
A lot of it from the ultra-right wingers in the USA (who have links with the right wingers in the former USSR states)...
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ei6WfobWsAEhEJW?format=jpg&name=medium)
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Allison Pearson. https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status/1310325037606543360?s=20 She claims to have a son at uni. He's probably googling how to change his name.
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She is certifiably bonkers, that one, and has been since well before the advent of Coronalurgi.
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She used to live in the village. She was universally disliked.
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The tweet has gone . It would seem that it broke twitters rules.
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Lawrence Fox appears keen to dethrone Morgan as the biggest bell end in existence.
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Fox is still just a single-issue twat though. In contrast, colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron has applied his twatspertise to an almost boundless array of topics.
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Morgan CBE is Dark Overlord of the Twativerse. Fox is but a mere minion.
I'm sure someone with more skillz at stuff can find a minion that resembles Fox to add.
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Fox is still just a single-issue twat though. In contrast, colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron has applied his twatspertise to an almost boundless array of topics.
In other words, Piers Morgan has achieved twatscendence? :demon:
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Fox is still just a single-issue twat though. In contrast, colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron has applied his twatspertise to an almost boundless array of topics.
In other words, Piers Morgan has achieved twatscendence? :demon:
He certainly channelling the Twatgeist.
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Have standards of twattery risen so far that Grant Shapps is now merely a twat of the highest order?
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Jon Voight. Look up his twitter thing and weep.
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Jon Voight. Look up his twitter thing and weep.
Jeez. I managed to last about 30 seconds into the video before I had to stop it.
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Dementia?
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Only 15 seconds here.
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Oh dear. How tremendously twatty.
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Waiting for his daughter to come out with an 'Elect Joe Biden to save USA' video.
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Ben Bradley, not for the first time, I'm sure.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/24/ben-bradley-under-pressure-to-apologise-over-free-school-meals-tweets
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Is "taken out of context" this year's "mis-spoke"?
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Mis-spoke is what happens when a tory moves their lips and a noise is emitted from their mouth. Trouble is they don't know how not to mis-speak.
Perhaps, just perhaps Angela Rayner hit the nail squarely on the head.
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"Mis-spoke" is just a weasel's way of saying they got it wrong. But, as we all know, the worst crime in the world is to admit that you were wrong.
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Nick Freeman shooting for a life time pass to these halls again.
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https://twitter.com/WelshGasDoc/status/1322239388609400835?s=20
Alison Scientific Pearson..... :facepalm:
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Dave Jones has just been awarded a gong in the belated Birthday Honours and knows his stuff!
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Not for the first time by a long way, but Ian Dumbkin Smith for saying that Boris has "given in to the scientists".
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Peter Hitchens. Nothing super about that twat.
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Joey Barton and the 20,000 or so who have signed a 38 Degrees petition seeking to invoke Artice 61 of Magna Carter to avoid lockdown.
A special place awaits the disciples of Fromage.
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Bandwagon-jumping forrin-hating, rabble-rousing amphibian Farage. Again.
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Oh lord. Is he not dead yet? If not, why not?
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Joey Barton and the 20,000 or so who have signed a 38 Degrees petition seeking to invoke Artice 61 of Magna Carter to avoid lockdown.
A special place awaits the disciples of Fromage.
So you just need to find 4 barons to agree with you, then they need to take it to the HOL, barons/baroness only, and hope they'll agree as well, then go to Mrs Queen, who can ask her PM to introduce legislation.
Shouldn't take long at all
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Sounds like she probably did die in vain.
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Joey Barton and the 20,000 or so who have signed a 38 Degrees petition seeking to invoke Artice 61 of Magna Carter to avoid lockdown.
A special place awaits the disciples of Fromage.
So you just need to find 4 barons to agree with you, then they need to take it to the HOL, barons/baroness only, and hope they'll agree as well, then go to Mrs Queen, who can ask her PM to introduce legislation.
Shouldn't take long at all
Quite so. Perhaps they can raise their armies and march on London. We've seen just how successful Fromage has been with that plan.
The whole Freeman of the Land movement has it's foundations build upon sheer stupidity. They will start quoting ancient or even non-existent maritime law next.
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I bet they are not so keen on tithes, workdays for the lord of the manor, compulsory attendance at church, compulsory archery practice and military service obligation.
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I think it's safe to assume that anyone who asserts Magna Carta is just bonkers. It's the sort of excuse given by people running up and down the high street in just their pants. That said, we should do an updated version and call it Manga Carta. There'd be loads more tentacles.
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I bet they are not so keen on tithes, workdays for the lord of the manor, compulsory attendance at church, compulsory archery practice and military service obligation.
Possibly not the provision of suitable "maids" for the manor house either.
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I had to look it up - apparently, article 61 was never on the statute books anyway.
Helpfully, some shopkeepers are putting article 61 posters in their window to let you know which establishments are run by cunts and thereby avoid going in them.
Moving on, did anyone hear Michael O'Leary's wonderful rant on 5live yesterday morning? I meant to post about it but forgot, but helpfully they played a clip as a reminder this morning.
Well worth checking out if you missed it.
He's an absolute monstrous bellend but it was highly amusing.
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Can I just be pedantic and point out it was no 'Article 61' but Chapter 61? It lasted less than a year before being repealed in 1216...
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Bring Back Dragons!
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They're still here - though no longer breathing fire; heavily defeated at home by Munster on Sunday.
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Can I just be pedantic and point out it was no 'Article 61' but Chapter 61? It lasted less than a year before being repealed in 1216...
Yes, my bad. Some call it Article 61, others do say Chapter.
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I think it's safe to assume that anyone who asserts Magna Carta is just bonkers. It's the sort of excuse given by people running up and down the high street in just their pants. That said, we should do an updated version and call it Manga Carta. There'd be loads more tentacles.
Just splorted my tablet with chai tea cos I read that as "loads more testicles"
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I think it's safe to assume that anyone who asserts Magna Carta is just bonkers. It's the sort of excuse given by people running up and down the high street in just their pants. That said, we should do an updated version and call it Manga Carta. There'd be loads more tentacles.
Just splorted my tablet with chai tea cos I read that as "loads more testicles"
Ah, well, they feature more than you think. My favourite is Oretama. Can you guess where the Demon Queen is imprisoned?
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I think it's safe to assume that anyone who asserts Magna Carta is just bonkers. It's the sort of excuse given by people running up and down the high street in just their pants. That said, we should do an updated version and call it Manga Carta. There'd be loads more tentacles.
Just splorted my tablet with chai tea cos I read that as "loads more testicles"
Ah, well, they feature more than you think. My favourite is Oretama. Can you guess where the Demon Queen is imprisoned?
Ohhhh- do tell!
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I think it's safe to assume that anyone who asserts Magna Carta is just bonkers. It's the sort of excuse given by people running up and down the high street in just their pants. That said, we should do an updated version and call it Manga Carta. There'd be loads more tentacles.
Just splorted my tablet with chai tea cos I read that as "loads more testicles"
Ah, well, they feature more than you think. My favourite is Oretama. Can you guess where the Demon Queen is imprisoned?
In a loveless marriage to Michael Gove?
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I think it's safe to assume that anyone who asserts Magna Carta is just bonkers. It's the sort of excuse given by people running up and down the high street in just their pants. That said, we should do an updated version and call it Manga Carta. There'd be loads more tentacles.
Just splorted my tablet with chai tea cos I read that as "loads more testicles"
Ah, well, they feature more than you think. My favourite is Oretama. Can you guess where the Demon Queen is imprisoned?
Ohhhh- do tell!
Owing to a freak archangel-involved urination incident, the Demon Queen of Terror gets imprisoned in the virginal hero's right testical. Thus the hero has to become master of his own domain, resist the sudden attentions of his attractive co-worker and long-term crush, or literally splash destruction on the world.
Pretty much an everyday story of life in Japan, I'm sure.
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I think it's safe to assume that anyone who asserts Magna Carta is just bonkers. It's the sort of excuse given by people running up and down the high street in just their pants. That said, we should do an updated version and call it Manga Carta. There'd be loads more tentacles.
Just splorted my tablet with chai tea cos I read that as "loads more testicles"
Ah, well, they feature more than you think. My favourite is Oretama. Can you guess where the Demon Queen is imprisoned?
Ohhhh- do tell!
Owing to a freak archangel-involved urination incident, the Demon Queen of Terror gets imprisoned in the virginal hero's right testical. Thus the hero has to become master of his own domain, resist the sudden attentions of his attractive co-worker and long-term crush, or literally splash destruction on the world.
Pretty much an everyday story of life in Japan, I'm sure.
Sounds like my sort of read.
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Farage. I know I shouldn't be surprised by the utter bollocks he comes out with, but this was Extra Special:
"Andrew Neil - What is the evidence of voter fraud?
Nigel Farage - It's there for all to see...
Andrew Neil - Where is the evidence for voter fraud in the US?
Farage - It's so new... it hasn't come to light yet.."
(interview on Her Majesty's BBC earlier today)
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Oh yes, that one made me chortle. For all his faults – and they are legion – Brillo deserves ten house points for laying into the said Super-Twat, who seemed somewhat taken aback by being thus treated by a minion of the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation.
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The Earl Spencer.
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Oh yes, that one made me chortle. For all his faults – and they are legion – Brillo deserves ten house points for laying into the said Super-Twat, who seemed somewhat taken aback by being thus treated by a minion of the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation.
IDK how to share it but, by the same token, there's a great clip circulating of Piers Morgan taking Mr NF down for claiming that Trump never suggested injecting disinfectant might cure Covid.
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Lord John Kilclooney.... https://twitter.com/KilclooneyJohn/status/1325766477841043461?s=20
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Lord John Kilclooney.... https://twitter.com/KilclooneyJohn/status/1325766477841043461?s=20
From that Twitter thread
"John is disapointed that an Orangeman is leaving the Whitehouse"
Tee, and what is more, hee.
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Shows what festers below the veneer.
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He claims not to know her name. Has he been living under a rock or is he just a racist misogynistic bigot do you think?
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“This Tweet is unavailable” or so it says.
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He is a racist, misogynist bigot imo.
Did he ask similar questions when chumpie and pence were elected? How about Obama and Biden?
A perfect example of why the HoL needs major reform.
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The Speaker of the HoL has instructed Clik-looney, the great gam-gam, to “retract and apologise”.
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Raab, complaining about China ignoring the HK treaty. Can't have it both ways precious, if we don't abide by our treaty obligations then why should you expect other countries to do so?
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I know we don't even need to mention N*g*l F*r*ge's name any more, but I belatedly came across a good piece in the Guardian by Peter Walker* about his latest populist bandwagon jumping exercise...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/nov/11/farages-anti-cyclist-article-shows-car-users-fear-loss-of-control
*no, not that one ;)
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IAMRoadSmart, for campaigning for a ban on cyclists wearing headphones.
Are they also going to ban deaf people from cycling?
(I actually won't wear headphones while cycling, I rely on my hearing to warn me about traffic)
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What can people in cars hear?
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What can people in cars hear?
Their In Car Entertainment. Unless they’ve muted it to use their phones.
Oh, sorry, that was rhetorical wasn’t it?
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IAMRoadSmart, for campaigning for a ban on cyclists wearing headphones.
Are they also going to ban deaf people from cycling?
(I actually won't wear headphones while cycling, I rely on my hearing to warn me about traffic)
Perhaps the CTC or whatever it is called these days should start a campaign to ban in car entertainment and using a mobile whilst driving ...
To be honest I never used earphones whilst cycling. Every opportunity to be aware of the presence of vehicles, especially those with erratic drivers not quite in full control of them was vital for my survival imo.
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Cyclists should start a campaign for drivers to always have their windows open. :demon:
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IAMRoadSmart
Never heard of them... <googles> Oh! It's the current name of the Institute of Advanced Morons.
Nuff said.
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I remember IAM, many many years, many many many years, many... [/Lady Counterblast]
Anyway, they ran a public poll on what people thought would improve road safety the most. One of the most popular choices was "remove red light cameras at traffic lights"
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I believe that we all think we’re better drivers than we are (with the possible exception of Lewis Hamilton). The IAM gives people certificates to inflate their opinions of their driving ability.
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When I was motorcycling all the time, I had a couple of friends who were IAM. They used to ride right on my right shoulder, like a TDF peloton. I hated it. It reminds me of the flash skiers who feel safe passing newbies really, ignoring the fact that the newbies don't share that view.
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When I was motorcycling all the time, I had a couple of friends who were IAM. They used to ride right on my right shoulder, like a TDF peloton. I hated it. It reminds me of the flash skiers who feel safe passing newbies really, ignoring the fact that the newbies don't share that view.
Cyclists are probably the worst for that. Having a club pass us(without singling out) on the tandem almost close enough to brush elbows freaks my stoker out.
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I believe that we all think we’re better drivers than we are (with the possible exception of Lewis Hamilton). The IAM gives people certificates to inflate their opinions of their driving ability.
I take exception to that. I believe that I am an average driver at best and I have been trained as a Class 2 HGV driver, a Police response driver and have had several other driving courses such as how to drive on the 'wron' side of the road on overseas postings, 4WD courses for Land Rovers in their natural habitat.
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I remember IAM, many many years, many many many years, many... [/Lady Counterblast]
Anyway, they ran a public poll on what people thought would improve road safety the most. One of the most popular choices was "remove red light cameras at traffic lights"
We all know that the correct response should be ban motor vehicles.
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Are they campaigning for cars to only be available in high-viz yellow? Someone should be.
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I believe that we all think we’re better drivers than we are (with the possible exception of Lewis Hamilton). The IAM gives people certificates to inflate their opinions of their driving ability.
I take exception to that. I believe that I am an average driver at best and I have been trained as a Class 2 HGV driver, a Police response driver and have had several other driving courses such as how to drive on the 'wron' side of the road on overseas postings, 4WD courses for Land Rovers in their natural habitat.
sorry Lewis. ;D
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I believe that we all think we’re better drivers than we are (with the possible exception of Lewis Hamilton). The IAM gives people certificates to inflate their opinions of their driving ability.
I take exception to that. I believe that I am an average driver at best and I have been trained as a Class 2 HGV driver, a Police response driver and have had several other driving courses such as how to drive on the 'wron' side of the road on overseas postings, 4WD courses for Land Rovers in their natural habitat.
sorry Lewis. ;D
😀
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I believe that we all think we’re better drivers than we are (with the possible exception of Lewis Hamilton). The IAM gives people certificates to inflate their opinions of their driving ability.
I take exception to that. I believe that I am an average driver at best and I have been trained as a Class 2 HGV driver, a Police response driver and have had several other driving courses such as how to drive on the 'wron' side of the road on overseas postings, 4WD courses for Land Rovers in their natural habitat.
sorry Lewis. ;D
:P
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Does Julia Hartley-Brewer have form on here?
https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1329376688921325568 (https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1329376688921325568)
and https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1329392697711464448 (https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1329392697711464448)
And of course Laurence Fox
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1329390155229224960 (https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1329390155229224960)
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I genuinely thought JHB was a parody.
As for Lozza, he's the roadkill badger of the culture wars.
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I genuinely thought JHB was a parody.
As for Lozza, he's the roadkill badger of the culture wars.
She's only an insensitive tweet or two away from Hatey Cockpins' level of insanity.
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The examples of prime gammonella Julia Hartley-Brewer saying S-T-worthy Stuffs are innumerable and in a post-Panzers Down Whitehall world she will be unemployed, because we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party will close down the Daily Fail and plough the ground with salt. Plus she'll be in a Reëducation Camp anyway.
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Then glad to see I'm adding grist to the mill
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I'm puzzled by the absence of the world's bigliest
WINNER LOSER from this thread. Have I missed a nomination?
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I'm puzzled by the absence of the world's bigliest WINNER LOSER from this thread. Have I missed a nomination?
He’s got a thread all of his own over in POBI.
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Please keep it there. With the likes of bozo, scummings, jhb, the CBE, Hancock, Fox, irritable bowel Smith, Raab, Fromage, Greasy-Smugg, hatey cockpins, etc., etc., etc., we really don't need an apocalyptic extra. Do we?
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I'm puzzled by the absence of the world's bigliest WINNER LOSER from this thread. Have I missed a nomination?
There are 136 instances of 'Trump' in this thread, so unless you mean someone else, or I've badly misjudged snooker player Judd Trump, I suspect you have.
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I'm puzzled by the absence of the world's bigliest WINNER LOSER from this thread. Have I missed a nomination?
There are 136 instances of '{name redacted for reasons of good taste}' in this thread...
One meant recently, but as I didn't make that obvious I will accept the reprimand without demur. However, as PB asked nicely, I'm going to say no more about {NRFROGT}.
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:thumbsup:
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The green party councilors in York who have opposed 5g installations in the city, on the grounds that '5G is bad for health'.
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Gavin Williamson, education secretary, channeling Flanders and Swan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-wEXvdW8)
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has claimed the UK was the first country in the world to clinically approve a coronavirus vaccine because the country has “much better” scientists than France, Belgium or the US.
Williamson said he was not surprised the UK was the first to roll out the immunisation because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them”.
Linky to The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them)
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Gavin Williamson, education secretary, channeling Flanders and Swan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-wEXvdW8)
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has claimed the UK was the first country in the world to clinically approve a coronavirus vaccine because the country has “much better” scientists than France, Belgium or the US.
Williamson said he was not surprised the UK was the first to roll out the immunisation because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them”.
Linky to The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them)
That's right up there in 'My Dad's bigger than your Dad' territory ::-)
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Didn't Russia approve their vaccine a long time before anybody else?
Williamson is a total and utter super mega twat. What bit of this vaccine is actually British?
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Education, strewth.
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Reading around the subject I see that Australia which has bought into the same vaccine is not prepared to rush in and says that they will have the benefit of the full data analysis and real life data from the UK's rollout.
PR maybe but it highlights that we are rushing in not fully enlightened. And then we have super twats like Hancock and Williamson doing their "England is best because ..." bollox.
I hope that our rush for glory doesn't prove to be rash and foolish.
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Reading around the subject I see that Australia which has bought into the same vaccine is not prepared to rush in and says that they will have the benefit of the full data analysis and real life data from the UK's rollout.
PR maybe but it highlights that we are rushing in not fully enlightened. And then we have super twats like Hancock and Williamson doing their "England is best because ..." bollox.
I hope that our rush for glory doesn't prove to be rash and foolish.
From my understanding, we revised our approach to this so some of the data could be compared in parallel, which perhaps isn't a bad thing. Totally unrelated to the EU, of course, since we always could do this. The data is comprehensive, the trial large, with no significant reported adverse events. It's unlikely it won't get approved by other regulators.
The Russian vaccine hasn't been through a proper phase III trial – that's scheduled to run to April/May 2021. The Russians just went ahead and approved it. Now that is rash, no one really knows how well it works and the potential for adverse events.
This all reminds me that, no matter how you dress it up, this sort of petty nationalism leaves a bad taste. Thinking (a long way) back, in the last lab I worked in was in the US, my co-conspirator was German, I shared an office with a French woman, and we had students and post-docs from the US, South Korea, Finland, China, and an Indian via Nigeria (the US has more recently considerable step back by implementing visa quotas). This ought to be a salutary reminder that borders are impediments to progress.
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I agree the Russian vaccine has not been properly tested as confirmed by Vladimir refusing to be vaccinated. He's just a superior specimen like chumpie I guess ...
Our Regulator has emergency powers (granted by law in 2012) to allow the use of medicines in extreme circumstances before the full process is completed. The data has not been fully collected and analysed still but, and I suspect in a political move as oppose to an expedient one, it's use has been allowed. Interestingly, the US has similar powers and yet they have not approved any vaccines by this process. Other nations prefer to wait for completion before ratification.
As I say, I really want a vaccine to be effective but what I don't want is yet more suffering and hand-wringing and blame and even further division in our society for the sake of political games. The stakes are just too high.
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Reading around the subject I see that Australia which has bought into the same vaccine is not prepared to rush in and says that they will have the benefit of the full data analysis and real life data from the UK's rollout.
PR maybe but it highlights that we are rushing in not fully enlightened. And then we have super twats like Hancock and Williamson doing their "England is best because ..." bollox.
I hope that our rush for glory doesn't prove to be rash and foolish.
From my understanding, we revised our approach to this so some of the data could be compared in parallel, which perhaps isn't a bad thing. Totally unrelated to the EU, of course, since we always could do this. The data is comprehensive, the trial large, with no significant reported adverse events. It's unlikely it won't get approved by other regulators.
The Russian vaccine hasn't been through a proper phase III trial – that's scheduled to run to April/May 2021. The Russians just went ahead and approved it. Now that is rash, no one really knows how well it works and the potential for adverse events.
This all reminds me that, no matter how you dress it up, this sort of petty nationalism leaves a bad taste. Thinking (a long way) back, in the last lab I worked in was in the US, my co-conspirator was German, I shared an office with a French woman, and we had students and post-docs from the US, South Korea, Finland, China, and an Indian via Nigeria (the US has more recently considerable step back by implementing visa quotas). This ought to be a salutary reminder that borders are impediments to progress.
That old chestnut of effective collaboration! I wish!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55175162
Gavin Williamson. Just the sort of knob-end you need to open his cretinous mouth at the critical stages of the Brexit negotiation. If I were Barnier, I'd have told us to FRO and gone home.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55175162
Gavin Williamson. Just the sort of knob-end you need to open his cretinous mouth at the critical stages of the Brexit negotiation. If I were Barnier, I'd have told us to FRO and gone home.
I said that up there ^, earlier today.
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Oh well, worth saying again as he's such a twat ;)
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Williamson is clearly looking to become the poster boy for the alt-right ERG faction of the UK Fascist Party, er I mean the tories for when the next round of "hang the leader, vote a new puppet in" comes around. So, that's Sunak and Williamson with their hats in the ring to be the next tory leader.
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Come on lads, be fair, there's a complete dearth of talent in there.
Will a new hopelessly incompetent leader really make any difference ?
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Gavin Williamson, education secretary, channeling Flanders and Swan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-wEXvdW8)
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has claimed the UK was the first country in the world to clinically approve a coronavirus vaccine because the country has “much better” scientists than France, Belgium or the US.
Williamson said he was not surprised the UK was the first to roll out the immunisation because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them”.
Linky to The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them)
I just saw this on C4 news. The fireplace salesman and über-Gammon Nick Ferrari. At first I thought it was Steve Coogan taking the piss.
Is he really the best this panoply of prats can come up with? The twat.
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Lord Ken Maginnis
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/lord-maginnis-faces-suspension-for-bullying-and-homophobic-slurs-towards-mps-39821535.html
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Lord Ken Maginnis
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/lord-maginnis-faces-suspension-for-bullying-and-homophobic-slurs-towards-mps-39821535.html
Sounds like an absolutely sterling sort of fellow. Surprised he's not a Tory.
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An Ulster Unionist and career homophobe who was too bigoted for them.
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Shadow environment secretary Mr Pollard said in his complaint that he was “shocked and surprised that this type of behaviour would happen within Westminster”
Was he born yesterday, or has he just been living under a stone?
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Gavin Williamson, education secretary, channeling Flanders and Swan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-wEXvdW8)
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has claimed the UK was the first country in the world to clinically approve a coronavirus vaccine because the country has “much better” scientists than France, Belgium or the US.
Williamson said he was not surprised the UK was the first to roll out the immunisation because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them”.
Linky to The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them)
I just saw this on C4 news. The fireplace salesman and über-Gammon Nick Ferrari. At first I thought it was Steve Coogan taking the piss.
Is he really the best this panoply of prats can come up with? The twat.
Much though it irks me to be fair to the twat, he was fairly successfully avoiding repeating yesterday's claim that the speedy approval had anything to do with Brexit, and trying to make a joke that would land well with Ferrari (and presumably the listeners, or some of them).
On this occasion I reckon he's more standard twat than super-twat.
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Julia Tory-Sewer, and all her followers. https://twitter.com/juliahb1/status/1334753592671088640?s=21
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She's known as Julia Dunning-Kruger in another place I frequent. Not without good reason.
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well done andrew c and Guy.
The best I could come up with was Julia Heartless-Bruiser, which doesn't fit nearly as well.
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All these individuals (who admittedly had stayed off my radar before this thread) seem indistinguishable from parodies. I just looked up Nick Ferrari, who's I'm sure would grace the definition of gammon in the Big Picture Dictionary of Modern Words. The only thing high performance about him seems to be his name. I have a horrid feeling that London taxi drivers cut out pictures of his face and stick them over the face of their favourite gay porn stars so they have something to do in their downtime.
As for JHB, surely being wrong about everything has to take a toll. She's like a black hole for facts. In they go, and they're never seen again. She's a giant water-filled condom of wrong. She'd burst messily if dropped.
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Julia Hateful-Spewer is a toned down version of Hatey Katie. The irony about these people is they complain vociferously about the tories but guess who they vote for regardless?
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Millwall fans, playing up to their reputation, and George Eustice, for his response.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/06/millwall-fans-who-booed-players-taking-a-knee-should-be-respected-says-eustice
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Is this George Useless' first time in the barrel of Super-Twattery? That ^^^^ makes me wonder how he's been overlooked for so long.
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We are spoilt for choice. Sometimes we miss one.
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Slightly surprising we’ve overlooked Eustice thus far, given that he’s a former Kipper.
Perhaps he has been keeping his powder dry.
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Matt Handcock :sick:
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Jim Ratcliffe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55236852 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55236852)
(actually quite a sound business decission, but he surely qualifies for the way he's screwed over the British people?)
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As a Scouser I may be slightly prejudiced against this chap, but think he deserves a mention for this rancid tweet. https://twitter.com/kelvmackenzie/status/1337864454403452928?s=20
And of course Rod Widdle. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1338127894804115456?s=20 :sick:
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As a Scouser I may be slightly prejudiced against this chap, but think he deserves a mention for this rancid tweet. https://twitter.com/kelvmackenzie/status/1337864454403452928?s=20
And of course Rod Widdle. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1338127894804115456?s=20 :sick:
I'm not a Scouser. I'm prejudiced against that arsehole. And the other one. It's a totally reasonable reaction to such vermin.
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Julie Burchill
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Permanent member here, surely ? Small minded, racist, bigoted, unwilling to countenance any view but her own. Thoroughly unlikeable in pretty much every respect.
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Julie Burchill
The book of my enemy has not even made it as far as being remaindered (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55331063)? Or some other piece of recent Twattery?
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While she's a prize twat, someone please save us from having to read about another spat between halfwitted nobodies on Twitter.
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While she's a prize twat, someone please save us from having to read about another spat between halfwitted nobodies on Twitter.
Apparently it started with Ash Sarkar taking exception to odious Super-Twat Rod Liddle's twattery (see Efrogwr's post above). Burchill then waded in with the “the Prophet Muhammad was a paedo” bollocks used by lazy gam-gams all over antisocial media when they can’t be arsed to engage their critical faculties* and consider that the mores of seventh-century Arabia are not those of 21st century BRITAIN.
* joke
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Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
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Truss.
She and her fellow fascist ideologists do not want to understand equality. Equality is about giving people the same opportunities, not giving them favour. If young white males don't take their opportunities that is unfortunate, if black, disabled, female, religious, gay etc. people are not even given the opportunity, how can they ever take it?
What she said was in effect, white lives matter.
More than a mere super twat, much much more.
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Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
I've never understood what everyone sees in Jones. He's a second rate journalist whose political acumen has developed little beyond student politics. I know he's gay and writes for the Guardian - but that doesn't make you a great thinker or champion of the Left. He's closer to Mandelson than Mandela...
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Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
I've never understood what everyone sees in Jones. He's a second rate journalist whose political acumen has developed little beyond student politics. I know he's gay and writes for the Guardian - but that doesn't make you a great thinker or champion of the Left. He's closer to Mandelson than Mandela...
Jones is something of a political weathervane, changing stance as is expedient. His behaviour in that respect when it came to Corbyn/Corbynism resulted in colleagues at the Guardian calling him "Squealer", after the propagandist in Animal Farm. ;D
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Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
I have to admit I've given up reading his column.
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Tobias " allowing families to meet over Christmas for five days "could be very dangerous indeed " Ewood.
Funny how there is always a reason to justify a tory breaking the rules. Eye tests, interview with a journalist, checking that the country pile is ok, gleaning useful information, ...
All Ewood does is remind us how there is one rule for us and one rule for them.
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Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
I've never understood what everyone sees in Jones. He's a second rate journalist whose political acumen has developed little beyond student politics. I know he's gay and writes for the Guardian - but that doesn't make you a great thinker or champion of the Left. He's closer to Mandelson than Mandela...
He does like a bandwagon. Got totally behind Corbyn for a while but has long since jumped that ship. I think his main shortcoming is not having any original ideas. But he is industrious, which counts for a lot in his game - the rate he churns out books should at least keep him comfortable in retirement.
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Truss.
She and her fellow fascist ideologists do not want to understand equality. Equality is about giving people the same opportunities, not giving them favour. If young white males don't take their opportunities that is unfortunate, if black, disabled, female, religious, gay etc. people are not even given the opportunity, how can they ever take it?
What she said was in effect, white lives matter.
More than a mere super twat, much much more.
Petril!
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Strike three: Greasy-Smugg.
UNICEF has really embarrassed him and the fascists and he doesn't like it.
Truth hurts Smuggy, eh?
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Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
I've never understood what everyone sees in Jones. He's a second rate journalist whose political acumen has developed little beyond student politics. I know he's gay and writes for the Guardian - but that doesn't make you a great thinker or champion of the Left. He's closer to Mandelson than Mandela...
Indeed, and Ash Shakur is pretty much anti-everything without really being anti. I find them as tedious as each other, regardless of the team they play for (basically right vs left contrarian) as they spat on Twitter. Is it news that Rod Liddle or Julie Burchill write something stupid – it's how they get paid. It all seems a bit tediously incestuous, they write something stupid, they others leap to the contrarian position. Tweets over the battlements!
Just. Fuck. Off. None of it interesting or witty. If you're going to write an offensive twat piece be a fucking AA Gill and a not Rod Liddle. At least be interestingly offensive. And the left, just dull, dull, dull. They are perpetual danger of writing something that will offend themselves. Not of it really makes you think: well you might have a point. It'd being contrary for the sake of it.
We can include Toby Young, the self-styled Lozza, the barmy haired Suzanne Moore, the stern fringed feminists of the Guardian comments, the perpetually wrong JHB and so many more. I reckon there are far more than seven intellectual dwarves in play. Scrolling back through this thread, I think we're actually watching the Stupid Olympics.
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Beats the Upper Class Twit of the Year SHow
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Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
I've never understood what everyone sees in Jones. He's a second rate journalist whose political acumen has developed little beyond student politics. I know he's gay and writes for the Guardian - but that doesn't make you a great thinker or champion of the Left. He's closer to Mandelson than Mandela...
Indeed, and Ash Shakur is pretty much anti-everything without really being anti. I find them as tedious as each other, regardless of the team they play for (basically right vs left contrarian) as they spat on Twitter. Is it news that Rod Liddle or Julie Burchill write something stupid – it's how they get paid. It all seems a bit tediously incestuous, they write something stupid, they others leap to the contrarian position. Tweets over the battlements!
Just. Fuck. Off. None of it interesting or witty. If you're going to write an offensive twat piece be a fucking AA Gill and a not Rod Liddle. At least be interestingly offensive. And the left, just dull, dull, dull. They are perpetual danger of writing something that will offend themselves. Not of it really makes you think: well you might have a point. It'd being contrary for the sake of it.
We can include Toby Young, the self-styled Lozza, the barmy haired Suzanne Moore, the stern fringed feminists of the Guardian comments, the perpetually wrong JHB and so many more. I reckon there are far more than seven intellectual dwarves in play. Scrolling back through this thread, I think we're actually watching the Stupid Olympics.
I find Marina Hyde and John Crace amusing. Marina doesn't shy away from digging the knife in.
The prime minister is like one of those trolleys that stops working once you reach the perimeter of the supermarket car park. As soon as he passes the white cliffs of Dover, Johnson no longer functions as the repository of a hundred buy-one-get-one-free delusions about Merrie England, and becomes useless.
Excellent. Although it is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Oh, I much enjoy Hyde and Crace, but they can write and have something acid to say. Liddle's dull attempts at being edgy are ludicrous (he next week's column he'll be telling everyone how he fucked a hedgehog – oh just stop it, you boring twat, your right hand would refuse to give you a wank and your left would claim it has a headache). The weird persistence of Burchill, she wasn't very good to start off with, and I think she's been writing the what is essentially the same shit article for the last thirty years. Jones is the annoying guy you tried not to know at university, the one with the subscription to Socialist Worker who always turned up at your parties even though no one ever invited him.
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[…] Liddle's dull attempts at being edgy are ludicrous (he next week's column he'll be telling everyone how he fucked a hedgehog – oh just stop it, you boring twat, your right hand would refuse to give you a wank and your left would claim it has a headache).
Which immediately made me think of this:
Anti Nowhere League - So What (https://youtu.be/AH7pOUm5s9k)
Contains Bad Swears.
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Julia Tory-Sewer, and all her followers. https://twitter.com/juliahb1/status/1334753592671088640?s=21 (https://twitter.com/juliahb1/status/1334753592671088640?s=21)
https://twitter.com/juliahb1/status/1340380876945969153?s=21 (https://twitter.com/juliahb1/status/1340380876945969153?s=21)
Enjoy your Christmas plebs!
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If leading Panzers down Whitehall wasn’t contraindicated in these Time of Plague we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party would e'en now being enacting legislation* to have Tory-Sewer quarantined on her return. Our scientists have been instructed to believe that at least fifteen years would be required.
* well, alright, issuing a decree
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If leading Panzers down Whitehall wasn’t contraindicated in these Time of Plague we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party would e'en now being enacting legislation* to have Tory-Sewer quarantined on her return. Our scientists have been instructed to believe that at least fifteen years would be required.
* well, alright, issuing a decree
Nay, lad, you underestimate the virulence.
Find out the likely remaining lifespan for the Heartless Bruiser, add fifteen years to allow for errors, then double it. That's the quarantine period.
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The weird persistence of Burchill, she wasn't very good to start off with, and I think she's been writing the what is essentially the same shit article for the last thirty years.
When she used to write a column for the Guardian Weekend , I always used to turn to that page first,and look at the bottom right.
Blessed were the Saturdays when I saw the magic words, "Julie Burchill is away."
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She was not greeted with universal acclaim by the readers of NME either, as wasn’t her fellow wunderkind Tony Parsons.
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Oh, I much enjoy Hyde and Crace, but they can write and have something acid to say. Liddle's dull attempts at being edgy are ludicrous (he next week's column he'll be telling everyone how he fucked a hedgehog – oh just stop it, you boring twat, your right hand would refuse to give you a wank and your left would claim it has a headache). The weird persistence of Burchill, she wasn't very good to start off with, and I think she's been writing the what is essentially the same shit article for the last thirty years. Jones is the annoying guy you tried not to know at university, the one with the subscription to Socialist Worker who always turned up at your parties even though no one ever invited him.
Burchill is the target of Morrissey's most memorable pieces of invective in his wankathon "Autobiography". Ok, being insulted by Morrissey is a bit like Laurence Fox calling you a racist twat, but it was certainly to the point.
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Tory Buffoon Sir Desmond Swayne, who was on the Today programme this morning criticising what he called "the health lobby" for advising the government that infection rates were rising too quickly for the south-east to be able to cope with five days of partying over Xmas.
He was also peddling the ludicrous conspiracy theory that the announcement of the stricter measures was deliberately delayed until after Parliament had gone into recess so that people like him wouldn't get the chance to give the medical data their expert scrutiny and vote on them.
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I suspect Desmond Swyne is another one of those arsewits, like Iain Dunkedin-Shit, who blithely votes for any old crap without bothering to read it and then complains bitterly when the results are not what they expected.
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Lord Blencathra....
https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-21-december-2020-279635
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Priti Awful (again).
Contempt of court ?? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-55403058)
Little Tommy Two Names got banged up for that, didn't he ?
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Priti Awful (again).
Contempt of court ?? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-55403058)
Little Tommy Two Names got banged up for that, didn't he ?
She's just effing thick.
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Priti Awful (again).
Contempt of court ?? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-55403058)
Little Tommy Two Names got banged up for that, didn't he ?
Is it just me or does she look like a deep sea angler fish ?
(I don't think comments about how people look are particularly helpful)
Fuck me, that's a spectacular screw up. Surely even minions on the lower sub decks of the Home Office know that commenting about on going trials is a big no no, let alone the Home Secretary. Shouldn't she get the sack? (Today's rhetorical question)
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Shouldn't she be arrested and charged?
It seems to me that the police have an awkward decision to make - arrest and charge their boss or show the whole country that tories are above the law.
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We already know they're above the law.
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I've said it before, but it bears repeating, but she really is astonishingly dumb. I honestly think that if we gave her the opportunity, she'd prove she's tough on immigration by inadvertently deporting herself and then complaining it was unfair on her.
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Oh FFS! I come here to lambast disgraced former International Development minister Piggi Patel only to find you lot have comprehensively ninja'd me :'(
I expect she was conflicted between her innate desire to incarcerate absolutely everyone and her secret desire to see all illegal immigrants suffocating utterly to DETH in the back of a lorry.
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I'm sure I read somewhere that she's also claimed the government 'has been ahead of the curve at every step' regarding our dear friend the coronavirus.
Ah, here we go.
The Government has consistently this year been ahead of the curve in terms of proactive decisions on coronavirus.
Any words that leave her mouth appear to be on a suicide mission.
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And yet, like all tories at this time, she remains untouchable.
No accountability in a crap electoral process which gives the minority absolute power. It's an even bigger problem when those who have grabbed power are so totally unscrupulous.
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This made me smile and is sort of OT. An extract from a kit review from the (toy aeroplane) club newsletter, "The laser cutting and accuracy of parts is very good, the instructions not so. A nice glossy book with pictures but with more omissions than a Boris Johnson confessional."
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Julie Burchill
The book of my enemy has not even made it as far as being remaindered (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55331063)? Or some other piece of recent Twattery?
Having some insider knowledge of the publisher's action on this matter - the original manuscript had not been completed and submitted . . . the publisher just cancelled the contract as was its right within the terms.
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Priti Awful (again).
(I don't think comments about how people look are particularly helpful)
True, I swithered on posting that, I went ahead as it wasn't a comment regarding weight / gender / ethnicity / etc.
But, agreed, and deleted.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-55422321
This chap , with an attitude like that I'm amazed the Tories didn't promote him. What did he say to make them expel him ?
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Bloody Stupid (Boris) Johnson of ‘getting Brexit done’.
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All he wanted was the opportunity to look like santa claus at Christmas. Well bozo, sorry to break it to you but SC is fake too*.
* Just my opinion you understand ...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-55422321
This chap, with an attitude like that I'm amazed the Tories didn't promote him. What did he say to make them expel him ?
Islamophobic arse-gravy:
Calderdale Tory councillor suspended over 'Islamophobic' comment (https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/politics/council/calderdale-tory-councillor-suspended-over-islamophobic-comment-996209)
A Calderdale councillor has been suspended for a second time by the Conservative Party after sharing a post comparing Muslims not speaking out against terrorism to Germans who did not speak out against Nazis.
(My bold)
His previous suspension was for
In 2012 a private email to campaign group Just showed Mr Taylor called the Hillsborough report “politically correct” and the Stephen Lawrence inquiry “a joke”.
So, a serial Super-Twat who, when the revolution comes, will learn anew that “freeze peach” has its consequences.
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I'm not sure whether Daniel Hannan, the anti-EU anti-NHS anti-poor people freshly minted peer, has been nominated for the pantheon of Super-Twats, but if he ent it is a startling omission. Anyway, he wants to trample all over various things that are stopping his obscenely wealthy pals from getting even richer, for e.g.
- the Temporary Workers’ Directive
- the General Data Protection Regulation
- the ban on products made from genetically modified crops
- the REACH Directive, wot outlaws chemicals linked to health problems including cancer, thyroid disease, hormone disruption and slow development.
- the End of Life Vehicles Directive
- the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive introduced to regulate hedge funds and private equity following the 2008 financial crash
- “chunks of” the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) – the legal framework to harmonise regulation of securities markets and trading venues
Even without the last two the list would be more than sufficient to ensure Super-Twat status, but those last two merit the addition of Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds to his Twats' Cross. I mean, what could possibly go wrong when financial sharks are allowed to do what they bloody well like, Danno? You twat.
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A corporate nomination:
Centrica, owners of Gritish Bas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55562904
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A double entry for Ian Austin & Esther McVile.
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Mr Google is failing to inform me of any notable recent twatworthiness on the part of either. Pray enlighten us, o wise Twatfinder-General!
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Mr Google is failing to inform me of any notable recent twatworthiness on the part of either. Pray enlighten us, o wise Twatfinder-General!
https://twitter.com/EstherMcVey1/status/1348278687645523969?s=20
https://twitter.com/Rob_K_Abrams/status/1348282772121669632?s=20
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Mr Google is failing to inform me of any notable recent twatworthiness on the part of either. Pray enlighten us, o wise Twatfinder-General!
https://twitter.com/EstherMcVey1/status/1348278687645523969?s=20
https://twitter.com/Rob_K_Abrams/status/1348282772121669632?s=20
That McVey tweet gives hope to all those who are intellectually challenged that they too are smart enough to become an MP.
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Mr Google is failing to inform me of any notable recent twatworthiness on the part of either. Pray enlighten us, o wise Twatfinder-General!
https://twitter.com/EstherMcVey1/status/1348278687645523969?s=20
https://twitter.com/Rob_K_Abrams/status/1348282772121669632?s=20
Ah, I see what you mean. The twatfulness of both is most enormous.
Edit: Equally worthy of S-T status are the globsters of the Gammonariat agreeing with McVile. Especially the one who used the word “sheeple” inna-non-ironic-stylee.
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The lack of high profile press attention given to the right wing coup attempt in the US and subsequent ongoing situation, is remarkable.
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The lack of high profile press attention given to the right wing coup attempt in the US and subsequent ongoing situation, is remarkable.
As is the lack of directed condemnation of the ringleader by our Conservative mp's as well as the deafening silence of the fascist farrige.
Instead Super twat Hancock suggests that social media companies might need more regulation because they have decided not to allow continued insurrectionist behaviour on their platforms. Gag the media that doesn't openly support your fascist views eh Hancock? Hypocritical super twat.
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The lack of high profile press attention given to the right wing coup attempt in the US and subsequent ongoing situation, is remarkable.
Really? It's pretty much the top story in everything I've read over the weekend.
I'd be very interested in Esther Vey's opinion on the matter though. She seems to possess a critical insight denied to most.
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May it please the court, it should be noted that P**** M***** CBE has today admitted on a commercial distascope broadcast that his assessment of *name redacted for reasons of good taste* was incorrect. So that's alright then.
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The lack of high profile press attention given to the right wing coup attempt in the US and subsequent ongoing situation, is remarkable.
Really? It's pretty much the top story in everything I've read over the weekend.
I'd be very interested in Esther Vey's opinion on the matter though. She seems to possess a critical insight denied to most.
Esther McVey exists solely to make Liz Truss look gifted...
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A double entry for Ian Austin & Esther McVile.
Austin al aggro!
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Shaun Bailey
The Conservative candidate for London mayor has sparked controversy after suggesting that homeless people in the capital would be able to save up for a £5,000 deposit to buy a share in a newly-built affordable home. (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/13/tory-london-mayor-candidate-homeless-can-save-up-for-house-deposit)
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Bailey is living proof that “Gammon” is not a racist pejorative.
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Haunted Pencil loses plot; claims fish are happier now they’re BRITISH (https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/jacob-rees-mogg-scottish-fishermen-brexit-troubles-6904448).
What. A. Twat.
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Actually, the fish are happier because there's little danger of being caught any time soon. :demon:
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Is it wrong of me to hope that rufty-tufty hairy-arsed Scottish fisherman interviewed on the box earlier actually makes good on his promise to dump truckloads of unexportable marine comestibles outside the Westminster Gas Works?
[“No. No, it is not.” – Ed.]
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I was watching him earlier and thinking that the haunted pencil wouldn't be able to understand a word..,
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Craig Ross
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Lord Sumption. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1350762750327271424?s=20
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Robert Jenrick and the rest of the fascist government.
So heart-warming to discover that they would spend time legislating for the preservation of statues of their ancestors and their type who have enslaved and exploited millions of people around the world in preference to for instance sorting out proper food supplies for hungry poor children or providing the right levels of PPE for people who deserve to have statues of themselves (if anybody ever does) for their real and ongoing humanitarian efforts.
Jenrick is a s welcome as a turd in the bath tub.
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Lord Sumption. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1350762750327271424?s=20
Just read his comments about lives, and relative values.
Cnut doesn't even come close to describing him.
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Roger Daltrey. Brexiteering dickhead, now moaning about visa requirements for touring in the EU. Tool.
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Add Van Morrison to the list. Trying to get the ban on live music overturned in NI. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/van-morrison-northern-ireland-covid-live-music-ban-b1789872.html
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Roger Daltrey. Brexiteering dickhead, now moaning about visa requirements for touring in the EU. Tool.
I think you can add nonce book researcher Pete Townsend to that.
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Roger Daltrey. Brexiteering dickhead, now moaning about visa requirements for touring in the EU. Tool.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50859137042_d19c5c1b61_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kufnx9)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50859137057_4c08e877f7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kufnxp)
Fuck off, you jingoistic trout-farming twat.
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Thérèse Coffey, the obese, alcoholic, smoker that is masquerading as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions...
...who blames people being are 'old' and 'fat' for the world-beating Covid death rate in the UK.
I do hope that in this case karma really is a bitch!
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Got to be these 2. Sneaking off on a private plane for covid vaccinations. Got rumbled, guy loses his job. expensive trip out then
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/26/americas/canada-exec-yukon-coronavirus-vaccine-trnd/index.html
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Got to be these 2. Sneaking off on a private plane for covid vaccinations. Got rumbled, guy loses his job. expensive trip out then
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/26/americas/canada-exec-yukon-coronavirus-vaccine-trnd/index.html
Apparently the vaccination site was quite some distance from the airport.
When the locals rumbled, they refused to transport this couple to the airport. So they had to walk.
I hope they were in unsuitable shoes and it was a very long walk.
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It's a couple of miles from the airport to what passes for the town and I imagine it’s pretty parky up there at this time of year. Ten degrees and raining when I stayed there in 2018, but that was August.
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Desmond Swayne, again, for winding up the Covid denier conspiranutters.
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Hello! I'm a self-entitled she-cock! I've just also just been to Egypt and should be self-isolating. But it’s my birthday, so there's five grand in it for you if you turn a blind eye and switch off the CCTV (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/28/rita-ora-aides-offered-restaurant-5000-to-host-party-in-lockdown)! I'm TV's Rita Ora, and I’m a Super-Twat!
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Hello! I'm a self-entitled she-cock! I've just also just been to Egypt and should be self-isolating. But it’s my birthday, so there's five grand in it for you if you turn a blind eye and switch off the CCTV (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/28/rita-ora-aides-offered-restaurant-5000-to-host-party-in-lockdown)! I'm TV's Rita Ora, and I’m a Super-Twat!
And she stiffed the bloke who "facilitated" it for her, the ungrateful TV Personality.
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Hello! I'm a self-entitled she-cock! I've just also just been to Egypt and should be self-isolating. But it’s my birthday, so there's five grand in it for you if you turn a blind eye and switch off the CCTV (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/28/rita-ora-aides-offered-restaurant-5000-to-host-party-in-lockdown)! I'm TV's Rita Ora, and I’m a Super-Twat!
And she stiffed the bloke who "facilitated" it for her, the ungrateful TV Personality.
I only discovered that after posting, sad to say.
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Laurence Fox. Again.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/laurence-fox-asks-who-he-should-bill-for-his-teachers-salary-as-schools-remain-shut/29/01/
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Laurence Fox. Again.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/laurence-fox-asks-who-he-should-bill-for-his-teachers-salary-as-schools-remain-shut/29/01/
He looks like he lives on Beasley Street.
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Laurence Fox. Again.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/laurence-fox-asks-who-he-should-bill-for-his-teachers-salary-as-schools-remain-shut/29/01/
He looks like he lives on Beasley Street.
Some, will need to research that address.
Top Tune BTW.
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Laurence Fox. Again.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/laurence-fox-asks-who-he-should-bill-for-his-teachers-salary-as-schools-remain-shut/29/01/
He looks like he lives on Beasley Street.
Some, will need to research that address.
Top Tune BTW.
I'm listening to it as I type!
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Marc Riley played it on the radio the other night. JCC most definitely does not belong this thread.
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Marc Riley played it on the radio the other night. JCC most definitely does not belong this thread.
I agree. My point was the feral appearance of the last nominee.
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Have we had Piers yet ? No , not that one, the other one... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/04/piers-corbyn-arrested-over-leaflets-comparing-covid-vaccine-programme-to-auschwitz
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Box of frogs
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Hello! Because BRITAIN is an island nation, we can't close the borders like wot them Australians can (https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/grant-shapps-border-control-7303112). New Zealand, you say? Never heard of it! My name is Grant Shapps, Michael Green and Sebastian Fox and I'm a Super-Twat!
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Right Said Fred. And Heathrow Airport. Covidiots.
https://twitter.com/AlexInAir/status/1357368509135810561?s=19
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I expect their next single to be a duet with notable covidiot and Super-Twat Laurence Fox.
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Ms Patel, for saying protests are dreadful, especial the BLM protests of last summer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/12/priti-patel-hits-out-at-dreadful-black-lives-matters-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Novak Djokovic
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/18/nick-kyrgios-joins-critics-of-novak-djokovic-over-covid-19-controversy
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Ms Patel, for saying protests are dreadful, especial the BLM protests of last summer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/12/priti-patel-hits-out-at-dreadful-black-lives-matters-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Does she see a white person when she looks in the mirror?
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Ms Patel, for saying protests are dreadful, especial the BLM protests of last summer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/12/priti-patel-hits-out-at-dreadful-black-lives-matters-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Does she see a white person when she looks in the mirror?
She doesn't see herself; she is in invisible in mirrors.
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Ms Patel, for saying protests are dreadful, especial the BLM protests of last summer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/12/priti-patel-hits-out-at-dreadful-black-lives-matters-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Does she see a white person when she looks in the mirror?
She doesn't see herself; she is in invisible in mirrors.
She's deported her reflection?
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^
Ver' good.
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Ms Patel, for saying protests are dreadful, especial the BLM protests of last summer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/12/priti-patel-hits-out-at-dreadful-black-lives-matters-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Does she see a white person when she looks in the mirror?
That was my first thought.
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It's just a bloody suntan.
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I think that she's a vampire....
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Vampires aren't normally so well-upholstered. You can't just order up blood from Ocado, y'know, you have to chase it.
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A vampire's being pale and slender is a recent construct. European folkloric vampires were described as dark and bloated.
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Ms Patel, for saying protests are dreadful, especial the BLM protests of last summer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/12/priti-patel-hits-out-at-dreadful-black-lives-matters-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
From the article
Patel’s comments came after the Commons leader, Jacob Rees-Mogg, accused the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, of overseeing “loony leftwing wheezes” following the creation of a landmark commission to improve diversity in the capital’s public spaces.
Quite right, Jakey-baby! I mean, they've already got a statue of Ghandi, the wretched ingrates! What more do they want, Mandela's Column?
One is Jacob Grease-Smugg and one is a Soooper-Twat.
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At least one person in the commons has got the measure of JRM...
https://twitter.com/jeffsprogress/status/1359936751280734211?s=21
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Ant Middleton
Not sure if he's been mentioned here before but if not, I feel other offences should be taken into consideration. Not a nice person.
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Ant Middleton
Not sure if he's been mentioned here before but if not, I feel other offences should be taken into consideration. Not a nice person.
He looks like he should have REAL GRIPPING HANDS™ and EAGLE EYES™
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In a childhood attempt at wartime realism, me and a friend set our action men on fire.
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At least one person in the commons has got the measure of JRM...
https://twitter.com/jeffsprogress/status/1359936751280734211?s=21
Brilliant
Speaker obviously not paying attention. Or he agrees with the sentiment.
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Pontins
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968 (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968)
Let's blanket ban people called O'Reilly, Gallagher etc, 'cause that's not racist or anything.
I don't quite understand why this isn't front page news.
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Pontins
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968 (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968)
Let's blanket ban people called O'Reilly, Gallagher etc, 'cause that's not racist or anything.
I don't quite understand why this isn't front page news.
Clearly you have forgotten who owns and runs the media these days.
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Pontins
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968 (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968)
Let's blanket ban people called O'Reilly, Gallagher etc, 'cause that's not racist or anything.
I don't quite understand why this isn't front page news.
It was on C4 News last night, reported by Poraic o'Brien.
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It was front page news on the BBC website yesterday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56246848
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Pontins
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968 (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-traveller-gypsy-blacklist-surnames-ehrc-892968)
Let's blanket ban people called O'Reilly, Gallagher etc, 'cause that's not racist or anything.
I don't quite understand why this isn't front page news.
It was on C4 News last night, reported by Poraic o'Brien.
And on the main BBC 6pm new TAAW.
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Nadine Dorries for enthusiastically defending the 1% pay ‘rise’ for the nurses.
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Ian Brown (remember him?) who is a bit anti-vax and has pulled out of a gig where the organisers wanted to see evidence that spectators had been jabbed.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/04/ian-brown-pulls-out-of-music-festival-over-covid-vaccination-row
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Who?
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Who?
No, Stone Roses.
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Omnes: MUNKEH!!1!
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;D ;D ;D
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Who?
No, Stone Roses.
Truely awful joke thread is that way >>>>
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Piers Morgan CBE excelled himself again. Racist, misogynist white privilege twat without an ounce of care or compassion for a non-white woman who might have suffered mental health problems due in part to the incessant bullying of, oh yeah, the British scum media of which he is also a part.
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Is there a way we can make his name a "sticky" at the top of the page ? I'm sure that if we went back to the start of this thread & counted, he'd be in the lead.
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I think he may have rivals in the shape of Jeremy Rhyming-Slang and Bloody Stupid Johnson, and he did even manage a brief spell of actually not being a colossal bellend last year. Producing a League Table of Super-Twattery is on my Big List of Things to Make and Do. At #37. Just after “Learn Portugueuse”.
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Apparently he threw all his toys out of the pram on telly this morning.
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Apparently Alison Pearson, a regular within these pages did similar in the torygraph.
Oh how the fascist, white privilege uk press love to live up to their nasty and intolerant image.
I cannot help thinking that the "leak" about a three year old claim of Meghan bullying Palace staff last week was a blatant attempt to undermine Meghan the Oprah revelations. Ironic really - bullying ...
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Apparently he threw all his toys out of the pram on telly this morning.
Normal bellendery has been resumed. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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The Beeb just said that Ofcom have had more than 41,000 complaints about Piers “Morgan” Moron's comments on Meghan and the Hewitt boy, and the colossal bellend has just announced that he is to leave “Good Morning BRITAIN”. No doubt to the enormous relief of the fragrant Susanna Reid.
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I bet she is.
Fiver says he'll be on GBNews next.
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Apparently he threw all his toys out of the pram on telly this morning.
Just been reading about this. Skewered by the weather man by all accounts. Give that weather man a hero badge.
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It takes an awful lot to get rid of hate speech though. fromage has been frothing at the gills on YouTube apparently. YouTube has absolutely no standards when it comes to white privilege misogyny, racism and other forms of hate.
Perhaps social media platforms should have a special super twats category of their own?
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What kind of twerp would actually go on live television and claim that colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron had been fired from his “Good Morning BRITAIN” gig as a result of pressure exerted by the liberal metropolitan woke elite, rather than flouncing out like a jowly Scarlett O'Hara in a badly-fitting suit?
Hello! My name is Calvin Robinson and I am both a “Senior Fellow” at the “Policy Exchange” and a Super-Twat!
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What kind of twerp would actually go on live television and claim that colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron had been fired from his “Good Morning BRITAIN” gig as a result of pressure exerted by the liberal metropolitan woke elite, rather than flouncing out like a jowly Scarlett O'Hara in a badly-fitting suit?
Hello! My name is Calvin Robinson and I am both a “Senior Fellow” at the “Policy Exchange” and a Super-Twat!
I was expecting the answer to be that leading gammonartie and sometime thespian Mr Lawarence Supadupatwat-Fox. I am most disappointed.
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I expect our vulpine chum, as a member of the Poodlitburo of Super-Twattery, feels the same way but mercifully C4 News didn’t invite him on to debate a Labour MP over whether the UK's mainstream media has a problem with racism. But freeze peach and all that, according to Mr Robinson.
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Funniest thing I heard today was the colossal bellend claiming that him storming off his own TV show in a childish strop was the fault of “the cancel culture brigade”.
What an absolute Morgan.
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That's one of the things about cancel culture, both sides are really keen on it, some to the extent that they're willing to cancel themselves to make the point.
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Yes, it's an odd one. Angry people want to stop others having a voice whilst simultaneously calling out the cancel culture of their opponents. Eh?
YouTube in particular is rife with angry right wing vloggers being vile and hateful and demanding that left wingers shut the f**k up. The very concept of freedom of expression seems to completely pass them by. They also seem to forget in their haste to criticise the very same social media platforms where they spew their bile that those same platforms give them the opportunity to do just that. How bizarre.
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As far as I can tell, both sides of the fabled 'culture war' – even if they decry it – are eagerly queued up outside the recruitment centre to fight it.
I was reading something about Graham Linehan the other day, basically, a successful bloke who had everything, but has gone completely mental over what was apparently one issue (that doesn't even seem to have any impact on him). I'm not sure what's wrong with any of these people.
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London Mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey - who already has form in tweeting 'misleading' statements about the incumbent's record on policing - seeing the likely murder of a missing woman as an opportunity to score some cheap points:
https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430 (https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430)
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London Mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey - who already has form in tweeting 'misleading' statements about the incumbent's record on policing - seeing the likely murder of a missing woman as an opportunity to score some cheap points:
https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430 (https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430)
I think Michael Legge's reply sums it up nicely.
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London Mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey - who already has form in tweeting 'misleading' statements about the incumbent's record on policing - seeing the likely murder of a missing woman as an opportunity to score some cheap points:
https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430 (https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430)
Can it get much lower than that?
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London Mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey - who already has form in tweeting 'misleading' statements about the incumbent's record on policing - seeing the likely murder of a missing woman as an opportunity to score some cheap points:
https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430 (https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430)
Simple question. How? How is he going to ensure the safety of women and girls. Without the detail, it’s just posturing.
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Nadine Dorries, nurses will accept a 1% pay rise as their husbands will be supporting them.
Angela Rayner, awful interview in which she refused to say nurses should get the 5% that Labour campaigned for in 2019.
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London Mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey - who already has form in tweeting 'misleading' statements about the incumbent's record on policing - seeing the likely murder of a missing woman as an opportunity to score some cheap points:
https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430 (https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430)
Yes, Shaun. What a bastard that Sadiq Khan is with, actively working to make the streets more dangerous for women. Go the the top of the class, and jump off.
Nadine Dorries, nurses will accept a 1% pay rise as their husbands will be supporting them.
Quelle surprise, Mad Nad opens mouth and inserts foot again.
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London Mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey - who already has form in tweeting 'misleading' statements about the incumbent's record on policing - seeing the likely murder of a missing woman as an opportunity to score some cheap points:
https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430 (https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430)
Can it get much lower than that?
Don't encourage him.
It's worth remembering, that while it's obviously an utterly awful thing and offering no consolation, being murdered by a stranger is an extremely rare event.
There are bigger social issues, of course, about how men treat women (and each other, much of this is rooted in a pandemic of male violence). I can't imagine Shaun's opinions on this are any more enlightened. There seem to be a lot of people rushing in to a young woman's murder as a tool to make their points. Not exactly endearing, whatever the point may be.
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I think that I have worked out how innocently nice Mr. Bailey might think that he could in fact make the streets safer. Just get rid of the police completely then they won't be there to kidnap and murder women. Allegedly.
At what point do these people actually stop and think about what they have put out there?
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There was someone on the radio yesterday saying that men are twice as likely to be murdered in a public place by a stranger than women are.
If you are female you are most likely to be murdered by your spouse in your own home.
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London Mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey - who already has form in tweeting 'misleading' statements about the incumbent's record on policing - seeing the likely murder of a missing woman as an opportunity to score some cheap points:
https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430 (https://twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK/status/1369662807759847430)
Can it get much lower than that?
Well, given that Shaun Bailey is racist, homophobic Tory scum... yes.
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There was someone on the radio yesterday saying that men are twice as likely to be murdered in a public place by a stranger than women are.
If you are female you are most likely to be murdered by your spouse in your own home.
I find all these arguments disingenuously annoying – yes, as a man you're likely to be murdered, but then violence is strongly correlated with being male (it's safe to say the main cause of violence is having a Y chromosome) – but I'm not clear what this has to do with women being able to walk home safely (and as cyclists, we ought more than anyone to appreciate the perception of safety).
It's all a bit depressing really.
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Bailey is living, breathing proof that “Gammon” is not a racist epithet.
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"Fair play for women" (don't bother googling, they are just another terf organisation)
Why am I nominating them for the S-T award?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56338666 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56338666)
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There was someone on the radio yesterday saying that men are twice as likely to be murdered in a public place by a stranger than women are.
If you are female you are most likely to be murdered by your spouse in your own home.
I find all these arguments disingenuously annoying – yes, as a man you're likely to be murdered, but then violence is strongly correlated with being male (it's safe to say the main cause of violence is having a Y chromosome) – but I'm not clear what this has to do with women being able to walk home safely (and as cyclists, we ought more than anyone to appreciate the perception of safety).
It's all a bit depressing really.
The point was being made by a woman speaking for women, suggesting there was no need for women to be more afraid than men as they are statistically less likely to be attacked.
Society has conditioned women to be afraid and I realise as a parent I have perpetuated this.
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Yes, but I think that's wrong. It's a similar argument often made in these parts about cycling. Come on, toughen up, statistically you won't die. A perception of danger is a real, real thing. As a man, I can stagger home from the train station at midnight without thinking much about it. My wife has to get a taxi.
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I don't know the actual statistical breakdown but I am willing to speculate that a significant proportion of male victims are due to gang violence, drug wars, willy waving, etc.* and the perp is most likely to be male. When it comes to female victims I'm guessing that harassment and sexual motives are the more prevalent causes and the perp is still most likely to be male.
* i.e testosterone-fuelled aggression and stupidity
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I don't know the actual statistical breakdown but I am willing to speculate that a significant proportion of male victims are due to gang violence, drug wars, willy waving, etc.* and the perp is most likely to be male. When it comes to female victims I'm guessing that harassment and sexual motives are the more prevalent causes and the perp is still most likely to be male.
* i.e testosterone-fuelled aggression and stupidity
That was, in a roundabout way, the point I was trying to make (a particular response to the 'more dangerous if you're a man' comment). I don't know any woman who feels safe walking alone at night and it's not because they're in fear of other women. That's pretty fucking awful.
And we shouldn't (and I know it's not your intention) excuse male behaviour with it being 'testosterone-fuelled.' They should be capable of controlling themselves, women don't go round stabbing one another in a oestrogen-fuelled rages.
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Saying that men 'should be capable of controlling themselves' would appear to be a waste of time, as those men likely to physically abuse or murder women are unlikely to be persuaded by such an appeal. I'm not sure what the answer is beyond more and better education, but that's hardly a quick fix.
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Saying that men 'should be capable of controlling themselves' would appear to be a waste of time, as those men likely to physically abuse or murder women are unlikely to be persuaded by such an appeal. I'm not sure what the answer is beyond more and better education, but that's hardly a quick fix.
Yes, but if they're just beasts incapable of controlling their violent masculine urges, then perhaps they shouldn't be out in society to begin with. And it's not really true, since most men are quite capable of not bashing one another and anyone else over the head. Of course, some people will be violent regardless, which I get, and I think this is an outlier (as I said). But there's a legitimate and wider problem and I don't think just saying it's 'worse for men' really answers that.
The causes of male violence are, I believe, are mostly cultural and almost certainly, the causes of harassment are.
Difficult issues unlikely to be fixed by people calling each other names on Twitter for sure. I've also probably fallen into my own trap of using a young woman's death to make a point.
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Trouble is, I think that it's more than just cultural - I'm not aware of any nation that can genuinely claim that male violence, intimidation and harassment of women doesn't happen, and although there is an ever-increasing homogeneity of worldwide culture, I'm not sure it's that ubiquitous yet. Education and culture can - and probably already does, if patently not enough - apply brakes to the testosterone-fuelled nature of men, but I doubt it'll ever be eliminated that way.
That sounds like I'm giving up on education as a tool, but I'm not. I just despair at the recalcitrance of the issue and how it poisons at some level almost all interactions between unfamiliar men and women.
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Meanwhile, a man who thinks that Six Nations Rugby’s new deal with CVC means
[…] moving the Championship off free-to-air TV in order to maximise revenue is not a foregone conclusion
My name is Ben Morel and I'm a Super-Twat!
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Trouble is, I think that it's more than just cultural - I'm not aware of any nation that can genuinely claim that male violence, intimidation and harassment of women doesn't happen, and although there is an ever-increasing homogeneity of worldwide culture, I'm not sure it's that ubiquitous yet. Education and culture can - and probably already does, if patently not enough - apply brakes to the testosterone-fuelled nature of men, but I doubt it'll ever be eliminated that way.
That sounds like I'm giving up on education as a tool, but I'm not. I just despair at the recalcitrance of the issue and how it poisons at some level almost all interactions between unfamiliar men and women.
This could be an outbreak of people not arguing on the internet, but I agree. And in some ways attitudes have got better, just not nearly better enough. I think it's still too often culturally acceptable for men to be a bit fighty. Boys will be boys and all that. But certainly, casual harassment should be a firm no-no.
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After having been dropped like a radioactive turd by Little Brown I've found someone JUST LIKE ME - not only can I work with her, but have a lot of fun with her, and we know how much I like THAT - (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/farright-link-of-julie-burchill-s-new-publisher-imelda-may-camping-paris-arrest-b924377.html) to publish my book. What's that you say? Stirling Publishing's Tabatha Stirling also goes under the name “Miss Britannia” when posting racist, anti-semitic and homophobic arse-gravy on the Intertubes? Oh. My name's Julie Burchill and I'm a Super-Twat!
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I see that one of the thread's regulars has just won an Ofcom award for being a colossal bellend.
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I see that one of the thread's regulars has just won an Ofcom award for being a colossal bellend.
Would that be the colossal bellend who garnered more than 41,000 Ofcom complaints for being a colossal bellend on live television the other day? What was his name again? Something O'Meara?
Still, I expect Brillo can find an opening for him at his new and shiny Gammon BroadcastingTM News venture.
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I see that one of the thread's regulars has just won an Ofcom award for being a colossal bellend.
Would that be the colossal bellend who garnered more than 41,000 Ofcom complaints for being a colossal bellend on live television the other day? What was his name again? Something O'Meara?
Still, I expect Brillo can find an opening for him at his new and shiny Gammon BroadcastingTM News venture.
57,000 now and still going up.
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So, so, many contenders ! Lee Hurst, Piers Corbyn, Looza Fox.....
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Twitter certainly agrees with you over the first-named, as they’ve booted him for tweeting
As soon as Greta discovers cock, she’ll stop complaining about the single use plastic it’s wrapped in
This pronouncement did not sit well with people who are not Super-Twats.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9noYwPqX-A4/YFcoEqTAR2I/AAAAAAABi7E/scidiaQHKFY2ojVIzydjhw6SPBb1uxhLACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/LeeHurst26.png)
Indignant gammon bleating about “woke”, “cancel culture” and, natch, FREEZE PEACH will inevitably follow.
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James Wild, the MP for North West Norfolk (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/22/bbc-chief-told-to-use-more-than-one-union-jack-in-annual-report)
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James Wild, the MP for North West Norfolk (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/22/bbc-chief-told-to-use-more-than-one-union-jack-in-annual-report)
<Fx:gewgals>
That is a bit special. What would the lovely Naga Munchetty say?
In related news, I stumbled across the phrase "bunting nonce" as a useful synonym for "flag shagger"
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James Wild, the MP for North West Norfolk (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/22/bbc-chief-told-to-use-more-than-one-union-jack-in-annual-report)
James Wild, the MP for North West Norfolk, told the head of the corporation that his constituents would “expect to see more than one flag” in the 268-page report.
NFN.
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James Wild, the MP for North West Norfolk (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/22/bbc-chief-told-to-use-more-than-one-union-jack-in-annual-report)
James Wild, the MP for North West Norfolk, told the head of the corporation that his constituents would “expect to see more than one flag” in the 268-page report.
NFN.
A Twitter thread of joy & beauty. No flags on these sites. https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1374122184684273668?s=20
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(Chortles immoderately)
Hurrah for Brian Moore's “Minister for Flag Noncing” comment too.
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Well, that's the next series of 'Curious Cases...' cancelled, then. :facepalm:
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Bloody Stupid "Did Everything We Could" Johnson.
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Except operate like a functioning, non-corrupt government.
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And if someone called a magic election tomorrow, they'd still win (in part because we are in an abusive relationship with a minority rule system) but there'd still be over a third of the population that would happily give them their votes.
This is why I drink.
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And if someone called a magic election tomorrow, they'd still win (in part because we are in an abusive relationship with a minority rule system) but there'd still be over a third of the population that would happily give them their votes.
This is why I drink.
LIKE
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I read that as 'magic electron' and thought you were talking about
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/23/large-hadron-collider-scientists-particle-physics
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BSJ again
'Greed' and 'capitalism' behind jab success, Boris Johnson tells MPs
Prime minister revives 1980s ‘greed is good’ mantra as he lauds vaccine push at meeting with backbenchers (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/23/greed-and-capitalism-behind-jab-success-boris-johnson-tells-mps)
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He's so suffused with his own presumed linguistic brilliance, that he doesn't think before spouting this sort of crap.
Fucker.
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I saw a picture of gammon getting vaccinated a couple of days ago and couldn't help wonder which was the biggest prick ...
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BSJ again
'Greed' and 'capitalism' behind jab success, Boris Johnson tells MPs
Prime minister revives 1980s ‘greed is good’ mantra as he lauds vaccine push at meeting with backbenchers (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/23/greed-and-capitalism-behind-jab-success-boris-johnson-tells-mps)
It was just “banter” though, so that’s alright. I mean, look at his hair! Look at his suit! He's just like a Golden Retriever puppy!
[“Overbred, monumentally greedy and titanically stupid?” – Ed.]
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And if someone called a magic election tomorrow, they'd still win (in part because we are in an abusive relationship with a minority rule system) but there'd still be over a third of the population that would happily give them their votes.
This is why I drink.
Yep.
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Astra Zeneca's mark up and huge profit margin show that greed is the driver - can't imagine foreign firms such as Pfizer and Moderna doing that.
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Astra Zeneca's mark up and huge profit margin show that greed is the driver - can't imagine foreign firms such as Pfizer and Moderna doing that.
Big Pharma generally cite development costs when called upon to justify their obscene profits, but I seem to recall that a lot of the development costs for Covid, if not paid directly by governments, was certainly underwritten by the same. It’s somewhat understandable that conspiracy theories abound with respect to Big Pharma.
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In this case, AZ agreed with Oxford (who effectively own the IP on the platform) to provide that vaccine at cost (there's some variability, as governments hedged and effectively bought vaccine futures).
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In Mentorn's highly-fortified bunker in the Fulham Palace Road, a programme planning meeting is underway…
Tristram #1: In order to sustain Auntie's right-on credentials, let us book a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party for this week’s “Question Time”!
Tristram #2: Who do you have in mind?
Tristram #1: Baroness Fox of Buckley!
Tristram #2: What, the IRA-supporting genocide-denying howling mad Gary Glitter fangrrl and former Brexit Party MEP recently ennobled by Bloody Stupid Johnson? Practically on the anniversary of the Warrington bomb that killed two children?
Tristram #1: That's our gal!
Tristrams Ambo: (Singing) We're in the money! We're in the money!
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The description fitted frothing loon Claire Fox. However I was thrown by the Baroness bit, as I failed to notice it at the time. Goodness, that Boris. He’s a card isn’t he?
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Brexit disciples get their reward.
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One of those click bait news headlines says piers regrets storming off this morning. Obviously didn't click but wondering if he does and that's related to the BBC news reader going across to join GB news?
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The description fitted frothing loon Claire Fox. However I was thrown by the Baroness bit, as I failed to notice it at the time. Goodness, that Boris. He’s a card isn’t he?
I vaguely knew her about 35 years ago. RCP recruiter. Couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw her turn up as a right-wing pundit about 4 years ago, now in HoL.
Insane.
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Buckley has disowned Lady Semtex of Kiddehfiddlahs (https://www.buckleytc.org.uk/news/baroness-fox-of-buckley/)
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They were far more polite than I would have been.
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Pop quiz, hotshots! Who claimed Sharon Osbourne got the boot from The Talk purely for the heinous crime of sticking up for everyone’s favourite colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron and the Great Meghan Markle Flounce Affair? Why, Piers “Morgan” Moron*, of course!
Although it appears that Mrs Ozzy may be something of a Super-Twat herself (https://yashar.substack.com/p/exclusive-sharon-osbourne-frequently), even if she did receive widespread public acclaim for referring to Billy Corgan as “a six foot baldy twat in a dress” (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2007/sep/05/sharonsexitfactor).
* the colossal bellend
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https://twitter.com/CredaCreda/status/1376981472196882435?s=20 Looza Fox has launched his Mayoral campaign. Twitter responds with a poetic description.
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He clearly needs to visit http://www.getaminorityfriend.co.uk/ (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=71232.msg1479779#msg1479779).
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https://twitter.com/CredaCreda/status/1376981472196882435?s=20 Looza Fox has launched his Mayoral campaign. Twitter responds with a poetic description.
Awesome. He and Brian Rose can share their votes ;)
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:'(
https://twitter.com/CredaCreda/status/1376981472196882435?s=20 Looza Fox has launched his Mayoral campaign. Twitter responds with a poetic description.
I’m convinced that he’s the shitbag that sells his sister down the river on Beasley Street.
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Have you heard the album he released? It is hysterically awful.
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Have you heard the album he released? It is hysterically awful.
Released? Surely it escaped?
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Have you heard the album he released? It is hysterically awful.
Released? Surely it escaped?
https://youtu.be/GFKTEnluo6Y
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Buckley has disowned Lady Semtex of Kiddehfiddlahs (https://www.buckleytc.org.uk/news/baroness-fox-of-buckley/)
Hell, that's the ancestral home of my father's family - before they followed the work to the Palatinate. Off to have a bath in disinfectant.
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I am so not going to do the “Tap to unmute” thing on that vid.
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Do..it's a satire and its fantastic
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Thank fuck for that…. I subsequently found the original video and ZOMG! It makes Richard Harris sound like Elvis.
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Do..it's a satire and its fantastic
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Shit, Lozza named his first born Winston! I didn’t want to know that so I’m sharing the pain...
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BRITONS should not have COVID-19 vaccination passports because they'd be discriminatory and illegal, and because people's medical data might escape and be sold on eBay. Also sprach perennially-thirsty disgraced former Brexit Minister and Super-Twat David “Dangerous” Davis, as if Tories have suddenly started caring about discrimination, the legality of legislation and the misuse of personal data.
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Tom Hunt MP, who wants to “educate” people who are not sufficiently flag shaggy.
https://twitter.com/tomhunt1988/status/1377931192180338692?s=21 (https://twitter.com/tomhunt1988/status/1377931192180338692?s=21)
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FX: rustling paper, scratching pencil
T-O-M H-U-N-T
If Mr Hunt is so keen on “education” we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party will gladly provide him with all the (re)education he desires.
This reply made us laugh:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerCo07997264/status/1377950152967782402/photo/1
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This reply made us laugh:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerCo07997264/status/1377950152967782402/photo/1
That’s from the cover of the latest Private Eye
The whole thing is great:
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/current-issue
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Nadhim Zahawi.
https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1377914792170684416 (https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1377914792170684416)
Some of the replies made me smile, especially from Marcus Aurelius.
But I am also fairly horrified.
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(https://yournz.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/toryjesus.jpg)
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Colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron is the gift of Super-Twattery that just keeps on giving (https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2021/04/piers-morgans-us-popularity-isnt.html).
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Colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron is the gift of Super-Twattery that just keeps on giving (https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2021/04/piers-morgans-us-popularity-isnt.html).
From the comments, Pierced Organ works remarkably well with the compulsory postnominals CBE.
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https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1379496008099446786?s=21 (https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1379496008099446786?s=21)
Laurence Fox is in a bit of a hole.
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Oh dear.
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What a pity...
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While I have no sympathy for Piers CBE, it's a bit ignominious to see grown adults slinging petty playground insults at each other on social media then running to the teacher to complain that so-and-so called them a 'paedo.'*
*'Paedo' and 'bender' were the most common on my playground, followed by 'Joey.' I date myself, but I'm sure the children of today are equally awful.
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That Foxy's case has actually reached the lawsuit stage after more than six month seems to indicate that the S-T has been offered ample opportunity to retract, apologise, settle, wha'ever and has elected not to do so. Those who do not study history are doomed etc etc, with the Land War In Asia archetype being Hatey Cockpins being taken to the cleaners by Jack Monroe. Fox is standing, along with numerous single-issue idiots, joke comedy candidates, Piers Corbyn and people with more money than sense, for the job of Mayor of London’s famous London. Perfect timing, laddie, though the chances of your retaining your five grand deposit are about the same as mine are of starting a new career as an astronaut.
Also, when did colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron become a “grown adult”? There's a bit more to it than shoe size.
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I saw Looza Fox described somewhere as the 'white Shaun Bailey' and briefly wondered (for all of a nanosecond) which of them would be most offended by the comparison, before I decided I wasn't that bothered, as they're both nasty, racist shits.
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Jordan Peterson has just discovered that Ta-Nehisi Coates has been using his words in Red Skull's mouth, and it is hilarious.
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1379288433013690369?s=20 (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1379288433013690369?s=20)
(https://i.imgur.com/8ubGFLt.gif)
Sam (edited to correct typo)
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I don't know who Ta-Hehisi Coates is, but I just hope that, for added impact, it's a woman.
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I don't know who Ta-Hehisi Coates is, but I just hope that, for added impact, it's a woman.
Sadly not. that would have been the icing on this particular bun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Nehisi_Coates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Nehisi_Coates)
TL;DR author and journalist. Used to write for The Atlantic. Has been writing comics for at least 5 years, and has already done a Black Panther series, so it's not like he's just "getting into" comics ::-).
(Apologies for the typo in his name.)
Sam
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Jordan Peterson has just discovered that Ta-Nehisi Coates has been using his words in Red Skull's mouth, and it is hilarious.
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1379288433013690369?s=20 (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1379288433013690369?s=20)
(https://i.imgur.com/8ubGFLt.gif)
Sam (edited to correct typo)
One response is perfect:
I mean if your ideas fit neatly into the mouth of a supervillain you might wanna take a moment and think about that.
I don't think JP is a supervillain. I think he is a bit of an arse and immature.
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One response is perfect:
I mean if your ideas fit neatly into the mouth of a supervillain you might wanna take a moment and think about that.
I don't think JP is a supervillain. I think he is a bit of an arse and immature.
The way they are generally written, a lot of supervillains are as well.
Sam
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He is an academic-nobody who saw his chance with the right-wing grifting and ran with it.
For a man who goes on about masculine superiority he certainly is a bit of a pencil-necked dweeb with a high-pitched shrill voice.
Not, I'd imagine, your archetypal shagger.
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He is an academic-nobody who saw his chance with the right-wing grifting and ran with it.
For a man who goes on about masculine superiority he certainly is a bit of a pencil-necked dweeb with a high-pitched shrill voice.
Not, I'd imagine, your archetypal shagger.
(https://media.tenor.co/images/e69cb42ef75b0f9d48b03bed9a19cfb8/tenor.gif?t=AAW_YrE5lJ8KpLZLcwOrLQ&itemid=8606566)
Sam
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Ah, how apt about the CBE
https://twitter.com/MockWooloo/status/1379816467412123650
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the Scum hack hasn’t read Mark “Zodiac Mindwarp” Manning's Fucked By Rock, with its references to “tugging” on almost every page :D
The tugger.
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I see that CBE is spreading his misogynistic, racist, narcissistic filth al over redneck media now. What a thoroughly lovely person he is.
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That Foxy's case has actually reached the lawsuit stage after more than six month seems to indicate that the S-T has been offered ample opportunity to retract, apologise, settle, wha'ever and has elected not to do so. Those who do not study history are doomed etc etc, with the Land War In Asia archetype being Hatey Cockpins being taken to the cleaners by Jack Monroe. Fox is standing, along with numerous single-issue idiots, joke comedy candidates, Piers Corbyn and people with more money than sense, for the job of Mayor of London’s famous London. Perfect timing, laddie, though the chances of your retaining your five grand deposit are about the same as mine are of starting a new career as an astronaut.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/laurence-fox-on-london-mayoral-vote-7880366
https://patronlaw.co.uk/bio/mark-lewis/
Oh dear Mr Fox, oh its going to be very dear.....
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Mau I refer m'learned and unlearned friends to the recent Maya Forstater case, re being ably to use FREEZE PEACH to abuse trans women.
The judge described her views and claims as 'not worthy of respect in a democratic society'
I would also add the 'defence' used by Hatie Cockroach in Munro V Cockroach, where the semi-sentient mould stain claimed that stuff on Twitter isn't defamatory.
That didn't work, either. Over to you, Lozza. One hint: claiming you didn't know about the action works as well as burning unopened bills.
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I love Laurence Fox.
I think it is great that there are people prepared to go out there, day after day, relentlessly making a fool of themselves for our petty amusement. Laurence is that masterful combination of low IQ and supreme confidence. A genuine, bone fide idiot.
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I love Laurence Fox.
I think it is great that there are people prepared to go out there, day after day, relentlessly making a fool of themselves for our petty amusement. Laurence is that masterful combination of low IQ and supreme confidence. A genuine, bone fide idiot.
Am I the only one now seeing M Python and 'Upper Class Twit of the Year' ?
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I think 'Laurence Fox' is actually a performance living art project thought up by an undergraduate somewhere. Either that or a pilot for a new comedy series. I mean the bus with the image of the gagged Churchill statue gave it away really.
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I love Laurence Fox.
I think it is great that there are people prepared to go out there, day after day, relentlessly making a fool of themselves for our petty amusement. Laurence is that masterful combination of low IQ and supreme confidence. A genuine, bone fide idiot.
You'd really think someone would have held an intervention by now. A big surprise when he gets home one day. Everyone in his family sitting there, waiting. Laurence, sit down, we need to talk about your problem. We've locked the doors.
That said, much as a prospect of legal perdition is entertaining, I suspect it plays to his audience if not his bank balance. And the entire people suing each other over playground-grade insults on social media is tedious. At least in my playground, we got a proper fight when someone escalated to your mum.
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Piers “Morgan” Moron, the colossal bellend and emphatic non-racist, is to “break his silence” over his
cancellation flounce from Good Morning BRITAIN by giving an interview. To Fox* “News”. Specifically to noted proponent of the so-called “White Replacement” conspiracy bumgravy Fucker Carlson. Best to ensure your Bollocksometers have overload protection. He truly is the git that keeps on gitting.
* not Laurence, just for a change
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From what I understand CBE has already been giving interviews in the USA relying upon first amendment rights to further stir it in his revolting, narcissistic, racist and misogynistic way against Meghan Markle.
CBE really is the most odious of creatures.
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I believe he's already suggested that Prince Philip's death was due to the strain Meghan had put on the Royal Family...
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AFAICT Piers “Morgan” Moron has not (yet) blamed Megs for the DETH of poor dead Phil the Greek, though Fox “News” reptile Brian Kilmeade has. The colossal bellend merely said:
RIP Prince Philip, 99. A truly great Briton who dedicated his life to selfless public duty & was an absolute rock of devoted support to Her Majesty, The Queen, as the longest-serving royal consort to any British sovereign. A very sad day for our country. Thank you, Sir!
Sounds like a bit of a crawler, Moriarty.
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Apparently Farage has been an odious super twat linking Harry and Meghan to Prince Philip's passing.
Can't get much lower can he?
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He's in some difficulty I suspect. Needs cash after getting the boot from LBC and therefore craving attention. He's doing video shout outs for money. So, no, he's not got much lower to go.
Pure Patridge
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1368625149264748545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1368625149264748545%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-21262076162551388234.ampproject.net%2F2103261048002%2Fframe.html
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He was also berating Biden & Harris earlier for not expressing their sympathies & describing them as no friends of the UK.
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He's in some difficulty I suspect. Needs cash after getting the boot from LBC and therefore craving attention. He's doing video shout outs for money. So, no, he's not got much lower to go.
Pure Patridge
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1368625149264748545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1368625149264748545%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-21262076162551388234.ampproject.net%2F2103261048002%2Fframe.html
Some cracking replies there too. Never underestimate the talent of a certain segment of the BRITISH populace for deflating pompous windbags.
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Indeed...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ev5W9mQWYAQkTEq?format=jpg&name=medium)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ev5XAQzXEAMQX5n?format=jpg&name=large)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAOSboPXkAAfAg3.jpg)
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;D ;D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRc0by2vZ7k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRc0by2vZ7k)
Old but gold.
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New but OMFG ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
https://twitter.com/thatguysjokes/status/1380891755567067137?s=20
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Arf ;D
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Q: When Missis Kwin's lackeys cordially request that members of the public do not congregate and/or leave flowers outside Windsor Castle, Buck House, etc, what kind of a person would roll up to such a place and abandon a bunch of daffs?
A: I'll take “Super-Twats” for $500, Alex!
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I love Laurence Fox.
I think it is great that there are people prepared to go out there, day after day, relentlessly making a fool of themselves for our petty amusement. Laurence is that masterful combination of low IQ and supreme confidence. A genuine, bone fide idiot.
https://twitter.com/drbeaubeaumont/status/1381597614106423301?s=21 (https://twitter.com/drbeaubeaumont/status/1381597614106423301?s=21)
I hope he’s not a regular at that pub. I’ve occasionally drank there myself & prefer places with a classier clientele.
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Q: When Missis Kwin's lackeys cordially request that members of the public do not congregate and/or leave flowers outside Windsor Castle, Buck House, etc, what kind of a person would roll up to such a place and abandon a bunch of daffs?
A republican?
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Can we have a group nomination? Those out drinking in Soho yesterday...
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Laurence Fox looks how stale BO smells
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyxPqjrXIAIZ3Ue?format=jpg&name=large)
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That’s a very European looking* pint of lager he’s got there. Even ST Farage knows you have to pretend to be drinking BRITISH beer in photo ops, not this foreign stuff.
*ok, it might have been brewed in Burton on Trent, but it LOOKS foreign.
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Doesn't *someone* have a milkshake handy?
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Who drinks Peroni on a freezing day????
A twat, that's who.
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He does look like a prize twat.
Come on Fox family, intervention now! He will thank you eventually.
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Can’t we hunt him? With dogs? That should keep the Cuntrycide Alliance happy for a bit.
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He does look like a prize twat.
Come on Fox family, intervention now! He will thank you eventually.
They bred him, remember...
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He does look like a prize twat.
Come on Fox family, intervention now! He will thank you eventually.
They bred him, remember...
Accidentally, I expect. Strong Drink was probably involved.
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That’s a very European looking* pint of lager he’s got there.
You mean it looks more like a glass of warm piss than beer?
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That’s a very European looking* pint of lager he’s got there.
You mean it looks more like a glass of warm piss than beer?
Oh no, not at all. It's chilled piss.
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James Dyson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56741000
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Ref Dyson, who you will recall, moved his HQ from the UK to Singapore in 2019.
Singaporean free trade agreement with EU. Effective Nov 2019.
https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/eu-singapore-agreement/ (https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/eu-singapore-agreement/)
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I'm sure that’s purely a coincidence.
Has anyone seen my rose-tinted blinkers?
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The London Mayoral Elections now provide a Super-Twat list in booklet form: https://www.londonelects.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-04/GLABooklet2021_0.pdf
Not sure where to even begin with this one, with highlights including the "culturally traditional SDP candidate" (yes, I didn't realise either); the Brexit Party's call to action: "Vote GAMMONS for London Mayor"; conspiracy-finder-general Piers Corbyn; Brian "Straight-out-of-central-casting-fascist-demagog" Rose*; YACF favourite Laurence Fox; and a smattering of "I'm not a politician, why can't we all just tell the truth and be nice" candidates.
*Against some very stiff competition, I think the winning campaign video has to be Brian's "38 days to go...WAR!!!" (yes it really is 9 minutes of him boxing with his personal demons): https://twitter.com/BrianBRose/status/1376534611149328389
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They missed a trick by not moving the Sadiq-for-2021 badge a little further north.
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Perma Twat, Lozza Fox. Again. As highlighted on that Twitter they have now, exhibit A, a statement from Fox, dripping on about Covid vaccination passports, not having one and "Deep needle anxiety". Exhibit B shows his arm. Which has a big old tattoo on it.
https://twitter.com/twlldun/status/1382251675549896709 (https://twitter.com/twlldun/status/1382251675549896709)
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Every time I see a picture of Lozza I start to involuntarily shake my head. Isn't this what we used to call 'care in the community?' His entire persona must constitute some variety of psychological self-harm. He looks like the sort of person you don't want on your night bus.
But oh noes, I live just beyond the London pale, so cannot contribute to this electoral festival.
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Perma Twat, Lozza Fox. Again. As highlighted on that Twitter they have now, exhibit A, a statement from Fox, dripping on about Covid vaccination passports, not having one and "Deep needle anxiety". Exhibit B shows his arm. Which has a big old tattoo on it.
https://twitter.com/twlldun/status/1382251675549896709 (https://twitter.com/twlldun/status/1382251675549896709)
Wol! Wol!
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Every time I see a picture of Lozza I start to involuntarily shake my head. Isn't this what we used to call 'care in the community?' His entire persona must constitute some variety of psychological self-harm. He looks like the sort of person you don't want on your night bus.
But oh noes, I live just beyond the London pale, so cannot contribute to this electoral festival.
Speaking to my mate yesterday and it turns out his sister works for Fox's campaign. Not sure whether it is directly or obliquely. Apparently he is known as just an absolutely massive ego and an arsehole.
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As long as she’s doing her utmost to separate the appalling gobshite from his money…. And he’s going to be five grand poorer when he gets laughed out of the Mayoral election results beanfeast with a polling scarcely visible to the naked eye.
Not sure I'll bother staying up for that one.
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His celebrity might get him a few extra votes though. He many votes does he need to keep his deposit?
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I think it's 5%.
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Yep, 5%. And Wikinaccurate says he and his motley rabble of gammon will lose ten grand rather the five I thought I had read elsewhere.
Edit: Count Binface pledged during his 2019 General Election campaign to “[make] Piers Morgan* zero emissions by 2030”. Binface for mayor!
* the colossal bellend
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I thought it was £10k/party and £10k per candidate
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For the mayoral election, it's a £10k deposit, returnable if you get more than 5% of first preference votes. There's also a £10k fee (sorry, contribution to costs) if you want a one page election address to be included in the official booklet sent to all voters.
For the assembly, it's a £1k deposit for constituency candidates (5% threshold to get it back), and a 5k deposit per party, covering everyone on the list, for the London-wide seats (2.5% threshold).
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Laurence Fox has twittered that he is instructing lawyers to act against a twitter user who called him a racist.
Suddenly Laurence Fox isn't so keen on free speech when the free speech is about him.
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I don't know if Eric Pickles has appeared in this distinguished gallery yet. He is now busy diverting attention from the failures of current and previous Tory politicians by targeting the senior civil servants whom they allowed or encouraged to 'gain expertise' by working closely with various tax dodging multinationals, dodgy finance and service companies.
This the same git who was responsible for a disastrous privation scheme in his local authority. And enthusiastically helped Osborne to implement the biggest cuts to Local Authority budgets for a hundred years from 2009 onwards.
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I don't know if Eric Pickles has appeared in this distinguished gallery yet.
If not, I can't imagine how he has managed to escape our attention. Surely he's a serial offender?
Also a good candidate for the nominative determinism thread...
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Lord Pickles please.
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I'm pretty sure Piggles has been nominated before, though the Bradford pie-bandit has been keeping a pretty low profile for a number of years.
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Are we free to mention Mr Fr*ncois as yet ?
Not that he's appeared in the news (for quite some time now), but I think we can all feel fairly safe in presuming that he's been up to some super-twattery within the last couple of days.
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Laurence Fox has twittered that he is instructing lawyers to act against a twitter user who called him a racist.
Suddenly Laurence Fox isn't so keen on free speech when the free speech is about him.
I assume that’s the same Looza Fox who is being sued by three people for calling them ‘paedos’ on Twitter.
Given that Fox is undeniably racist (despite having tried to erase his worst Twitter pronouncements) the only winner here will be the lawyers.
I wonder who’s paying for this latest legal foray? One of the right wing American lobbies no doubt...
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I wonder who is paying for his entire campaign
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:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyZF3ruXMAY909B?format=jpg&name=large)
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/so-what-does-laurence-fox-stand-for/ "Fox told me he looks forward to the next person who calls him a racist, so he can sue, with the bonus that ‘everybody will have to pay attention then’."
The person he's threatening to sue works for TimeOut and had that on her Twitter bio, without a "views my own, not my employers" disclaimer. If he thinks he can get a nice settlement & apology from the magazine that may have influenced his decision £££££....
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Laurence Fox has twittered that he is instructing lawyers to act against a twitter user who called him a racist.
Suddenly Laurence Fox isn't so keen on free speech when the free speech is about him.
I assume that’s the same Looza Fox who is being sued by three people for calling them ‘paedos’ on Twitter.
Ah yes, but you see “paedo” doesn’t actually mean “paedo”. It's just a general insult. This is called “the Elon Muskrat defence” after the Super-Twat who first used it. Foxy-woxy is obviously hoping that this argument will work for him too, and thus have him mentioned alongside the fearsomely bright omni-successful multi-billionaire in places other than, say, forum threads calling out Super-Twats.
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Laurence Fox has twittered that he is instructing lawyers to act against a twitter user who called him a racist.
Suddenly Laurence Fox isn't so keen on free speech when the free speech is about him.
I assume that’s the same Looza Fox who is being sued by three people for calling them ‘paedos’ on Twitter.
Ah yes, but you see “paedo” doesn’t actually mean “paedo”. It's just a general insult. This is called “the Elon Muskrat defence” after the Super-Twat who first used it. Foxy-woxy is obviously hoping that this argument will work for him too, and thus have him mentioned alongside the fearsomely bright omni-successful multi-billionaire in places other than, say, forum threads calling out Super-Twats.
As mentioned, it was the insult du jour in my c80s school playground, though as we were all about twelve, so yelling 'paedo' was probably a fair assessment.
It was the time of burgeoning stranger danger* and paedobears, I guess, where your only defence was a Blue Peter-mandated paedo-defence made with a washing-up liquid bottle and sticky back plastic.
Anyway, it was up there with 'bender' and 'Joey.'
*at least once a term, there'd be an outbreak of suspicious vans and abduction attempts, not one of which was ever real. Panics were quite the thing, I caused one myself by spotting a UFO. There was an epic and semi-regular one where everyone thought the kids from Hyson Green – rufty tufty Nottingham bit – were going to get on a bus, travel several miles, just to fight our school. Kids were getting tooled up, teachers losing control, to the point we all had to be sent home early. Made no sense at all, of course, they weren't going to do that, for starters they probably didn't have the bus fare.
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Anyway, it was up there with 'bender' and 'Joey.'
Are you a bender tied to a tree?
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The person he's threatening to sue works for TimeOut and had that on her Twitter bio, without a "views my own, not my employers" disclaimer. If he thinks he can get a nice settlement & apology from the magazine that may have influenced his decision £££££....
Is there any legal basis for such a disclaimer being required? Unless it's actually published in Time Out or on one of their official channels, it's surely not their responsibility.
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The person he's threatening to sue works for TimeOut and had that on her Twitter bio, without a "views my own, not my employers" disclaimer. If he thinks he can get a nice settlement & apology from the magazine that may have influenced his decision £££££....
Is there any legal basis for such a disclaimer being required? Unless it's actually published in Time Out or on one of their official channels, it's surely not their responsibility.
IANAL, but I read an article by an actual barrister about disclaimers a while back, and no, they're effectively pointless. If it's not a Time Out account and there's no evidence to assume she's posting messages at the behest of her employers, then I'd suggest he's on a highway to a large and pointless legal bill.
But honestly, regardless of which side of the fence they come from, I hate these tedious Social Media I'm getting my dad solicitor to beat you up.
Also, Lozza: fucking snowflake.
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IANAL, but I read an article by an actual barrister about disclaimers a while back, and no, they're effectively pointless. If it's not a Time Out account and there's no evidence to assume she's posting messages at the behest of her employers, then I'd suggest he's on a highway to a large and pointless legal bill.
Yes, that's what I thought.
Also, Lozza: fucking snowflake.
;D
Anyway, you didn't answer my question: are you a bender tied to a tree?
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Just how badly do you want to find out?
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No biggie, just a simple yes or no will do. ;)
ETA: just remembered the question should actually be "Are you a benny tied to a tree? (https://www.lawoftheplayground.net/index.php?subject=24&search=91)" but benny=bender, iirc.
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Laurence Fox has twittered that he is instructing lawyers to act against a twitter user who called him a racist.
Suddenly Laurence Fox isn't so keen on free speech when the free speech is about him.
I assume that’s the same Looza Fox who is being sued by three people for calling them ‘paedos’ on Twitter.
Ah yes, but you see “paedo” doesn’t actually mean “paedo”. It's just a general insult. This is called “the Elon Muskrat defence” after the Super-Twat who first used it. Foxy-woxy is obviously hoping that this argument will work for him too, and thus have him mentioned alongside the fearsomely bright omni-successful multi-billionaire in places other than, say, forum threads calling out Super-Twats.
As mentioned, it was the insult du jour in my c80s school playground, though as we were all about twelve, so yelling 'paedo' was probably a fair assessment.
It was the time of burgeoning stranger danger* and paedobears, I guess, where your only defence was a Blue Peter-mandated paedo-defence made with a washing-up liquid bottle and sticky back plastic.
Anyway, it was up there with 'bender' and 'Joey.'
*at least once a term, there'd be an outbreak of suspicious vans and abduction attempts, not one of which was ever real. Panics were quite the thing, I caused one myself by spotting a UFO. There was an epic and semi-regular one where everyone thought the kids from Hyson Green – rufty tufty Nottingham bit – were going to get on a bus, travel several miles, just to fight our school. Kids were getting tooled up, teachers losing control, to the point we all had to be sent home early. Made no sense at all, of course, they weren't going to do that, for starters they probably didn't have the bus fare.
Yes, we know you don't think it's particularly important if you're called a paedophile on social media (you've told us at length previously) but other people do - particularly when allegations like that have the potential to impact their careers.
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I'm not, marsupial bondage is not my thing.
Actually, the 'Joey' thing is a bit sad, and a reminder of how wretched children are (I'm not up on current playground slurs, ours were big on 'spaz' and 'mong'). Admittedly 'bender' wasn't much better.
Still, we were kids, not sure what adults on Twitter have as an excuse.
And yeah, Reg, I think it's childish shit from people who think social media is real life and perhaps ought to grow up. Really being called a paedo on social media affects your career? You can call me a paedo, I don't give a shit.
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Really being called a paedo on social media affects your career? You can call me a paedo, I don't give a shit.
Ah....but you are anonymous. We don't know your name, what you look like, who you work for.
If we did what would be your boundaries for libel or slander?
I'm pretty sure that if I asked you for your full name and photo for me to post on twitter that you are a paedo you would suddenly very much give a shit.
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I'm not, marsupial bondage is not my thing.
Actually, the 'Joey' thing is a bit sad, and a reminder of how wretched children are (I'm not up on current playground slurs, ours were big on 'spaz' and 'mong'). Admittedly 'bender' wasn't much better.
Still, we were kids, not sure what adults on Twitter have as an excuse.
And yeah, Reg, I think it's childish shit from people who think social media is real life and perhaps ought to grow up. Really being called a paedo on social media affects your career? You can call me a paedo, I don't give a shit.
So you're OK with a high profile gay man, working for a national charity, being called a 'paedo'? Or other public, identified figures?
If so, it says a lot...
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Why, is there any evidence that I'm a 'paedo'? Is it a genuine allegation or childish name-calling? I think the latter unless it's a genuine allegation, which in the majority of these stories it seems to be thrown around like a playground insult, and with much the same weight. Childish. If I call you a 'motherfucker,' it's not because I genuinely believe you are fucking your mother (that's really between you and her).
People should grow up, come on, if you wouldn't do it face-to-face in the real world, why do it online?
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A 'Joey' is...? 🤔 No comprende.
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Why, is there any evidence that I'm a 'paedo'? Is it a genuine allegation or childish name-calling? I think the latter unless it's a genuine allegation
The key factor is not whether it's true or not, but whether it causes reputational harm.
I'd be surprised if L.Fox calling someone a paedo on twitter is taken seriously by anyone, but I guess that's now up to the courts to determine.
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A 'Joey' is...? 🤔 No comprende.
You wouldn't get this unless you were a child in Britain in the 80s, specifically one who watched Blue Peter.
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One persons childish insult is another persons deeply hurtful accusation. And, such childish accusations can damage mental health, reputation and employment prospects.
We have vecome a society where bullying has almost become acceptable. How utterly vile.
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One persons childish insult is another persons deeply hurtful accusation. And, such childish accusations can damage mental health, reputation and employment prospects.
We have vecome a society where bullying has almost become acceptable. How utterly vile.
Yebbut ...as long as the contrarian reactionaries aren't offended it's OK apparently...
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One persons childish insult is another persons deeply hurtful accusation. And, such childish accusations can damage mental health, reputation and employment prospects.
We have vecome a society where bullying has almost become acceptable. How utterly vile.
Yebbut ...as long as the contrarian reactionaries aren't offended it's OK apparently...
Ah. I see ...
Presumably if they are offended then they just need to grow up?
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Am I a contrarian reactionary? I should get t-shirts made.
If we want to live in a free society then people can't concomitantly have the right not to be offended.
Someone will be along in a moment to say oh you think actual threats and allegations are ok then?
Which, of course, I don't. But anyway, people calling each other names on Twitter, sigh. My initial point was that it's as endearing as kids calling each other names in the playground, just that these people have had a couple of decades to mature.
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A 'Joey' is...? 🤔 No comprende.
You wouldn't get this unless you were a child in Britain in the 80s, specifically one who watched Blue Peter.
He (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Deacon) was a man with cerebral palsy, spent most of his life institutionalised, wrote an interesting book about his experience and was showcased by Blue Peter in one of the early attempts to destigmatize disability.
Of course, school kids took his name as a generic insult, because they're school kids. Looking back, a pretty shit thing to do (and my point, now I suspect lost in usual foment, is that while kids might have the excuse of immaturity when tossing around objectionable insults, adults really should know better and, well, behave like adults).
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Am I a contrarian reactionary? I should get t-shirts made.
If we want to live in a free society then people can't concomitantly have the right not to be offended.
Someone will be along in a moment to say oh you think actual threats and allegations are ok then?
Which, of course, I don't. But anyway, people calling each other names on Twitter, sigh. My initial point was that it's as endearing as kids calling each other names in the playground, just that these people have had a couple of decades to mature.
Indeed, but you also suggested that it was of no consequence and that somebody could call you a paedo on social media and you...
wouldn't give a shit
Are you prepared to put your money where you mouth is? Yes? In which case I offer you The Paedo Challenge.
Full name, place of work, and photo please...
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My photo is in my profile. That's what I look like.
I didn't say it's always of no consequence, but is dear Lozza really alleging someone is a paedophile, or just being a cunt? I'd hazard he's being the latter, but as Citoyen says, if they want to test it with lawyers, that's their legal bill.
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My photo is in my profile. That's what I look like.
I didn't say it's always of no consequence, but is dear Lozza really alleging someone is a paedophile, or just being a cunt? I'd hazard he's being the latter, but as Citoyen says, if they want to test it with lawyers, that's their legal bill.
He has been offered the opportunity to withdraw the comments on a number of occasions and declined to so. If, as you suggest he’s just being a cunt (the implication apparently being that somehow excuses him or lessens the effect of his words), he’s going to learn a very expensive lesson.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a Katie Hopkins outcome.
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is dear Lozza really alleging someone is a paedophile, or just being a cunt?
Imagine a Venn diagram of these two possibilities.
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To be honest, I wouldn't let Lozza babysit my kids.
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I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a Katie Hopkins outcome.
That would be great.
One thing that will hopefully work against him is that he has 250,000 followers and considers himself an 'influencer'. Even if his twitter insults are just him being a cunt and not to be taken seriously, he's setting himself up nicely for a hefty fall. And it couldn't happen to a nicer person. (Except perhaps Hatey Cockpins.)
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I have just spent some time reading the judgement in Monroe v Hopkins. It makes me feel that Lozza is playing a very high risk game.
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Apparently the climate of London is so radically different from that of Amsterdam that cycle facilities in the former are utterly pointless. Or so says London mayoral candidate, prime example of nominative determinism and Super-Twat Peter Gammons of the deeply pointless UKIPs. i diskard him.
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A 'Joey' is...? 🤔 No comprende.
You wouldn't get this unless you were a child in Britain in the 80s, specifically one who watched Blue Peter.
He (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Deacon) was a man with cerebral palsy, spent most of his life institutionalised, wrote an interesting book about his experience and was showcased by Blue Peter in one of the early attempts to destigmatize disability.
Of course, school kids took his name as a generic insult, because they're school kids. Looking back, a pretty shit thing to do (and my point, now I suspect lost in usual foment, is that while kids might have the excuse of immaturity when tossing around objectionable insults, adults really should know better and, well, behave like adults).
Thanks. I had no knowledge of that.
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Apparently the climate of London is so radically different from that of Amsterdam that cycle facilities in the former are utterly pointless. Or so says London mayoral candidate, prime example of nominative determinism and Super-Twat Peter Gammons of the deeply pointless UKIPs. i diskard him.
Amsterdam is colder, wetter and windier than London. And its not even close.
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Apparently the climate of London is so radically different from that of Amsterdam that cycle facilities in the former are utterly pointless. Or so says London mayoral candidate, prime example of nominative determinism and Super-Twat Peter Gammons of the deeply pointless UKIPs. i diskard him.
Amsterdam is colder, wetter and windier than London. And its not even close.
Sssssssh! His “mind” is made up. Pray do not confuse him with facts. Pesky things.
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My photo is in my profile. That's what I look like.
I didn't say it's always of no consequence, but is dear Lozza really alleging someone is a paedophile, or just being a cunt? I'd hazard he's being the latter, but as Citoyen says, if they want to test it with lawyers, that's their legal bill.
Isn’t Mr Fox is running for a position that would give him some level of authority over the police? Which, I think, makes him not just another twitter name caller, but someone that has to watch his accusations. Whether he has any serious chance of winning or not. Quite apart from the general undermining of a serious accusation or risk of damaging someone’s life if a story gets coverage.
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He is suing for being called a racist, which is a weird hill to choose to die on if you rose to infamy through race-baiting.
I suspect he is taking this action to get attention and for no other reason.
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I know normally this thread is reserved for national or even international twats but the shop lifter I saw today has to be worth a nomination
If your going to try and five finger discount something it's probably not a good day to do it when
There are reduced numbers in the shop
There are staff monitoring the customers
There is loads of extra security
The police are there with a display for people to come meet them outside the shop
But alas this wasn't enough to put off one hopeful and he got a free ride in a transit with lights on
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https://twitter.com/russincheshire/status/1384262568177324046?s=21 (https://twitter.com/russincheshire/status/1384262568177324046?s=21)
Fox inna Blackshirt & with rent-a-thug in tow. What a look to give your prospective voters.
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Johnny Mercer
He's the archetypal collar-up Boden rugby shirt wearing twat isn't he.
And now he is threatening to resign because he hasn't managed to get govt to agree to let British war crimes go unpunished.
What a cunt.
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He was in the Army, you know. He's been trained to kill his critics in fifty different ways, including boring them utterly to DETH and allowing his subordinates to shoot them for which they shouldn’t be punished. See also “François, Mark”
(Roffles)
Edit: And off he has fucked (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/20/defence-minister-johnny-mercer-on-brink-of-resigning). No great loss.
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Morrissey
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Morrissey
That's actually hilarious. Snowflake.
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Tbh, I didn’t even realise The Simpsons was still a thing. And I’m disappointed to be reminded that Morrissey is still a thing.
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I confess I didn't either. Blimey, I was watching it on Fox on Sunday evening when I was little.
American TV was quite an exciting prospect when I dropped from the sky into the bosom of Logan International Airport, in a giddy rush of excitement I got 53 channels in my 'cable package,' of which 50 seemed to consist entirely of commercial breaks.
I'd hadn't really watched TV for years since I left home, we had a TV at university but it was so old* that it took about twenty minutes to warm up, it was like loading a Spectrum game, but the time you got there, you'd decided to do something else like go to the pub. My flatmates had a TV when I did my PhD but it got beer down the back and that was that. Anyway, my first TV and portal into US culture.
I used to like the Smiths as a little 'un, till I went goth. Honestly though, even then Morrissey came across as a bit of a wanker.
*there was an element of practicality, this was Liverpool in the late 80s, early 90s, anything that could be carried got nicked. And trust me, a rhino on steroids couldn't have moved that TV.
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I don’t think I've ever watched a complete episode of The Simpsons. However:
A statement on Morrissey's Facebook called the show "hurtful and racist".
Because nothing emphasises your commitment to anti-racism like openly supporting ocean-going chromium-plated copper-bottomed fascist Anne Marie Waters* and her party** of knuckle-draggers, right, Mozza?
You twat.
* who is so racist that even Henry Bolton and Niggles Fartrage complained.
** which counts among its supporters that habitual criminal and booster of the Colombian economy Tiny Tommeh Ten-Names.
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James ‘sucker’ Dyson and his yellow haired fanboi BSJ. Oh and the royal bean counter Risky Sunache.
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I was going to nominate defaffle the procrastinator for his unexpected ability to get on board a populist cause about ball games quickly defying an extensive and lengthy track record of delay and confusion with the key covid decisions.
Seems like the sleazy populist can't keep out-of the news ...
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I was going to nominate defaffle the procrastinator for his unexpected ability to get on board a populist cause about ball games quickly defying an extensive and lengthy track record of delay and confusion with the key covid decisions.
Seems like the sleazy populist can't keep out-of the news ...
yeahbut he’d only got to the ‘making noises’ about it stage, he’s usually very good at that stage, it’s actually doing something stage where he falls down.
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I was going to nominate defaffle the procrastinator for his unexpected ability to get on board a populist cause about ball games quickly defying an extensive and lengthy track record of delay and confusion with the key covid decisions.
Seems like the sleazy populist can't keep out-of the news ...
yeahbut he’d only got to the ‘making noises’ about it stage, he’s usually very good at that stage, it’s actually doing something stage where he falls down.
Well yes, he likes the sound of his own voice I agree. He does tend to stay silent about far too many important things though.
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise (https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise)
So Twat - ish they get 2 mentions. https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=53981.msg2616314#msg2616314
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise (https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise)
So Twat - ish they get 2 mentions. https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=53981.msg2616314#msg2616314
Sorry, but the twat was the person that decided that frangible aluminium matting was a suitable surface for helicopters to use. Why the fuck hasn't Addenbrookes got a proper,, all-weather concrete helipad?
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That's not much of a helipad, it's just some matting. I've seen more robust yoga set-ups.
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise (https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise)
So Twat - ish they get 2 mentions. https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=53981.msg2616314#msg2616314
Sorry, but the twat was the person that decided that frangible aluminium matting was a suitable surface for helicopters to use. Why the fuck hasn't Addenbrookes got a proper,, all-weather concrete helipad?
Because the regular air traffic at Addenbrookes doesn't generate the sort of downwash and outwash that a V-22 tiltrotor does?
ISTR that downwash is an issue with V-22 operations at rough/semi-prepared landing zones, and according to Wikinaccurate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey#Propulsion), the V-22 generates maximum downwash speeds of in excess of 80 knots - equivalent to Category 1-2 hurricane-force winds.
The RAND briefing document* used as the source for the downwash figure has a chart (see page 61 of the pdf linked below) showing downwash versus rotor diameter for various existing and proposed rotorcraft. Flexing my Google-fu to see which type the local air ambulance service uses (Airbus/Eurocopter H145 (https://www.eaaa.org.uk/our-work/our-helicopters)), cross-checking its rotor diameter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_EC145#Specifications_(EC145_C-2)) in feet (just over 36 ft) gives a downwash velocity in the region of 28-34 knots.
In other words, a V-22 tiltrotor generates 2.4-3 times the downwash of the usual air traffic at Addenbrookes. I wouldn't necessarily blame whoever originally drew up the specifications for the landing pad. I think that either someone planning the exercise assumed the landing zone was OK to use, or someone at the hospital was asked and they assumed that all rotorcraft are alike when it comes to downwash.
And as ani fule kno, assumption is the mother of all fusterclucks.
* https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB472.pdf
EDITED TO ADD:
On reading the other thread, it doesn't appear to be the helipad itself that got blown away, so it's more an outwash issue and guess what? The V-22 generates the worst outwash of any existing type of rotorcraft (see the next slide in the pdf after the downwash one I mention above).
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Ooh. There's"interesting". I was at John Radcliffe Hospital a few weeks ago, showing people* how to anchor a temporary helipad down. TimC, didn't you see any temporary landing strips during your time in the RAF?
*They were Army, so wearing camouflage, but it was also a construction site, so they gad Hi Vis waistcoats on top. Which was a bit odd.
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https://fauntrackway.co.uk/defence/aviation/helicopter-landing-mat (https://fauntrackway.co.uk/defence/aviation/helicopter-landing-mat)
This stuff ?
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The very stuff.
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise
That can’t have happened because there are NO Ospreys in the U.K. None. The USAnian gubermint say so.
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise
That can’t have happened because there are NO Ospreys in the U.K. None. The USAnian gubermint say so.
One went over my house a few years ago. Noisy fucker. I mean, seriously foundation-shakingly LOUD. We’ve had Chinooks going over before and they’re tinny lawnmowers in comparison. But obviously I imagined it. ;)
Whether or not the helipad was fit for purpose, I question the wisdom of allowing an emergency air ambulance landing site to be used for military exercises. There is likely more than one twat involved in this scenario. It’s a whole chain of twattery.
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Ooh. There's"interesting". I was at John Radcliffe Hospital a few weeks ago, showing people* how to anchor a temporary helipad down. TimC, didn't you see any temporary landing strips during your time in the RAF?
*They were Army, so wearing camouflage, but it was also a construction site, so they gad Hi Vis waistcoats on top. Which was a bit odd.
Addenbrookes is not a temporary location, and it's been receiving helicopters (military and civilian) for many, many years, so why doesn't it have a hard-surface helipad? I bet none of its car parks are so temporary!
USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise
That can’t have happened because there are NO Ospreys in the U.K. None. The USAnian gubermint say so.
Bollocks. The CV-22 replaced the MH-53 at 7th SOS quite openly several years ago (2013). One of their roles is CSAR, and, as there are no military hospitals (British or American) in UK, military casualties must be taken to embedded military or specialist civilian teams in UK civilian hospitals, including Addenbrookes. This isn't a new situation; the last military hospital in UK (HMS Haslar) closed in the last century (I was one of its last patients in 1997). The training exercise was probably to give training for this patient transfer for both military and hospital personnel.
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TimC, I'd agree your "why is it a temporary surface when the use case is somewhat permanent" argument has some (a lot!) of merit.
BTW, the stuff that got ripped up and blown away was plastic and was the helipad. The video doing the rounds shows the perimeter lights. There is also an access trackway leading towards the buildings, wheeling patients for the use of. Google Maps satellite view has a good image.
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The training exercise was probably to give training for this patient transfer for both military and hospital personnel.
That makes sense.
Tim, perhaps you might have some insight into this: who is responsible for ensuring the landing site is suitable for the aircraft landing there? I mean, say the ATC at your local airfield gave you permission to land your 747 there, whose fault would it be when it all went horribly wrong?
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Honestly, it looked like it was set up for yoga. Helicopters don't do yoga. I don't know what they do do. No one does. They fly. We don't know how. It might be anti-magnetism or just gravity thinking fuck this. I like to think there are occasion objects that gravity finds just too ludicrous to be bothered with.
The Americans are probably laughing up our weedy helicopter landing facility. They built a proper one on top of Kings in south London, before that they used to land in Ruskin Park next door. Of particular distress to my lovely wife, whose musical ensemble used to regularly play on the bandstand. Two helicopters landing at the same time (some kind of shifty patient transfer, I figure they're like football stickers, everyone is trying to trade the ebola patient) is louder than a lot of tubas.
Reminds me, once upon a time, they were playing the bandstand on Clapham Common, echoing out the crowd-pleasing strains of the theme from Jurassic Park when someone dressed in a full dinosaur costume dashed out of the bushes, did one lap of the bandstand, and then ran off never to be seen again.
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise
That can’t have happened because there are NO Ospreys in the U.K. None. The USAnian gubermint say so.
Bollocks. The CV-22 replaced the MH-53 at 7th SOS quite openly several years ago (2013). One of their roles is CSAR, and, as there are no military hospitals (British or American) in UK, military casualties must be taken to embedded military or specialist civilian teams in UK civilian hospitals, including Addenbrookes. This isn't a new situation; the last military hospital in UK (HMS Haslar) closed in the last century (I was one of its last patients in 1997). The training exercise was probably to give training for this patient transfer for both military and hospital personnel.
I just assumed that Beardy was indulging in the popular - that is to say, massively over-used - YACF trope of po-faced, depleted uranium-weight sarcasm, which doesn't come across at all well in a text-based medium... ;) :demon:
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The twat here is the person who didn't run the "requirements, consequences" thought exercise.
If Addenbrooks has to function as the 'military' hospital for the airbase, then running the exercise is reasonable and it is a successful test.
I hope that the septics will partially fund a proper hard pad. If they require access for Ospreys, they should fund the improvements.
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The CV-22 replaced the MH-53 at 7th SOS quite openly several years ago (2013). One of their roles is CSAR,
I really really hope that the person in charge of Combat Search And Rescue is the CSAR Csar.
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I love boy threads. It's an MH857 not an XH568 you fools.
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USAF 48th Fighter Wing
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-22/addenbrookes-hospital-helipad-destroyed-during-military-training-exercise
That can’t have happened because there are NO Ospreys in the U.K. None. The USAnian gubermint say so.
Bollocks. The CV-22 replaced the MH-53 at 7th SOS quite openly several years ago (2013). One of their roles is CSAR, and, as there are no military hospitals (British or American) in UK, military casualties must be taken to embedded military or specialist civilian teams in UK civilian hospitals, including Addenbrookes. This isn't a new situation; the last military hospital in UK (HMS Haslar) closed in the last century (I was one of its last patients in 1997). The training exercise was probably to give training for this patient transfer for both military and hospital personnel.
I just assumed that Beardy was indulging in the popular - that is to say, massively over-used - YACF trope of po-faced, depleted uranium-weight sarcasm, which doesn't come across at all well in a text-based medium... ;) :demon:
As a general rule it is for the best if you read my general posts with a sarcastic overtone laced with further sarcasm.
My early career was spent in the company of intelligent people whom had grammar school educations but had, for various reasons, entered the workforce at 15 or 16. All had a cynical view on the world and the balanced ones were those with chips on both shoulders. As an interesting, although related , aside our employer had for years treated the technical staff as second class citizens with the operators were, on the whole, treated very well. Buildings without operator none technical staff did not have canteens (which were always subsidised) irrespective of how big the technical workforce. This was only one example of such prejudices.
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Honestly, it looked like it was set up for yoga. Helicopters don't do yoga. I don't know what they do do. No one does. They fly. We don't know how. It might be anti-magnetism or just gravity thinking fuck this. I like to think there are occasion objects that gravity finds just too ludicrous to be bothered with.
There is a school of thought, common among fixed-wing aviators, that helichopters fit your last sentence to a T(imC).
A human-powered æroplane has been flown more than 100 km but the human-powered helichopter's greatest achievement is reaching an altitude of 3 metres and staying there for 30 seconds before the engine blew up.
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Honestly, it looked like it was set up for yoga. Helicopters don't do yoga. I don't know what they do do. No one does. They fly. We don't know how. It might be anti-magnetism or just gravity thinking fuck this. I like to think there are occasion objects that gravity finds just too ludicrous to be bothered with.
There is a school of thought, common among fixed-wing aviators, that helichopters fit your last sentence to a T(imC).
A human-powered æroplane has been flown more than 100 km but the human-powered helichopter's greatest achievement is reaching an altitude of 3 metres and staying there for 30 seconds before the engine blew up.
In the gliding community we believe there to be two approaches to flying, with finesse, or with an engine! The less wind an aviator has available, the more engine they need to have access to. A helichopter is the ultimate expression of this philosophy.
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I've only been in a helicopter twice, and it didn't crash one (and I have a terrible history with planes, it's a good job I'm deathproof).
The second time was between Victoria and Vancouver, and it turned out to be the last flight in the service, so the driver threw in a free tour of southern BC eventually and fatefully curtailed by the words 'ok, we're running short of fuel now.'
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The Post Office.
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The Post Office.
Rev Paula Vennells in particular.
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The Post Office.
Rev Paula Vennells in particular.
Indeed. Although writing a strongly-worded grink to her was rather efficacious in resolving our 8-week-long broadband outage in the summer of 2019.
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The Post Office.
Rev Paula Vennells in particular.
That is spectacular failure. The apology is probably one of the best examples of how not to apologise I have ever read. Absolutely awful.
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She retains her corporate roles with Morrisons and Dunelm. She also remains a member of the Church of England’s ethical investment advisory group.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, Reverend?
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The training exercise was probably to give training for this patient transfer for both military and hospital personnel.
That makes sense.
Tim, perhaps you might have some insight into this: who is responsible for ensuring the landing site is suitable for the aircraft landing there? I mean, say the ATC at your local airfield gave you permission to land your 747 there, whose fault would it be when it all went horribly wrong?
I can't speak for the Americans - and it's a long time since I was involved in off-field operations - but for temporary or rarely-used strips as we used in the C130, there would be a visit sometime prior to the exercise to ensure that the site could take the load and that there were no avoidable intrinsic hazards (such as loosely-fixed surface coverings!). Any issues would be flagged up and would be checked as resolved a couple of days before the exercise. On the day, a Landing Zone Safety Officer would be positioned by road (or on foot if necessary) to make sure everything stayed safe throughout the process, and they would be in radio contact with the aircraft, either by discrete radio or by the airfield's own system if one existed.
Even back then, helicopter operations off-field weren't allowed without similar precautions except, of course, in an emergency (which could be a casualty pick up). I find it surprising that there wasn't a similar setup in this case. My RAF Helicopter Landing Sites (UK) book says that the helipad is owned by Downing College, not the hospital, and that planned casevacs should go via Cambridge Airport. However, that book is the 1982 issue so it's unlikely to be the same now, and Cambridge Airport is about to close - which may be why the exercise was run.
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Hell hath no fury like a Cummings scorned. Oh, hang on, we need a three-word slogan.
MEKON GETS MEDIEVAL
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56863547
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Hmm... Cummings saying something is not ethical? Really?
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This is good, though - for all his own shortcomings as a human being, if there’s one person who has an insight into the shit that has been going on in Downing Street these past few years... the potential damage he could cause is huge.
Love it.
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I don't think anyone gives a flying fsck what Cummings thinks about anything, now he's powerless. Nasty bloke.
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No, agreed. But I do give a flying fuck for what he knows and is prepared to reveal. Popcorn at the ready.
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Bear in mind that Cummings despises all politicians. He thinks they're useless feckers. Oh yes, and the Civil Service too. I don't think he's a natural Tory, he just latched onto them because they had power.
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Cumming is actually smart though. Boris and his cronies are a bunch of entitled halfwits and their hangers-on who try as hard as they might, ultimately never did go to the right school.
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I don't think he's half as smart as he thinks he is.
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I don't think he's half as smart as he thinks he is.
Yes, but it’s all relative.
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I don't think he's half as smart as he thinks he is.
Yes, but it’s all about your relatives.
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I don't think anyone gives a flying fsck what Cummings thinks about anything, now he's powerless. Nasty bloke.
Scummings didn’t just pop out of the woodwork with the elevation of Bloody Stupid Johnson to Number Ten, though; he's been hanging around with horrible Tory gits since forever, excepting the time he spent in Russia. He had a spell as a campaign manager for Dunkedin-Shit but left the job because IDS was insufficiently power-mad or something, and was a Spad to Slithy Gove at Education. He must have a metric fuckton of dirt on them and I for one look forward to some nice juicy scandals to brighten up an otherwise dull summer :demon: Though I still think Slithy is involved with the leaks somewhere along the line.
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Justin Welby.
For urging 'forgiveness' for the lobbying scandal. Anyone would think he too might be en ex-Etonian...
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Jair Bolsonaro
https://theconversation.com/covid-19-in-brazil-how-jair-bolsonaro-created-a-calamity-159066
Same camp as Trump but with added overdose of steroids. More than the sum of of our STs to date.
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https://news.sky.com/story/norwegian-climber-who-was-first-to-test-positive-for-covid-at-mount-everest-went-during-pandemic-because-it-was-cheaper-12285504
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If he'd actually summited while suffering with it, I might have some respect.
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https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1386097164993155079?s=20
Camo gear now ? Shouldn't that make him a legit target for snipers ?
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48473791997_f7889902be_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gRsRyr)
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https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1386097164993155079?s=20
Camo gear now ? Shouldn't that make him a legit target for snipers ?
(https://images.askmen.com/720x540/entertainment/better_look/craziest-movie-characters/4-1458053146.jpg)
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Lozza Bickle: | May 6th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change. |
Omnes: | You lost your deposit, didn't you? |
Lozza Bickle: | Pædo! |
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And look who's crawled out of the U-bend. https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1385967065161510912?s=20
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And look who's crawled out of the U-bend. https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1385967065161510912?s=20
Good to see she's still using her full medical title as her twitter handle.
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She retains her corporate roles with Morrisons and Dunelm. She also remains a member of the Church of England’s ethical investment advisory group.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, Reverend?
Dunelm and Morrisons have cut ties and she has stepped back from church duties. Her bishop is the son of a sub-postmaster!
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My question is, when and if she and the rest of the PO execs will face charges for this huge miscarriage of justice which they drove hundreds of cases through on the back of? Lives have been destroyed by these mega twats and they just "step back". It ain't good enough.
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I really don't understand how their accounting practices were so poor that they accused people of stealing money that patently did not exist. What sort of business were they running?
And some blame should accrue to the police and CPS, whose credulity seems almost criminal in itself.
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And Fujitsu ?
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All software has defects, no one should simply accept that it works. So it should never be entirely relied on. But yes, it was unfit for purpose.
From reading about this, it's utterly shocking, and more so because it makes no sense, I mean really, what really are the odds that several hundred post officer operators were all stealing at the same time? Absolutely no one sat back and thought, erm, that looks a teensy bit unlikely.
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As well as relying on software, they reduced the level of on the spot audit being done - to cut costs. I worked in a sub-Post Office when I was younger. We knew that at any time the Post Office auditors could walk through the door and demand to go through the books, cash, etc. We would balance to the penny at the end of each day.
As I understand it, when the computer system started suggesting there were issues, some audits were done - which gave the 'wrong' answer (i.e. that the software was wrong) - so they were stopped.
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Even as a youngster serving a part-time sentence at the Coop, you had to be able to tally up the actual money (I know, because I was the moderate trustworthy muggins who did the counting, admittedly under the manager's supervision as it was far more money that I'd ever seen).
It used to be a semi-regular thing for a shopper to claim that they'd given a larger note and got the wrong change, which meant I had to go sit in a room and count everything from the till. Quite a few of those shoppers were chancing it.
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I’m never anything but amazed when I think of one of my childhood jobs. As a 13/14 yo I used to collect money from customers for a milkman. I used to go door to door with a money satchel and book demanding payment. I’ve never considered just how much money I had by the end of the evening, but it must have been in excess of £200 which in the 70s was a significant sum. Hat it never occurred to me that there was any risk to a 14yo walking the streets at night with that amount o money probably says more about where I grew up than anything else.
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The big mistake by those making the decisions was to decide that the computer must be right in spite of the increasing number of cases. I find it impossible to believe that the reg flags were not being battered by force 10 storms and surely somebody was saying that we might just have made a huge mistake here?
It is the job of the board to be accountable for the business and they are paid hugely to compensate for that. As a result, if they proved incapable of good practice due to whatever reason the responsibility should fall squarely upon their shoulders. They have lived off the fat of their lack of capability to do the proper job for a very long time indeed.
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The big mistake by those making the decisions was to decide that the computer must be right in spite of the increasing number of cases. I find it impossible to believe that the reg flags were not being battered by force 10 storms and surely somebody was saying that we might just have made a huge mistake here?
Of course, once they realise they’ve made one huge mistake, they can either own up or double down. With bonuses at stake it’s easy to see why they chose as the did
It is the job of the board to be accountable for the business and they are paid hugely to compensate for that. As a result, if they proved incapable of good practice due to whatever reason the responsibility should fall squarely upon their shoulders. They have lived off the fat of their lack of capability to do the proper job for a very long time indeed.
The reason given for the huge salary’s received by the board members is that they are accountable. I can’t think of any situation where any board member has not been paid off handsomely once they have been caught out. Those are just the rules of that particular club (no, you and I can’t join)
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That's the problem with executive pay, they claim it's to compensate for the responsibility, but curiously they're never actually responsible for anything that happens under their leadership, and when the shit hits the fan, they get a pay-off anyway and move to a similar executive role elsewhere. Rinse and repeat.
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when the shit hits the fan, they get a pay-off anyway and move to a similar executive role elsewhere.
Not always 'elsewhere' - my all-time favourite example was when Connex had their rail franchise stripped from them for financial mismanagement, and were replaced with South Eastern, newly created by the SRA. And who do you think the SRA appointed to run South Eastern? Why, all the same senior management who had fucked up so badly at Connex. The rationale being that they were the people with the most experience at operating the business. :facepalm:
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But really what has she done wrong? The Prime Minister can lie in every job he has ever had, be complicit in the beating of a reporter, lie to the whole electorate about money for the NHS, lie to NI about a border, lie to the country about PPE procurement, lie to the London assembly about his relationships with at least 2 women, lie about the money to renovate his flat. His colleagues can bully to their hearts content after quite disgraceful actions in Israel. Contracts for emergency supplies are given out to your best mate irrespective of his skills, and so it gods on. Compared to that and the 127,000 people dead she really did quite well.
We live in the most amazing times where honesty in public office is not only unnecessary but unwanted.
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I really don't understand how their accounting practices were so poor that they accused people of stealing money that patently did not exist. What sort of business were they running?
AIUI the system would routinely lose transaction records, so e.g. when a customer withdraws a big chunk of cash from their Giro/pension/whatever, the money would be gone from the cash drawer but there'd be no record of it on the system, so the numbers wouldn't add up at the end of the day and the only conclusion is the postmaster pocketed it.
Also people at Fujitsu knew this was happening and would sometimes try to add the missing records, but they did it by hacking the database directly, which meant there was no audit trail and it could lead to other totals no longer matching, which was yet more proof the postmasters were up to something.
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An interesting (FCVOI of course) adjuct to this. Recently my wife paid £150 cash into our (First Direct) bank account at the local sub-PO. It failed to appear in the account for a several of days. On checking the receipt she'd been given, it showed a zero value. She went back with the receipt, and asked them to check. The person there (not the same individual as took the payment) said they'd check the CCTV and get back to her. She'd barely walked home (some 20 minutes) when they called and asked her to return, and they'd sort it out. All she had to do was present a debit card related to the account, and they repeated the transaction. The money was in the account in minutes. No suggestion of impropriety but an indication of what can be doen these days.
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Boris, for (a) saying he didn't care if the bodies piled up, if it would avoid a third lockdown and (b) for not making The Mekon sign an NDA before he was sacked by
Princess Nut Nut Boris. Unless The Mekon left without any payoff, which seems unlikely.
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Boris, for (a) saying he didn't care if the bodies piled up, if it would avoid a third lockdown and (b) for not making The Mekon sign an NDA before he was sacked by Princess Nut Nut Boris. Unless The Mekon left without any payoff, which seems unlikely.
NDAs can no longer be used stop 'whistleblowing' disclosures made in the public interest. So even if Baron von Jizzmark had signed one, they'd be hard pressed to say the disclosures weren't in the public interest...
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Lubefroth speaks again
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/rick-santorum-lambasted-over-comments-seemingly-erasing-native-americans-from-history/ar-BB1g4GXJ?ocid=msedgntp
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Lubefroth speaks again
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/rick-santorum-lambasted-over-comments-seemingly-erasing-native-americans-from-history/ar-BB1g4GXJ?ocid=msedgntp
"Birthed a nation" is as loaded a phrase as "final solution".
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An interesting (FCVOI of course) adjuct to this. Recently my wife paid £150 cash into our (First Direct) bank account at the local sub-PO. It failed to appear in the account for a several of days. On checking the receipt she'd been given, it showed a zero value. She went back with the receipt, and asked them to check. The person there (not the same individual as took the payment) said they'd check the CCTV and get back to her. She'd barely walked home (some 20 minutes) when they called and asked her to return, and they'd sort it out. All she had to do was present a debit card related to the account, and they repeated the transaction. The money was in the account in minutes. No suggestion of impropriety but an indication of what can be doen these days.
FYI. The FirstDirect app allows you to photo a cheque and submit it to your account, without the need to leave your chair let alone wander to a Post Office. I received a cheque, how retro, a few months ago and used the app to process. Worked fine.
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An interesting (FCVOI of course) adjuct to this. Recently my wife paid £150 cash into our (First Direct) bank account at the local sub-PO. It failed to appear in the account for a several of days. On checking the receipt she'd been given, it showed a zero value. She went back with the receipt, and asked them to check. The person there (not the same individual as took the payment) said they'd check the CCTV and get back to her. She'd barely walked home (some 20 minutes) when they called and asked her to return, and they'd sort it out. All she had to do was present a debit card related to the account, and they repeated the transaction. The money was in the account in minutes. No suggestion of impropriety but an indication of what can be doen these days.
FYI. The FirstDirect app allows you to photo a cheque and submit it to your account, without the need to leave your chair let alone wander to a Post Office. I received a cheque, how retro, a few months ago and used the app to process. Worked fine.
Yep, I know that, but I’d been paid in cash for a set of (car) wheels I sold 👍
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An interesting (FCVOI of course) adjuct to this. Recently my wife paid £150 cash into our (First Direct) bank account at the local sub-PO. It failed to appear in the account for a several of days. On checking the receipt she'd been given, it showed a zero value. She went back with the receipt, and asked them to check. The person there (not the same individual as took the payment) said they'd check the CCTV and get back to her. She'd barely walked home (some 20 minutes) when they called and asked her to return, and they'd sort it out. All she had to do was present a debit card related to the account, and they repeated the transaction. The money was in the account in minutes. No suggestion of impropriety but an indication of what can be doen these days.
FYI. The FirstDirect app allows you to photo a cheque and submit it to your account, without the need to leave your chair let alone wander to a Post Office. I received a cheque, how retro, a few months ago and used the app to process. Worked fine.
Yep, I know that, but I’d been paid in cash for a set of (car) wheels I sold 👍
Ah, silly me, didn't read it properly and must have remembered my past tedious experiences involving cheques and post offices. Oh well.
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I really don't understand how their accounting practices were so poor that they accused people of stealing money that patently did not exist. What sort of business were they running?
And some blame should accrue to the police and CPS, whose credulity seems almost criminal in itself.
My understanding is that the PO largely bypassed the Police and CPS and were mostly able to prosecute without their their input.
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I really don't understand how their accounting practices were so poor that they accused people of stealing money that patently did not exist. What sort of business were they running?
And some blame should accrue to the police and CPS, whose credulity seems almost criminal in itself.
My understanding is that the PO largely bypassed the Police and CPS and were mostly able to prosecute without their their input.
I think they went for civil penalties rather than criminal. I judge no jury and lower burden of proof. Clearly suggests that they knew what they were doing. Seems the missing money probably ended up in secret accounts in PO head office as well.
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I really don't understand how their accounting practices were so poor that they accused people of stealing money that patently did not exist. What sort of business were they running?
And some blame should accrue to the police and CPS, whose credulity seems almost criminal in itself.
My understanding is that the PO largely bypassed the Police and CPS and were mostly able to prosecute without their their input.
I think they went for civil penalties rather than criminal. I judge no jury and lower burden of proof. Clearly suggests that they knew what they were doing. Seems the missing money probably ended up in secret accounts in PO head office as well.
No - they were criminal prosecutions. People were jailed.
Also, the burden of proof in civil and criminal cases is the same. It’s the quantum that may vary, albeit not as much as people may think, depending on what is alleged and the potential outcomes.
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Sorry, but in civil cases the burden of proof is “balance of probability” whereas in criminal it is “ stone reasonable doubt”. Civil is generally taken as 50.1% whereas criminal is seen as 90%.
I agree that some were sent to jail but most were not.
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I really don't understand how their accounting practices were so poor that they accused people of stealing money that patently did not exist. What sort of business were they running?
And some blame should accrue to the police and CPS, whose credulity seems almost criminal in itself.
My understanding is that the PO largely bypassed the Police and CPS and were mostly able to prosecute without their their input.
I think they went for civil penalties rather than criminal. I judge no jury and lower burden of proof. Clearly suggests that they knew what they were doing. Seems the missing money probably ended up in secret accounts in PO head office as well.
No - they were criminal prosecutions. People were jailed.
Also, the burden of proof in civil and criminal cases is the same. It’s the quantum that may vary, albeit not as much as people may think, depending on what is alleged and the potential outcomes.
All prosecutions are for crimes. These were private prosecutions brought to the criminal courts by the post office rather than by the CPS but the same “beyond reasonable doubt” is required.
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Sorry, but in civil cases the burden of proof is “balance of probability” whereas in criminal it is “ stone reasonable doubt”. Civil is generally taken as 50.1% whereas criminal is seen as 90%.
I agree that some were sent to jail but most were not.
You're confusing 'burden of proof' (i.e. whose responsibility it is to make out the matters alleged, the onus) with the 'quantum of evidence/standard of proof' (the amount of evidence needed, the quality of proof).
In criminal cases in England and Wales, the quantum of evidence is 'so that you are sure'. In civil cases, it is the 'balance of probability' but that is not "50.1%" as you suggest.
In civil cases, the quantum/standard required will depend on the nature of the matters alleged and the potential outcomes - what is often referred to as the "heightened civil standard". A good example of this is professional regulation - a civil procedure - where, given the potential impacts on someone's life and livelihood, the standard of evidence will be closer to the criminal standard.
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The reality is that inevitably somebody was thinking that the numbers and amounts were simply off the scale and therefore there might be another explanation? People at Fujigsu apparently knew that there was a problem so it seems unlikely that this was not known by people at the PO. Simply lacks credibility imo.
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The reality is that inevitably somebody was thinking that the numbers and amounts were simply off the scale and therefore there might be another explanation? People at Fujigsu apparently knew that there was a problem so it seems unlikely that this was not known by people at the PO. Simply lacks credibility imo.
When they first started having issues they did some manual on-site audits. This showed that there was an issue with the software. They stopped doing manual on-site audits.
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Sorry, but in civil cases the burden of proof is “balance of probability” whereas in criminal it is “ stone reasonable doubt”. Civil is generally taken as 50.1% whereas criminal is seen as 90%.
I agree that some were sent to jail but most were not.
You're confusing 'burden of proof' (i.e. whose responsibility it is to make out the matters alleged, the onus) with the 'quantum of evidence/standard of proof' (the amount of evidence needed, the quality of proof).
In criminal cases in England and Wales, the quantum of evidence is 'so that you are sure'. In civil cases, it is the 'balance of probability' but that is not "50.1%" as you suggest.
In civil cases, the quantum/standard required will depend on the nature of the matters alleged and the potential outcomes - what is often referred to as the "heightened civil standard". A good example of this is professional regulation - a civil procedure - where, given the potential impacts on someone's life and livelihood, the standard of evidence will be closer to the criminal standard.
Sorry, they often get mis-stated and you are right the burden of proof, ie who is responsible for proving the case is the prosecution or the claimant in civil cases. having been asked to decide probability on an almost weekly basis for the last 25 years i can say that it is very much 50.1%. The increased standard for professional regulation is a specific matter.
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The reality is that inevitably somebody was thinking that the numbers and amounts were simply off the scale and therefore there might be another explanation? People at Fujigsu apparently knew that there was a problem so it seems unlikely that this was not known by people at the PO. Simply lacks credibility imo.
When they first started having issues they did some manual on-site audits. This showed that there was an issue with the software. They stopped doing manual on-site audits.
That makes it all the worse really.
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The reality is that inevitably somebody was thinking that the numbers and amounts were simply off the scale and therefore there might be another explanation? People at Fujigsu apparently knew that there was a problem so it seems unlikely that this was not known by people at the PO. Simply lacks credibility imo.
When they first started having issues they did some manual on-site audits. This showed that there was an issue with the software. They stopped doing manual on-site audits.
That makes it all the worse really.
Oh yes... it was deliberate.
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So, if I understand, the PO brought private criminal prosecutions against them (did the CPS demur?). Astonishing. What were they thinking?
It's one of those things that makes no sense on any level, but they did it anyway.
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One wonders if the HR* department were involved in a bid to reduce the number of sub-postmasters either directly or through fear.
*HR. Many people think it stands for Human Resources, a dehumanising enough rename of the Personnel department, but I have it on good authority that it actually stands for Headcount Reduction which is as far as I can tell all they’ve done in most organisations for the past 30 years or so.
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One wonders if the HR* department were involved in a bid to reduce the number of sub-postmasters either directly or through fear.
*HR. Many people think it stands for Human Resources, a dehumanising enough rename of the Personnel department, but I have it on good authority that it actually stands for Headcount Reduction which is as far as I can tell all they’ve done in most organisations for the past 30 years or so.
Sub-postmasters aren't employees, I'm afraid. They're self-employed 'agents' - so even fewer protections.
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So, if I understand, the PO brought private criminal prosecutions against them (did the CPS demur?). Astonishing. What were they thinking?
The Post Office has its own "Investigation Branch" and private prosecutions are standard procedure, which means it can sidestep most of the process involved in an actual police investigation.
Likewise the RSPCA, although they've been told to stop due to prosecuting Tories fox hunters.
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Seems like they encountered a 'sunk cost' – basically, once they'd sunk so many resources into chasing down and prosecuting these individuals, increasingly despite the obvious wrongness, no one wanted to lose face by admitting the fact, so they kept pushing forward, deliberately oblivious to the damage.
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So, if I understand, the PO brought private criminal prosecutions against them (did the CPS demur?). Astonishing. What were they thinking?
The Post Office has its own "Investigation Branch" and private prosecutions are standard procedure, which means it can sidestep most of the process involved in an actual police investigation.
Likewise the RSPCA, although they've been told to stop due to prosecuting Tories fox hunters.
They must have produced sufficient evidence to convince a judge in a criminal court that the defendant was guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
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It seems the PO did have the benefit of being able to manufacture the evidence.
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It seems the PO did have the benefit of being able to manufacture the evidence.
And alter it to fit the narrative with the aid of Fujitsu and a lack of audit trail.
Which ever way you cut this, there is no doubt that there was reasonable doubt of guilt and definitely strong evidence in criminal conspiracy by the the PO.
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They must have produced sufficient evidence to convince a judge in a criminal court that the defendant was guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
The CPS has provisions in place to (hopefully) ensure evidence is gathered fairly and shared with defendants and their lawyers. The Post Office failed at this, so the defendants didn’t stand a chance.
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After finding out some more about the case...
George Thomson, former general secretary of the National Federation of Sub Postmasters, who sided with the post office and labelled the people he was supposed to be representing as thieves. Utterly despicable piece of shit.
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George Thomson, former general secretary of the National Federation of Sub Postmasters, who sided with the post office and labelled the people he was supposed to be representing as thieves. Utterly despicable piece of shit.
Playing devil's advocate - when Thomson did that, was he basing his judgement purely on the incorrect information being produced by the PO, in which case it might be understandable? You could see him feeling that he had to represent what would have been seen as the 'honest majority' and castigate the apparent bad apples.
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They must have produced sufficient evidence to convince a judge in a criminal court that the defendant was guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
The CPS has provisions in place to (hopefully) ensure evidence is gathered fairly and shared with defendants and their lawyers. The Post Office failed at this, so the defendants didn’t stand a chance.
Any prosecution (private or public, there's no difference) is legally obliged to share any information or evidence that may help the defence. The judgement summary makes it clear that they didn't disclose their knowledge of the issues with the Horizon system, despite the fact they were clearly known to Post Office Ltd (presumably these concerns were not shared with the prosecution, they'd have had to disclose it). In the majority of the cases, the Horizon data was the only evidence, and it was presented with absolute surety. Any hint they were issues with the reliability of the data would have been instant and reasonable cause for doubt. We think they took some money isn't a strong case.
Regardless, it's hard to sit back and look at the sheer number of cases they were prosecuting and not think hold on, something's off here. The worse thing is that they knew their evidence was shit, yet carried on anyway.
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George Thomson, former general secretary of the National Federation of Sub Postmasters, who sided with the post office and labelled the people he was supposed to be representing as thieves. Utterly despicable piece of shit.
Playing devil's advocate - when Thomson did that, was he basing his judgement purely on the incorrect information being produced by the PO, in which case it might be understandable? You could see him feeling that he had to represent what would have been seen as the 'honest majority' and castigate the apparent bad apples.
It's pretty clear that he was basically taking the PO's word for it, unquestioningly, that it wasn't a problem with the Horizon system. And automatically assuming that the 'missing' money must be a case of 'bad apples', again without questioning any of the evidence. And this is based purely on his public comments, so not much scope for ambiguity in understanding his meaning. His behaviour would be bad enough from PO senior management, but from a person who is supposed to be protecting the interests of the sub postmasters, it is simply scandalous.
In fact, it's potentially even worse - it's quite plausible to believe that he was actually colluding with the PO against the interests of his members.
This is a good listen, if you don't mind ending up very angry:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j
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Regardless, it's hard to sit back and look at the sheer number of cases they were prosecuting and not think hold on, something's off here. The worse thing is that they knew their evidence was shit, yet carried on anyway.
On the number of cases, they compounded their offence by telling each sub postmaster they were pursuing that they were the only one who was having problems with the Horizon system.
They make Boris Johnson look like a paragon of honesty.
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This is worthy of quoting since it perfectly explains the perverse nature of the prosecution.
We conclude [para 137] that POL’s failures of investigation and disclosure were so egregious as to make the prosecution of any of the “Horizon cases” an affront to the conscience of the court. By representing Horizon as reliable, and refusing to countenance any suggestion to the contrary, POL effectively sought to reverse the burden of proof: it treated what was no more than a shortfall shown by an unreliable accounting system as an incontrovertible loss, and proceeded as if it were for the accused to prove that no such loss had occurred. Denied any disclosure of material capable of undermining the prosecution case, defendants were inevitably unable to discharge that improper burden. As each prosecution proceeded to its successful conclusion the asserted reliability of Horizon was, on the face of it, reinforced. Defendants were prosecuted, convicted and sentenced on the basis that the Horizon data must be correct, and cash must therefore be missing, when in fact there could be no confidence as to that foundation.
That said, I think we know at this point (see Grenfell, etc.) that precisely no sanction will be applied to those who knowingly instigated and continued this. Former and existing management will look contrite for a bit and then carry on.
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Vennells has already done the "vewy vewy sowwy" act, so she's off the hook. It's sickening.
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It does all seem bizarre. From reading about the software problems you could end up with duplicate or missing transactions, particularly on things like cash sales of stamps.
This appeared therefore as an apparent shortfall in cash which was put down to theft. Surely there would have been a matching excess stock of stamps.
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I'm somewhat surprised the defence in these cases wasn't simply 'show us the money?' It's either missing somewhere, or found elsewhere. If you've stolen substantial amounts of cash, there must be a shortfall, and those illicit proceeds must have demonstrably gone somewhere (banks, posh cars, houses). Perhaps they did try this and it fell on deaf ears, and people simply believed the infallibility of the computers. But still, to knowingly push forward prosecutions when you know they're based on bullshit is a special kind of twisted.
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The full judgement is coruscating. It's wasn't an oopsy, we believed the computer, they knew and it was purposeful, deliberately and systematically obfuscating and withholding evidence to gain convictions of people they knew were innocent.
I read one of Vennell's recent gigs was 'corporate responsibility.' You can't actually make this stuff up.
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people simply believed the infallibility of the computers.
I suspect that's how it was in the beginning.
And then after that, everybody else in the past must have been right, or the prosecutions simply wouldn't have happened.
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I speculate that there was some goal-chasing. The PO had a prosecutions team. They need to earn their supper, management declares, here's a target for prosecutions and, more importantly, successful prosecutions.
After that, it snowballs, once they'd rolled into this goldmine of prosecutorial success, they couldn't just fess up that the convictions they'd achieved were obtained incorrectly (and illegally), that they'd conspired to obfuscate and hide evidence to make them, so they kept at it. Even if wasn't immediately obvious something was wrong, at some point they must have looked at the numbers and realised. And they kept at it.
Frankly, if she didn't know (and I don't believe it for one second), she's guilty of criminal ignorance. Yet, she got a CBE and year-after-year bonuses.
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I speculate that there was some goal-chasing. The PO had a prosecutions team. They need to earn their supper, management declares, here's a target for prosecutions and, more importantly, successful prosecutions.
After that, it snowballs, once they'd rolled into this goldmine of prosecutorial success, they couldn't just fess up that the convictions they'd achieved were obtained incorrectly (and illegally), that they'd conspired to obfuscate and hide evidence to make them, so they kept at it. Even if wasn't immediately obvious something was wrong, at some point they must have looked at the numbers and realised. And they kept at it.
Frankly, if she didn't know (and I don't believe it for one second), she's guilty of criminal ignorance. Yet, she got a CBE and year-after-year bonuses.
As is to often the case in these situations it’s either incompetence, criminal negligence or want an ignorance. But because those that should be calling them out on this we’re instrumental in the appointment and so don’t want to be seen as incompetent themselves.
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Frankly, if she didn't know (and I don't believe it for one second), she's guilty of criminal ignorance. Yet, she got a CBE and year-after-year bonuses.
Everyone in senior management knew very well what was going on. They were all complicit.
They should all be facing long stretches.
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Sadly, they'll get to retire on a fat pension in exchange for little more than a mumbled 'sorry.'
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Everyone knows of London Mayoral hopeful, Laurence Fox, but have you heard of the other no-hoper with a big campaign budget, Brian Rose? Very, very strange man.
Here he is with a video that I doubt he wanted released. Sound on.
https://twitter.com/UkrainianAK/status/1387846342626750464?s=20
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Everyone knows of London Mayoral hopeful, Laurence Fox, but have you heard of the other no-hoper with a big campaign budget, Brian Rose? Very, very strange man.
Here he is with a video that I doubt he wanted released. Sound on.
https://twitter.com/UkrainianAK/status/1387846342626750464?s=20
Did you really have to share that. I men really?
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Everyone knows of London Mayoral hopeful, Laurence Fox, but have you heard of the other no-hoper with a big campaign budget, Brian Rose? Very, very strange man.
Here he is with a video that I doubt he wanted released. Sound on.
https://twitter.com/UkrainianAK/status/1387846342626750464?s=20
Did you really have to share that. I men really?
I'm just taking that as a cry for more...
https://twitter.com/BrianBRose/status/1387803329770795009?s=20
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I speculate that there was some goal-chasing. The PO had a prosecutions team. They need to earn their supper, management declares, here's a target for prosecutions and, more importantly, successful prosecutions.
After that, it snowballs, once they'd rolled into this goldmine of prosecutorial success, they couldn't just fess up that the convictions they'd achieved were obtained incorrectly (and illegally), that they'd conspired to obfuscate and hide evidence to make them, so they kept at it. Even if wasn't immediately obvious something was wrong, at some point they must have looked at the numbers and realised. And they kept at it.
Frankly, if she didn't know (and I don't believe it for one second), she's guilty of criminal ignorance. Yet, she got a CBE and year-after-year bonuses.
As someone who works in law enforcement (not the police), it amazes me every time I see stuff like this happen. There's no way we'd get away with something this incompetent (assuming Hanlon's Razor applies).
Sam
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Increasingly, I imagine, the CPS is finding itself under similar pressures to hit targets for prosecutions.
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Everyone knows of London Mayoral hopeful, Laurence Fox, but have you heard of the other no-hoper with a big campaign budget, Brian Rose? Very, very strange man.
Here he is with a video that I doubt he wanted released. Sound on.
https://twitter.com/UkrainianAK/status/1387846342626750464?s=20
And there's his boxing day special....WAR!
The London Mayoral Elections now provide a Super-Twat list in booklet form: https://www.londonelects.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-04/GLABooklet2021_0.pdf
Not sure where to even begin with this one, with highlights including the "culturally traditional SDP candidate" (yes, I didn't realise either); the Brexit Party's call to action: "Vote GAMMONS for London Mayor"; conspiracy-finder-general Piers Corbyn; Brian "Straight-out-of-central-casting-fascist-demagog" Rose*; YACF favourite Laurence Fox; and a smattering of "I'm not a politician, why can't we all just tell the truth and be nice" candidates.
*Against some very stiff competition, I think the winning campaign video has to be Brian's "38 days to go...WAR!!!" (yes it really is 9 minutes of him boxing with his personal demons): https://twitter.com/BrianBRose/status/1376534611149328389
But it looks like his and a few others are just about generating influencer revenue:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/30/how-youtubers-turned-running-for-london-mayor-into-content
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Everything about Brian Rose oozes sociopath
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Vote Binface!
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Bin Voteface ...
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Everything about Brian Rose oozes sociopath
He's certainly got a touch of the Bateman to him.
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Have we had the pee tape yet ?
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Everything about Brian Rose oozes sociopath
He's certainly got a touch of the Bateman to him.
Just seen this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hOQCUj3wyY
...the co-founder speaks about Brian Rose.
So, yes, a sociopath.
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The Duke of Devonshire seems to be making a bid for super twattery. Despite claiming tax relief on the basis that he encourages and enable public access to his estates, cyclists don't seem to be welcome:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman (https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman)
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What's yours in mine and whats mine is my own.
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The Duke of Devonshire seems to be making a bid for super twattery. Despite claiming tax relief on the basis that he encourages and enable public access to his estates, cyclists don't seem to be welcome:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman (https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman)
It's a common tax dodge of the landed gentry. I recall a great Mark Steel programme some years ago in which he travelled around the country banging on the doors of various stately homes and asking to see (for example) paintings that had supposedly been given to the nation in lieu of taxes but then retained any their "owners" on the condition that they were available to the public to view. Not surprisingly, he didn't have a lot of success.
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The Duke of Devonshire seems to be making a bid for super twattery. Despite claiming tax relief on the basis that he encourages and enable public access to his estates, cyclists don't seem to be welcome:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman (https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman)
Earl Bathurst is ok with walkers and horse riders, but not those plebs on velocipedes. The ever-useless Google Maps, with all the knowledge of UK rights-of-way you'd expect from Mountain View, obviously tries to route cyclists that way.
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The Duke of Devonshire seems to be making a bid for super twattery. Despite claiming tax relief on the basis that he encourages and enable public access to his estates, cyclists don't seem to be welcome:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman (https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/duke-bike-ban-and-taxman)
I just hoyed my bike over the gate to get to Cav Pavilion last week. It makes me feel much more smug about riding around his private estates to get there ;D
Of course, the family has history going back to the Kinder trespass. I'm surprised he hasn't lined the top of the gate with barbed wire.
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Isn't a cyclist pushing a bike a pedestrian anyway or does that only count on public roads?
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Isn't a cyclist pushing a bike a pedestrian anyway or does that only count on public roads?
AIUI they are 'in charge of a carriage' while the wheels are on the ground.
They can push a bicycle ACROSS a pedestrian crossing, but not cross a stop line at a red traffic light.
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Are buggies exempt on wheel size? I seem to remember a pram is also a carriage in law.
A bunch of bikes Dlocked to the gate would buy enough time to walk to the cafe, get a cup and walk back. :demon:
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Are buggies exempt on wheel size? I seem to remember a pram is also a carriage in law.
A bunch of bikes Dlocked to the gate would buy enough time to walk to the cafe, get a cup and walk back. :demon:
As far as I can see the particular permissive right of way that was mainly used by cyclists is now closed to everyone.
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Boris Johnson.
UK sends Royal Navy to patrol Jersey port amid fishing row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57003069 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57003069)
"The prime minister held talks with Jersey's Chief Minister John Le Fondré and Minister of External Affairs Ian Gorst, and "stressed the urgent need for a de-escalation in tensions" between Jersey and France."
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The start of the Clod War.
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Sending a gunboat does not exactly fit most people’s notions of “de-escalation” but then again Bloody Stupid Johnson uses words in much the same way as Humpty Dumpty.
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I'm sure that all those French fishermen and women are quaking in their oilskins.
This past few days has been a very orchestrated "look at us" tory parade and this feels just as manufactured. If the French decided to send in their navy or air force then we'd see the true constitution of an eton mess.
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Anyone would think there are elections today
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Oh dear. The last time we sent the Gunboats in over a fishing spat we were roundly trounced by chaps in hand knitted woollen jerseys who were busy doing their day job as well as thumbing their noses at the R.N. Will someone *please* bung SETI/NASA/Tesla Boy a few quid and ask them to search for intelligent life in the Tory party/Downing St? *sigh*
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Anyone would think there are elections today
Well, it worked for Thatcher, so why not?
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Anyone would think there are elections today
Well, it worked for Thatcher, so why not?
What next, they’ll send Max “Hitler” Hastings to liberate St. Helier?
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The French only have twice the number of frigates that the UK has. Quaking I'm sure.
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Oh dear. The last time we sent the Gunboats in over a fishing spat we were roundly trounced by chaps in hand knitted woollen jerseys who were busy doing their day job as well as thumbing their noses at the R.N. Will someone *please* bung SETI/NASA/Tesla Boy a few quid and ask them to search for intelligent life in the Tory party/Downing St? *sigh*
The single 20mm Oerlikon cannon on the Batch 1 River Class patrol boats is unlikely to frighten anyone more than 100m away from those boats. 'Gunboat' is strictly true, but this is a WW1 (yes, One) design of gun, not some modern radar-laid and tracking weapon which might actually do some damage. It's intended to 'fire warning shots' only. These boats are mainly a maritime flagpole.
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You have to have admiration for whoever manipulated the the French fishermen into blockading the port at St Helier exactly on polling day.
If only the carrier strike group hadn’t set sail last week.
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Anyone would think there are elections today
I bet the Blundering Buffoon hasn't taken into account the fact that many of the Tory gammon will have already voted by post ('cos they're scared of going to the polling booth, what with Covid and The Forrenz)...
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The Twat in the (Tinfoil) Hat
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/06/van-morrison-new-record-project-volume-one-review
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West Midland's Trains who sent their workers a you've-got-a-bonus email that was, in fact, a cyber-security test to see if they'd click a link.
Uber-cunts.
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He's been dubbed 'sexually incontinent'. Now it seems the same applies to his bills: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57087274 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57087274)
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He's been dubbed 'sexually incontinent'. Now it seems the same applies to his bills: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57087274 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57087274)
This is not news. His profligacy has been known about since the early days of his career as a journalist. Just a shame it has taken this long for it to start catching up with him.
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Remember kids, the Conservatives are the party of fiscal prudence and responsibility. You wouldn't trust Labour to balance your budget.
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Remember kids, the Conservatives are the party of fiscal prudence and responsibility. You wouldn't trust Labour to balance your budget.
I believe that the evidence would suggest that Labour have always managed to be more successful at balancing the budget than any conservative government has achieved. Sorry, I didn’t mean to bring facts into it. Sorry. Sorry. <fx:backs away quietly>
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Remember kids, the Conservatives are the party of fiscal prudence and responsibility. You wouldn't trust Labour to balance your budget.
Funny but it's only ever tories and their media fanbous who tell us this but somehow the cap-doffing peasants believe it. How come peasants are so gullible?
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Isn't that always the way with people who suffer years of the most extreme abuse ?
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Tories also sell our stuff in an attempt to balance the budget. It's the only way they know.
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Remember kids, the Conservatives are the party of fiscal prudence and responsibility. You wouldn't trust Labour to balance your budget.
Funny but it's only ever tories and their media fanbous who tell us this but somehow the cap-doffing peasants believe it. How come peasants are so gullible?
Remnants of British puritanism and the notion of harsh medicine doing us the most good.
Obviously bollocks, but given that we outsource our decision making once every 5 years with a single X to whoever manages to put on the best act of appearing to act in our interests, I don't suppose it's a notion that many stop to question.
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Remember kids, the Conservatives are the party of fiscal prudence and responsibility. You wouldn't trust Labour to balance your budget.
Funny but it's only ever tories and their media fanbous who tell us this but somehow the cap-doffing peasants believe it. How come peasants are so gullible?
Stockholm Syndrome?
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Having our revolution in the 17th Century was far too early. The monarchists got power again and haven't looked back. The peasants are only too willing to support it. When there are kings, queens, lords, earls, barons, viscounts, knights, etc. "above" you, it's easy to know your place and do as you are told. Morons.
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Remember kids, the Conservatives are the party of fiscal prudence and responsibility. You wouldn't trust Labour to balance your budget.
Funny but it's only ever tories and their media fanbous who tell us this but somehow the cap-doffing peasants believe it. How come peasants are so gullible?
Stockholm Syndrome?
I had that thought myself. Nationalism sits easily on it's coat tails.
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The French
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105)
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The French
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105)
FFS.
They should just give it a poorer nation that is crying out for it.
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The French
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105)
FFS.
They should just give it a poorer nation that is crying out for it.
ooo, you can’t GIVE things to poorer nations because they’ll just become reliant on the richer nations and never get themselves out of the mire.
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The French
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105)
FFS.
They should just give it a poorer nation that is crying out for it.
I thought that too. But watched the video and the Dr is claiming he's binning it because it has expired so therefore cannot be used.
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Super-Twat for me today is the futball.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57071221
Two English teams, now going to Portugal to play as Turkey is on the red list and UK goverment wouldn't allow Wembley to be used as futball wanted covid quarantine exemptions in order to protect us.
Portugal rules say UK people can only enter for essential purposes, which futball isn't. But people can return to the UK from Portugal without need to quarantine as it's on the green list.
I predict a rise in covid cases soon after this match. >:( Futball should be on the banned list.
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The French
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105)
FFS.
They should just give it a poorer nation that is crying out for it.
I thought that too. But watched the video and the Dr is claiming he's binning it because it has expired so therefore cannot be used.
A point that appears to have been overlooked in what is a somewhat sensationalist report from the BBC. I assume 'Goebbels' Kuenssberg was involved somewhere along the line...
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Super-Twat for me today is the futball.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57071221
Two English teams, now going to Portugal to play as Turkey is on the red list and UK goverment wouldn't allow Wembley to be used as futball wanted covid quarantine exemptions in order to protect us.
Portugal rules say UK people can only enter for essential purposes, which futball isn't. But people can return to the UK from Portugal without need to quarantine as it's on the green list.
I predict a rise in covid cases soon after this match. >:( Futball should be on the banned list.
Now, if it had been rugger ...
Only a couple of weeks ago king bozo the worst was splurging all manner of blithery about how we must protect the wonderful game and how he supports East United Albion or something along those lines.
I don't really believe that the super mega twat was sincere in his support of the peasants pastime of association football at all. He just wanted publicity points.
Interestingly, the players and club entourages are not affected because there is an exemption for travel for "work" but the fans and sponsors would be.
Why not just play it on the computicle and be done with it.
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The French
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105)
FFS.
They should just give it a poorer nation that is crying out for it.
I thought that too. But watched the video and the Dr is claiming he's binning it because it has expired so therefore cannot be used.
A point that appears to have been overlooked in what is a somewhat sensationalist report from the BBC. I assume 'Goebbels' Kuenssberg was involved somewhere along the line...
Did you pick up on the reason why the doctor (who looks very depressed by this) has expired vaccines?
Over 50s are refusing to have the vaccine, in large numbers. That is why I nominated 'the french' for ST status.
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Big Clive of electronics shit on youtube fame, for going on an extended rant about cyclists and lycra on his live stream on Saturday night. Lots of people in the chat "joking" about knocking cyclists off.
I wrote him a nice email explaining gently explaining why he was being a tit, and he's replied fully doubling down on it.
Twat.
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I never thought that I'd see Big Clive in with hatey Katey, CBE, bozo, fromage, etc., etc., etc.
Doesn't the man know that he has had quite a following in the cycling community?
Sad day but clear evidence that what you see on YouTube doesn't always reflect the complete character of the person presenting.
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He's been dropping in increasingly angry rants about health and safety and office-dwelling busybodies and government red tape that would make Littlejohn blink, so his coming out as an angry grumpy old man rather than a cuddly grandpa isn't entirely surprising.
The audience seems to lap it up to, so I can only imagine that's where he's heading.
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That’s a very sad piece of news. Whilst I agree with him wrt Part P and associated ‘competent person’ nonsense in the U.K. tradesman arena, I don’t wholly agree with his H&S rants. I lot of it is important to protect people, mainly from their employers exploitation. If he’s going in the direction of anti-cyclist then I’ll have to limit my viewing tot JW, EEV and Julian
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Never seen it before but I had a look because of grams's post. I had to switch it off after a few minutes because of the beard and the general air of smug satisfaction and love of self and silliness about alcohol. He may be very knowledgeable about electronics (I'm not, so can't tell) but boy+, is he spectrate! That's not his fault and does not affect his right to put himself ought there - but 3 hours? - no thanks!
He may be a lovely man who should watch his mouth in public (I fit in at least one of those categories) but I rest my case on the beard. (You could rest a sideboard on that bloody beard!)
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Whilst I agree with him wrt Part P and associated ‘competent person’ nonsense in the U.K
Not in Scotland.
No Part P here.
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Chickens coming home to roost, you appalling corrupt wanker? Let me find my tiny violin...
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/sam-allardyce-brexit-west-brom-transfer-news-b672379.html
ETA: just realised this is an old story that found its way into my timeline today, for some reason, but he's still an appalling corrupt wanker.
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Twat Hancock (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/57172793)
Telling outrageous porkies in Parliament yet again.
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And......Governmental messaging on holidays has been crystal clear, so there...... strewth, a legend in his own mind.
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And......Governmental messaging on holidays has been crystal clear, so there...... strewth, a legend in his own mind.
And a bellend in everyone else's....
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https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/game-set-and-twat-whether-its-meghan
Our least favourite colossal bell end is being a vile prat again.
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Dictionary definition of irony
https://www.cityam.com/arch-brexiter-wetherspoons-boss-tim-martin-pushes-for-work-visa-for-eu-pint-pullers/ (https://www.cityam.com/arch-brexiter-wetherspoons-boss-tim-martin-pushes-for-work-visa-for-eu-pint-pullers/)
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Odd isn't it that all those rabid brexiteers who were so outraged about all these forriners taking their jobs don't actually want to pick fruit and veg or pull pints, eh? Lots and lots and lots of super twats!!!
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I'm sure the honest burghers of the EU will be queuing round the block to work for minimum wage for an animated scarecrow made of gammon.
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Odd isn't it that all those rabid brexiteers who were so outraged about all these forriners taking their jobs don't actually want to pick fruit and veg or pull pints, eh? Lots and lots and lots of super twats!!!
I know of many brexiteers who were getting up early and picking fruit and veg. Fortunately they were out of work at the time so had the opportunity to get a job.
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Bloody foreigners, stayin' over there, not takin' are jobs…
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It was actually pretty hard to get a fruit picking job. The government website only refered you to local companies you couldn't see a general vacancy thing. (That was what I was told by a friend who tried to get a job as had to cut their world tour ahort)
Knowing him I'd wager on him being a remainer
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I'd half agree with the difficulty of getting a job. I was lucky to still be in full time employment (flexible hours) but looked into picking as there were adverts out to say it was needed and I like being outdoors. Absolutely nothing I could find.
I didn't need the work, I was looking more as an answer to a call for help. So maybe I didn't look deep enough.
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Big Clive of electronics shit on youtube fame, for going on an extended rant about cyclists and lycra on his live stream on Saturday night. Lots of people in the chat "joking" about knocking cyclists off.
:(
I've been following Big Clive since the rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft days, and while I don't always agree with his politics or health and safety rants, he's generally had the right idea about stuff. I particularly liked his frank discussion of his mother's dementia.
I have to wonder, does he not realise that cyclists love LEDs?
(I won't judge him by the comments in the chat. All technical spaces tend to attract immature 14 year old boys of all ages, the question is how they're dealt with.)
ETA: I hope this isn't like when Bill Wright started going off on brexity rants about the BBC's left wing agenda.
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ETA: I hope this isn't like when Bill Wright started going off on brexity rants about the BBC's left wing agenda.
Indeed.
It was a great disappointment when he did that.
I learnt most of what I know about televisual anbaric string from him.
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Lee Anderson MP (Con) Ashfield
Brendan Clarke-Smith MP (Con) Bassetlaw
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/06/tory-mp-to-boycott-england-games-in-row-over-taking-the-knee?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Twats.
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Oh I don't know: I'm relieved to know I won't be sitting next to one of them if I go to a match.
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Oliver Dowden. Clearly he empathises with Ollie Robinson.
Amazing how bigots just cannot suppress their bigotry Mr. Dowden.
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On the subject of the Naming of
Parts new Royal Rug Rat:
What a missed opportunity. They could have called it Georgina Floydina!
[…]
I was hoping for Doria Oprah, the racist rotters
[…]
Oprah Beyoncé!
It was a missed opportunity by the parents of Julie Burchill to opt for boring old “Julie” instead of “Stupid Bigoted Has-Been”, more like.
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On the subject of the Naming of Parts new Royal Rug Rat:
What a missed opportunity. They could have called it Georgina Floydina!
[…]
I was hoping for Doria Oprah, the racist rotters
[…]
Oprah Beyoncé!
It was a missed opportunity by the parents of Julie Burchill to opt for boring old “Julie” instead of “Stupid Bigoted Has-Been”, more like.
Has Piers CBE commented yet? He may knock Julie Burchill from her pedestal...
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On the subject of the Naming of Parts new Royal Rug Rat:
What a missed opportunity. They could have called it Georgina Floydina!
[…]
I was hoping for Doria Oprah, the racist rotters
[…]
Oprah Beyoncé!
It was a missed opportunity by the parents of Julie Burchill to opt for boring old “Julie” instead of “Stupid Bigoted Has-Been”, more like.
Has Piers CBE commented yet? He may knock Julie Burchill from her pedestal...
Just wait until Rod Liddle gives us the benefit of his wisdom on the matter.
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Lee Anderson MP (Con) Ashfield
Brendan Clarke-Smith MP (Con) Bassetlaw
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/06/tory-mp-to-boycott-england-games-in-row-over-taking-the-knee?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
they are supporting a political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our very way of life
What way of life is that? Pink boiled-racist-gammon?
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Lee Anderson MP (Con) Ashfield
Brendan Clarke-Smith MP (Con) Bassetlaw
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/06/tory-mp-to-boycott-england-games-in-row-over-taking-the-knee?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
they are supporting a political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our very way of life
What way of life is that? Pink boiled-racist-gammon?
Fascist, racist, pig ignorant arseholes...
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C4 News have just interviewed professionally-outraged MP and amateur human being Andrew Bridgen on the “foopballers taking a knee” business. He urgently need to buy some new shirts before the tightness of their collars make his practically empty head explode. Also, he's a twat, as this:
On the 6 June 1944, 61,715 British men landed with our allies to liberate France. 70% of naval and air support was BRITISH. 26,000 of our serviceman were killed in Normandy. Last week M. Macron said BRITISH citizens have to have a compelling reason to enter France? Unbelievable!
amply demonstrates.
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The vile Burchill has apparently deleted her Twitter account. Jumping before she was banned?
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The vile Burchill has apparently deleted her Twitter account. Jumping before she was banned?
Just a shame she can't be deleted from everyone's consciousness too. Including her own. Vile, nasty, small-minded, ignorant shitty hack. £££s for generating outrage. Vile despicable human being.
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Apparently that twat Looza Fox doesn't like the pedestrian crossing lights in parts of That London.
A nice response here...
"In fairness, L*wrence F*x probably didn't notice the Pride traffic lights before because he hasn't had much call to be in the West End in the five years since they went up."
https://twitter.com/jondrytay/status/1402188634296619014?s=20
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The vile Burchill has apparently deleted her Twitter account. Jumping before she was banned?
https://twitter.com/robinince/status/1401873742888898564 (https://twitter.com/robinince/status/1401873742888898564)
"Seeing a Julie Burchill tweet is like narrowly avoiding standing in some sick on the pavement. You avoided it, but the memory of the sick spoils the taste of everything for the rest of the day."
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I'd like to commend the Daily Star's front page to the house:
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F783/production/_118836336_star-nc.png)
(Headline: "Is Lozza STILL the biggest berk in Britain? Yes[ ] Yes[ ]")
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I didn't know the Daily Star was still going, but points for categorically reveal[ing] Laurence Fox is a prize plum.
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https://twitter.com/nadine_writes/status/1402292181222756361?s=21 (https://twitter.com/nadine_writes/status/1402292181222756361?s=21)
Burchill too racist for Torygraph.
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Talking of twats and getting upset when people take the knee I'd like to nominate Martin Daubney ex brexit mep and editor of loaded who apparently would like to shake the hand of the two england players who didn't take the knee before the match with Romania.
He must have missed the fact that there was a colour clash and England were the team in blue, the two players he was talking about were romanians.
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You must surely know you've lost the plot when The Daily Star calls you a berk.
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Lowrent Fox-Witt looks like a failed pimp.
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The vile Burchill has apparently deleted her Twitter account. Jumping before she was banned?
Viz pretty much summed her up a few years ago
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3YJv7QWYAsjB5p?format=jpg&name=medium)
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Viz weren’t too keen on Tony
Parsehole Parsons either (http://viz.co.uk/category/tony-parsehole/#). And rightly so.
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Andrew Lloyd-Webber threatens to be sent to gaol (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/08/lloyd-webber-says-he-will-risk-arrest-to-reopen-his-theatres-on-21-june?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
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His music is not that bad.
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An up-locking would seem to be in order, but such a move would not be popular with the current crop of
vegetables politicians as they like the way he votes in the Lords. And probably think Cats far superior to Macbeth, The Wild Duck or Mad Max 2.
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Irrespective of not liking him, I thought he made some valid points on Today this morning. It does seem bizarre that you can sit opposite three or four other people in a poorly ventilated pub or bar but not next to them in a well-ventilated theatre. In its obsession with getting the pubs back open (in time for "the footie"), the government seems to be more concerned about pandering to the red top readers than making considered judgements about what is safe.
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....In its obsession with getting the pubs back open (in time for "the footie"), ...
Similar to Portugal going on the green list and then coming back off then?
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Irrespective of not liking him, I thought he made some valid points on Today this morning. It does seem bizarre that you can sit opposite three or four other people in a poorly ventilated pub or bar but not next to them in a well-ventilated theatre. In its obsession with getting the pubs back open (in time for "the footie"), the government seems to be more concerned about pandering to the red top readers than making considered judgements about what is safe.
I'm trying to think of a West End theatre that can honestly be described as 'well ventilated'. Most of the ones I've been to are the exact opposite - stuffy, airless and poorly ventilated.
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I'm trying to think of a West End theatre that can honestly be described as 'well ventilated'. Most of the ones I've been to are the exact opposite - stuffy, airless and poorly ventilated.
I admit, "well-ventilated" was his term. I did have the same thought but he then went on to list a whole bunch of improvements that have, apparently, been made since last year.
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There is Regent's Park but I don't think the Noble Lord has had productions there.
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What alternative universe is Matt Hancock inhabiting ???
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What alternative universe is Matt Hancock inhabiting ???
Yet still the Tory poll numbers rise.
??? ???
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Andrew Lloyd-Webber threatens to be sent to gaol (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/08/lloyd-webber-says-he-will-risk-arrest-to-reopen-his-theatres-on-21-june?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
Stolen off of that Twitter they have these days:
Andrew Lloyd Webber will ignore restrictions and reopen his theatres on 21st June “come hell or high water”. Not his words. Tim Rice’s.
Here's the original (https://twitter.com/michaellegge/status/1402572935039262724)
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This Unit would dearly love to learn the identity of the as yet unnamed Tory MP who thinks the best way to cement the so-called “Special Relationship” BRITAIN has with USAnia is to echo the Republicans in general and Donald fucking Trump in particular and call President Biden “senile”. Purely so s/he can then be rewarded with the coveted status of Super-Twat which they so richly deserve, of course, though any other form of public scorn and derision would be equally welcome.
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I'm trying to think of a West End theatre that can honestly be described as 'well ventilated'. Most of the ones I've been to are the exact opposite - stuffy, airless and poorly ventilated.
I admit, "well-ventilated" was his term. I did have the same thought but he then went on to list a whole bunch of improvements that have, apparently, been made since last year.
I was once threatened by ALW’s lawyers for suggesting (in print) that he was motivated my financial gain. So I’m saying nothing about this.
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This Unit would dearly love to learn the identity of the as yet unnamed Tory MP who thinks the best way to cement the so-called “Special Relationship” BRITAIN has with USAnia is to echo the Republicans in general and Donald fucking Trump in particular and call President Biden “senile”. Purely so s/he can then be rewarded with the coveted status of Super-Twat which they so richly deserve, of course, though any other form of public scorn and derision would be equally welcome.
It's either Mark 'Rapey' Francois or Andrew Bridgen. I hereby award both 'Super Twat' status, as they deserve it just for existing...
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Both Bridgen and François are already fully fledged members of the S-T pantheon, but repeat offenders are welcome.
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I'm sure we have had Van the Man before, but here he is again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57443478
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Lowrent Fox-Witt looks like a failed pimp.
Laurence Fox is what Gareth from The Office would have been if Gareth had a famous dad and uncle and had gone to (and been expelled from) one of the most expensive schools in the country.
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/lo5EgdRso2rxCKMkhI/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952af137d6745ece03153335bc7fc6296716e8f79a2&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
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Removal of advertising from GB News ‘shows democracy being undermined’ (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gb-news-ikea-democracy-culture-secretary-andrew-neil-b941556.html) claims Culture Secretary and Super-Twat Oliver Dowden, in a spectacular display of point-missing. Endorsement has come thick and fast:
Not sure it quite compares with proroguing Parliament
Or breaking electoral law, curbing judicial review, restricting public protest, making the electoral regulator (more) powerless, or encouraging public hatred of judges, lawyers, foreigners and political opponents…
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Irrespective of not liking him, I thought he made some valid points on Today this morning. It does seem bizarre that you can sit opposite three or four other people in a poorly ventilated pub or bar but not next to them in a well-ventilated theatre. In its obsession with getting the pubs back open (in time for "the footie"), the government seems to be more concerned about pandering to the red top readers than making considered judgements about what is safe.
I'm trying to think of a West End theatre that can honestly be described as 'well ventilated'. Most of the ones I've been to are the exact opposite - stuffy, airless and poorly ventilated.
Euphemism for a leaky roof isn't it?
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Dildo Harding (again)...
Warning: Daily Heil link!
Dido Harding 'vows to end NHS reliance on foreign doctors and nurses' if she becomes head of the health service (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9705483/Dido-Harding-vows-end-NHS-reliance-foreign-staff-wins-job.html)
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That's, erm, not a bad idea. It's a really good one.
The bad idea would, of course, be trusting her to deliver on it. We'd end up with Mali's healthcare system, just without their medical staff.
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It's a bad idea...
Whilst we have to be careful about hollowing out healthcare in LMIs, the international nature of medicine and nursing (plus the other AHPs) is what enables many healthcare systems to develop and advance.
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In my experience, we denude poorer health systems of key staff to make up our own shortfalls. No one is staying that, of course, there won't be some transfer (and indeed it's vital for gaining experience, especially for medical staff in the developing world where facilities are minimal) but the current model is very exploitative, especially for things like nursing, where we take with no intention of giving back.
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In my experience, we denude poorer health systems of key staff to make up our own shortfalls. No one is staying that, of course, there won't be some transfer (and indeed it's vital for gaining experience, especially for medical staff in the developing world where facilities are minimal) but the current model is very exploitative, especially for things like nursing, where we take with no intention of giving back.
yeah, but it saves a bundle on training and education costs…
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Wanted: 25,000 doctors. Some medical experience preferred. Write now to Dido, Queen of Carnage, London SW1.
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It's a ridiculously bold statement totally unachievable under the fascists. We can see who dodo's role model in chief is, can't we?
Firstly, state education will need massive investment in order to turn out sufficient numbers of potential home grown medics. So, give that ten years of investment (teachers, state of the art classrooms, laboratories and technology) and another ten years to get the standards sufficiently high whilst maintaining or increasing that investment level of course.
Then you need the capacity to train the thousands of extra British student medics over five years not of course accounting for the prohibitive cost of training these medics and the personal cost to each of them with their student and professional loans. Most poorer background potential medics and their families will simply not tread that road.
By my rough estimates then it would take 20 to 25 years to achieve this lofty aim, purely politically motivated of course but naturally there will be "not a real penny more" to make it happen. It cannot even start without bozo's and the ERG's say so and Rishi writing cheques that UK Plc simply cannot cash.
And whilst dodo is failing in this task but drawing millions in taxpayer relief, er I mean remuneration, there are the parallel tasks of bozo&co of levelling up the north, making the UK world-beating at science, becoming greener by the day, bribing maintaining the grey vote whilst pushing out the state pension entitlement age further and further and somehow paying down the covid bill. And that's just for starters.
My glass just emptied ...
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Surely not the same woman who in 2019 penned a report admitting that the NHS must 'increase international recruitment in the short to medium term'. It would seem it is. But the previous post bt polar bear highlights some of the issues. Just increasing the capacity of medical schools would be difficult. They enjoy the luxury of oversubscription and a Medical school is a v.expensive faculty to run
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i think this character wins the award but he has got shot.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2021-06-19/bike-racers-struck-pickup-driver-shot-by-police-in-arizona
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UEFA.
Really folks: get a grip. :facepalm:
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...the parallel tasks of bozo ... levelling up the north...
Every time I hear the Prime Muppet talk about "levelling up" the "North" I think he's actually channelling William the Conqueror.
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Laurence Fox's latest song
https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1407435919129448459?s=20
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Laurence Fox's latest song
https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1407435919129448459?s=20
I improved my listening experience by scrolling down to read the comments while he apparently attempted to play. The lack,of visuals really did improve the experience, especially as I already have the volume on this fondleslap at zero unless I switch on my headphones which I hadn’t.
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It's a spoof. You should listen, it's excellent
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Latrine Dorries had apparently waded in with her usual intellectual and informed perspective on the debate about poor white children underachieving in school.
It's interesting that the fascists don't look at the background socio-economic factors but just make a declaration based upon a single set of statistics. I guess that they don't want to unearth any of their turds lurking from their previous social suppression and exclusion experiments during the Thatcher years.
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Although I have just tested positive for Coronalurgi, I will be attending a council meeting in person as myself. (https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-06-22/outrage-after-covid-positive-tory-councillor-announces-he-will-attend-cheshire-council-meeting-in-person). My name is Marc Asquith and I am both a Super-Twat and — natch — a Tory.
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MP completely focused on the big issues facing the country
https://twitter.com/joymorrissey/status/1407464031997267977 (https://twitter.com/joymorrissey/status/1407464031997267977)
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Yes, forget hungry children, or people losing their livelihoods or all the other crises hitting Britain because of your party. What is needed is posters of the Queen, huge yachts and children singing nationalistic songs.
This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment.
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Although I have just tested positive for Coronalurgi, I will be attending a council meeting in person as myself. (https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-06-22/outrage-after-covid-positive-tory-councillor-announces-he-will-attend-cheshire-council-meeting-in-person). My name is Marc Asquith and I am both a Super-Twat and — natch — a Tory.
Seems the only skin condition he has to prevent him wearing a mask is sweat in the rolls of fat around his neck!
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Although I have just tested positive for Coronalurgi, I will be attending a council meeting in person as myself. (https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-06-22/outrage-after-covid-positive-tory-councillor-announces-he-will-attend-cheshire-council-meeting-in-person). My name is Marc Asquith and I am both a Super-Twat and — natch — a Tory.
So he wasn't going to stay home when he thought he was positive, but now it's been pointed out he's not (according to the LFT at least) he is going to stay home.
That makes sense, not.
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He's certainly a prime candidate for the Oxtail Illustrated Dictionary, next to the word “gammon”.
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(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRVL9dspSiKHwnZBldVGPHVPgxLbigHpiVux2QRpHNjvAM0qvO54tYF5HRSe0mp05Sc_Gk&usqp=CAU)
Marc Asquith
(https://moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ecminutes/UserData/0/7/4/Info00000470/bigpic.jpg)
Abzorbaloff
Or did I get them the wrong way round?
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MP completely focused on the big issues facing the country
https://twitter.com/joymorrissey/status/1407464031997267977 (https://twitter.com/joymorrissey/status/1407464031997267977)
Oh look, there she goes.
https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1407805675116417026?s=19
Get tae fuck. And when you're there, fuck off some more.
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Is she by any chance related to well-known racist and Super-Twat Steven Patrick Morrissey?
Also, wot Mrs P said.
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As Mz Morrissey hasn't stipulated which queen, I will be following the letter of her diktat by ordering this portrait of the queen by Terence Cuneo
https://picclick.co.uk/RAILWAY-PRINT-Queen-of-the-Belgians-at-New-361993835364.html
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In a way its quite heartening to discover than Morissey isn't even the worst Morrisey
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George Galloway (https://www.channel4.com/news/batley-and-spen-by-election-labour-fights-to-hold-off-tory-challenge)
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Galloway is like Farage, an old fashioned fascist in sheep's clothing*.
These disruptors are loved by tories who benefit by their very presence. I watched a news clip where some of the muslim community were being interviewed and they were ranting on about how Labour has done nothing for them, how Labour doesn't talk about them and offers them nothing and they were voting for Galloway. I couldn't help wondering where the "me me me" element of voting for your enemy came from.
* sheep as in something acceptable to the gammons. Mixing my meat metaphors I guess ... 🤔
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...* sheep as in something acceptable to the gammons. Mixing my meat metaphors I guess ... 🤔
I have no beef with that.
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...* sheep as in something acceptable to the gammons. Mixing my meat metaphors I guess ... 🤔
I have no beef with that.
There’s a lot at steak here.
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...
* sheep as in something acceptable to the gammons. Mixing my meat metaphors I guess ... ![](http://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji848.png)
Well, he’s not the donkey jacket type.
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Have we had Bruce Dickinson off of Iron Maiden yet, and his flaky grasp of what being outside the EU means? The Bruce Dickinson who voted for Brexit? That one?
Here's a twitter link to a video thingy:
https://twitter.com/jude5456/status/1409440169166528514?s=19 (https://twitter.com/jude5456/status/1409440169166528514?s=19)
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Not just playing with madness, then?
The leather jacket with “very metal” written with studs on the back please.
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Covidiot Lee Hurst:
Whatever has happened to Chris Whitty is not enough.
https://twitter.com/LeeHurstComic/status/1409764902215036931
(BBC: Police investigating after Chris Whitty accosted in park (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57648608))
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Thought he’d been booted off Twitter after his comment about Greta Thunberg ???
Bah!
Edit: TV's Brian Moore points out that Whitty's father was murdered by Abu Nidal's mob after being dragged out of his car in Athens, which makes Hurst even more of a turbocunt.
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The twat who thought that 07:15 this morning was a good time to fire up an industrial shredder and feed timber into it 6m away from my bedroom window.
I stood on my garden bench to look over the fence and congratulate him on his choice of time of day for such activities.
I'm sorry, he says. And then proceeded to start the machine again.
I suggested that he wasn't in the slightest bit sorry, otherwise he wouldn't have re-started the machine.
But I've already woken you up, says he.
I think it was me climbing over the fence and proceeding towards him that convinced him that switching off the machine was the optimal route for him to take.
Twat.
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Good move on his part. Re-enacting what allegedly happened to Jimmy Hoffa would only end up generating all sorts of paper work. :demon:
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I was thinking Steve Buscemi's character at the end of Fargo :D
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I was thinking Steve Buscemi's character at the end of Fargo :D
Him, and the gardener brother of the plastic surgeon in Carl Hiaasen's "Skin Tight".
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I was thinking of mowing the lawn at about 6.30 this morning. Fortunately, our nearest neighbours are not close enough that this would have been a problem.
It was the fact that it was raining that stopped me.
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The fact that would stop me mowing the lawn at 6.30 am is that it is 6.30 am.
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Step forward Andrew Bridgen, MP and Super-Twat, for his suggestions that the BMA are taking backhanders from the PPE industry to prolong the wearing of masks. Irony just took another step towards the grave.
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The fact that would stop me mowing the lawn at 6.30 am is that it is 6.30 am.
Yeah, but I'd been awake since 5am and thought it might be a better use of my time than lazing in bed. Also good to get it done early for other reasons - by the afternoon, it was too hot for gardening (at least, that's my excuse).
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There's a better use of anyone's time than lazing in bed?
I was awoken the other day at 9 am by someone mowing the bloody lawn, though when I finally opened the blinds, it was our gardeners.
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bloody Stupid Johnson in advance of his statement this afternoon that las restrictions in England will end 19th July in spite of his scientific advisors advice against. Data not dates apparently.
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People who think abandoning the “Data Not Dates” approach is a good idea:
- Bloody Stupid Johnson
- The writers on The Spectator*
- Lee Hurst
* Surely a poorly-named rag if ever there was one. The spectators are supposedly there to watch the action, not to throw BEER cans at the goalkeeper.
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Whichever genius thought it would be a good idea to hold a classic car event on the cycling track at Betteshanger* over the weekend.
The top part of the track was closed to cyclists today while they cleaned up the oil spills. A clubmate also reported seeing oil on the lower part of the track.
FFS. Surely the whole raison d'être of a dedicated cycling facility is to avoid cyclists having to deal with the problems caused my motorists?
*which will be familiar to some yacfers from BHPC events passim.
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Whichever genius thought it would be a good idea to hold a classic car event on the cycling track at Betteshanger* over the weekend.
The top part of the track was closed to cyclists today while they cleaned up the oil spills.
Could have been worse, could have been a couple of tons of nutty slack. :)
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Alan Sugar (and yes, I know he is an honorary permanent member of the Council of Twats)
https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1412100387264471043 (https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1412100387264471043)
His views are, of course, nothing to do with his ownership of large chunks of (currently empty) office property in London.
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Whichever genius thought it would be a good idea to hold a classic car event on the cycling track at Betteshanger* over the weekend.
The top part of the track was closed to cyclists today while they cleaned up the oil spills.
Could have been worse, could have been a couple of tons of nutty slack. :)
Quite a few years since there was any danger of that happening at Betteshanger! (I blame Thatcher, obvs.)
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Whichever genius thought it would be a good idea to hold a classic car event on the cycling track at Betteshanger* over the weekend.
The top part of the track was closed to cyclists today while they cleaned up the oil spills.
Could have been worse, could have been a couple of tons of nutty slack. :)
Quite a few years since there was any danger of that happening at Betteshanger! (I blame Thatcher, obvs.)
There’s still plenty of coal there, as anyone trying to pitch a tent will rapidly discover :-\
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She has some significant competition, but I caught about 30 seconds of another Tory nonentity, Helen Whately, earlier. Are they actually manufacturing halfwits in some diabolical industrial process? Thick as a very thick thing that had recently thickened.
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She has some significant competition, but I caught about 30 seconds of another Tory nonentity, Helen Whately, earlier. Are they actually manufacturing halfwits in some diabolical industrial process? Thick as a very thick thing that had recently thickened.
Let’s face it, anyone with a modicum of intelligence has avoided politics as a career for at least the last century or so, and it’s a trend that has deepened in the last 20 years. There’s serious money to be made for anyone with even an iota of intelligence when you’ve got the connections these people have.
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Hmm, horsey, Oxford PPE, private school education, jobs in 'management consultancy.' I think they're actually cloning them.
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She has some significant competition, but I caught about 30 seconds of another Tory nonentity, Helen Whately, earlier. Are they actually manufacturing halfwits in some diabolical industrial process? Thick as a very thick thing that had recently thickened.
Helen Whately, the Doesn't do Social Care minister. One of Mancock's protegees. I'm not sure she'll last much longer...
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... There’s serious money to be made for anyone without even an iota of intelligence when you’ve got the connections these people have.
FTFY. :)
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She has some significant competition, but I caught about 30 seconds of another Tory nonentity, Helen Whately, earlier. Are they actually manufacturing halfwits in some diabolical industrial process? Thick as a very thick thing that had recently thickened.
Helen Whately, the Doesn't do Social Care minister. One of Mancock's protegees. I'm not sure she'll last much longer...
She's like a talking version of my MP (whose only contribution to date is telling everyone that she couldn't agree more with whatever the government is saying and popping up on social media in photos with bemused looking local business owners).
It's actually not an improvement when they talk.
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Yes, our braneless tory sleaze ball is much the same. Tries to muscle in on every photo opportunity and has nothing of use to say. He'd do even better amongst the radicalised idiots if he kept his mouth firmly shut.
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My MP has been pretty much invisible and silent since the start of the pandemic. She doesn't even have a constituency office - that's been converted into a dance studio. When you consider she is
Minister of State for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety of the United Kingdom
she's another one who is absolutely shit at her job.
Who is this paragon of twattery?
Nadine bloody Dorries
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OTOH, “silent and invisible” is a far preferable state for the rest of us to have Mad Nad in, rather than her usual “Look at MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” spiel broadcast from the rooftops.
She is, however, indubitably a Super-Twat and bar.
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Bloody Stupid Bloody Johnson. AGANE. He’s riding the wave of xenophobic euphoria that is the European sportball tournament and this mornings Thunderer claims he’s ‘stepped up efforts for Britain to host the World Cup in 2030’ he really is an opportunistic twat of the most super kind. :sick:
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I expect the government of Qatar will be railing about BRITAIN'S human rights record should that ever come to pass.
FIFA should award it to an independent Scotland :demon:
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High risk strategy though. What if ing-er-lund don't win the tournament? I am lead to believe that he goes off early and here he is doing so again.
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Ing-ger-lund not win?
Inconceivable!
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As any fule kno, Ingerlund only win the Footballer's Cup of Footballing under a Labour government.
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John Inverdale and Boris Becker.
I was looking at a Tour-related tweet and noticed in the sidebar that John Inverdale was trending. First thought - has he died? Apparently, not - more's the pity. The reason for his sudden popularity is that he and Boris Becker, on colementary duties at Wimbledon, were less interested in talking about the match than remarking on the physical attractiveness of the Hungarian player's partner.
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Honestly, this is why I dodge Twitter these days, you're always a click or scroll away from a cesspit.
The biggest improvement Twitter could undertake is a tickbox to exclude tweets from anyone that mentions football in their profile, driving a taxi, or a flag. They're always cunts.
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Special shout-out to BMW and VW. It's not like the air in major urban areas is unbreatheable or anything. There may also be something in all these rumours of climate change.
VW group and BMW have been fined €875m (£752m) by the European Commission for colluding to curb the use of emissions cleaning technology.
Daimler, which was part of the talks but blew the whistle on them, escaped without a fine.
The companies had agreed not to implement more than basic EU standards, the Commission said.
However, VW said that the contents of the discussions were not implemented, and that customers were not harmed.
The carmaker said it was considering appealing against the decision.
This type of fine is a first for the European Commission, which normally imposes competition penalties for price fixing and market sharing, rather than technical cooperation.
The Commission said BMW, Daimler and three VW group brands - Audi, Porsche, and VW - had "illegally colluded to restrict competition" in diesel emissions cleaning.
Specifically, it said the firms had regular meetings for five years on how to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide, an exhaust gas harmful to people and the environment...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57765113
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Group nomination for the small army of moonhowling conspiraloons who are urging World+Dog to boycott Heineken on account of them producing a shitvert encouraging Coronalurgi vaccinations. There are many reasons to boycott Heineken, mostly notably their record for being revisionist rip-off merchants whose alleged BEER is more akin to chilled piss, but this is not one of them.
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Natalie Elphicke, who seems to be just as charmless as her husband.
Hey, Natalie, why not spend more time thinking about your constituents and less time worrying about football?
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Just too many twats to mention today
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True
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Tyrone Mings kicks the ball right into Priti Patel's smug face
https://twitter.com/OfficialTM_3/status/1414655312074784785?s=20
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Bang on !! I like his style.
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Notice how Patel, Johnson and those slimy turd tories who vociferously railed against England taking the knee have been conspicuously silent? Clearly they hope that by keeping their vile heads below the parapet that it will all blow over and the sticky stuff will not cling. A typical tory tactic.
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I'm surprised they are not sloganising "Knees That Bend Don't Score Pens!"
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Tyrone Mings kicks the ball right into Priti Patel's smug face
https://twitter.com/OfficialTM_3/status/1414655312074784785?s=20
I think we can probably nominate Steve Barclay: pretty sure he's here anyway, but his performance on the Home Service this morning reinforces his position.
Pushed to defend or even explain PP's position, he simply ignored the question and instead went for whataboutery, reiterating that she had been subjected to racist abuse herself.
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The Daily Excess (I can nominate a paper, right?)
They are reporting a heatwave in line with their general obsession with the weather, but have decide to report it on their front page using that favourite of the gammonartie, Fahrenheit. It’s like they wan to live in the past or something.
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Pushed to defend or even explain PP's position, he simply ignored the question and instead went for whataboutery, reiterating that she had been subjected to racist abuse herself.
She's probably one of those Asians who hate people with darker* skin colour than herself.
*I used to work with two Asian women (one sikh and the other muslim) who told me their parents'
generation were terribly racist against black people. :(
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She's not Asian, we should stop saying that. Yes, she has the surname Patel, but that's not because she has Asian heritage, it because it's her father's name and she inherited it, OK?
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The Daily Excess (I can nominate a paper, right?)
They are reporting a heatwave in line with their general obsession with the weather, but have decide to report it on their front page using that favourite of the gammonartie, Fahrenheit. It’s like they wan to live in the past or something.
The past... or America.
To be fair, most people in the UK still seem to prefer Fahrenheit - even young people (ie younger than me), who would never have been taught it at school. Also I guess when you're talking about heatwaves, the numbers are more impressive when you use Fahrenheit.
Are they blaming the heatwave for killing Diana and/or Maddie? Or for giving you cancer?
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She's not Asian, we should stop saying that. Yes, she has the surname Patel, but that's not because she has Asian heritage, it because it's her father's name and she inherited it, OK?
Apparently, her parents are Ugandan-Indian. Which makes her stance on immigration all the more baffling.
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Pushed to defend or even explain PP's position, he simply ignored the question and instead went for whataboutery, reiterating that she had been subjected to racist abuse herself.
She's probably one of those Asians who hate people with darker* skin colour than herself.
*I used to work with two Asian women (one sikh and the other muslim) who told me their parents'
generation were terribly racist against black people. :(
When I were a apprentice in the Bradford central telephone exchange there were about half a dozen blokes of Asian sub continent extraction. One of them was I believe a Sikh and also of a high cast. He would refuse to be in the same room as a couple of other blokes because they were either not Sikh or of a lower cast. ‘I cannot breathe the air they have’ was his excuse.
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The Daily Excess (I can nominate a paper, right?)
They are reporting a heatwave in line with their general obsession with the weather, but have decide to report it on their front page using that favourite of the gammonartie, Fahrenheit. It’s like they wan to live in the past or something.
The past... or America.
To be fair, most people in the UK still seem to prefer Fahrenheit - even young people (ie younger than me), who would never have been taught it at school. Also I guess when you're talking about heatwaves, the numbers are more impressive when you use Fahrenheit.
Are they blaming the heatwave for killing Diana and/or Maddie? Or for giving you cancer?
I can't do Fahrenheit beyond knowing that 70 and above is warm and 100 and above is fucking hot and I lived in the US for ages, where absolutely no one has heard of Celsius. I mentioned I have a special ruler in my mind that has Fahrenheit on one side and Celsius on the other, so I can look it up. There's allegedly some kind of maths that connects them, but I don't believe in math.
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Tyrone Mings kicks the ball right into Priti Patel's smug face
https://twitter.com/OfficialTM_3/status/1414655312074784785?s=20
I think we can probably nominate Steve Barclay: pretty sure he's here anyway, but his performance on the Home Service this morning reinforces his position.
Pushed to defend or even explain PP's position, he simply ignored the question and instead went for whataboutery, reiterating that she had been subjected to racist abuse herself.
Hmmm. Since when did being a victim of discrimination ever justify being a bigot yourself? Totally, totally unthinkingly narcissistic.
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I can't do Fahrenheit beyond knowing that 70 and above is warm and 100 and above is fucking hot and I lived in the US for ages, where absolutely no one has heard of Celsius. I mentioned I have a special ruler in my mind that has Fahrenheit on one side and Celsius on the other, so I can look it up. There's allegedly some kind of maths that connects them, but I don't believe in math.
Yes, 100ºF is fucking hot. Also 0ºF is fucking cold - much colder than 0ºC.
All I really know about Fahrenheit is that 100 is based on human body temperature, except that it isn't. And zero is the freezing point of water, except that it isn't pure water, it's sea water, or something equally stupid.
With different points of reference for each end of the scale, you can see why it appeals to Americans. The perverts.
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What I like about Celsius is that one unit of difference is just about on the cusp of detectable in everyday experience. A temp of 7 degrees feels just a little bit colder than a temp of 8 degrees, and 26 hotter than 25. It's a very relatable human scale of measurement. I doubt anyone could reliably tell the difference between 45 F and 46F, or 79 F and 78F.
And on the supertwattery front, personally I don't mind if the Express and its readers want to use Fahrenheit, Furlongs and Fathoms. It's just when they go on to argue that in order to protect their right to measure their house price inflation in Florins per Fortnight, we have to close all borders, stop speaking French and wave a flag in each hand while watching Last Night of the Proms.
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Fahrenheit gets really squirrelly at the lower end, I've no idea what things like -10 degrees Fahrenheit are, other than it's probably a really good idea to wear a coat and get up 20 minutes early to de-ice the car.
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The one fact* I do know about the fahrenheit scale is that Herr Fahrenheit devised it while drunk.
* Which is probably not true either
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Herr Fahrenheit
You know, it's kind of funny that the duffers should choose to assert their Britishness by using a scale devised by a foreigner. Although, to be fair, so was Celsius.
Now that we've done Brexit, we really should all switch to Kelvin.
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0* Fahrenheit is based on the temperature of equal parts ice and salt, with freezing point of water set to be 30* F and the human body temp set at 90* F. At least that’s what Herr Fahrenheit intended, but it seems he wasn’t that good a scientist because he got pretty much all his reference points wrong! At least, that’s what the webby science of the encyclopaedia of the Britannica told me earlier this morning.
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Herr Fahrenheit
You know, it's kind of funny that the duffers should choose to assert their Britishness by using a scale devised by a foreigner. Although, to be fair, so was Celsius.
Now that we've done Brexit, we really should all switch to Kelvin.
Way back in the pre-Brexit Cretaceous there was some mad old duffer who used regularly to write to “Points Of View” complaining that the leftie BBC was using nasty FOREIGN Celsius in their weather forecasts. I think his letters only got read out for their comedy value.
I am expecting the return of Fahrenheit* to be a cornerstone of the next Tory manifesto.
* The Return Of Fahrenheit:
- low budget 1960s spy film
- novel by 1920s German author so obscure not even academics have heard of him
?
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Herr Fahrenheit
You know, it's kind of funny that the duffers should choose to assert their Britishness by using a scale devised by a foreigner. Although, to be fair, so was Celsius.
Now that we've done Brexit, we really should all switch to Kelvin.
Way back in the pre-Brexit Cretaceous there was some mad old duffer who used regularly to write to “Points Of View” complaining that the leftie BBC was using nasty FOREIGN Celsius in their weather forecasts. I think his letters only got read out for their comedy value.
I am expecting the return of Fahrenheit* to be a cornerstone of the next Tory manifesto.
* The Return Of Fahrenheit:
- low budget 1960s spy film
- novel by 1920s German author so obscure not even academics have heard of him
?
I vote for the film. But as a sequel to Fahrenheit 451.
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That would be Fahrenheit 452.
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Has the Saj meister made an appearance here before? As we are no longer part of Europe I can't use 'schadenfreude' word. However it seems quite appropriate that the 'Health' secretary who has just completed privatisation of the NHS and ending covid restrictions has ...
caught covid!
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It’s like some kind of metaphor.
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(https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/styles/full/public/image/nosferatu-1922-001-max-shreck-bedside-00n-2r5.jpg)
Sajid Javid
(https://westcountrybylines.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sajid_Javid_hands.jpg)
Max Schreck as Count Orlok
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That towering intellect and spaffer of lucrative "celebrity" contracts, Hatey Katey !!!
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How did Cockpins get into Oz in the first place? IIRC they've already got Yaxley-Lennon, Milo Flobbadopolous and Gavin “Adolf Hipster” MacInnes on their Not Wanted Here List.
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There would appear to be some robust internal political rumblings about how such a bigoted fascist "alien" got into Aus when their own citizens are struggling to get home. Some hasty tidying away of swastikas methinks ...
I wonder if that other towering lefty Murdoch had anything to do with it?
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Seems Murdoch did own the parent company of 7 for a short period but flogged the TV stations that came with it in 1987. If Cockpins' presence wasn’t turning a profit for Don Rupino he probably wouldn’t be interested :demon:
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You wouldn't think Australia would need to import racists. I thought they were self-sufficient.
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You wouldn't think Australia would need to import racists. I thought they were self-sufficient.
They don't like foreign racists.
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I wonder how Sky News Australia has been reporting the hatey katey saga? I am not going to look though.
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I wonder how Sky News Australia has been reporting the hatey katey saga? I am not going to look though.
I've looked, so that you didn't have to.
It's not on their front page and there is an absence of a search feature.
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Thanks for taking the hit.
No surprise there then.
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Every journalist or sub-editor who allows ‘pingdemic’ to be printed. There’s a fucking pandemic going on people, the pings are an attempt to stop it spreading quite so fast. They are NOT the cause of the problems in supply chains, they are a symptom of the cause.
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Quite.
I'm also starting to get irked by the way every kind of electronic message has now become a 'ping', irrespective of whether it performs some sort of seeing-if-someone/something-is-there function or not.
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The term "ping" should be confined to the Ed Reardon Show, wherein its use is universally excellent.
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Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)’s best mate when he was the Army's equivalent of a Penniless Student Oaf bore the surname “Ping”. He married a ballerina, emigrated to New Zealand and drank himself utterly to DETH, though these facts are not necessarily related.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-not-play-vaccine-shows-1200257/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-not-play-vaccine-shows-1200257/)
I think this is worthy of ST status.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-not-play-vaccine-shows-1200257/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-not-play-vaccine-shows-1200257/)
I think this is worthy of ST status.
Isn't he just copying that other ST, Van Morrison?
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Clapton's always been a ST. Remember his drunken "wogs out" speech? And this from a bloke who's spent his life appropriating the black man's music :facepalm:
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The term "ping" should be confined to the Ed Reardon Show, wherein its use is universally excellent.
Or submarine movies.
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Herr Fahrenheit
You know, it's kind of funny that the duffers should choose to assert their Britishness by using a scale devised by a foreigner. Although, to be fair, so was Celsius.
Now that we've done Brexit, we really should all switch to Kelvin.
Despite its name Brexit is an English decision and Lord Kelvin was not English either. I would recommend using an entirely new scale, Farage. It would not reflect an actual temperature simply what we would like it to be. Foreigners would find it impossible to understand.
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The Farage (Fg) is surely only applicable to HOT air. If the weather gets a bit nippy we'd have to switch to something else, such as the Bobbhair (Bh).
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The term "ping" should be confined to the Ed Reardon Show, wherein its use is universally excellent.
Or submarine movies.
The ICMP 'ping' command takes its name from the noise (and function) of active sonar. That's perfectly reasonable, as it's one of the less obscure Unix command names, being based on a evocative metaphor rather than a witty pun.
By extension, it became common for Old Internet People[1] to use the term for a layer-8[2] operation of sending someone a message (by whatever protocol was convenient, including shouting) to see if they were available. Post Internet People[1] picked up this usage, but missed the underlying sense of seeing if someone was there[3], instead using it to refer to any kind of messaging, including, it seems, those generated automatically. Presumably because notifications sometimes make a "Ping!" sound. Which is fair enough, really, but it's still the sort of thing you'd expect from philistines who don't even know what 'broadband' means.
'Pingfuckit' is an onomatopoeia.
'Pingdemic', on the other hand, isn't a thing.
[1] ©2019 Gretchen McCulloch
[2] In the OSI sense.
[3] Of course they're there, their phone's in their pocket.
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'Rugby Football League (RFL) chairman Simon Johnson called [the Australian and New Zealand decision to pull out of the World Cup] a "selfish, parochial and cowardly decision".'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57925720
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Quite.
I'm also starting to get irked by the way every kind of electronic message has now become a 'ping', i...
Ahh, being irritated by the way (mostly young) people change the language. Welcome to middle age. :D
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Quite.
I'm also starting to get irked by the way every kind of electronic message has now become a 'ping', i...
Ahh, being irritated by the way (mostly young) people change the language. Welcome to middle age. :D
This was very common where I worked. >:(
Big Boss: "If you could ping that to me."
Equally annoying was the use of only the first part of a conditional.
Mrs. B does that a lot.
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I've just realised I haven't heard "I've inboxed you" recently. Has that already gone out of fashion, after a brief period of annoyance?
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The term "ping" should be confined to the Ed Reardon Show, wherein its use is universally excellent.
Or submarine movies.
One submarine movie only.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-not-play-vaccine-shows-1200257/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-not-play-vaccine-shows-1200257/)
I think this is worthy of ST status.
It's all too easy these days to discover that somebody that you admire or respect for one thing is rather less appealing for others. Social media in particular has lowered the threshold significantly for public narcissism and thus people outing themselves as utter ShiTs.
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I like ping. I'm now an inveterate pinger of things.
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An unreformed knickerpinger, perchance?
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Bra straps obvs.
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In less litigious and more prank-laden times, I was bribed (in chocolate) by one member of female staff to ping another female staff member's bra strap *while she was serving a customer*.
Her revenge consisted of a Post It note asking me to call Don Kiddick about his mortgage. Which I fell for.
Other jolly japes included grabbing my arse, fingernails deep, while I was on the phone, or making Maxpax "coffee" with enough orange and soup powder in it to prompt instant vomiting.
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The term "ping" should be confined to the Ed Reardon Show, wherein its use is universally excellent.
Or submarine movies.
;D
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I propose that we re-name this the, "Vile, uncharitable, psychopathic little shit." thread and commemorate this re-naming by entering one Farage, N. as its newest (re)entrant. His latest act of evil, mean-minded spitefulness? Having a go at the RNLI for saving people from drowning in the channel. Of course these weren't gin-swilling yachties* who'd accidentally bumped into a tanker. Oh dearie me, no. These people weren't white people and furthermore none of them had an account at Coutts. Christ, but that
man creature needs to have civilisation and charity beaten into it with a bloody great stick. Form an orderly queue...
*Some of my best friends are gin-swilling yachties.
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I propose that we re-name this the, "Vile, uncharitable, psychopathic little shit." thread and commemorate this re-naming by entering one Farage, N. as its newest (re)entrant. His latest act of evil, mean-minded spitefulness? Having a go at the RNLI for saving people from drowning in the channel. Of course these weren't gin-swilling yachties* who'd accidentally bumped into a tanker. Oh dearie me, no. These people weren't white people and furthermore none of them had an account at Coutts. Christ, but that man creature needs to have civilisation and charity beaten into it with a bloody great stick. Form an orderly queue...
*Some of my best friends are gin-swilling yachties.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rnli-donate-migrant-rescue-channel-b1893000.html
RNLI sees 2,000% daily increase in donations after criticism of asylum rescues in Channel
Charity receives over £200,000 in a day amid surge in support :-D :-D
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I propose that we re-name this the, "Vile, uncharitable, psychopathic little shit." thread and commemorate this re-naming by entering one Farage, N. as its newest (re)entrant. His latest act of evil, mean-minded spitefulness? Having a go at the RNLI for saving people from drowning in the channel. Of course these weren't gin-swilling yachties* who'd accidentally bumped into a tanker. Oh dearie me, no. These people weren't white people and furthermore none of them had an account at Coutts. Christ, but that man creature needs to have civilisation and charity beaten into it with a bloody great stick. Form an orderly queue...
*Some of my best friends are gin-swilling yachties.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rnli-donate-migrant-rescue-channel-b1893000.html
RNLI sees 2,000% daily increase in donations after criticism of asylum rescues in Channel
Charity receives over £200,000 in a day amid surge in support :-D :-D
That is glorious.
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;D ;D indeed.
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Tower RNLI crews verbally assaulted last week
https://twitter.com/TowerRNLI/status/1418703723631624199 (https://twitter.com/TowerRNLI/status/1418703723631624199)
Farage and Patel might blow the dog whistle but there are a lot of super twats out there at their command
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Well it’s not often that a thread really gladdens my heart, but I find myself smiling mightily having read of Fartarge’s impact on RNLI funding. :D :thumbsup:
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<crosses Scarlett Johansson off the women-I'd-leave-my-wife-for list>
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58017445
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It seems puzzling that ac-TORS do not have some sort of wossname built into their contracts that gives them income from streaming services as well as actual bums on cinema seats. And if some of them do, then the fault line squarely on the shoulders of Ms Johansson or her minions for failing to negotiate something similar.
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It seems puzzling that ac-TORS do not have some sort of wossname built into their contracts that gives them income from streaming services as well as actual bums on cinema seats. And if some of them do, then the fault line squarely on the shoulders of Ms Johansson or her minions for failing to negotiate something similar.
There's a big effort going on to change the distribution of streaming revenue, as it hugely disadvantages the artists, particularly in music. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that actors' contracts are equally behind the times vis-a-vis non-traditional distribution revenue.
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<crosses Scarlett Johansson off the women-I'd-leave-my-wife-for list>
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58017445
I didn’t read the whole article, but I hardly see that a contract dispute with your employer provides grounds for super-twatery. I suspect that his will come down to the difference between moral and legal duties under the contract and that Disney release the stream at the same as the box office outing to maximise their own revenue with no regard to the impact it would have on the actors revenue.
Whether Ms Johansson NEEDS another few millions is a different argument entirely.
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Also if there's super-twattery going on and Disney are involved, it's usually safe to assume they're the perpetrators.
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<crosses Scarlett Johansson off the women-I'd-leave-my-wife-for list>
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58017445
One less body to climb over ... 😉
I suspect that Disney changed the distribution model without considering the impact on numerous rights holders. Not so many have the resources to push back so it requires a wealthy name or organisation to push. There will have already been lots of behind the scenes blather before this point. It's difficult to know which has the stronger case or which is the real super twat here but I would hedge on Disney being the donkeys.
Also if there's super-twattery going on and Disney are involved, it's usually safe to assume they're the perpetrators.
I'm of that persuasion too.
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Whether Ms Johansson NEEDS another few millions is a different argument entirely.
This is my beef. It just sticks in the throat a bit when Hollywood megastars quibble over the odd million like this. Not that I ever imagined Scarlett Johansson was in the business for purely artistic reasons, but it's still disappointing to find that she has feet of clay.
Per Kim, I dare say Disney are also guilty of being twattish here as well. It's not an either/or situation.
I think my real problem is in how this kind of dispute is symptomatic of so much that is wrong with the world in general.
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On the other hand contractual disputes happen all the time in all sorts of industries. They just aren't newsworthy unless there's a famous person involved.
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I suspect that Disney changed the distribution model without considering the impact on numerous rights holders. Not so many have the resources to push back so it requires a wealthy name or organisation to push.
Do you imagine that her motivation is to be some kind of Robin Hood figure? Even if she wins, is there likely to be any trickle down benefit to others?
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If she loses then the money stays with the Disney Corporation*. I'm not sure how that's preferable.
(* and the lawyers)
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If she loses then the money stays with the Disney Corporation*. I'm not sure how that's preferable.
I find it hard to care who has the greater 'right' to the money when we're talking about such obscene sums.
Something definitely needs to be done about making sure artists/performers get a fairer share of the income from streaming services, but I'm sceptical that this case will make a difference to anyone other than Scarlett Johansson (and, as you say, the lawyers).
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I suspect that Disney changed the distribution model without considering the impact on numerous rights holders. Not so many have the resources to push back so it requires a wealthy name or organisation to push.
Do you imagine that her motivation is to be some kind of Robin Hood figure? Even if she wins, is there likely to be any trickle down benefit to others?
Of course not: that would be fanciful at best.
What I am suggesting is that in essence she could set the legal precedent in terms of not only her earning now but how the industry distributes earning to all interested parties in the future. It is how the cumbersome legal system tends to work and why for instance Trades Unions have been so beneficial even for non-members. Somebody has to have the money to take the case and set the precedent.
Her motives are extremely unlikely to be altruistic but her actions could well turn out to be.
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Whether Ms Johansson NEEDS another few millions is a different argument entirely.
This is my beef. It just sticks in the throat a bit when Hollywood megastars quibble over the odd million like this. Not that I ever imagined Scarlett Johansson was in the business for purely artistic reasons, but it's still disappointing to find that she has feet of clay.
Per Kim, I dare say Disney are also guilty of being twattish here as well. It's not an either/or situation.
I think my real problem is in how this kind of dispute is symptomatic of so much that is wrong with the world in general.
Extrapolate her issue to those actors in the movie who are on far lower paypackets, and you might see why it's a legitimate beef.
Edit: what PB said.
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Whether Ms Johansson NEEDS another few millions is a different argument entirely.
This is my beef. It just sticks in the throat a bit when Hollywood megastars quibble over the odd million like this. Not that I ever imagined Scarlett Johansson was in the business for purely artistic reasons, but it's still disappointing to find that she has feet of clay.
Per Kim, I dare say Disney are also guilty of being twattish here as well. It's not an either/or situation.
I think my real problem is in how this kind of dispute is symptomatic of so much that is wrong with the world in general.
Extrapolate her issue to those actors in the movie who are on far lower paypackets, and you might see why it's a legitimate beef.
Edit: what PB said.
But also why Disney is not keen to make these changes. I think that small upfront and percentage of takings is normal for the stars but less common for others.
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If she loses then the money stays with the Disney Corporation*. I'm not sure how that's preferable.
I find it hard to care who has the greater 'right' to the money when we're talking about such obscene sums.
Something definitely needs to be done about making sure artists/performers get a fairer share of the income from streaming services, but I'm sceptical that this case will make a difference to anyone other than Scarlett Johansson (and, as you say, the lawyers).
I don't disagree on the sums, it seems bonkers that anyone needs hundred of millions. I could get by on half that.
But I see her point, and if the studios get room to wiggle, they'll wiggle, and that shafts everyone down the chain.
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BONG! Super-Twats embroiled in unfettered neoliberalistic capitalism. BONG!
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(Having not watched ITN news in, oooooo, about 20 years, do they still do the BONGs thing ?)
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BONG! Super-Twats embroiled in unfettered neoliberalistic capitalism. BONG!
Yep, that’s pretty much what it comes down to.
I’m really not persuaded by the argument that it will lead to positive changes for people down the food chain but we’ll see.
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Lord Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
https://twitter.com/Digbylj/status/1421164856527437825
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But it’s ok for toffs to do it when it’s huntin, shootin and fishin, of course.
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I have never heard Pompous Ass Jones say similar about male sports pundits. Perhaps it's a coincidence but I doubt it somehow.
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You've got to hope that even with Digby Jones's arrogance, he must sometimes have a "are we the baddies?" moment.
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https://twitter.com/miffythegamer/status/1421459120197013511?s=20
Spot the Super-Twat.... :sick: [size=78%] [/size]
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He probably has a permanent seat here, but today's outpouring from Parliament's village idiot, Andrew Bridgen is worthy of special recognition
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1470465/HGV-driver-shortage-Tony-Blair-university-andrew-bridgen (https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1470465/HGV-driver-shortage-Tony-Blair-university-andrew-bridgen)
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naturally his and other MPs children will be encouraged to go into these key roles and avoid being mired in Oxbridge or Russell Group Universities studying PPE (not the protective garment industry), Law or whatever they study.
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Pig-fucker back from the grave…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/uk-backed-plan-charge-non-eu-travellers-enter-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Pig-fucker back from the grave…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/uk-backed-plan-charge-non-eu-travellers-enter-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Arf.
Weeps.
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Johnson makes ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/05/johnson-makes-unbelievably-crass-joke-about-thatcher-closing-coal-mines)
Not unbelievable, thobut.
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Pig-fucker back from the grave…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/uk-backed-plan-charge-non-eu-travellers-enter-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 €uros for three years is a bargain compared with USAnia which, the last time I had to fork out, was $14 for two years.
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Pig-fucker back from the grave…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/uk-backed-plan-charge-non-eu-travellers-enter-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 €uros for three years is a bargain compared with USAnia which, the last time I had to fork out, was $14 for two years.
Hang on. They want you to *pay* to get into USAnia? That seems entirely the wrong way round to me.
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Pig-fucker back from the grave…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/uk-backed-plan-charge-non-eu-travellers-enter-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 €uros for three years is a bargain compared with USAnia which, the last time I had to fork out, was $14 for two years.
The money isn’t the issue - it’s a drop in the ocean in the context of overall travel costs.
I just resent being reminded of that dough-faced cunt’s existence and the fact that it’s his fault that we now have to pay to be allowed to go to Europe.
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Pig-fucker back from the grave…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/uk-backed-plan-charge-non-eu-travellers-enter-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 €uros for three years is a bargain compared with USAnia which, the last time I had to fork out, was $14 for two years.
Exactly. That my freedom to feel at home in Europe and part of something has been taken away by xenophobic Bxxxxxxxs who lied so comprehensively to the population and then failed to negotiate what they had promised, ending up with something which nobody voted for!
The money isn’t the issue - it’s a drop in the ocean in the context of overall travel costs.
I just resent being reminded of that dough-faced cunt’s existence and the fact that it’s his fault that we now have to pay to be allowed to go to Europe.
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Labour councillor Brendan Chilton. Definitely a member of the Twattish tendency.
https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1425409070392123395?s=20
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-councillor-home-guard-migrants-b1900820.html
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The (anonymous) carer, sent to help my poorly kid sister, who won't have a vaccination because she read on some site for morons that it's got magnets in it so the government can track you. The very same moron joined at the hip to a permanently switched on tracking device that she pays/paid for and from which she imbibes this drivel.
That particular individual will *not* be admitted to the house again, especially as my step-father is old and frail.
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Dan Patrick, the Republican lieutenant governor of Texas, has refused to apologise for blaming rising Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths on unvaccinated African Americans, comments one Black Houston official called “racist and flat out wrong”.
Doubling down on his remarks to Fox News, Patrick blamed “Democrat social media trolls” and said “Democrats continue to play politics with people’s lives”. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/21/dan-patrick-texas-republican-black-americans-covid-fox-news)
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H/t to MattH for noting the superior twattery of Business Secretary Kwasi “Intellectual” Kwarteng, who has rejected calls from World+Dog to relax post-Brexit immigration rules and thereby address the current acute shortage of lorry drivers that is keeping adequate supplies of Mr Sainsbury’s own-brand peanuts* and Mr Larrington apart. “Hire BRITISH workers” he cries, oblivious to the minor inconveniences of:
- A Coronalurgi-inspired backlog in LGV driver testing, and
- The peacetime average seven months of training required before a freshly-minted truckie is allowed anywhere near a trailer even partly full of peanuts
I expect it’s because lorries are traditionally noisy, and dirty, and are associated with frightful oiks like TV's Guy Martin, and don’t require a Super-Twat degree (aka PPE) to operate.
* because they’re both cheaper and tastier than KP
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It’s going to be interesting in the coming weeks to see how the twataratie respond to those unfortunate to find their jobs evaporated as they are un-furloughed and the glut of Brexit vacancies, with no insight or regard for the skills gap or geography.
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Biden has to join the infamous for his absolutely negligent handling of the Afghanistan situation, the deaths and punishment beating that will ensue and the decimation of women's freedoms and liberties that have already happened and will only get worse.
Appalling. Utterly utterly appalling.
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Biden has to join the infamous for his absolutely negligent handling of the Afghanistan situation, the deaths and punishment beating that will ensue and the decimation of women's freedoms and liberties that have already happened and will only get worse.
Appalling. Utterly utterly appalling.
I thought that American politics couldn't be Trumped, but then I found out that the next president had been Biden his time.
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To give Biden a little leeway, he was set up for this withdrawal by his predecessor and had delayed it some, but he couldn’t get out of it easily. However, the actual withdrawal doesn’t seem to have been planned in any evident manner, and though the details should have been handled by the generals, the ultimate responsibility does rest with the top man. That said, the Uk (and others?) don’t appear to have made any objections and just seem to have gone along with the shockingly negligent approach undertaken by the yanks.
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Pop quiz, hotshots! Who just said:
It was preposterous that I had to leave a job I loved because I didn't believe a demonstrable liar
If you wrote on your answer sheet “Why, it was colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron, of course!” you can have a big gold star and ten house points.
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Possibly new* to the Super-Twat pantheon is Turnip Point USA talking head Candace Owens, who has previous TwatForm for some ill-considered remarks about one A Hitler. She also has TwatForm for vehemently denying that there is any kind of institutional racism in USAnia in general and in the case of George Floyd in particular, and for being a prominent Covidiot. Then, in spite of her insistence that COVID-19 is nothing more than a Democrat plot to enslave USAnians in a New Venezuela or something, she got ill.
C Owens: | Onoz! I is ill! O hai Aspen Laboratories! I can haz Coronalurgi test? |
A Laboratories: | Did we hear you correctly, C Owens? We cannot support anyone who has pro-actively worked to make this pandemic worse by spreading misinformation, politicizing and DISCOURAGING the wearing of masks and actively dissuading people from receiving life-saving vaccinations. My team and myself have worked overtime, to exhaustion, unpaid and underpaid this past year, spending our own capital to ensure that our community remains protected. It would be unfair to them and to the sacrifices we have all made this year to serve you. Now piss off! |
C Owens: | U take money from TEH FEDS therefore u cannot refuse to test me for teh Coronalurgi which does not exist! |
R Carroll**: | Actually, C Owens, Aspen Laboratories receives not a cent from any variation on the theme of TEH FEDS and here are direct quotes from various named people confirming it. |
C Owens: | Waaah! Iz it coz I iz black? Ur RACISTS!!1! |
Omnes: | No, C Owens, it is because you are a Super-Twat… |
* ICBA to check.
** Journo on The Aspen Times.
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Have we had lionel shriver yet, and her "teh whites are dying out in britain and that is destroying british culture" raving fuking lunacy?
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She popped up in POBI the other day but I neglected to bung her egregious twattishness in here. She was shot down in flames by Dr Adam Rutherford, who wrote the book on arguing with racists (https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-argue-with-a-racist/adam-rutherford/9781474611251). An to answer Ms Shriver, why, no! No, we do not want London’s famous London overrun with Super-Twats from Abroad, as we already have a worrying surplus of the domestically-reared variety.
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I once got told off here for thinking she was a man, I should have cut my losses and not worried about gender, and gone straight to super-twat, a gender-less classification.
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It's surely not his fault if they all look the same, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/08/gavin-williamson-apparently-confuses-marcus-rashford-and-maro-itoje
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What an absolute f*cking tool.
A sub-intelligent Brexit yes-nik who wouldn't get a job anywhere else.
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Sadly you just described the entire cabinet.
Sometimes, for laughs, I like to pretend I'm interviewing Liz Truss for a job.
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Sadly you just described the entire cabinet.
Sometimes, for laughs, I like to pretend I'm interviewing Liz Truss for a job.
As what?
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Any job. She's not qualified for anything, it's like interviewing a human muppet.
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319 fascists who voted for an increase to ni and then cheered the twat-in-chief who then claimed the British Fascist Party are the party of low tax.
No doubt this is just more levelling up.
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Any job. She's not qualified for anything, it's like interviewing a human muppet.
I'll ask you not to insult the Muppets like that!!
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Any job. She's not qualified for anything, it's like interviewing a human muppet.
I'll ask you not to insult the Muppets like that!!
+1. Gonzo and the chickens would make an excellent Cabinet.
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Sadly you just described the entire cabinet.
Sometimes, for laughs, I like to pretend I'm interviewing Liz Truss for a job.
As what?
Draught excluder?
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Even she'd find that a breeze.
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Sadly you just described the entire cabinet.
Sometimes, for laughs, I like to pretend I'm interviewing Liz Truss for a job.
As what?
Neutron shield when working with High Activity Neutron sources?
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Would two short planks provide adequate protection?
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Did anyone else see thread regular P(M)M CBE on the front page of one of the red tops yesterday in the run up to last nights slapping oneself on the back awards? He stated that he deserved to win the DecAndAnt award instead of them?
Well, apparently they won it again last night and their acceptance speech apparently included the phrase ‘Piers who?’ ;D
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On LBC, a radio station with more than its fair share of Super-Twats, Maajid Nawaz has elevated himself high into the Premier League of twattiness with his assertion that minions of President Biden has sent a text to all members of the USAnian military ordering them to get vaccinated against Coronalurgi by hours 10:00 the following day, which has resulted in a mass walkout by, among others, fighter pilots. They didn't and they haven’t. That this man was a parliamentary candidate for the Lib-Dems in 2015 (he got his arse kicked by Tulip Siddiq) also tells us just how far said party has fallen from the halcyon days of “I agree with Nick”.
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...assertion that minions of President Biden has sent a text to all members of the USAnian military ordering them to get vaccinated against Coronalurgi by hours 10:00 the following day
Reminds me of the time &numpty_headmaster summoned everyone who travelled to school by train to his office for a ritual bollocking. The resulting queue effectively DOSed the admin block until lunchtime.
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Johnson. Wants to be in power longer than Thatcher.
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Johnson. Wants to be in power longer than Thatcher.
That is a truly terrifying idea. Im not sure the country would survive such a happening.
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That is a truly terrifying idea. Im not sure the country would survive such a happening.
Don't worry, it won't happen. His own MPs will have disposed of him sufficiently in advance the next election.
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That is a truly terrifying idea. Im not sure the country would survive such a happening.
Don't worry, it won't happen. His own MPs will have disposed of him sufficiently in advance the next election.
You're assuming archy meant Boris and not Princess Nut Nut. ;)
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I'll go with Pritti and her lovely lunch with her mates in the airline and hotel industry. They dined and chatted about....whatever and since there was no one taking notes there couldn't have been any shop talk. Have we also included the various politicos e.g. Michael Gove who conducted official business by email/WhatsApp on their phones and then when facing a poss enquiry had to replace the phones as they had broken, got stole, chewed by the dog etc.
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Come on, it was just a couple of ministers having lunch with a businessman and friend who had no interest in any favours. But we'll never know, of course.
It's the sort of thing that would, not so long ago, have been an instant resignation, but now this casual corruption is normal. Reading between the lines, the head of BA read the situation right.
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And it pales into insignificance alongside having a series of meetings with representatives of a FOREIGN government while claiming to be “on holiday” and unbeknownst to one’s The Boss, and then lying about it. And lying some more. With extra lies on top.
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We’ve only the boss’s word that he didn’t know
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Texas
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155 (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155)
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Robert Jenrick, no stranger to these hallowed pages, says that more mayors will solve the inequality problems the country faces.
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We’ve only the boss’s word that he didn’t know
The then-International Development Secretary Piggi Patel claimed that Bloody Stupid Johnson knew all about the meetings beforehand but AIUI changed he story when the latter denied it. Tess of the d'Underheads apparently found out about it from the media, and was Not Amused. It a sane world such behaviour would see the perp not only hounded out of office but deselected by their constituency party and chased up a tree which is then set on fire but the Tories have not so much rewritten the rule book as cast it aside with great force.
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Texas
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155 (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155)
FREEZE PEACH!!!!11!!11eleventy-one!!111!!1111!111!
Isn't it funny how those defenders of private business insist privately-owned businesses should allow any old idiot to post any old crap on privately-owned social media platforms, as the rights of the owners of said social media platforms don't actually stretch to being allowed to stop any old idiot posting any old crap on their privately-owned platforms?
America - Land of the Stupid.
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Don't worry, where the wingnuts of USAnia lead BRITAIN will likely follow. So-called “Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport” Oliver Dowden has been sticking his oar in lately with a bunch of storm-inna-teacup twattery about “woke culture” and the alleged “controversy” about The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust changing its name to The Churchill Fellowship. This, apparently, constitutes “airbrush[ing] Sir Winston Churchill from its public profile”, as if:
- It happened yesterday rather than two years ago, and
- the “Churchill” part of the new name now refers to the town in Canada with the polar BEARS, the East London estate agents or cinema's famous Siggi Churchill*
Oliver Dowden: Super-Twat.
* Did the møøse costumes for “Monty Python And The Holy Grail”
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Texas
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155 (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155)
Well, I imagine Facebook, Youtube and Twitter won't work in Texas any more come December.
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Julia Hate-Spewer, having a pop at Chris Whitty.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_OkfQMX0AAgLLE?format=jpg&name=small)
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"Julia Hartley-Brewer, with her degree in PPE, explains to Chris Witty, with his BA, DsC and Msc in physiology, epidemiology and medicine, that he doesn't understand vaccines and medicine."
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Jezebel Oakeshitt: "Hold my beer..."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_LavbOXEAMIrks?format=jpg&name=medium)
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She sounds like she needs some drugs.
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Because, of course, she's a well-known epidemiologist.
Julia Hate-Spewer, having a pop at Chris Whitty.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_OkfQMX0AAgLLE?format=jpg&name=small)
Because, of course, she's a well-known epidemiologist.
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Jezebel Oakeshitt: "Hold my beer..."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_LavbOXEAMIrks?format=jpg&name=medium)
That is so uninformed on so many levels. Who the fuck gives her air time ? (And yes, I understand the principals of Twitface, that is more a rhetorical question, or even perhaps, "Who pays her any attention ?")
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There are some genuine (and nuanced) questions about the value of COVID vaccination in the younger age groups – however, I don't think either of those two individuals are interested in that.
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Because, of course, she's a well-known epidemiologist. Julia Hate-Spewer, having a pop at Chris Whitty.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_OkfQMX0AAgLLE?format=jpg&name=small)
Because, of course, she's a well-known epidemiologist.
Yeah, the JCVI twice advised that. But now they have changed their minds. Once, people thought the earth was flat.
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There are some genuine (and nuanced) questions about the value of COVID vaccination in the younger age groups – however, I don't think either of those two individuals are interested in that.
will those be the ones that have been exercising the minds of Mr Whitty and the COVID committee and have caused them to not quite agree on the issue in the last month or two? One assumes that if they are now agreeing, they have reached political and medical positions that are sufficiently aligned for a recommendation to be forthcoming.
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Collective ST award goes to...
Lawyers for Liberty
Head teachers have been threatened with legal action if they take an active part in England's pupil Covid-vaccination programme starting next week.
Lawyers for Liberty and a "group of concerned parents" warned school staff could be held liable for any jab-related death or injury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58556614
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There are some genuine (and nuanced) questions about the value of COVID vaccination in the younger age groups – however, I don't think either of those two individuals are interested in that.
will those be the ones that have been exercising the minds of Mr Whitty and the COVID committee and have caused them to not quite agree on the issue in the last month or two? One assumes that if they are now agreeing, they have reached political and medical positions that are sufficiently aligned for a recommendation to be forthcoming.
Well, they might have agreed to disagree, but that's the consensus they've agreed. I think it's fine to debate that, no medical intervention is purely binary, there are pros and cons.
Of course, those two individuals are supremely unconcerned with that, it's just the usual cheap point-scoring with their credulous followers on social media.
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Collective ST award goes to...
Lawyers for Liberty
Head teachers have been threatened with legal action if they take an active part in England's pupil Covid-vaccination programme starting next week.
Lawyers for Liberty and a "group of concerned parents" warned school staff could be held liable for any jab-related death or injury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58556614
'Lawyers for Liberty'... a opaque pressure group which is lacks any basic transparency or accountability. It has no relationship with the (transparent and accountable) group, Liberty.
Appears to be little more than a bunch of crowd-funding ambulance chasers.
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That is so uninformed on so many levels. Who the fuck gives her air time ? (And yes, I understand the principals of Twitface, that is more a rhetorical question, or even perhaps, "Who pays her any attention ?")
1. The usual suspects - Question Time, Gammon Broadcasting, LBC, etc.
b. Gammon.
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1. The usual suspects - Question Time, Gammon Broadcasting, LBC, etc.
You missed off lefties hatequoting them, which is just as rich a source of oxygen.
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1. The usual suspects - Question Time, Gammon Broadcasting, LBC, etc.
You missed off lefties hatequoting them, which is just as rich a source of oxygen.
Exactly.
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Mr. Loophole again.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1489342/new-eu-driving-law-speed-limiter-tools-warning-exclusive (https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1489342/new-eu-driving-law-speed-limiter-tools-warning-exclusive)
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Mr. Loophole again.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1489342/new-eu-driving-law-speed-limiter-tools-warning-exclusive (https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1489342/new-eu-driving-law-speed-limiter-tools-warning-exclusive)
There are an awful lot of qualified statements in that article and the additionally linked articles it mostly seems to be written with the primary intention of winding up gammons.
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Be fair, it is in the Daily Express.
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Be fair, it is in the Daily Brexpress.
FTFY :demon:
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Twobthings come to mind:
1: a speed limit is a maximum and not a designated speed, and
2: the faster you go the longer it takes to stop and the less time you have to take avoiding action.
Seems to me that driving within the speed limit and the capabilities of both car and driver would be a far better and safer approach. Problem is, almost every driver thinks that they are infallible and overly talented but also that every other driver is a talentless, incompetent fool. It's easy for me to make this observation as a non-driver.
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Bloody Stupid Johnson: "You think I can't find anyone worse to be Foreign Secretary than Dominic Raab? You think I can't find Dominic Raab a job he is even less qualified for than Foreign Secretary? Ha! Challenge accepted..."
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Omnes: Could anyone do a worse job of FOREIGN Secretary than Dominic Raabid?
L Truss: Hold my cheese!
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Omnes: Could anyone do a worse job of FOREIGN Secretary than Dominic Raabid?
L Truss: Hold my cheese jam
IFTFY
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They basically took a bunch of people who were terminally bad in the roles they already had and assigned them to new roles where it's possible that they'll be even worse.
It's hard to imagine a group of individuals so abjectly unqualified to do anything. They're like the Reverse Avengers.
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Seems to me that driving within the speed limit and the capabilities of both car and driver would be a far better and safer approach. Problem is, almost every driver thinks that they are infallible and overly talented but also that every other driver is a talentless, incompetent fool. It's easy for me to make this observation as a non-driver.
You forgot "every other driver has no mechanical sympathy, and will expect the car to stop, go and turn as instructed irrespective of circumstances".
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Bloody Stupid Johnson. I know! Whodathunkit?
A joke by Boris Johnson that the UK could become “the Saudi Arabia of penal policy” under Priti Patel has been condemned as “disgusting” and a “new low” by opposition politicians. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/14/disgusting-pms-joke-over-uk-becoming-saudi-arabia-of-penal-policy-condemned)
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What kind of S-T would appoint an unimaginative bigoted dullard as Culture Secretary? ??? :facepalm:
Expect the War on Woke to escalate rapidly. ::-)
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It’s not all doom and gloom. Mad Nad's accession to high public office has been lauded by, er, the Super-Twat collective that is Turning Point UK :facepalm:
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A caution. FFS. A caution, for brake checking, then assaulting someone.
S-T nomination for the judge and the motorist.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-wiltshire-58558802 (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-wiltshire-58558802)
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I honestly don't understand how that can result in a caution (so we can't blame the magistrate, the driver was never even charged with an offence) – at the very least there's actual and unambiguous video evidence of an assault taking place unless you're willing to accept the driver was attempting to shoo away a wasp as a cyclist rested on his moving car.
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Driving while pissed, uninsured, coked to the [“eyeballs” – Ed.] and disqualified (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/29/katie-price-charged-driving-disqualified-car-crash)? Why, it's Katie Price, the Super-Twat!
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Driving while pissed, uninsured, coked to the [“eyeballs” – Ed.] and disqualified (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/29/katie-price-charged-driving-disqualified-car-crash)? Why, it's Katie Price, the Super-Twat!
Where the fuck did she get petrol from??
???
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I’m surprised she didn’t snort it.
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Slithy Gove: Well, she’s been a naughty girl, but did she have an HGV licence before she got disqualified?
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I've had no particular interest in her life story but I'm sure I read she'd been disqualified from driving six times. So I presume on the basis of this success story, they'll extend her disqualification. I'm no fan of sending people to prison, but she clearly has no respect for anyone else (one of those bans was for refusing to disclose who was driving in a previous crash) and it seems only a matter of time before she kills herself or more likely someone else.
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Her insurance premium must be quite something for an undeclared bankrupt.
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Except she didn't have insurance.
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So why on earth she still has a tank I have no idea. Vehicle confiscation would seem entirely appropriate in this instance.
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She is a single mother with a disabled child, so probably on the excessive hardship get out.
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Her insurance premium must be quite something for an undeclared bankrupt.
I presume you mean an undischarged bankrupt?
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So why on earth she still has a tank I have no idea. Vehicle confiscation would seem entirely appropriate in this instance.
Given the number she's apparently written off, she just seems to acquire another.
Her life sounds a bit of a car-crash in itself, but ultimately I wouldn't want to be the person encountering her driving down one of those Sussex lanes. I don't think any court wants to send a troubled mother to prison, but I struggle to see what to do in cases like this.
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Her insurance premium must be quite something for an undeclared bankrupt.
I presume you mean an undischarged bankrupt?
Not sure really, she seems to have a history of being declared bankrupt in 2019 then an IVA and currently has a case in the high court (again) due to defaulting on the IVA. Hence undeclared bankruptcy.
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Her insurance premium must be quite something for an undeclared bankrupt.
I presume you mean an undischarged bankrupt?
Not sure really, she seems to have a history of being declared bankrupt in 2019 then an IVA and currently has a case in the high court (again) due to defaulting on the IVA. Hence undeclared bankruptcy.
There's no such thing as an 'undeclared bankruptcy', as bankruptcy is a formal status of public record.
She was declared bankrupt in November 2019 (https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/eiir/IIRCaseIndivDetail.asp?CaseId=702987311&IndivNo=706212971&Court=HIGH&OfficeID=700000069&CaseType=B) and her discharge from bankruptcy has been suspended indefinitely. She also entered into an IVA with a number of creditors. She failed to maintain this IVA and as a result she was back in court in August, for failing to maintain the IVA.
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I suppose you could argue that to be in a negative equity position and with insufficient income to service the debt but as yet not subject to court action you are in effect an undeclared bankrupt or in a state of undeclared bankruptcy. To argue otherwise is perhaps being pedantic
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It might depend upon how you interpret the law as well as pragmatic common sense.
A legal person (individual or other such as a business for instance) is undeclared bankrupt at the point that they become unable to service their financial obligations. Once declared bankrupt by the court then said legal person remains bankrupt until formally discharged.
So legally she is a declared bankrupt.
Entering into an IVA whilst declared bankrupt is extremely unusual because it can be interpreted as favouring one or more creditors over others and that is not seen as proper behaviour for a bankrupt. The court decides who is to be paid exactly what, not the bankrupt.
The only way I can see this as being in any way valid is if the IVA relates to creditors not declared at the time of bankruptcy but is still highly unusual.
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It might depend upon how you interpret the law as well as pragmatic common sense.
A legal person (individual or other such as a business for instance) is undeclared bankrupt at the point that they become unable to service their financial obligations. Once declared bankrupt by the court then said legal person remains bankrupt until formally discharged.
So legally she is a declared bankrupt.
Entering into an IVA whilst declared bankrupt is extremely unusual because it can be interpreted as favouring one or more creditors over others and that is not seen as proper behaviour for a bankrupt. The court decides who is to be paid exactly what, not the bankrupt.
The only way I can see this as being in any way valid is if the IVA relates to creditors not declared at the time of bankruptcy but is still highly unusual.
That's the case as I understand it. But what is clear from the public records is that she was made bankrupt in November 2019 and the discharge of her bankruptcy has been suspended indefinitely.
I don't think she's helped her cause by taking numerous exotic holidays with the latest squeeze whilst stiffing her creditors. Not surprised her insolvency practitioner lost patience with her...
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I care very little about her financial status, I care that she seems to regularly drive at excessive speed, while using a mobile phone, while under the influence of drink, while under the influence of drugs, and generally all at the same time. She keeps repeating this behaviour and consistently tries to evade responsibility. This does more than suggest she simply has no sense of responsibility for her actions and any attempts she makes at contrition (such as dashing off to rehab) are merely staged.
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I care very little about her financial status, I care that she seems to regularly drive at excessive speed, while using a mobile phone, while under the influence of drink, while under the influence of drugs, and generally all at the same time. She keeps repeating this behaviour and consistently tries to evade responsibility. This does more than suggest she simply has no sense of responsibility for her actions and any attempts she makes at contrition (such as dashing off to rehab) are merely staged.
Yes to all that - but if "the meeja" didn't report every breath she makes it may perhaps start to sort her out - crushing the publicity craving.
The bloke on YT Voice of Reason had something to say about her in a couple of his takes yesterday (he's an arse too, but his points were valid)
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She lives "next door" (i.e. in the adjacent big house) to some friends of ours. A right PITA, despised by all the locals, apparently - and that was before the recent incidents.
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I care very little about her financial status, I care that she seems to regularly drive at excessive speed, while using a mobile phone, while under the influence of drink, while under the influence of drugs, and generally all at the same time. She keeps repeating this behaviour and consistently tries to evade responsibility. This does more than suggest she simply has no sense of responsibility for her actions and any attempts she makes at contrition (such as dashing off to rehab) are merely staged.
Yes to all that - but if "the meeja" didn't report every breath she makes it may perhaps start to sort her out - crushing the publicity craving.
The bloke on YT Voice of Reason had something to say about her in a couple of his takes yesterday (he's an arse too, but his points were valid)
I think there are aspects of both your positions.
I would think that there are mental health issues, crossed with a sense of entitlement, which in turn are both stoked and fed by media attention.
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I’d be curious to know how someone who has been declared bankrupt can afford to go into a private rehab clinic. Only because I’d like to send my daughter to a private Psyc unit but I can’t afford it. Actually I’d be happy for,her to receive NHS Psyc treatment, but that is not readily available these days.
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I’d be curious to know how someone who has been declared bankrupt can afford to go into a private rehab clinic (http://I’d be curious to know how someone who has been declared bankrupt can afford to go into a private rehab clinic). Only because I’d like to send my daughter to a private Psyc unit but I can’t afford it. Actually I’d be happy for,her to receive NHS Psyc treatment, but that is not readily available these days.
The Priory does offer NHS care (https://www.priorygroup.com/nhs). Obviously it will depend very much on whether your CCG commissions the services or not. Unfortunately, mental health services are still the Cinderella of the NHS.
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...
The bloke on YT Voice of Reason had something to say about her in a couple of his takes yesterday (he's an arse too, but his points were valid)
Ah, a thoroughly dislikable, racist misogynist self-serving, self-important CBE in my humble opinion who deserves mention in this thread primarily as a super twat imo.
An arse can indeed have a valid pov but I doubt that his motives behind those views were anything but misogynistic.
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It could've gone in a couple of threads in POBI, but it deserves a wider audience:
Nigel Farage complained he couldn’t get petrol and sympathy was in even shorter supply (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/nigel-farage-complained-he-couldnt-get-petrol-and-sympathy-was-in-even-shorter-supply-292951/)
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The headline I saw said he'd been hit by a van in the course of his attempt to perform
an important public service garner more publicity for himself, you can imagine my disappointment when I found out that it was his car that was hit and not him. :)
No, it wouldn't have been funny if the unpleasant little toad had been hurt, but ...
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Well I'm nominating Raab
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has suggested offenders who have been given community sentences could be used to address the country’s lack of HGV drivers
How about sorting out the DVLA, processing the tens of thousands of HGV applications stuck? Effing knob.
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Rees-Mogg has crawled out from wherever it is he hides to tell us that the UK ‘can’t take any more tax if we are to have a strong economy’. (Torygraph front page) Well, he can fuck off back to his hole!
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Well I'm nominating Raab
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has suggested offenders who have been given community sentences could be used to address the country’s lack of HGV drivers
How about sorting out the DVLA, processing the tens of thousands of HGV applications stuck? Effing knob.
There are tens of thousands of ordinary folk awaiting licence renewals, often for medical reasons. I know somebody who has been waiting for over six months. Without a licence they cannot drive at all.
Tories only ever understand when it directly affects them.
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Tomorrow's headlines.
If I do x am I more likely to be re-elected ?
Will I benefit financially from x ?
It's hard not to form the impression that this is all they consider when determining what to do.
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Oliver Dowden has no doubt appeared in this thread before. (And if not, why the chuff not!)
This nomination is based on his speech to the Tory conference today. Headline 'Get off your Pelotons and back to work'. To paraphrase, go back to Victorian office based work patterns and management styles. Ignore the benefits of regular exercise and the flexibility offered by home working, assuming of course that you work in the sort of job where this is appropriate. Such as a senior Civil Servant.
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Wow, Raab really is a stupid bellend.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/06/dominic-raab-confuses-meaning-of-misogyny-in-bbc-interview
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Wow, Raab really is a stupid bellend.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/06/dominic-raab-confuses-meaning-of-misogyny-in-bbc-interview
I believe that stupidity is a prerequisite for ministerial selection, although only the truly stupid would actually agree to work in this government, so I suppose it’s self selecting.
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It quite often seems they're just turning up and saying shit. The days of briefings, alas, seem to be gone. But there's no consequence, they say anything, salt it with the usual lies, and move on.
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Speaking later on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Raab acknowledged that the long backlog of cases in the courts was due partly to cuts in the criminal justice system, adding that he hoped it could be cleared within six to 12 months.
O RLY? This Unit would have liked to be a fly on the wall in the vicinity of the perpetually-correct Julian when she heard that small slice of the bleedin' obvious.
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Presumably, they're going to clear this with no actual new spending. May as well start commission documentaries about the forthcoming miscarriages of justice right now, there's going to be a lot of them.
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Presumably, they're going to clear this with no actual new spending. May as well start commission documentaries about the forthcoming miscarriages of justice right now, there's going to be a lot of them.
What, and defoliate the Magic Money Tree in these environmentally-straitened times? Besides, they’re probably guilty of something.
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Prediction; they will clear the backlog by instructing the CPS not to proceed with certain classes of cases. Probably domestic abuse, rape etc.
IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES will they clear this by dropping the number of immigration cases. In fact, they will make last minute appeals illegal. (Hang on, haven't they done that?)
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Wow, Raab really is a stupid bellend.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/06/dominic-raab-confuses-meaning-of-misogyny-in-bbc-interview
You flatter him.
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Wow, Raab really is a stupid bellend.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/06/dominic-raab-confuses-meaning-of-misogyny-in-bbc-interview
You flatter him.
Moronic minister aside, media reportage (can't really call it journalism) that says "appears to" or "is reported as saying" is rapidly becoming a pet hate of mine.
Did they bloody say it or not? Did they "appear to look confused", or did they lie through their fucking teeth? Arrggh.
Show me a news publisher which reports that "the Lord High Chancellor - Dominic Raab - displayed to the public his ignorance of what misogyny means when he said..." Substitute any minister, politician, person of power, and anything they spout.
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Prediction; they will clear the backlog by instructing the CPS not to proceed with certain classes of cases. Probably domestic abuse, rape etc.
IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES will they clear this by dropping the number of immigration cases. In fact, they will make last minute appeals illegal. (Hang on, haven't they done that?)
Which, they may argue, is reducing the backlog!
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Midair Bacon's next big wheeze will be employing all those people languishing in priz to help clear the backlog (when they're not picking litter in hi-viz obv.).
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The ones languishing in chokey are, of course, ideally qualified to reduce the backlog of pending court cases by advising would-be crims how not to get caught.
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The new CPS guidelines to which cases to try;
1. Did you go to the right school
2. Did you hurt anyone important
3. Have you made significant donations to the party
4. Were you born in the UK
5. Is your skin not white
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'Get off your Pelotons and back to work'.
“I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He got off his exercise bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found it.” N Tebbit
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Get on your bike and now get off your bike. I wish they would make up their minds!
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The new CPS guidelines to which cases to try;
1. Did you go to the right school
2. Did you hurt anyone important
3. Have you made significant donations to the party
4. Were you born in the UK
5. Is your skin not white
4 cannot be right. It would potentially impact many tories and/or their families as well as their key donors. Where was the clown-in-chief born for instance?
On the other hand, if they were dumb enough ...
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Sir Peter Bottomley.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/oct/07/boris-johnson-tory-conference-speech-reaction-polling-keir-starmer-latest-updates-politics-ive
Because only people like Head Teachers and business executives make for good (Tory) MP’s.
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I thought that witless arsepump Bumley had died æons ago. Buggrit >:(
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The most telling comment in that article was him saying that he managed quite well on his salaries. How many GPs on the stated £100k have time to do other jobs.
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To be honest, it's worthy of discussion, if you were a GP or similar, there's a considerable financial penalty in becoming an MP.
Quite a number of GPs work part-time, so that £100k isn't entirely valid, and I doubt most solicitors get close to that much unless they're a partner or work in city civil law. I'm not sure how we incentivize people to become MPs – people who aren't career politicians for the sake of it or entitled dabblers (like my MP).
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I would be very happy to pay more if there were complete bans on all paid lobbying, freeby holidays, etc. then on retirement a 10 year ban on accepting any job apart from perhaps some university lecturing (unpaid). Of course the salary would continue for those 10 years but with no expenses for staff.
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It's interesting (to me, anyway) that MPs didn't used to be paid, in ye olden days. Which meant they had to be wealthy in order to consider becoming an MP. Salaries were seen as a progressive move, to enable 'ordinary' people to become MPs.
The whole system needs looking at, especially funding for the political parties given the increasingly sleazy relationship that seems to exist with lobbyists and the wealthy. I don't suppose there are votes in proposing that political parties should have a specific amount of taxpayer funding, and not be allowed private donations although membership fees would still be OK.
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Being an MP should be their sole employment and the revolving door should stop revolving. There should also be some performance expectations (my MP, for instance, doesn't appear to do anything).
(Also, they need to stop employing friends and family.)
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Being an MP should be their sole employment and the revolving door should stop revolving. There should also be some performance expectations (my MP, for instance, doesn't appear to do anything).
(Also, they need to stop employing friends and family.)
Doesn't the "sole employment" thing fall apart for ministers and the like?
Backbencher, one job, MP, representing the interests of their constituents
Chancellor of the Exchequer, two jobs, one respresenting the interests of their constituents, the other doing all the Chancellor of The Exchequer bits.
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In that situation fine, but at the moment a significant proportion of them have secondary incomes unrelated (or probably too related) to their roles in parliament. Now fair, enough rent from properties, media etc. should be OK, but board memberships, providing paid advice and other services etc. less so.
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In that situation fine, but at the moment a significant proportion of them have secondary incomes unrelated (or probably too related) to their roles in parliament. Now fair, enough rent from properties, media etc. should be OK, but board memberships, providing paid advice and other services etc. less so.
Agreed
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There are some who, it might be argued, should stay at their "other" job, (eg The Spectator magazine) and not
fuck up the country big time become an MP.
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Being an MP should be their sole employment and the revolving door should stop revolving. There should also be some performance expectations (my MP, for instance, doesn't appear to do anything).
(Also, they need to stop employing friends and family.)
There are certain professions where I think it would be appropriate to allow MPs to have a second job (e.g. medicine) because there is a need to maintain competence - but other than those select professions I agree with the ban on second jobs.
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I would suggest that there's no need for medically-qualified MPs to continue to practice. To do so effectively would mean they have no time to be an MP. More likely, they are likely to be a liability as a medic. Regular briefing and observation should be enough to maintain sufficient familiarity with the subject, should a ministerial role require their medical expertise. However, there are very few ministers who have relevant and recent experience in any role, so why ex-medics (and they are most certainly ex as soon as they declare an intention to stand for Parliament) should be excepted I have no idea.
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I think being an MP should be a career choice, not a secondment. It should be something you want to do, but it should appeal to people with experience. I think we know by now that people who only do politics, or stumble through over their entitlements into a degree in PPE, aren't the best politicians. A lot of doctors change career, they're not more special than anyone else when it comes to this.
That said, a big chunk of medicine will be replaced by AI in the next decade or two, so parliament might be better than the job centre.
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So the current shit shower could be easily replaced by AD*.
*Autodumbness
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93% of Newcastle United supporters, apparently.
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As mentioned elsewhere (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=63464.msg2664338#msg2664338), Jonathan Gullis MP.
Tory MP says using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported as extremism (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/09/tory-mp-says-using-term-white-privilege-should-be-reported-as-extremism)
During the same event, the 31-year-old MP said that teachers should be “sacked” if they criticise the Conservatives.
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Now fair, enough rent from properties, media etc. should be OK,
You might want to check how many are landlords and how many vote against tenants rights.
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93% of Newcastle United supporters, apparently.
I'm hoping they've stopped discussing it by the time I get back in the office on Tuesday. It's a slim hope, but I'm clinging to it.
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93% of Newcastle United supporters, apparently.
From the Graun's article on St James's Park becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bonesaws-Я-Us:
Downing Street and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have maintained a deliberately hands-off approach.
One mustn’t bite the hand that feeds one buys one’s guns, and as to the notion of our freshly-promoted Super-Twat Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport actually, y'know, doing something? A prospect that makes the mind boggle on both pistons!
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93% of Newcastle United supporters, apparently.
I'm hoping they've stopped discussing it by the time I get back in the office on Tuesday. It's a slim hope, but I'm clinging to it.
They haven't. It's international scale fantasy football for 'our team'. We've got hundreds of hours on who 'we' can buy ahead.
"But they are Devils. A bunch of religious fundamentalist gun selling women hating slave owning bastards"
"Richest Team In The World, Clayton."
"Galaxy. Richest team in the Galaxy."
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It’s seems to me that the one thing the Americans have got right with their ‘football’ is the draft system which stops the oligarch with the deepest pockets dominating from one season to the next.
I’m waiting for one of them to buy Arrington Stanley and promot them to the top of the Premier League. ;D
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It’s seems to me that the one thing the Americans have got right with their ‘football’ is the draft system which stops the oligarch with the deepest pockets dominating from one season to the next.
I’m waiting for one of them to buy Arrington Stanley and promot them to the top of the Premier League. ;D
Nooooooooo!!!!!!!
Just look at the English teams that were involved in the attempted ESL breakaway francise league. 3, or even perhaps 4 of them are essentially yankee owned and the other two are oil-i-garchs. The draft works in yankeeland because there is nothing lost in being "last". The entire rest of the world (nearly) plays sport on a basis of some meritocracy. Obviously deep pockets can buy success but with franchises there are in effect no losers so very few incentives. This leads in the capitalist shitstorm that we find ourselves living in to ever greater commercial exploitation.
Money buys success but monopolies merely lead to exploitation of a much wider consumer base.
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93% of Newcastle United supporters, apparently.
I'm hoping they've stopped discussing it by the time I get back in the office on Tuesday. It's a slim hope, but I'm clinging to it.
They haven't. It's international scale fantasy football for 'our team'. We've got hundreds of hours on who 'we' can buy ahead.
"But they are Devils. A bunch of religious fundamentalist gun selling women hating slave owning bastards"
"Richest Team In The World, Clayton."
"Galaxy. Richest team in the Galaxy."
"Death In Yemen" a St James Production.
I've finally drawn a line under 60 years of support. Thinking of getting a t-shirt printed with "One of the 7%". Oh, and guess where the Saudis get those guns...... and planes, etc.
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Shirt with Khashoggi written on the back?
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I suppose if money can buy access to the government and their policies; better healthcare; better education; avoiding prosecution for law breaking. And ways to avoid paying tax ..... corrupting football is minor league.
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Money has always been the government.
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I just read the full text of Lord Frost's speech.
I feel tainted.
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Is it arrogance or idiocy that leads this lot to utter such contemptible twaddle do you think.
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Arrogance. Pure arrogance.
They used the "deal" to get elected on a populist ticket. Now they need to convince the very same gullible fools that all of the problems are deliberate malicious intent by the EU so as to ensure that they don't believe that the deal was either incompetence or convenience on the part of Frost&co.. As we know, if you say the message often enough then the radicalisation embeds itself quite thoroughly. Just look at autocracies of the past 100 years or so ...
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Most obviously, we no longer have an interest in coalition-building across the EU to shape EU rules.
While this may be technically true, it's only because you and your ilk expect the EU to accede to BRITAIN'S every whim. And I'm sure I remember Midair Bacon describing the NI Protocol as a “cracking deal” and as one of the alleged bright sparks of the Conservative Party he couldn’t possibly have been in error.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50704312587_7a216e9a45_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kfyRBZ)
Get in the sea (https://flic.kr/p/2kfyRBZ) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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De Kock.
I wasn't sure whether he deserved to be in the nominative determinism thread or in here but on balance I feel that he appears to be a denier of racism.
" no-one's forced to do anything, not in life. That's the way I see things."
I wonder what his views might be on whether apartheid was a thing, or not?
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Owen Paterson MP.
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Owen Paterson MP.
A 30 day suspension form the commons sounds like a massive deterrent to spending too much of your time working two other jobs in addition to your role as an MP! ::-)
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I used to think politics was a big adventure. Now there are days I stand in the shower, numb and fearful.
That’s probably because you’re a Super-Twat, Ms Vine. Although we knew that anyway. I mean, you actually married Slithy Gove.
Also, try turning up the temperature control.
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Ah, she has the decency to declare herself a super twat. Politics isn't supposed to be an adventure you twat, it's fucking serious: especially for the victims of political ideology.
A fascist is a fascist is a fascist whether they be a tory politician or a nazi worshipping entitled journo. It's a bit strong to call her a journalist though ...
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Owen Paterson MP.
One ally of Paterson’s said he had been “stitched up”. They told the Guardian: “He’s already lost everything. His reputation and seat are the only things he has left, so he’s going to fight this.”
Still got a big fat pile of stinking money though.
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The wanked-up badger-botherer's reputation went irretrievably round the U-bend many years ago, so in fact all he has left with which to console himself is his seat and his pile of ill-gotten lucre.
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“We want to attract the brightest and the best to [icon of BRITISH fleg]” announces cheeze fangrrl and trainee draught excluder Liz Truss, currently masquerading as a The FOREIGN Secretary. To illustrate her so-called point she uses a photograph of a suspension bridge. Specifically, the Golden Gate bridge. In San Francisco. California. USAnia :facepalm:
Liz Truss: Super-Twat.
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“We want to attract the brightest and the best to [icon of BRITISH fleg]” announces cheeze fangrrl and trainee draught excluder Liz Truss, currently masquerading as a The FOREIGN Secretary. To illustrate her so-called point she uses a photograph of a suspension bridge. Specifically, the Golden Gate bridge. In San Francisco. California. USAnia :facepalm:
Liz Truss: Super-Twat.
If only the country of the sunny uplands ™ had some iconic and world recognisable bridges of its own….
Perhaps there is an opportunity for a friend of a government member to create a new civil engineering company to be given win a contract to build one.
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Get one on the HS2 route....somewhere. If only the UK had some iconic bridges of its own, designed by giants of engineering like Brunel.
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Get one on the HS2 route....somewhere. If only the UK had some iconic bridges of its own, designed by giants of engineering like Brunel.
“global talent”, a visa system encouraging applications from bridge designers from as far away as Bristol.
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De Kock.
I wasn't sure whether he deserved to be in the nominative determinism thread or in here but on balance I feel that he appears to be a denier of racism.
" no-one's forced to do anything, not in life. That's the way I see things."
I wonder what his views might be on whether apartheid was a thing, or not?
I haz not really followed this, but he has since said he will take the knee. I could agree with the position of not taking a political stand because your employer wants you to and trepidation to be rushed into doing so with no time to consider it.
John Snow (of C4) famously refuses to endorse anything when newsreading, hence his refusal to wear a poppy. I can see that there is a good argument along those lines and as a national representative/sportsman you either have to give extended consideration to what you support or you end up having to support everything and anything.
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trainee draught excluder Liz Truss
That made me laugh, a lot. Thank you :)
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De Kock.
I wasn't sure whether he deserved to be in the nominative determinism thread or in here but on balance I feel that he appears to be a denier of racism.
" no-one's forced to do anything, not in life. That's the way I see things."
I wonder what his views might be on whether apartheid was a thing, or not?
I haz not really followed this, but he has since said he will take the knee. I could agree with the position of not taking a political stand because your employer wants you to and trepidation to be rushed into doing so with no time to consider it.
John Snow (of C4) famously refuses to endorse anything when newsreading, hence his refusal to wear a poppy. I can see that there is a good argument along those lines and as a national representative/sportsman you either have to give extended consideration to what you support or you end up having to support everything and anything.
I'd have some sympathy for him if taking a knee was new and unheard of in sporting circles, and, he wasn't from a mixed race background himself.
I do not believe for one moment that he has never been part of discussions about it. I also find it barely credible that the issue of taking a knee suddenly came up out of the blue for the first time on the morning of this particular match. It is simply not feasible that it had not been discussed.
Who in elite sport isn't aware of taking a knee and what it represents?
I am pleased that he has reconsidered.
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“We want to attract the brightest and the best to [icon of BRITISH fleg]” announces cheeze fangrrl and trainee draught excluder Liz Truss, currently masquerading as a The FOREIGN Secretary. To illustrate her so-called point she uses a photograph of a suspension bridge. Specifically, the Golden Gate bridge. In San Francisco. California. USAnia :facepalm:
Liz Truss: Super-Twat.
If only the country of the sunny uplands ™ had some iconic and world recognisable bridges of its own….
Perhaps there is an opportunity for a friend of a government member to create a new civil engineering company to be given win a contract to build one.
From Scotlandland to Norn Iron, perhaps…
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I thought that Mr Telford had designed some rather iconic bridges (and aqueducts). But then I remembered he was a FORRIN from Scotlandshire so would be beneath the notice of Ingerlish Nashnulists like Truss and co.
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Ah the sound of diplomatic language in the morning.
France has 48 hrs to back down says Liz Truzz (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/01/france-brexit-fishing-row-liz-truss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
I wonder if there are Tea Shops in the private bubble these fine examples of humanity live.
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Well what do you know, a sovereign state, threatening a sovereign state, for being a sovereign state.
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I thought that Mr Telford had designed some rather iconic bridges (and aqueducts). But then I remembered he was a FORRIN from Scotlandshire so would be beneath the notice of Ingerlish Nashnulists like Truss and co.
Can’t have that Mr Brunel either. He was a bit too FOREIGN. And what kind of a name is “Isambard” anyway? Why not a proper BRITISH name, like Boris?
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I thought that Mr Telford had designed some rather iconic bridges (and aqueducts). But then I remembered he was a FORRIN from Scotlandshire so would be beneath the notice of Ingerlish Nashnulists like Truss and co.
Can’t have that Mr Brunel either. He was a bit too FOREIGN. And what kind of a name is “Isambard” anyway? Why not a proper BRITISH name, like Boris?
French - his dad was a true born Frenchy who fled the revolution. His mum was English.
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I thought that Mr Telford had designed some rather iconic bridges (and aqueducts). But then I remembered he was a FORRIN from Scotlandshire so would be beneath the notice of Ingerlish Nashnulists like Truss and co.
Can’t have that Mr Brunel either. He was a bit too FOREIGN. And what kind of a name is “Isambard” anyway? Why not a proper BRITISH name, like Boris?
French - his dad was a true born Frenchy who fled the revolution. His mum was English.
You mean his father was an asylum seeker?
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I thought that Mr Telford had designed some rather iconic bridges (and aqueducts). But then I remembered he was a FORRIN from Scotlandshire so would be beneath the notice of Ingerlish Nashnulists like Truss and co.
Can’t have that Mr Brunel either. He was a bit too FOREIGN. And what kind of a name is “Isambard” anyway? Why not a proper BRITISH name, like Boris?
French - his dad was a true born Frenchy who fled the revolution. His mum was English.
You mean his father was an asylum seeker?
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Yep. Marc crossed the ENGLISH Channel in a boat, you know. Didn't have a work visa but dug a tunnel under the Thames anyway.
Bloody foreigners, coming over here and doing useful stuff. Shouldn't be allowed.
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Ah the sound of diplomatic language in the morning.
France has 48 hrs to back down says Liz Truzz (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/01/france-brexit-fishing-row-liz-truss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
I wonder if there are Tea Shops in the private bubble these fine examples of humanity live.
Or she’ll thcweam an' thcweam an' thcweam till she’s thick?
[“She's already thick!” – Ed.]
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Avid collector of Twat Miles and alleged The Prime Minister Bloody Stupid Johnson, after exhorting us riff-raff to wear masks in crowded public spaces, rocked up at COP26 yesterday and plonked himself, mask-free, between the mask-toting duo of the Secretary-General of the UN and (Inter)National Treasure Sir D Attenborough. And then fell asleep. Former Torygraph hack Tim Walker reckons this is because Bloody Stupid “still drinks like he is a lot younger than he is”, which is a polite way of saying he’s taking the Winston Churchill fanboism a step too far.
Alexander Boris Bloody Stupid de Pfeffel Johnson: Super-Twat.
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Avid collector of Twat Miles and alleged The Prime Minister Bloody Stupid Johnson, after exhorting us riff-raff to wear masks in crowded public spaces, rocked up at COP26 yesterday and plonked himself, mask-free, between the mask-toting duo of the Secretary-General of the UN and (Inter)National Treasure Sir D Attenborough. And then fell asleep. Former Torygraph hack Tim Walker reckons this is because Bloody Stupid “still drinks like he is a lot younger than he is”, which is a polite way of saying he’s taking the Winston Churchill fanboism a step too far.
Alexander Boris Bloody Stupid de Pfeffel Johnson: Super-Twat.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDIbz_AXMAcnvMC?format=jpg&name=small)
Yes, you'd have expected that picture to have made a few front pages...... https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk...... imagine if it had been Corbyn.
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If ever there was a graphic illustrated that the man is not fit to be a Prime Minister. :facepalm:
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Andrea Loathsome.
One rule for us ...
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Unfortunately there is no Blair to exploit this. Starmer will just bleat away for a bit and barely get any coverage.
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Scotland is set to miss its emission targets by a large amount. This is due to an enormous pile of decomposing bullshit in Glasgow.
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Scotland is set to miss its emission targets by a large amount. This is due to an enormous pile of decomposing bullshit in Glasgow.
All those unnecessary flights in and out will not have helped either ... 😏
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But didn't I read that international flights don't count towards a nation's CO2 emissions ?
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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I’ve never liked this line of argument. Small numbers of flights are fine. It’s the rest of us idjits expecting to do it that’s the problem.
It’s also pretty close to “I bet that climate protestor has been in a car hahahaha” bullshiterry.
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Except in this case thousands of people really didn't need to fly to the UK. If we haven't learned that we can do online meetings and conferencing quite effectively by now then we really aren't taking climate change seriously, nor are we giving a fuck about it.
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Except in this case thousands of people really didn't need to fly to the UK. If we haven't learned that we can do online meetings and conferencing quite effectively by now then we really aren't taking climate change seriously, nor are we giving a fuck about it.
I refer you to my statement in the COP26 thread. Agitating about the participants flying to engage in face-to-face talks is a distraction from the purpose of the talks. You might like to note that the preliminary talks, which were held virtually, achieved almost nothing simply because of the issues of trying to get online discussions working across many timezones simultaneously. To believe that such important discussions can be effectively achieved this way can only come from an inadequate appreciation of the practicalities. The emissions from the travels of the participants to and from this event are most likely a tiny proportion of those caused by this morning's rush hour in, say, Birmingham.
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I’ve mostly learned this past year that online meetings are boring AF and nothing much gets achieved.
If getting people in the same room talking face to face is what actually results in progress, then it seems a reasonable return on investment, carbon wise.
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Tories. All of them.
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Most meetings are boring AF and nothing is achieved unless there is a will. You could be 10,000 miles apart physically but have the will and desire and it would get done.
Meeting paralysis is a disease of our time.
As somebody even more informed says, blah, blah, blah.
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I’ve mostly learned this past year that online meetings are boring AF and nothing much gets achieved.
If getting people in the same room talking face to face is what actually results in progress, then it seems a reasonable return on investment, carbon wise.
This.
They'd all be checking their emails, WhatsApping their friends, and buying new shoes. Sorry guys, I was on mute.
Sorry PB, you are wrong, getting people in the same room does have an effect and I think the fate of human civilisation might deserve a bit a facetime. But some people would rather score points.
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Tories. All of them.
This, with knobs on.
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Tories. All of them.
This, with knobs on.
Tories with knobs on? It's knobs all the way down.
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This one can get in the sea too.
Dehenna Davison
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Jermy fucking Klaxon.
Yet again!
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An honourable mention for some residents of Ludlow:
Ludlow residents say they're appalled they have not been consulted on a decision to install four double charging points for electric vehicles...
...John Diamond, a resident on Mill Street, said: "We do not want the town centre being used as a filling station...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-birmingham-59180938?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=618a1f80f425de0f296832f6%26Residents%27%20anger%20over%20lack%20of%20consultation%20on%20car%20charging%20points%262021-11-09T08%3A17%3A55.465Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:e1d5cdea-00fe-46e9-9054-882ef3fed02a&pinned_post_asset_id=618a1f80f425de0f296832f6&pinned_post_type=share
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Ludlow residents say they're appalled they have not been consulted
I can’t be arsed trying to find it but I’d be happy to bet actual cash money a statuatory consultation was done. These people would still be saying this if someone had knocked on their door, showed them the plans and asked them directly if it should go ahead.
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Ludlow residents say they're appalled they have not been consulted
I can’t be arsed trying to find it but I’d be happy to bet actual cash money a statuatory consultation was done. These people would still be saying this if someone had knocked on their door, showed them the plans and asked them directly if it should go ahead.
You know Ludlow then?
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Ludlow residents say they're appalled they have not been consulted
I can’t be arsed trying to find it but I’d be happy to bet actual cash money a statuatory consultation was done. These people would still be saying this if someone had knocked on their door, showed them the plans and asked them directly if it should go ahead.
“But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”
“Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.”
“But the plans were on display …”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.”
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…the fact is that the [Northern Ireland] protocol was in some ways explicitly designed to punish Britain
What kind of a Super-Twat could pen a statement of of such stupidity that it doesn’t just momentarily take the breath away but deprives the reader of oxygen to an extent more usually found in the victims of bizarre wanking accidents?
LBC presenter, sometime Torygraph writer and now Super-Twat Iain Dale, that’s what kind of Super-Twat.
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It’s almost as if the gammonarti believe that the EU threw us out for being BRITSH and have totally forgotten that they, the gammonarti, demanded it. The gammonarti never got their collective head around the fact that the EU has a standard set of operating procedures for dealing with those out with the EU which DO apply to BRITAIN now that we’re not a member.
Idiots.
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Butbutbut we're SPECIAL, dash it! Because we're BRITISH!!!1!! If it wasn’t for us all them Germans would be speaking German! [“cont. p94”]
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Disgraced former International Development Secretary and Weeble cosplayer Piggi Patel says she was “disgusted” that people protested against the presence of Tzipi Hotovely, Israel's Ambassador to the Court of St Jim, at the LSE the other night. “[…] antisemitism had no place in Britain” insisted the noted bully and Israeli shill who, like many a Super-Twat, cannot distinguish between criticism of the Israeli government and actual anti-semitism. Piggi Patel has form for sneering at the “North London metropolitan elite”, an act that saw dogs across the capital covering their ears and whimpering.
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Have we had
David "Lions don't need a Covid pass" Kurten?
https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1459854051940704266?s=20
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A cursory search indicates award-winning Gammonatus and general dick Kurten not to have featured before, which is a curious omission.
Also, from the replies "Four lions test positive for Covid-19 at Barcelona Zoo" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55229433).
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Zookeepers reportedly carried out a standard PCR swab test on the four lions - the same method used on humans - because they are comfortable having close contact with staff.
What mad cat-whispering witchcraft is this?
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Does lion swabbing go in the “death certificate mentioning covid” pile ?
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Depends on the lion and the person doing the swabbing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion)
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Tory councillor Paul Nickerson.
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“My account was hacked” claims Cllr Nickerson. OK, I'm convinced. It’s not as if Tory councillors (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/07/tory-councillor-in-worthing-suspended-over-alleged-support-of-far-right) make a habit (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58728360) of being Super-Twats (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tory-councillor-suspended-anti-semitic-21062270).
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But being a Tory there’s also,a strong possibility that his password is Margret or that his rent boy did it.
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But being a Tory there’s also,a strong possibility that his password is Margret or that his rent boy did it.
Are you suggesting they can’t spell Margaret ?
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Not at all, but I might be suggesting I can’t. :P
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Not at all, but I might be suggesting I can’t. :P
So you're confessing, in a roundabout way, to being the source of all those begging emails that Wowbagger has told us about in the Trump thread? :demon: ;D :demon: ;)
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Not at all, but I might be suggesting I can’t. :P
So you're confessing, in a roundabout way, to being the source of all those begging emails that Wowbagger has told us about in the Trump thread? :demon: :-D :demon: ;)
Given Beardy's previous employment I'm sure he's well capable of spoofing an email address.... ;)
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Not at all, but I might be suggesting I can’t. :P
So you're confessing, in a roundabout way, to being the source of all those begging emails that Wowbagger has told us about in the Trump thread? :demon: :-D :demon: ;)
Given Beardy's previous employment I'm sure he's well capable of spoofing an email address.... ;)
You might think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment. :demon:
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Weapns-grade twat Lee Anderson, Conservative MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, who I'm pretty sure has graced this thread before, demonstrates what an utter snowflake he is: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-59297389.amp
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The MP said he believed Mr Zadrozny breached three parts of the council's code of conduct, including showing a "lack of respect", using "offensive language", and not "leading by example".
Wonder if the phrase “tank-topped bum boys” rings any bells chez Anderson?
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He doesn't seem to dispute the fact that he is a moron though.
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That would be like saying fire isn't hot - it's a self-evident truth.
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https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1460925253832646661?s=20 Oakeshitt, and the charming "Handsy" Johnson.
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Tory councillor Paul Nickerson.
Unwanted tenuous claim to fame - he was in my class form at primary school
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Miriam Cates - prepared to deny reality
(great journalism. I don't watch news on the tv; who is this interviewer? She is brilliant. Particularly like that she muted the MP to stop the endless torrent of drivel.)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1461352276254097420 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1461352276254097420)
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Alex Hales. I mean... seriously?
Probably just as well we'll never know what Tupac would have made of his 'tribute'.
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Tim Montgomerie.
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The front bench of the Current government. Every last one of them. In fact, why stop there. Every member parliament who wore a blue rose at the last election and EVEY SINGLE ONE OF THE FUCKWITS that voted for them. Every one of them.
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Tim Montgomerie.
What’s he done now, apart from being a Super-Twat? Mr Google is being unhelpful. It’s probably past his bedtime.
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He has been celebrating the Rittenhouse verdict with the word 'Hallelujah'.
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The front bench of the Current government. Every last one of them. In fact, why stop there. Every member parliament who wore a blue rose at the last election and EVEY SINGLE ONE OF THE FUCKWITS that voted for them. Every one of them.
Just need to add to the vent diagram ukip voters, brexit voters and bigots.
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...EVEY SINGLE ONE OF THE FUCKWITS that voted for them. Every one of them.
Umm. While the result of the last election was, to me at least, deeply ... disappointing I can't bring myself to a blanket condemnation of those who voted Tory. I have no doubt that some Tory MPs are hard-working, honest and compassionate people who think that the current cabinet are, well, supply your own offensive epithets, I've long since exhausted my store of rage, spleen and oaths, and were worth returning to office. The fact that a number of them, not many I admit, defied the 3 line whip over Paterson's corrupt behaviour indicates this. And let's be honest about the alternative that was on offer at the time. It didn't inspire confidence, now did it?
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The front bench of the Current government. Every last one of them. In fact, why stop there. Every member parliament who wore a blue rose at the last election and EVEY SINGLE ONE OF THE FUCKWITS that voted for them. Every one of them.
Absolutely this.
Which is deeply disappointing.
I had always imagined that as I approached my dotage I would chill out, mellow a bit, become more accommodating.
The current shower mean that this is no longer possible and I find myself getting angrier and angrier as the months go by.
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Ben Fogle.
I don't know why we watched more than one episode of his 'Scotland's sacred islands with Ben Fogle'. He talks a stream of consciousness drivel (noted drivel on last episode was 'Good thing the tide is going out' while walking across a causeway on an inland loch). It is like picking at a scab.
Why a super twat?
He received permission to camp on the machair next to a beach. Then proceeded to light a fire on the machair!
This is really fragile ecosystem. One fire will destroy all vegetation in that spot which will take many years to recover - or result in an erosion hole.
There are signs all over saying 'no fires on the machair'.
'wild' campers camping on machair have been a particular problem this past summer, with many of them tearing up fences and benches for wood for a fire.
Now this utter twat goes on national BBC television doing the same.
Both MrsC and I grinked the BBC. I expect a mealy justification for this in 6 months.
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“My account was hacked” claims Cllr Nickerson. OK, I'm convinced. It’s not as if Tory councillors (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/07/tory-councillor-in-worthing-suspended-over-alleged-support-of-far-right) make a habit (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58728360) of being Super-Twats (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tory-councillor-suspended-anti-semitic-21062270).
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1463131601391525894?s=20 :thumbsup:
"Councillor Paul Nickerson to pay substantial damages and legal costs"
"This substantial settlement will be used to support charities that are close to my heart: including one in Liverpool and one in my constituency.”
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Good god, Nadine Dorries again, dimmer than a broken bulb. She doesn't so much as speak as open her mouth and let the words flee from the confines of stupid.
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Good god, Nadine Dorries again, dimmer than a broken bulb. She doesn't so much as speak as open her mouth and let the words flee from the confines of stupid.
This ? Cyber-flashing likely to become a criminal offence - Dorries https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59391603
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No, it was her unpleasant performance in front of John Nicolson, where he pretty much disassembled the bleached brained halfwit for being a consistent cunt on Twitter. Yes, Nadine, lots of women do receive abuse online, but they're not the ones writing it.
You have to stop and remind yourself that you're watching A Government Minister.
As to cyber-flashing, do we really need another law that's next to unenforceable, and honestly just switch the fucking unsolicited messages feature off.
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I found it arousing.
Sorry.
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Jeebus, HF, you really have been ill…
Edit: Previously Mad Nad had told the Torygraph:
I had a stalker for years
I imagine this is a reference to her laughable accusations levelled at Tim Ireland (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/10/nadine-dorries-accused-of-making-false-claims-about-opponent-during-election) for having the temerity to stand against her in the 2015 election.
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Raab, again. "Tigger like" indeed. Is Winnie the Pooh still a thing?
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Jeebus, HF, you really have been ill…
Edit: Previously Mad Nad had told the Torygraph:
I had a stalker for years
I imagine this is a reference to her laughable accusations levelled at Tim Ireland (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/10/nadine-dorries-accused-of-making-false-claims-about-opponent-during-election) for having the temerity to stand against her in the 2015 election.
She was having a go at James O'Brien (who I'm unfamiliar with, but if he's attracted Dorries ire, he must be alright) who was apparently abusing her online, though it seemed no one could find any evidence of this abuse, whereas Delightful Dorries had left behind an entire portfolio of abuse directed at him (and it seemed everyone and anyone else who crossed her path). This, in olden times, used to be called lying. Then, in a splendid shift, put it down to being a woman.
The clip were she's responding to questions about Channel 4's funding is priceless though, where when she's corrected that C4 receives no public funding, she offers the priceless (and this is word-for-word):
and..so..though its..yeah and..that..
She is Culture Secretary, btw. Has no idea how out TV channels are funded.
(I've told the story of Priti Patel and years ago at a meeting at a leading news agency she polled up in her role as Minister of State for Employment to answer questions about, well, employment and didn't know anything, not the rate, not the number, not the projection, absolutely nothing, then she got angry when someone expressed surprise at her knowledge deficit and stomped off to shout at an assistant.)
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And yet another mention for our esteemed PM, Bloody Stupid Johnson. I’m actually in awe about this entry though, because it completely mistifies me how anyone capable of such an amazing display of such an outstandingly poor grasp on basic diplomacy and political niceties can have risen to be the leader of a political party.
An OPEN letter to a foreign leader criticising that countries handling of a humane crisis and DEMANDING that thy not only take action, but actually instructs them in the five steps they should b taking. I mean, what exactly did he think it would achieve?
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I don't think he cares what the French think of it. It's for his core of racist/xenophobic supporters.
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I mean, what exactly did he think it would achieve?
And increase in support from his core base of xenophobic racists.
ETA X-post with NN
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And yet another mention for our esteemed PM, Bloody Stupid Johnson. I’m actually in awe about this entry though, because it completely mistifies me how anyone capable of such an amazing display of such an outstandingly poor grasp on basic diplomacy and political niceties can have risen to be the leader of a political party.
An OPEN letter to a foreign leader criticising that countries handling of a humane crisis and DEMANDING that thy not only take action, but actually instructs them in the five steps they should b taking. I mean, what exactly did he think it would achieve?
Two things:
- Demonstrate to the rabid brexiteer gammons that SBJ is a strong and powerful leader who is sticking it to the froggies.
- Distract everyone else from the latest piece of legislation that is skewering them like a beetle in a victorian child's collection box.
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And yet another mention for our esteemed PM, Bloody Stupid Johnson. I’m actually in awe about this entry though, because it completely mistifies me how anyone capable of such an amazing display of such an outstandingly poor grasp on basic diplomacy and political niceties can have risen to be the leader of a political party.
An OPEN letter to a foreign leader criticising that countries handling of a humane crisis and DEMANDING that thy not only take action, but actually instructs them in the five steps they should b taking. I mean, what exactly did he think it would achieve?
It achieves exactly what gammonhead and his cabal wanted. They can now say to the fascist press that those pesky French (Europeans) are not cooperating yet again.
To suggest that "we" send our people to tread upon their sovereign soil and enforce our wishes is every imperialist gammon's wet dream.
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I dearly hope that the French respond with "We fart in your general direction."
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C4 News had TV's Matt Frei interviewing the mayor of a French coastal town last night, who was adamant that BRITISH flics would not be allowed to patrol the beaches of La Belle France and that Bloody Stupid Johnson – the noted Super-Twat – would be do better to follow the money through the City of London Cash Laundromat in order to shut down the trafficking gangs. Mr Frei failed to point out to M. le Maire that scrutiny of their affairs would not win Bloody Stupid Johnson S-T any favours from his pals in the City, nor did he seem to realise that the decision to allow rosbif coppers to ply their trade in FOREIGN climes is some way above the pay grade of a provincial mayor. Which has him at least veering into the territorial waters of Super-Twattery himself. With heroic self-restraint M. le Maire failed to respond with “Bof! You Ingleeesh!”
And besides, it’s a triumph of the free market economy…
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Have we had florid billiards hack Shaun Murphy yet?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/59392405
He was defending his comments on R4 the other day. It was like watching a man being given enough rope.
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Give him a (<=147) break. He has to "put food on the table" to maintain his majestic physique.
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I have some sympathy for his view but not for the way he expressed himself. AIUI, amateurs don't get paid so their presence does in fact deprive "professionals" on the circuit from earning money. I have never quite understood that in some sports amateurs are allowed but not in others.
I knew Norman Kerruish (Google him) a talented amateur in a number of sports and a pretty clever mathematician too. He was never paid for his sporting achievements but that didn't worry him. A real working class gentleman too.
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I have some sympathy for his view but not for the way he expressed himself. AIUI, amateurs don't get paid so their presence does in fact deprive "professionals" on the circuit from earning money. I have never quite understood that in some sports amateurs are allowed but not in others.
I knew Norman Kerruish (Google him) a talented amateur in a number of sports and a pretty clever mathematician too. He was never paid for his sporting achievements but that didn't worry him. A real working class gentleman too.
Was he Manx?
ETA: ‘Cos Kerruish is a Manx name, as I recall. One of my Grandfather’s neighbours (Grandfather was a blow-in) was so called. Took me out in his speedboat from Ramsey harbour a couple of times
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Born near Wigan (http://www.corinthian-casuals.com/news/norman-kerruish-a-tribute).
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Tory MP turned Times columnist and titanic ponce Matthew Parris, although probably nominated previously for his comments about stringing wire across cycle paths, gets a reload for (repeating) his assertion that BRITAIN should repudiate the 1951 Geneva Convention on refugees because they’re bloody foreigners. “[…] there is no point in railing against the illiberalism of the British people on the issue of immigration we’re powerless to control. It is palpable, and politicians who must govern by consent cannot ignore it. Voters on an island will never soften towards settlers arriving uninvited in boats” he says, which is a long-winded way of saying:
- I'm not racist, but… and/or
- I, Matthew Parris, am a Super-Twat
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Oh look, it's mad Nad again!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/28/fury-as-nadine-dorries-rejects-fellow-torys-groping-claim-against-pms-father
“I don’t believe it happened,” she said in an interview with the Daily Mail. “It never happened to me. Perhaps there is something wrong with me.”
Maybe that's because you're a harpy...
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Are there two Nadine Dorrieses?
https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/926962993383997440 (https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/926962993383997440)
"Brave women stepping fwd with genuine harassment exmps are pioneers, changing workplace culture for next generation,not just in Westminster"
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Hopefully not.
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Are there two Nadine Dorrieses?
https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/926962993383997440 (https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/926962993383997440)
"Brave women stepping fwd with genuine harassment exmps are pioneers, changing workplace culture for next generation,not just in Westminster"
Says a woman who harasses and defames people on social media, and works with renowned workplace bully Priti Patel.
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Richard Dawkins, for making it onto yacf threads twice in one day. Also, for being Richard Dawkins.
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Gambon géant, multi-faceted bigot and now candidate in next year’s Presidential election (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Zemmour) Éric Zemmour. To the ocean with you, o Super-Twat!
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^ that man is such a S-T it’s hard to actually believe it.
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Steve Baker, for an utterly ludicrous speech on coronavirus regulations. Like watching a sixth-former winging it at the debating society.
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I haven’t been able to find a definitive list of Tory MPs who voted against the fresh anti-plague measures yesterday – who are likely Super-Twats one and all – but our old mucker Christopher “Upskirt” Chode was definitely one. Of them.
If useless mouth-for-hire Desmond Swyne, sorry, Swayne wasn’t another I'll be scouring the Internets for hat recipes , given that the Super-Twat popped up on fellow S-T Julia Tory Sewer's radio show the other day to rail against the monstrous unfairness of it all. “I've decided I'm exempt from wearing a mask due to my genetic predisposition to liberty. This is utter hysteria. Every time I ask for the evidence I'm told it's about sending a message. Well I don't like the message!” proclaimed the daft old bastard who wants badly to be put out of everyone else’s misery for the superiority of his twattitude.
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I've just read Desmond Swayne's wiki page. A lot of electrons could be saved by just putting a redirect in like so: "See Super Twat".
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I've just read Desmond Swayne's wiki page. A lot of electrons could be saved by just putting a redirect in like so: "See Super Twat".
Prompted by this, I read his wiki entry.
Really wish I hadn't. Left me feeling soiled, just reading quotes from him.
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I haven’t been able to find a definitive list of Tory MPs who voted against the fresh anti-plague measures yesterday – who are likely Super-Twats one and all – but our old mucker Christopher “Upskirt” Chode was definitely one. Of them.
If useless mouth-for-hire Desmond Swyne, sorry, Swayne wasn’t another I'll be scouring the Internets for hat recipes , given that the Super-Twat popped up on fellow S-T Julia Tory Sewer's radio show the other day to rail against the monstrous unfairness of it all. “I've decided I'm exempt from wearing a mask due to my genetic predisposition to liberty. This is utter hysteria. Every time I ask for the evidence I'm told it's about sending a message. Well I don't like the message!” proclaimed the daft old bastard who wants badly to be put out of everyone else’s misery for the superiority of his twattitude.
This might help: https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1155#noes (https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1155#noes)
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Nothing to see here, move along .....
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/01/boris-johnson-accused-of-flouting-covid-rules-with-no-10-parties-last-christmas?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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You can accuse any of the front bench with the sleaze story of your choice, and regardless of any accompanying evidence, it will fave the impact of a loud and odour free fart in a well ventilated escalator.
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I haven’t been able to find a definitive list of Tory MPs who voted against the fresh anti-plague measures yesterday – who are likely Super-Twats one and all – but our old mucker Christopher “Upskirt” Chode was definitely one. Of them.
If useless mouth-for-hire Desmond Swyne, sorry, Swayne wasn’t another I'll be scouring the Internets for hat recipes , given that the Super-Twat popped up on fellow S-T Julia Tory Sewer's radio show the other day to rail against the monstrous unfairness of it all. “I've decided I'm exempt from wearing a mask due to my genetic predisposition to liberty. This is utter hysteria. Every time I ask for the evidence I'm told it's about sending a message. Well I don't like the message!” proclaimed the daft old bastard who wants badly to be put out of everyone else’s misery for the superiority of his twattitude.
This might help: https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1155#noes (https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1155#noes)
:thumbsup: As I suspected, there’s quite a large correlation between the naysayers and Super-Twat nominees.
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Why were Nurn Ironed MPs voting on (against) measures for Ingerlaand?
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Why were Nurn Ironed MPs voting on (against) measures for Ingerlaand?
Because they can?
There's no provision for restricting votes on purely English matters to English MPs.
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You can accuse any of the front bench with the sleaze story of your choice, and regardless of any accompanying evidence, it will fave the impact of a loud and odour free fart in a well ventilated escalator.
Effectively we are surrounded by their shit but it's not offensive enough to upset enough people.
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Desmond Swyne - again:
A Conservative MP has spoken up for the right of voters to elect racists or misogynists if that is who they want to represent them.
Sir Desmond Swayne said he hoped his constituents would never make such a choice, but it would be anti-democratic to police MPs' views.
It comes after the standards committee suggested MPs should "demonstrate anti-discriminatory attitudes".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59508496The committee is drawing up proposals for a new code of conduct for MPs.
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That's an interesting dilemma.
Allow bigots to be elected, let them have a voice and defeat them with logic and reason and expose them in full public view as to exactly what sort of twats they are.
Or, bar them from public life and they then possibly skulk around in the shadows claiming victimisation and attracting to their cause all the numpties and the gullible.
Tough call.
Some would claim that FPTP prevented the Brexit Party getting a voice in the House, and look where that got us.
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Allow bigots to be elected, let them have a voice and defeat them with logic and reason and expose them in full public view as to exactly what sort of twats they are.
Has that ever worked?
The BBC put Nigel Super Twat on TV every week until he won.
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The Reform Party, the current Faragist vehicle, came third in yesterday's by-election. We should applaud this, as they are splitting the right-wing vote and doing to the Tories what the LibDems and Greens do to Labour.
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Interesting. It is against the law to discriminate based on religion. Suppose someone stood on a platform that all religion is bad with a promise to campaign to make religion illegal. If they were then elected they would need to still comply with the current law and not discriminate but could campaign for change. However under these new proposals they would actively need to promote the current racism laws which contradict the platform they were elected on.
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The Reform Party, the current Faragist vehicle, came third in yesterday's by-election. We should applaud this, as they are splitting the right-wing vote and doing to the Tories what the LibDems and Greens do to Labour.
In my opinion the slimy faragist turd will inevitably stand down candidates to help keep a tory majority. He has absolutely no scruples and is just willy waving in a way that has no real impact on the fascists.
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Desmond Swyne - again:
A Conservative MP has spoken up for the right of voters to elect racists or misogynists if that is who they want to represent them.
Sir Desmond Swayne said he hoped his constituents would never continue to make such a choice, butand it would be anti-democratic to police MPs' views.
FTFH
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Echoing – literally – Super-Twat Desmond Swyne, would-be comic writer and all-round crashing snob Quentin Letts* earns himself another bar to his Distinguished Order of the Super-Twat Long Service medal. “Waaah!” exclaims the self-entitled prick. “I think we should respect [face covering refuseniks], and I think we should allow them to make their choice for themselves. I have a problem with masks, because to me […] I’m not convinced by the science!”. Letts has a degree. In Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Which puts him, at least in his own mind, up there with Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur.
And there's more. “I think it’s got much more to do with sending a message, and I don’t like the message.” whines the odious bumbaclot who thinks laws should only be obeyed by the Little People (cf. Leona Helmsley, Rita Ora, Bloody Stupid Johnson, Julia Tory Sewer, ect ad bleeding infinitum). No, Quent, you see, viruses are a bit dim and don’t care whether you have a column in a national scandal rag, millions in the bank, an ego the size of the Great Orme, or multiple receipts of the greatly-coveted Super-Twat status. Get in the shark tank.
* actually, let's not
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Whoever forgot to take all their kit with them after finishing the job: https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19760425.gwr-train-going-123mph-crashed-trolley-left-track-engineers/?action=success#comments-feedback-anchor
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I didn't know British trains could manage 123 mph.
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I didn't know British trains could manage 123 mph.
At least one of them can...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Number_4468_Mallard_in_York.jpg)
Ackcherlee, the Class 43s regularly did 125mph in service and were good for 140+ mph, but I bet you knew that. Not up to speed (ha ha) with what the new electric locos are capable of.
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Mallard did 126mph, but they broke it in the process. Not seriously, but the centre big end bearing "ran" and they had to whistle up an old Ivatt Atlantic to get the train home.
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Whoever forgot to take all their kit with them after finishing the job: https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19760425.gwr-train-going-123mph-crashed-trolley-left-track-engineers/?action=success#comments-feedback-anchor
Thanks to the disruption caused by this I was delayed by ninety minutes on my way home from nuncio's, so I got a 100% refund. Which went nicely with the 50% refund on the outward journey (rail replacement bus failed to turn up).
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I didn't know British trains could manage 123 mph.
Ackcherlee, the Class 43s regularly did 125mph in service and were good for 140+ mph, but I bet you knew that. Not up to speed (ha ha) with what the new electric locos are capable of.
Current British Rolling Stock capable of (at least) 125mph:
- Hitachi bi-mode classes 800, 801, 802 & 803 and (when they build them) 805, 807 & 810 (Aka. IET/IEP/SET, depending on who ordered/paid for it) - actually capable of 140mph on electric and 125mph on diesel (Classes 800, 802, 807 & 810 only) - (Operators: current - GWR, LNER, LUMO, Transpennine Express, Hull Trains; future - Avanti West Coast, East Midlands Railway)
- LNER Class 91 and Mk 4 Coaches - Were specified for 140mph (225 km/h, hence InterCity 225) but only ever ran at 125mph in regular service - Still a couple of sets running London - Leeds in the current timetable
- Alstom class 390 (Avanti West Coast tilting trains, also capable of 140mph)
- CAF Class 397 (Transpennine Express - used on Liverpool/Manchester - Glasgow/Edinburgh), but limited to 110mph until the upgrade of the line north of Crewe
- Bombardier class 220, 221 ("Voyager" (aka "Vomiter")) & 222 ("Meridian") 125mph InterCity diesel trains - 220 and some 221 with Cross Country, some 221 with Avanti WC (until class 807 (see above) arrive), class 222 with East Midlands Railway (until class 810 arrive)
- GWR, Cross Country and Scotrail's HSTs, shortened versions of the InterCity 125 trains built by BR, still capable of 125mph
- South Eastern High Speed class 395 (Hitachi) - Domestic services to east Kent on High Speed 1 (HS1), only current domestic rail service to run at 140mph
- Eurostar class 373 (Alstom, 300km/h) and 374 (Siemens, 320km/h) on international services to Europe via HS1
The HSTs have been criss-crossing the country at speeds of up to 125mph since 1975 in full service, the prototype a little longer than that!
If I remember any others, I shall update this list!
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The HSTs were all fitted with speed limiters at some point, and were theoretically limited to 125mph after that. I've seen 128mph at Shrivenham.
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The HSTs were all fitted with speed limiters at some point, and were theoretically limited to 125mph after that. I've seen 128mph at Shrivenham.
I used to regularly time them at 130mph southbound through Huntingdon, but that was back in the 80s, well before On Train Data Recorders...
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Bloke I was at primary school was involved with the safety case for HS1. Some days before the press day where they went $EXTREMELYFAST, there was a practice run. He signed off all the documents and was told "you signed this off, you better be in the cab" OWTTE. Apparently he has a photo of him with speedo showing Mach 1 ( or the railway equivalent).
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The HSTs were all fitted with speed limiters at some point, and were theoretically limited to 125mph after that. I've seen 128mph at Shrivenham.
I used to regularly time them at 130mph southbound through Huntingdon, but that was back in the 80s, well before On Train Data Recorders...
The father of one former BHPC stalwart used to drive them on the route out of Penzance and claimed they regularly hit 140 mph if they were sure there wasn’t a representative of The Mgt on board.
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The HSTs were all fitted with speed limiters at some point, and were theoretically limited to 125mph after that. I've seen 128mph at Shrivenham.
I used to regularly time them at 130mph southbound through Huntingdon, but that was back in the 80s, well before On Train Data Recorders...
The father of one former BHPC stalwart used to drive them on the route out of Penzance and claimed they regularly hit 140 mph if they were sure there wasn’t a representative of The Mgt on board.
It wasn't until BR started to roll out the diesel and electric Modernisation Plan that locomotives were universally fitted with a speedometer.
Other than *some* top link locomotives on the more prestigious routes there were no speedometers fitted to steam locomotives. Drivers were just expected to know how fast they were going and whether or not that was in excess of the local speed limit or the limit for that class of loco!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59543735
What an asshat.
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There is something deeply wrong with those people. Plus I'm pretty sure I know where they insert those gun barrels when the curtains are drawn.
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Ohhhhh!!!!!! Sweeeeet!!!!!
The ickle girl has an Uzi.
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In any normal society this would surely be seen as a sign of mental illness.
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I was randomly surfing YouTube last night and happened on a ‘Mercian shooting channel. he was reviewing which of his Glocks would be the last one sold (he had seven1!)
The most telling comment though was ‘This is the gun I currently rely on for my personal defence’ and I thought these people are still living in the Wild West. What must it be like to live your life in constant fear of your neighbours and every stranger on the street?
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I was randomly surfing YouTube last night and happened on a ‘Mercian shooting channel. he was reviewing which of his Glocks would be the last one sold (he had seven1!)
The most telling comment though was ‘This is the gun I currently rely on for my personal defence’ and I thought these people are still living in the Wild West. What must it be like to live your life in constant fear of your neighbours and every stranger on the street?
Most of those guns seemed to be owned by people in the suburbs, where there is very little crime, so I'm never sure who they're defending themselves against other than each other, after all why exchange insurance details after a minor traffic accident when you can exchange gunfire.
To be fair, many Americans don't have a gun fetish.
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I think the drift towards continental-style privacy laws, innovated in the courtroom, not by elected lawmakers in the House of Commons, is something that we can and should correct.
Thing is, Mr Super-Twat, any changes in BRITAIN'S privacy laws are not due to some fiendish plot by the Unelected Bureaucrats of BrusselsTM but rather by the behaviour of our own tabloid press, who are grimly opposed to anything that makes it harder to put the boot into for e.g. trans people, the Duchess of Sussex, ect and, moreover, ad nauseam
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"... innovated* in the courtroom..."
First, what about case law and the use of legal precedents in English Law?
and.
Second, * his linguistic ability is as limited as all his other mental "processes".
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I believe the first bit of case law coming from article 8 of the ECHR once adopted into the human rights act 1998, was the right to privacy when engaging in s+m sessions with prostitutes whilst dressed up as a WW2 German soldier. Whether such fundamental rights need to be protected is now up for review.
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I believe the first bit of case law coming from article 8 of the ECHR once adopted into the human rights act 1998, was the right to privacy when engaging in s+m sessions with prostitutes whilst dressed up as a WW2 German soldier. Whether such fundamental rights need to be protected is now up for review.
As long as it's consenting adults, why would who they are, the clothes you wear and what you do be anyone's business? The outfit might be bad taste, but it's essentially part of the same space as having sex with someone of a different race, or the same sex in terms of whether it's anyone else's business.
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Professor Larrington once found herself seated next to Max Mosley at some posh dinner in $OXFOD_COLLEGE not long after he'd won his case against the Screws and says he was a smashing chap and jolly interesting to talk to.
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Professor Larrington once found herself seated next to Max Mosley at some posh dinner in $OXFOD_COLLEGE not long after he'd won his case against the Screws and says he was a smashing chap and jolly interesting to talk to.
I have occasionally wondered whether L'affaire de Mosley had a certain F1 team principal's fingerprints on it. Or, given his proposals for a budget cap, several F1 TP's prints... ;)
One could quibble about some/a lot of the things he did when he and Eccle$$$$$$tone were running F1, but looking at this year's goings-on, I can't help thinking that F1 needs a Proper Bastard, albeit a properly even-handed one, in charge.
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Professor Larrington once found herself seated next to Max Mosley at some posh dinner in $OXFOD_COLLEGE not long after he'd won his case against the Screws and says he was a smashing chap and jolly interesting to talk to.
I have occasionally wondered whether L'affaire de Mosley had a certain F1 team principal's fingerprints on it. Or, given his proposals for a budget cap, several F1 TP's prints... ;)
Surely you are not in a state of cogitationness concerning the possibilification of the perpetrationer of the informationalising of the Screws being in a co-existence state with the TP who was fined $95 million “for being a cunt” six months earlier?
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You might think that, but I couldn't possibly comment... ;D :demon: ;)
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59599142
I don't think Jussie Smollett will get the career boost he hoped for, unless he really wanted a job flipping burgers.
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Eamonn Holmes joins GBTV
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59259962
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However, he caused controversy last year on This Morning when he cast doubt on media outlets that had debunked the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.
"What I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true," he said at the time.
Howling mad, then.
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Wait till he finds out that Birds Aren't Real.
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The elevation of Torygraph “associate editor” and Royal-watcher Camilla Tominey to the inner circle of Twattishness is long overdue but she finally gets the recognition she has craved for so long after describing Haz'n'Megs as “John Lenin and Woko Ono”.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/fury-millionaire-minister-nadhim-zahawis-25674659
The Zahawi family getting group membership for the Super-Twat club.
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I understand the barber and the dry cleaner's difficulties, but I would have thought the kebabby would have done well in the pandemic. Maybe he's not on Just Eat.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/13/dyson-tells-many-of-uk-staff-to-work-in-office-even-after-plan-b-guidance-change
Dyson sucks.
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With no loss.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/13/dyson-tells-many-of-uk-staff-to-work-in-office-even-after-plan-b-guidance-change
Dyson sucks.
I don’t much like the guy, but I this case I think he has (IMO natch) a point. Remote R&D isn’t going to work. Many organisations are less effective when people work from home, it takes longer to do simple things, or to get them done - we’ve found that out ourselves.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/13/dyson-tells-many-of-uk-staff-to-work-in-office-even-after-plan-b-guidance-change
Dyson sucks.
I don’t much like the guy, but I this case I think he has (IMO natch) a point. Remote R&D isn’t going to work. Many organisations are less effective when people work from home, it takes longer to do simple things, or to get them done - we’ve found that out ourselves.
I do think there are some benefits to working in the same place - that said, absolutism is off-putting and there are ways to do these things successfully remotely (and most businesses are learning this, and tbh, given the international nature of business these days, you are missing out if you are reliant on co-location).
(That said, a three hours Neo4j Bloom virtual workshop has just given me a headache.)
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/13/dyson-tells-many-of-uk-staff-to-work-in-office-even-after-plan-b-guidance-change
Dyson sucks.
I don’t much like the guy, but I this case I think he has (IMO natch) a point. Remote R&D isn’t going to work. Many organisations are less effective when people work from home, it takes longer to do simple things, or to get them done - we’ve found that out ourselves.
I do think there are some benefits to working in the same place - that said, absolutism is off-putting and there are ways to do these things successfully remotely (and most businesses are learning this, and tbh, given the international nature of business these days, you are missing out if you are reliant on co-location).
(That said, a three hours Neo4j Bloom virtual workshop has just given me a headache.)
I guess I look at it (as most do) through the prism of my industry, which is design, manufacture and adaptation of physical equipment (X-Ray CT systems). I don’t feel that I can quite so readily discuss a potential design solution remotely, as opposed to sitting down with the designer in front of his screen. And trying to round up parts to get packed and shipped is much easier in person. But certainly our buyers, software developers and finance teams worked well from home the last time around. Remote IT support was less successful, but it was ever thus.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/fury-millionaire-minister-nadhim-zahawis-25674659
The Zahawi family getting group membership for the Super-Twat club.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, ... it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
Are there no prisons?
Plenty of prisons...
And the Union workhouses? Are they still in operation?"
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/13/dyson-tells-many-of-uk-staff-to-work-in-office-even-after-plan-b-guidance-change
Dyson sucks.
I don’t much like the guy, but I this case I think he has (IMO natch) a point. Remote R&D isn’t going to work. Many organisations are less effective when people work from home, it takes longer to do simple things, or to get them done - we’ve found that out ourselves.
I can assure Mr Dyson that remote R&D does work - I've been doing it since before the beginning of lockdown. I've set up my own personal office/optics lab in a spare bedroom and the en-suite is now a chemistry lab. Some things take a bit longer, some things take less time as it's easier to clear some uninterrupted time for experiments.
To be honest it is quite useful to go in the main office occasionally, usually once or maybe twice a week, but a lot of R&D is analysing results, data processing and documentation, and these can be done just as well WFH.
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I can assure Mr Dyson that remote R&D does work - I've been doing it since before the beginning of lockdown. I've set up my own personal office/optics lab in a spare bedroom and the en-suite is now a chemistry lab. Some things take a bit longer, some things take less time as it's easier to clear some uninterrupted time for experiments.
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/media/images/69308000/jpg/_69308621_walt624amc.jpg)
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It has been clear to me since day 1 that some things work well at home, some do not. Dyson's almost blanket edict shows that he is not really bothered but like all distrusting autocrats doesn't feel in control and more importantly, doesn't trust his employees. I had an arse of a boss like that once.
Perhaps he should try some empowerment and trust over dogmatic autocracy. He might be surprised if he looks upon it with an open mind ...
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I can assure Mr Dyson that remote R&D does work - I've been doing it since before the beginning of lockdown. I've set up my own personal office/optics lab in a spare bedroom and the en-suite is now a chemistry lab. Some things take a bit longer, some things take less time as it's easier to clear some uninterrupted time for experiments.
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/media/images/69308000/jpg/_69308621_walt624amc.jpg)
I must admit that the few times I have needed to be dressed up like that I have gone into work. But I did feel quite safe from Covid.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/13/dyson-tells-many-of-uk-staff-to-work-in-office-even-after-plan-b-guidance-change
Dyson sucks.
I don’t much like the guy, but I this case I think he has (IMO natch) a point. Remote R&D isn’t going to work. Many organisations are less effective when people work from home, it takes longer to do simple things, or to get them done - we’ve found that out ourselves.
I do think there are some benefits to working in the same place - that said, absolutism is off-putting and there are ways to do these things successfully remotely (and most businesses are learning this, and tbh, given the international nature of business these days, you are missing out if you are reliant on co-location).
(That said, a three hours Neo4j Bloom virtual workshop has just given me a headache.)
I guess I look at it (as most do) through the prism of my industry, which is design, manufacture and adaptation of physical equipment (X-Ray CT systems). I don’t feel that I can quite so readily discuss a potential design solution remotely, as opposed to sitting down with the designer in front of his screen. And trying to round up parts to get packed and shipped is much easier in person. But certainly our buyers, software developers and finance teams worked well from home the last time around. Remote IT support was less successful, but it was ever thus.
I does require a different way of thinking and doing – I do miss getting together for meetings and things and I do find things more creative that way (in part because everyone is focused on the task at hand rather than checking their email, buying a new pair of shoes etc.) and you also get the cues of body language. I've become a camera Hitler, mostly because knowing they might be watched drags a bit of attention back to proceedings. Plus I always make people speak, in part for attentivity, also because some people spend their lives getting talked over on calls, and they often have valuable opinions just not the confidence to bulldoze them through. Or they're just polite. They're the sort of adjustments to be made, I suspect businesses that just think they can continue as before are will struggle.
As in most things there's a balance, our business has gone with the hybrid approach of allowing people to work from wherever they're most comfortable and mix and match between the two. My wife's, on the other hand, are still pushing hard on some compulsory office attendance, the effect of which is people are leaving.
This all said, if your job includes nuclear reactors, seek permission before taking fissile material home.
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That last statement worries me a little, you see our next door neighbour is a nuclear plumber1 at Sizewell and he’s been working at home a fair amount. I do hope he’s working remotely and not bringing his work home with him :o
1. That is, he’s an engineer who works on the cooling system.
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Anne Sacoolas
The Beeb is reporting that the fugitive and Super-Twat is to face Westminster Magistrates Court next month (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-59643750), albeit via video so they won’t be able to see whether she’s got her fingers crossed.
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The US does not extradite it’s citizens. It’s just one of those things they don’t do. They expect everyone else to give up their citizens when they demand it for process of ‘justice’, and they’ll give up none US citizens to other countries. Thus they claim to have extradition agreements in place with ,ost none US counties.
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I still say we should do a deal involving Prince Andrew :demon:
Edit: casual scrutiny of Wikinaccurate shows a very very small number of USAnians extradited to Abroad, but not for anything more trivial than murder, optionally involving being a Nazi camp guard. Astonishingly, one William “Liam” Quinn was even extradited to BRITAIN in 1988 for the murder of a police officer in London in 1975.
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Oh.
I was hoping maybe that's what this was.
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The US does not extradite it’s citizens. It’s just one of those things they don’t do. They expect everyone else to give up their citizens when they demand it for process of ‘justice’, and they’ll give up none US citizens to other countries. Thus they claim to have extradition agreements in place with ,ost none US counties.
This is completely untrue, the US can and does extradite its citizens under whatever treaty terms or grounds that convince a US court.
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Nick Freeman, lawyer to the rich and powerful who need driving issues so ring. He has got 10k signatures for cyclists and scooters to be regulated, licensed, policed etc. This number means Parliament has to respond.
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It will get laughed out.
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Shaun Bailey, onetime candidate for Mayor of That London.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59657361
The photo is being widely parodied.
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Surely now the MET must both investigate and fine all those in the picture as a matter of course?
Ah yes, tories and the MET: two fuckclusters of mega super twats!
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Dame Dick keeps her job for a reason.
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It's a challenging thought experiment to contemplate exactly what Cressida Dick would need to do in order to lose her job.
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It's a challenging thought experiment to contemplate exactly what Cressida Dick would need to do in order to lose her job.
i suspect allowing a team to investigate the Christmas parties impromptu work meetings would be a good start.
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I thought there was a national police policy of no retrospective covid fixed penalties - so unless you were caught at the time (and failed to respond to a warning) you got away with it.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/02/jeremy-corbyn-wont-be-fined-for-breaking-rule-of-six-at-dinner-party-13360046/
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Shaun Bailey, onetime candidate for Mayor of That London.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59657361
The photo is being widely parodied.
Even the fantastically charismatic and generally wonderful Grant Shapps has come out against the S-T Bailey (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59665955). “That scene is absolutely unacceptable” said Michael Green, while Sebastian Fox added that it “was not authorised by the Conservative Party”. Chuck Champion was unavailable for comment. Sadiq Khan says he ought to get his sorry arse out of the London Assembly as has, if I heard it right, Tory MP Stephen “The Right” Hammond.
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The judge who sentenced Katie Price to a suspended jail term after she admitted drink and drug driving whilst disqualified (for the 5th time), oh and added a 6th disqualification and £213 costs to add to the £7 grand she already owes the court. “You’re lucky not to be going to jail” he told the overprivileged unemployed white woman.
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I was somewhat shocked yet entirely unsurprised. Possibly if she ran over the judge, but short of that, she walks every single time.
At what point does the judge consider it's not working. Other than when she runs him over, of course.
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The judge who sentenced Katie Price to a suspended jail term after she admitted drink and drug driving whilst disqualified (for the 5th time), oh and added a 6th disqualification and £213 costs to add to the £7 grand she already owes the court. “You’re lucky not to be going to jail” he told the overprivileged unemployed white orange woman.
FTFY.
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Yes but you see she can’t go to jail coz will no-one think of the children!
Judge Lazzfreys: Ms Price, you clearly didn’t think of the children! Take her down!
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Do they have Godwin's Law in the Netherlands?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59677593
Bzzzt, thankyou for playing.
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Yes but you see she can’t go to jail coz will no-one think of the children!
Judge Lazzfreys: Ms Price, you clearly didn’t think of the children! Take her down!
Generally, I don't agree with prison, but from what I read, she keeps doing the same over and over with no regard to the consequences of her actions (which must be clear to her by now). At this point, it's understandable that she feels she has impunity. She needs to think of someone else's kids, the ones that will one day end up splattered across the road by a coked-up nonentity's pink Range Rover.
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Jenni Murray for conflating fully vaccinated with fully protected on the front page of a national newspaper. Admittedly that is the Daily Heil, but still
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Jenni Murray for conflating fully vaccinated with fully protected on the front page of a national newspaper. Admittedly that is the Daily Heil, but still
I suspect that is the headline editor.
Curious about this, I braved the cesspit. Couldn't find any mention of Jenni claiming fully vaccinated == fully protected.
She did say "I'm as protected as it is possible to be."
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Jenni Murray for conflating fully vaccinated with fully protected on the front page of a national newspaper. Admittedly that is the Daily Heil, but still
I suspect that is the headline editor.
Curious about this, I braved the cesspit. Couldn't find any mention of Jenni claiming fully vaccinated == fully protected.
She did say "I'm as protected as it is possible to be."
the headline (which as you say could be the headline editor) says I’m jabbed to the eyeballs so I’m going to party. I paraphrase.
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Every Conservative MP. The whole lot of them.
It's reached the point that whenever I see a comment from MP, I just know their party allegiance, just by the fact it's always sublimely moronic. It's so bad you just want to put your head in your hands and sob. Or if it's after 3pm, drink gin.
I'm sure there must have once been OK-ish, reasonably erudite, Conservatives MPs? Our former MP could at least construct sentences that weren't entirely made from stupid. Admittedly, any actual sentence that didn't sound like a small random collision of words from my current MP would be an achievement of note. I wrote to her to point out my dissatisfaction with my current representation and she sent me back a document about Brexit 'achievements' (it seems this is her response to everything). At least she's only got a support role for the stellar cast of stupid, but really how to compete?
By contrast, and I used to be fairly apolitical, the majority of comments I see from non-Conservative MPs seem reasoned and sensible.
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All the intelligent ones went in the purge, because they knew Brexit was a cretinous idea.
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Every Conservative MP. The whole lot of them.
It's reached the point that whenever I see a comment from MP, I just know their party allegiance, just by the fact it's always sublimely moronic. It's so bad you just want to put your head in your hands and sob. Or if it's after 3pm, drink gin.
I'm sure there must have once been OK-ish, reasonably erudite, Conservatives MPs? Our former MP could at least construct sentences that weren't entirely made from stupid. Admittedly, any actual sentence that didn't sound like a small random collision of words from my current MP would be an achievement of note. I wrote to her to point out my dissatisfaction with my current representation and she sent me back a document about Brexit 'achievements' (it seems this is her response to everything). At least she's only got a support role for the stellar cast of stupid, but really how to compete?
By contrast, and I used to be fairly apolitical, the majority of comments I see from non-Conservative MPs seem reasoned and sensible.
I agree. I still sometimes read their statements and just wonder how they can tie their shoelaces even.
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... I still sometimes read their statements and just wonder how they can tie their shoelaces even.
Slip on shoes, with a big L on one and an R on the other.
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I never envisioned a future where I'd find myself in agreement with the likes of Ken Clarke, John Major, and Michael Heseltine.
Such is the measure of how far to the right the tories have moved; I can only assume their stupidity derives from their vainglorious leader.
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I never envisioned a future where I'd find myself in agreement with the likes of Ken Clarke, John Major, and Michael Heseltine.
Such is the measure of how far to the right the tories have moved; I can only assume their stupidity derives from their vainglorious leader.
How perspicacious of you. That resonates very strongly, and wasn't something I had considered until now. They almost all come across as a combined Voice of Reason. Scary times.
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Joy Morrissey (nope, I'd never heard of her either) for a tweet she sent (and has now deleted) - "Perhaps the unelected Covid public health spokesperson should defer to what our ELECTED members of Parliament and the prime minister have decided."
At the bottom of this article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59686090
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Joy Morrissey (nope, I'd never heard of her either) for a tweet she sent (and has now deleted) - "Perhaps the unelected Covid public health spokesperson should defer to what our ELECTED members of Parliament and the prime minister have decided."
At the bottom of this article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59686090
The generally appalling Steve Baker has weighed in, even more threateningly
https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1471438394421035012 (https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1471438394421035012)
Apparently, experts should keep their mouths shut if ministers are talking bollocks
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Joy Morrissey (nope, I'd never heard of her either) for a tweet she sent (and has now deleted) - "Perhaps the unelected Covid public health spokesperson should defer to what our ELECTED members of Parliament and the prime minister have decided."
At the bottom of this article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59686090
La Morrissey has previous in here (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10772.msg2634995#msg2634995) - HF noted at the time:
In a way it's quite heartening to discover than Morrissey isn't even the worst Morrissey
I never envisioned a future where I'd find myself in agreement with the likes of Ken Clarke, John Major, and Michael Heseltine.
Such is the measure of how far to the right the tories have moved; I can only assume their stupidity derives from their vainglorious leader.
The Overton Window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) is, thanks to the relentless torrent of shit emanating from our Glorious Leader and his minions in both politics and the media, about the size of a cat-flap.
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... I still sometimes read their statements and just wonder how they can tie their shoelaces even.
Slip on shoes, with a big L on one and an R on the other.
R and Far R ITYM.
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Joy Morrissey (nope, I'd never heard of her either) for a tweet she sent (and has now deleted) - "Perhaps the unelected Covid public health spokesperson should defer to what our ELECTED members of Parliament and the prime minister have decided."
At the bottom of this article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59686090
I swear they are manufacturing new ones by the day. We need more stupid. Turn on the machine!
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... I still sometimes read their statements and just wonder how they can tie their shoelaces even.
Slip on shoes, with a big L on one and an R on the other.
R and Far R ITYM.
The traditionalist amongst them will be wearing shoes old enough that they are not ‘handed’ from a time when serfs new their place and we’re thankful for it.
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Joy Morrissey (nope, I'd never heard of her either) for a tweet she sent (and has now deleted) - "Perhaps the unelected Covid public health spokesperson should defer to what our ELECTED members of Parliament and the prime minister have decided."
At the bottom of this article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59686090
Somebody should point out the mega shitshow caused by the unelected Grim brothers: Scummings and Tossed, er Cummings and Frost.
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Joy Morrissey (nope, I'd never heard of her either) for a tweet she sent (and has now deleted) - "Perhaps the unelected Covid public health spokesperson should defer to what our ELECTED members of Parliament and the prime minister have decided."
At the bottom of this article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59686090
I swear they are manufacturing new ones by the day. We need more stupid. Turn on the machine!
I guess that a lot of the female politicians have stopped wearing knickers since C&A closed.
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It's all about moving the focus of attention from the by election. Having been roundly trounced you can bet any and all Tories in news studios will be talking about anything but the by election, lockdown parties and wallpaper.
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It's all about moving the focus of attention from the by election...
They'll be lucky, there seemed to a palpable sense of glee amongst the journalists today at having such an exciting story to report and I can't see them being deflected by the dismal attempts of the want-wits in the current administration, "Ooh! Look! A squirrel." The Sunday political programmes are going to have a field day.
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If anyone turns up for them.
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If anyone turns up for them.
When's that ever stopped journalists from sucking the very marrow from the bones of a juicy story? Anyway, you can bet opposition party representatives will be queueing up to administer a further public kicking in the fork err rub their faces in it umm discuss the significance of the result. :)
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I'd never heard of Alex Deane before today but what a vile piece of tory flotsum imho.
He was on a segment of Good Morning Britain this morning and was perhaps the least endearing person that I have seen on a clip of television since Piers Morgan CBE.
Don't punish yourself by watching him on YouTube in a feature about whether Johnson has lost control of the party and government.
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I've not heard of him either but Mr Google suggests he has an even more punchable face than Gideon “Relief of Ladysniff” Osborne and brackets him with the likes of Tim “Conservative Home” Montgomerie and Douglas Murray the KKK. I shall therefore heed your sage advice and not seek him or his twattery out.
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I've not heard of him either but Mr Google suggests he has an even more punchable face than Gideon “Relief of Ladysniff” Osborne and brackets him with the likes of Tim “Conservative Home” Montgomerie and Douglas Murray the KKK. I shall therefore heed your sage advice and not seek him or his twattery out.
I took the same course of action. He's a standard issue Tory shitbag.
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I've not heard of him either but Mr Google suggests he has an even more punchable face than Gideon “Relief of Ladysniff” Osborne and brackets him with the likes of Tim “Conservative Home” Montgomerie and Douglas Murray the KKK. I shall therefore heed your sage advice and not seek him or his twattery out.
I took the same course of action. He's a standard issue Tory shitbag.
I beg to differ from what I put myself through. He is an exceptional tory shitbag.
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Nick Freeman, lawyer to the rich and powerful who need driving issues so ring. He has got 10k signatures for cyclists and scooters to be regulated, licensed, policed etc. This number means Parliament has to respond.
And respond they did
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/petition-for-number-plates-and-enforced-cycle-lane-use-fails-measures-at-odds-with-plans-to-boost-cycling
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All the intelligent ones went in the purge, because they knew Brexit was a cretinous idea.
Yeah. Tories with who one could disagree with over very many things while still thinking it'd be possible to have a reasonable conversation with 'em, like the one who arrived at a buffet at the same time as me & smiled & waved to me to go first. I understand he went over that. A certain Mr Grieve.
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Nick Freeman, lawyer to the rich and powerful who need driving issues so ring. He has got 10k signatures for cyclists and scooters to be regulated, licensed, policed etc. This number means Parliament has to respond.
And respond they did
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/petition-for-number-plates-and-enforced-cycle-lane-use-fails-measures-at-odds-with-plans-to-boost-cycling
Is this the first time Freeman has actually lost anything? i'm not counting his marbles because I don't think he was given any.
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I think Mr Poophole has lost lots of cases, they just don't get the same publicity as the ones he wins.
IIRC, a speeding motorist that he represented in Prestwich/Whitefield was convicted of killing an old man crossing the road.
Mr Poophole then started victim blaming; if only the dead man hadn't been wearing a black coat......... :facepalm: :sick:
Here:- https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mr-loophole-hyman-steinberg-court-7212080
I've often thought that anybody using Freeman as their lawyer must know that they're guilty, they're just trying to get off on a technicality. And they're rich enough to pay him. I bet he doesn't do "no win, no fee".
If I were a magistrate where Poophole is defending, I'd be inclined to think "guilty" before the case even started.
He really does seem like a repulsive individual.
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I've read something where he claimed that his work was essential to ensure that the legal system sharpened its act up and as such he was very much working in the public interest.
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Sounds as plausible as some of his defenses.............
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Yup, the sickener was that he made out that this is what drove him to be a prime arse, as opposed to the filthy lucre.
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All the intelligent ones went in the purge, because they knew Brexit was a cretinous idea.
Yeah. Tories with who one could disagree with over very many things while still thinking it'd be possible to have a reasonable conversation with 'em, like the one who arrived at a buffet at the same time as me & smiled & waved to me to go first. I understand he went over that. A certain Mr Grieve.
D Grieve has been a pal of my b-i-l since they were both undergraduate Penniless* History Student Oaves, in spite of the estimable Dr Davis being a card-carrying Guardianista.
* Though I suspect my b-i-l was by far the more penniless of the two.
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Can I nominate the whole Chinese Communist Party?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-59764029
"The decision on the aged statue was based on external legal advice and risk assessment for the best interest of the university," it said in a statement on Thursday.
"The university is also very concerned about the potential safety issues resulting from the fragile statue."
What's that smell? Is it pig? Is it chicken? NO, IT'S BULLSHIT.
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Yup, the sickener was that he made out that this is what drove him to be a prime arse, as opposed to the filthy lucre.
To be fair though, while he might be a scumbag with no conscience who doesn't realise one day it might someone from his family who is left sprawled and bleeding in the road, it is the fault of the law and process, and not his defence. These should be addressed.
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Yup, the sickener was that he made out that this is what drove him to be a prime arse, as opposed to the filthy lucre.
..... one day it might someone from his family who is left sprawled and bleeding in the road........
I've thought the same for a very long time although my hope is that it doesn't involve blood only a good fright and some bent metal.
Perhaps airbags as well.
Yes, definitely airbags.
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Yup, the sickener was that he made out that this is what drove him to be a prime arse, as opposed to the filthy lucre.
To be fair though, while he might be a scumbag with no conscience who doesn't realise one day it might someone from his family who is left sprawled and bleeding in the road, it is the fault of the law and process, and not his defence. These should be addressed.
Indeed.
Still, the response from the Gov has come at an opportune moment to counter the standard wails of victimisation from the motoring lobby in a couple of 'Highway Code Change' threads on Next Door.
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Imagine being such a twat that even a fellow presenter on
Radio Free Gammon LBC calls you out on your twattitude.
Based on my above - I believe, fully scientific & verified - CONCERNS around potential for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, I have had no choice but to become a CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR in #solidarity with the UNVACCINATED. I will NOT be getting any BOOSTERS.
Take a bow, Maajid Nawaz, Super-Twat and Bar, whose twattery has attracted the ire of his cow-orker Iain Dale. Seems Nawaz has hied himself off to Tennessee for Chrimbly and frankly they deserve each other.
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Meant to add this last night but forgot:
”Comedy about to join Passenger Pigeon and Tasmanian Tiger because Cancel Culture” wails Maureen Lipman in interview freely given to the BBC and widely reported in the media (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/dec/22/cancel-culture-risks-wiping-out-comedy-claims-maureen-lipman).
Go. Away.
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It's so sad for those comedians and actors, presenters and commentators who forget why they are household names and begin to think that their opinions are suddenly more important than those of others and thus should CANCEL out said opinions of other people.
It's a bit like the indicator stalk on a car: self-cancelling.
Still, at least she is not as completely self-cancelling as Jim Davidson!
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Or colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron, who still claims to have been “cancelled” after flouncing off his own show…
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Is this the same media that seemed a lot keener on cancel culture when a couple of blokes left Andrew Sachs a voicemail?
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Meant to add this last night but forgot:
”Comedy about to join Passenger Pigeon and Tasmanian Tiger because Cancel Culture” wails Maureen Lipman in interview freely given to the BBC and widely reported in the media (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/dec/22/cancel-culture-risks-wiping-out-comedy-claims-maureen-lipman).
Go. Away.
She's fairly D-list, though. I've only seen her in the BT adverts.
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Or colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron, who still claims to have been “cancelled” after flouncing off his own show…
The ultimate self-cancelling canceller.
Wish he'd stay cancelled.
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Can I nominate the whole Chinese Communist Party?
Yep. With a side order of yep. And a few metric fucktons more yep.
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Or colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron, who still claims to have been “cancelled” after flouncing off his own show…
The ultimate self-cancelling canceller.
Wish he'd stay cancelled.
Count Binface pledged to make Piers “Morgan” Moron (the colossal bellend) zero emissions by 2030, but I think he needs to speed things up.
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Imagine being such a twat that even a fellow presenter on Radio Free Gammon LBC calls you out on your twattitude.
Based on my above - I believe, fully scientific & verified - CONCERNS around potential for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, I have had no choice but to become a CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR in #solidarity with the UNVACCINATED. I will NOT be getting any BOOSTERS.
Take a bow, Maajid Nawaz, Super-Twat and Bar, whose twattery has attracted the ire of his cow-orker Iain Dale. Seems Nawaz has hied himself off to Tennessee for Chrimbly and frankly they deserve each other.
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He also promotes the view that the Omicron wave is actually driven by those who are vaccinated, using dubious interpretations of ONS statistics...
https://twitter.com/maajidnawaz/status/1473979122036715524?s=21
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I think the best response was 'isn't that basic math?'
The basic math he can't do.
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Imagine how much of an S-T you have to be for Iain Dale, himself a Super-Twat, to notice…
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I shouldn't click through those tweets, but basically there's an entire world out there who when you tell them 1+1 isn't actually 3, they demand the evidence. Evidence which, of course, is lies and here's a video by Professor Numbskull MD PhD ABCd EF proving just that.
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I see the ever-reliable S-T Toby Young has managed again. Yep, best not to listen to those Cassandras. That's a pricy education at work.
Toby, of course, was cursed by the ancient Greek gods so now every time he opens his mouth to speak, poo comes out.
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(Checks with Mr Google to see what the horble git has come up with this time)
Mr Google tells me that “People also search for: James Delingpole […] Julia Tory Sewer, Allison Pearson, Peter Hitchens, Laurence Fox […] Darren Grimes*” at which point I closed the tab hurriedly lest GCHQ get the wrong idea.
* Has Grimes – a man officially deemed too thick to fill in a form correctly – been nominated to these hallowed portals yet? If not it is a curious, nay lamentable, omission.
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Good old Toby told us not to listen to the Cassandras in lab coats and trust instead proper British good sense (so says a man with history devoid of good sense). I didn't read the rest as it was in the Hitler Digest. I don't know what Apple News thinks of me, but judging by the bilge in the newsfeed at the moment, I have singularly failed to creat a good impression. It's almost like it knows of my libidinous thoughts about Siri.
I went to a comprehensive school and even I know that Cassandra's curse was to prophesy the truth but for no one to believe her.
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Natalie Elphicke.
That caring tory who attacked Marcus Rashford for missing a penalty and suggested that he should keep his nose out of child poverty and starvation and stick to his day job; the same ST who along with over 300 of her fascist colleagues voted against meals for schoolchildren during the holidays has now released a bit of PR about how we should all trot along to our local foodbank and give.
Clearly she doesn't realise that the food is collected in such places as supermarkets probably because it's one of her minimum wage underlings who has to go to Waitrose to do the shopping.
Surely she must have been nominated before?
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Natalie Elphicke.
That caring tory who attacked Marcus Rashford for missing a penalty and suggested that he should keep his nose out of child poverty and starvation and stick to his day job; the same ST who along with over 300 of her fascist colleagues voted against meals for schoolchildren during the holidays has now released a bit of PR about how we should all trot along to our local food and and give.
Clearly she doesn't realise that the food is collected in such places as supermarkets probably because it's one of her minimum wage underlings who has to go to Waitrose to do the shopping.
Surely she must have been nominated before?
I'll nominate the obnoxious shitbag again for her tweet about refugees.
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I just googled that because I'm masochistic. Turns out I'm not that masochistic.
Personally, even when I drop a box of cat food into the Cat's Protection bin at the supermarket, I get someone to film it and put it online too.
You're the fucking government, do something about the problem so no one needs a food bank. It's not even difficult.
(I also stumbled across serial S-T Dominic Raab filming himself dropping off some chocolates at this local hospital, you have to assume he sorted through the box first and took out all his favourites.)
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No need. Buy 2, give one box away and file the receipt for later when he can claim the money back
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I just googled that because I'm masochistic. Turns out I'm not that masochistic.
Personally, even when I drop a box of cat food into the Cat's Protection bin at the supermarket, I get someone to film it and put it online too.
You're the fucking government, do something about the problem so no one needs a food bank. It's not even difficult.
(I also stumbled across serial S-T Dominic Raab filming himself dropping off some chocolates at this local hospital, you have to assume he sorted through the box first and took out all his favourites.)
In the pikier areas of Swinedun they have signs asking people not to take stuff out of the foodbank donation boxes.
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I've become a camera Hitler, mostly because knowing they might be watched drags a bit of attention back to proceedings. Plus I always make people speak, in part for attentivity, also because some people spend their lives getting talked over on calls, and they often have valuable opinions just not the confidence to bulldoze them through. Or they're just polite. They're the sort of adjustments to be made, I suspect businesses that just think they can continue as before are will struggle.
Being picky about cameras on calls is *REALLY* bugging me. The "let's just jump on zoom" well I'm sorry but some of us need to do make up and put clothes on before we get to that stage.
I find it hard to do the eye contact thing in the real world, having 27 sets of eyes staring out the screen at me is even worse.
I've not had my camera on in work meetings at any point since I started my job at the end of 2020. (Either that or all my colleagues are exceptionally polite about me being in meetings topless).
Ultimately there is very little added by transmitting my ugly mug over the internet. And forcing people to enable cameras is just being mean.
But go you on making sure everyone is heard. That is important, esp in mixed groups where men typically talk over women. I am fortunate that at my current employer I've not had the thing where I say something in a meeting, have it discounted, only for a man to suggest it and people adopt it as an idea.
One thing one colleague and I have done a few times is open up a call, and just carry on working. We sit next to each other when in the office, so it gives us the effect of the swearing at things and over hearing each others deliberations, as well as being able to think out loud "How do you spell ..." or "what machine is DHCP on?".
The boss has said that when things are safer, we'll be in the office for at least 2 days a week. Which seems to go down well. Tho if we all choose the same day, we're gonna have problems, we have approx 33% more people than we have desks...
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Ultimately there is very little added by transmitting my ugly mug over the internet.
Lipreadability, mostly.
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Lipreadability, mostly.
Fair point.
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I spent nearly twenty years as a home worker with conference calls most days with anything from three people up to “all hand” cals that have 100+ participants. It wasn’t until the last year of my career (2018) that cameras were used in anyway other than as a novelty, and even then it was very rare that everyone had a camera on.
I do find it a little amusing that the youngsters think they invented working from home and multiparty calls ;D
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This is what amuses me most about the “iM iN uR cOmPuTeR, wAtChInG u WaTcHiN pR0n” scammers, who assume that everyone has a camera on their Babbage-Engine.
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This is what amuses me most about the “iM iN uR cOmPuTeR, wAtChInG u WaTcHiN pR0n” scammers, who assume that everyone has a camera on their Babbage-Engine.
one running windoz at that!
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One thing one colleague and I have done a few times is open up a call, and just carry on working. We sit next to each other when in the office, so it gives us the effect of the swearing at things and over hearing each others deliberations, as well as being able to think out loud "How do you spell ..." or "what machine is DHCP on?".
I do like the sound of this. I’m already thinking about who I could do this with when I’m back at work.
Cheers!
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Well-represented Super-Twat Julia Tory Sewer makes an unwelcome return; opens gob, inserts foot, accuses Dr Julia Patterson of selling anti-plague masks at huge profit. Dr Patterson sells masks only to fund non-profit organisation EveryDoctorUK; consults barrister. Brian Moore shouts helpful advice from touch-line.
Hopefully Tory Sewer has not learned from the case of Hatey Cockpins :demon:
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More foul-mouthed fascist scum keeping up their nasty rhetoric. I have to wonder how so many of them have dodged a dose of covid given their clear and unambiguous views on it.
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Jaymie Icke, following in the footsteps of his father, ably aided and abetted by Anna Redfern.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59853848
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She's gone all weird since Brucie died.
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I know Anna Redfern. Well, I know her mother. She was a mature student on the same university course as me, so I first met Anna when she was about 5. Then about 15 years later when she served me in Smiths and recognized my name on my credit card. I didn't know that she was a loony until recent events. I hope she has to pay back the c. £52,000 that Swansea City Council gave her company in Covid-related grants.
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She's already crowd funded £60,000.
:facepalm:
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HMRC. Situation in our family where the adage about death and taxes applies. Want Probate? We want our tax UPFRONT please. Cant pay it even tho' there is money in the estate to pay it? Get a bridging loan or pay HMRC 2.5% over base rate for 10 years (other time periods may be available). Oh and by the way the tax is due at the end of 6 months since the date of death, so you had better get a move on.
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HMRC. Situation in our family where the adage about death and taxes applies. Want Probate? We want our tax UPFRONT please. Cant pay it even tho' there is money in the estate to pay it? Get a bridging loan or pay HMRC 2.5% over base rate for 10 years (other time periods may be available). Oh and by the way the tax is due at the end of 6 months since the date of death, so you had better get a move on.
This happened to my mother when her parents died. To complicate matters my grandmother died 6 weeks after my grandfather thus rendering them 2 separated events which had to be dealt with sequentially, with probate on my g’father’s estate having to be completed before HMRC would deign to consider my g’mother to have died.
Quite by chance the amount of cash Jim the bank happened to equal that which the tax man wanted, but as you say, before they would release the estate the death duties had to be paid, and the bank would NOT consider the cash in their vaults as security for the loan. Talk about racketeering.
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Novak Djokovic
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Novak Djokovic
Novaxx Djokovic
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Novaxx Djokovic
Ha! You beat me to it.
My wife watches a thing on one of the digital channels about Australian border control officers. They’re bastards. Only a complete idiot would try to pull the wool over their eyes.
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Novaxx Djokovic
Ha! You beat me to it.
My wife watches a thing on one of the digital channels about Australian border control officers. They’re bastards. Only a complete idiot would try to pull the wool over their eyes.
They have less sense of humour than US border officers, and a sense of righteousness that is almost religious.
That said, internal biosecurity in Australia has helped save industries. WA used to have internal border checks for fruit (to prevent spread of fruit fly and other pests). They were very very serious; we'd be driving somewhere and the order came from my parents to "finish that apple and check under the seats for any fruit."
Add Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to the list of idiots.
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Novaxx Djokovic
Ha! You beat me to it.
My wife watches a thing on one of the digital channels about Australian border control officers. They’re bastards. Only a complete idiot would try to pull the wool over their eyes.
They have less sense of humour than US border officers, and a sense of righteousness that is almost religious.
That said, internal biosecurity in Australia has helped save industries. WA used to have internal border checks for fruit (to prevent spread of fruit fly and other pests). They were very very serious; we'd be driving somewhere and the order came from my parents to "finish that apple and check under the seats for any fruit."
Add Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to the list of idiots.
Yep, I got snagged by that one, had an apple in my bag that I got on the flight and was saving for later. Sniffer dog, very disapproving looks, explanation from me, more disapproving looks.
"Follow me"
I mentally prepared for the rubber glove treatment. Followed the guy about 50 yards.
"put it in there" he said pointing at a bin full of other contraband. Stamped my visa and off I went.
Very much seemed like an exercise designed to intimidate. I won't make that mistake again.
Still, no worse than my mate arriving with me in Baku. We were arriving on the Sunday to start work on the Monday. Letter of invite giving the start date, he puts the Monday in his visa application. They shepherd him (and a bunch of others) aside and make him wait at the border for the next 4 hours, meanwhile I'm off to the hotel for dinner.
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Novaxx Djokovic
Ha! You beat me to it.
My wife watches a thing on one of the digital channels about Australian border control officers. They’re bastards. Only a complete idiot would try to pull the wool over their eyes.
They have less sense of humour than US border officers, and a sense of righteousness that is almost religious.
That said, internal biosecurity in Australia has helped save industries. WA used to have internal border checks for fruit (to prevent spread of fruit fly and other pests). They were very very serious; we'd be driving somewhere and the order came from my parents to "finish that apple and check under the seats for any fruit."
Add Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to the list of idiots.
They still do checks on the main road at the SA/WA border for various things, depending on which way one is travelling, and woe betide a truckie if the piece of machinery he's hauling bears traces of out-of-state dirt or any punter who has certain varieties of $TOOTHY_COMESTIBLE about their vehicle. I've seen it on the telly an' evryfink
California does similar, though not at every crossing, while Washington just puts up signs requesting that you don’t bring your own apples into their apple-molishing areas.
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Tory MP Andrew Rotinhell, who wants the national dirge played every day on the BBC.
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Novaxx Djokovic
Ha! You beat me to it.
My wife watches a thing on one of the digital channels about Australian border control officers. They’re bastards. Only a complete idiot would try to pull the wool over their eyes.
They have less sense of humour than US border officers, and a sense of righteousness that is almost religious.
That said, internal biosecurity in Australia has helped save industries. WA used to have internal border checks for fruit (to prevent spread of fruit fly and other pests). They were very very serious; we'd be driving somewhere and the order came from my parents to "finish that apple and check under the seats for any fruit."
Add Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to the list of idiots.
They still do checks on the main road at the SA/WA border for various things, depending on which way one is travelling, and woe betide a truckie if the piece of machinery he's hauling bears traces of out-of-state dirt or any punter who has certain varieties of $TOOTHY_COMESTIBLE about their vehicle. I've seen it on the telly an' evryfink
California does similar, though not at every crossing, while Washington just puts up signs requesting that you don’t bring your own apples into their apple-molishing areas.
I’ve fallen foul of Australian Border Control. I made the mistake of carrying a travel guitar into the country. First, they gave me a very hard time for not having a certificate of renewable forestry sourcing. I got round that by directing them to the Traveler Guitar website. Then they made me surrender the truss rod Allen key. I asked why? ‘You might try to take the aircraft apart’ quoth they. ‘I’m the Captain’ said I, ‘the clue’s in the uniform’. Stony-faced silence. I gave up the tool.
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Tory MP Andrew Rotinhell, who wants the national dirge played every day on the BBC.
And presumably bugging devices in every home and workplace so we don’t switch off, change channel or engage in other unpotatriotic behaviours? Last time this one surfaced those wacky japesters on “Newsnight” obliged the fleg-nonces by showing archive footage of a pre-Gammon J Rotten and his spiky-haired chums. We mean it, maaaaaaan!
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We got caught in 1988 with an open packet of baby food. We were allowed to take the unopened packet of identical food but had to dispose of the opened packet.
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I’ve fallen foul of Australian Border Control. I made the mistake of carrying a travel guitar into the country. First, they gave me a very hard time for not having a certificate of renewable forestry sourcing. I got round that by directing them to the Traveler Guitar website. Then they made me surrender the truss rod Allen key. I asked why? ‘You might try to take the aircraft apart’ quoth they. ‘I’m the Captain’ said I, ‘the clue’s in the uniform’. Stony-faced silence. I gave up the tool.
Brilliant!
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I’ve fallen foul of Australian Border Control. I made the mistake of carrying a travel guitar into the country. First, they gave me a very hard time for not having a certificate of renewable forestry sourcing. I got round that by directing them to the Traveler Guitar website. Then they made me surrender the truss rod Allen key. I asked why? ‘You might try to take the aircraft apart’ quoth they. ‘I’m the Captain’ said I, ‘the clue’s in the uniform’. Stony-faced silence. I gave up the tool.
You should’ve told 'em that you were the Flight Engineer* and therefore you might be in need of said tool in case you needed to mend an engine somewhere over the Great Bugger-all ;)
* Yes, I do know that flight engineers are a relic of a bygone era and are on the WWF's Critically Endangered list…
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I’ve fallen foul of Australian Border Control. I made the mistake of carrying a travel guitar into the country. First, they gave me a very hard time for not having a certificate of renewable forestry sourcing. I got round that by directing them to the Traveler Guitar website. Then they made me surrender the truss rod Allen key. I asked why? ‘You might try to take the aircraft apart’ quoth they. ‘I’m the Captain’ said I, ‘the clue’s in the uniform’. Stony-faced silence. I gave up the tool.
You should’ve told 'em that you were the Flight Engineer* and therefore you might be in need of said tool in case you needed to mend an engine somewhere over the Great Bugger-all ;)
* Yes, I do know that flight engineers are a relic of a bygone era and are on the WWF's Critically Endangered list…
I spent the first 30-odd years of my career flying with flight engineers on the C130 and 747-200. I suspect that the reaction of most of them would have been to demonstrate how they could disassemble a Border Control officer without the use of tools.
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I had to stand in the queueueue of suspected biosecuruity villains when I arrived at Sydney airport, as I was bringing in some Bovril for my sister.
"Bovril?" asked the nice border person. "What is it?"
My jet lagged brain paused for a while.
"It's like Vegemite. But made from cows."
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I had to stand in the queueueue of suspected biosecuruity villains when I arrived at Sydney airport, as I was bringing in some Bovril for my sister.
"Bovril?" asked the nice border person. "What is it?"
My jet lagged brain paused for a while.
"It's like Vegemite. But made from cows."
;D
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Tory MP Andrew Rotinhell, who wants the national dirge played every day on the BBC.
Well, he truly is a Super Twat, 'cos it is, every night, as R4 closes down at 1am.
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Every Tory MP who is saying that the jury verdict clearing the 4 accused of criminal damage to the Bristol Colsten statue is wrong, just because it gave an answer they don't like (and this government is a staunch upholder of the law, right?). Unusally, Jacob Ress-Mogg wins an exclusion from this category, accoring to the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59893024 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59893024).
Also, every Tory MP saying that people like the 4 acquited are trying to change history or re-write history. YOU CANNOT CHANGE HISTORY, BY DEFINITION. A particularly pernicious message. Especially from our illustrious leader, BSJ.
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The gubbinsment is a staunch upholder of the law in a limited and specific way.
Note to Brandon Lewis: if even TV's G Imlach takes the piss out of your phraseology perhaps it’s time to consider shutting the fuck up?
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Novaxx Djokovic
Ha! You beat me to it.
My wife watches a thing on one of the digital channels about Australian border control officers. They’re bastards. Only a complete idiot would try to pull the wool over their eyes.
They have less sense of humour than US border officers, and a sense of righteousness that is almost religious.
That said, internal biosecurity in Australia has helped save industries. WA used to have internal border checks for fruit (to prevent spread of fruit fly and other pests). They were very very serious; we'd be driving somewhere and the order came from my parents to "finish that apple and check under the seats for any fruit."
Add Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to the list of idiots.
They still do checks on the main road at the SA/WA border for various things, depending on which way one is travelling, and woe betide a truckie if the piece of machinery he's hauling bears traces of out-of-state dirt or any punter who has certain varieties of $TOOTHY_COMESTIBLE about their vehicle. I've seen it on the telly an' evryfink
California does similar, though not at every crossing, while Washington just puts up signs requesting that you don’t bring your own apples into their apple-molishing areas.
I’ve fallen foul of Australian Border Control. I made the mistake of carrying a travel guitar into the country. First, they gave me a very hard time for not having a certificate of renewable forestry sourcing. I got round that by directing them to the Traveler Guitar website. Then they made me surrender the truss rod Allen key. I asked why? ‘You might try to take the aircraft apart’ quoth they. ‘I’m the Captain’ said I, ‘the clue’s in the uniform’. Stony-faced silence. I gave up the tool.
I lost a Swiss Army knife on the same basis (not in Aus, departing UK), but they let me post it back to myself, envelopes thoughtfully provided in a vending machine.
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Unusally, Jacob Ress-Mogg wins an exclusion from this category
You're being too generous. It comes down to motive, and I believe his motives to be the wrong ones. He's a classic right-wing libertarian.
YOU CANNOT CHANGE HISTORY, BY DEFINITION.
1984 was a documentary, you know.
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YOU CANNOT CHANGE HISTORY, BY DEFINITION.
1984 was a documentary, you know.
it certainly feels like it these days
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On the first anniversary of the storming of the USAnian Congress, may I nominate wannabe Congresscritter and Super-Twat-in-waiting Joe Kent (https://joekentforcongress.com/), who has described those arrested at the aforementioned assault as “political prisoners” rather than, say, “fruitcakes, conspiraloons and general wingnuts”.
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Piggy tries to rewrite history almost every time that he steps up to the dispatch box. In fact, I hear a rumour that they are thinking of renaming it as the Dishonesty Box to appease the fascists.
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Piggy tries to rewrite history almost every time that he steps up to the dispatch box. In fact, I hear a rumour that they are thinking of renaming it as the Dishonesty Box to appease the fascists.
If they had to put a shiny BRITONS' pound in the Dishonesty Box every time one of them told a porkie the deficit would disappear within weeks.
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I lost a Swiss Army knife on the same basis (not in Aus, departing UK), but they let me post it back to myself, envelopes thoughtfully provided in a vending machine.
Are you allowed to post knives in the normal post?
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I lost a Swiss Army knife on the same basis (not in Aus, departing UK), but they let me post it back to myself, envelopes thoughtfully provided in a vending machine.
Are you allowed to post knives in the normal post?
Shhhhhhh!
They told me to do it (airport security)
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I’ve fallen foul of Australian Border Control. I made the mistake of carrying a travel guitar into the country. First, they gave me a very hard time for not having a certificate of renewable forestry sourcing. I got round that by directing them to the Traveler Guitar website. Then they made me surrender the truss rod Allen key. I asked why? ‘You might try to take the aircraft apart’ quoth they. ‘I’m the Captain’ said I, ‘the clue’s in the uniform’. Stony-faced silence. I gave up the tool.
Brilliant!
I've NOT fallen foul of AUS Border Control, having reclaimed the wrong bag from the depository, and passed through immigration. Bag mistake noticed as I tried to check it in to my onward flight and couldn't.
Sometimes you can make mistakes with no consequences...
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Imagine being such a twat that even a fellow presenter on Radio Free Gammon LBC calls you out on your twattitude.
Based on my above - I believe, fully scientific & verified - CONCERNS around potential for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, I have had no choice but to become a CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR in #solidarity with the UNVACCINATED. I will NOT be getting any BOOSTERS.
Take a bow, Maajid Nawaz, Super-Twat and Bar, whose twattery has attracted the ire of his cow-orker Iain Dale. Seems Nawaz has hied himself off to Tennessee for Chrimbly and frankly they deserve each other.
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Onoz! Radio Free Gammon have decided not to renew his contract and now he’s pleading poverty in spite of him and the now-deceased Quilliam think-wank trousering well over $3 million from the Southern Poverty Law Center in mid-2018. Pass the very tiniest violin, Jeeves.
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Next in the firing line is alleged Attorney General and hamster impersonator Suella Bravermann, who has been sticking her oar in over the Colston statue verdict. No, dear heart, no precedent has been set and no clarification — apart from confirming your status as a Super-Twat — is needed. Teh SEEKRIT Barrister has your number:
It is difficult to think of an AG who has more enthusiastically abused their office.
Which is pretty good going, considering Bravermann's predecessor was Geoffrey “A smile, a song, an all-expenses trip to the West Indies” Cox.
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Her soliloquy about who constitutes the ERG to (IIRC) Sky News was especially cringeworthy.
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I think you probably mean the interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on C4 News back in 2020.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1479505871663157250 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1479505871663157250)
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The very one!
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Next in the firing line is alleged Attorney General and hamster impersonator Suella Bravermann, who has been sticking her oar in over the Colston statue verdict. No, dear heart, no precedent has been set and no clarification — apart from conforming your status as a Super-Twat — is needed. Teh SEEKRIT Barrister has your number:
It is difficult to think of an AG who has more enthusiastically abused their office.
Which is pretty good going, considering Bravermann's predecessor was Geoffrey “A smile, a song, an all-expenses trip to the West Indies” Cox.
Is she the one that's even thicker than Raab and Patel? There are so many dimwits in the government, I lose track.
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Next in the firing line is alleged Attorney General and hamster impersonator Suella Bravermann, who has been sticking her oar in over the Colston statue verdict. No, dear heart, no precedent has been set and no clarification — apart from conforming your status as a Super-Twat — is needed. Teh SEEKRIT Barrister has your number:
It is difficult to think of an AG who has more enthusiastically abused their office.
Which is pretty good going, considering Bravermann's predecessor was Geoffrey “A smile, a song, an all-expenses trip to the West Indies” Cox.
Is she the one that's even thicker than Raab and Patel? There are so many dimwits in the government, I lose track.
There are plenty that appear to be even thicker than Raab and Patel. I know that this sounds improbable but there must be at least 350 of them.
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Next in the firing line is alleged Attorney General and hamster impersonator Suella Bravermann, who has been sticking her oar in over the Colston statue verdict. No, dear heart, no precedent has been set and no clarification — apart from conforming your status as a Super-Twat — is needed. Teh SEEKRIT Barrister has your number:
It is difficult to think of an AG who has more enthusiastically abused their office.
Which is pretty good going, considering Bravermann's predecessor was Geoffrey “A smile, a song, an all-expenses trip to the West Indies” Cox.
Is she the one that's even thicker than Raab and Patel? There are so many dimwits in the government, I lose track.
There are plenty that appear to be even thicker than Raab and Patel. I know that this sounds improbable but there must be at least 350 of them.
Very few of them could find their own arses using both hands.
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It's worrisome that Raab passes for Tory intelligentsia. That said, even he can be outwitted by a slime mould.
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They are akin to castle walls. Thick and repellent. And the best way to get rid of them is with high explosives.
Note to disgraced former International Development Secretary Piggi Patel's Arrest-o-Matic 6000s, the last sentence is what we squashy life-forms call “a joke”.
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“What more could this man have done?” asks Anthony Kelly, the judge who decided to let Novaxx Djokovic out of chokey. Weeeeeeell, your Judginess, he could have got vaccinated :facepalm:
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Criminal micromind and friend to Colombian agribiz Tiny Tommeh Ten-Names is at it again (https://mobile.twitter.com/FahAunty/status/1476885624204537856). You'd think he’d have learned by now that interfering with polis business is not something Plod takes lightly.
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Tomneh is that dangerous combination of a sack of shit with a barely registering IQ.
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There appear to be a lot of Tory MP's self-nominating in their attempted defence of their indefensible PM, following PMQs today.
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I thought that Fabricate, er Fabricunt, ah, Fabricant made a great pitch for super twat of the week status.
What were the good people of Lichfield thinking when they elected him I wonder?
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What were the good people of Lichfield thinking when they elected him I wonder?
That no way were they voting Labour I expect.
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The first time I saw him, I honestly believed he was one of those parody Tory MPs doing skits on TikTok. Increasingly, I've realised that it's Conservative policy to make themselves essentially impossible to parody.
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I see that the likes of Dorries, Raab and Javid have reapplied for mention herein.
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... I honestly believed he was one of those parody Tory MPs doing skits on TikTok.
The thought crosses my mind, given the woeful quality of some Tory* MPs, that the people who voted for them are vicious sadists. The voters knew they were inadequates, they knew the candidates would show themselves to be fools and still they voted them in; simply to see the poor saps suffer in public. That or they're all dyed-in-the wool revolutionary communists intent on bringing the system down from within by electing utter incompetents. Either explanation seems perfectly rational to me, but I think I prefer the notion that the electorate are, at heart, sadists.
*There may be, almost certainly are, woeful MPs in other parties, but the Tory contingent do seem to take pride in advertising how pitifully inadequate they are.
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I see that the likes of Dorries, Raab and Javid have reapplied for mention herein.
... not forgetting Gove ...
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I thought that Fabricate, er Fabricunt, ah, Fabricant made a great pitch for super twat of the week status.
What were the good people of Lichfield thinking when they elected him I wonder?
My first encounter with Michael Fabricant was back in around 1994 when my girlfriend of the time was working for Mo Mowlam. We went and sat in the strangers' gallery for PMQs one day and Fabricant was one of those asking a question. I think his scriptwriter must have been having a laugh at his expense - I can't remember what his question was but I do remember it included the words "weafy wanes of Wichfield".
Apparently, laughing out loud in the gallery isn't acceptable behaviour.
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Does he wank as high as any man in Wome too?
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Does he wank as high as any man in Wome too?
He has a friend, you know.
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Does he wank as high as any man in Wome too?
He has a friend, you know.
O WLY?
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https://youtu.be/UfJZ9pfnF70
The Fabricant question on everybody's lips.
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Anne Sacoolas
The Beeb is reporting that the fugitive and Super-Twat is to face Westminster Magistrates Court next month (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-59643750), albeit via video so they won’t be able to see whether she’s got her fingers crossed.
And now the Beeb is reporting that the fugitive and Super-Twat is not to face Westminster Magistrates Court this month after all (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-59996219). "This is to enable ongoing discussions between the CPS and Anne Sacoolas's legal representatives to continue." said someone or other.
The offer still stands, USAnia. Anne Sacoolas for Andrew Windsor, straight swapsies.
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Never going to happen. Anyway after this week shall we just say the current govt for as long as they hold on to power and just lock the thread as it seems they are just interchangeable Super Twats every day.
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With the regularity of those “Dear Sir, unless” letters from the bank manager, colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron comes back with his tedious vendetta against Haz'n'Megs while reviewing the papers on this morning’s “Andrew Marr Show”, starring TV's Sophie Raworth as Andrew Marr. That Mr and Mrs Wales haven’t paid a refuse disposal operative to disappear Moron — there's lots of luvverly concrete infrastructure going into HS2 at the moment — seems to indicate that the only person with fucks to spare on the whole tawdry business is the colossal bellend himself. Quelle twatesse!
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I think it's quite possible at this point that Nadine Dorries has attained a curious coherent quantum state of negative knowledge.
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I think it's quite possible at this point that Nadine Dorries has attained a curious coherent quantum state of negative knowledge.
As someone pointed out on twitter this morning, let us not forget that our Culture Secretary once went on national television and ate an ostrich's anus for money.
That's our "Culture" Secretary. As in what you find in a Petri dish.
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In a bizarre twist I should like to un-nominate for super twattishness status all of the conservative cabinet who are currently fighting a selfless rearguard action in order to save their wondrous leader Mr. Johnson's arse presumably so that Nadine Dorries can chow down on it.
Or perhaps not ...
Eugh! Mind bleach will never erase the mental image of Dorries rimming and then chewing on Johnson. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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That Mr and Mrs Wales haven’t paid a refuse disposal operative to disappear Moron — there's lots of luvverly concrete infrastructure going into HS2 at the moment
Similarly I can't believe that Boris hasn't asked Tony B Liar's advice on how to dispose of a troublesome Cummings!! TBL got rid of Dr Kelly easily enough!! (allegedly)
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Novichok is so 2018…
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Robert “Rob” Kimbell of the Time Party. https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=117142.msg2693713#msg2693713 refers. Boxes of rocks regularly beat him at Scrabble.
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The offer still stands, USAnia. Anne Sacoolas for Andrew Windsor, straight swapsies.
That sounds incredibly fair. I could see any PM pointing out to USAnia that surely some faceless diplomat's wife is a fair trade for the sweatless wonder.
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I’m nominating the Daily Excess editor for the front page headline of “Fury at New Road Rules” with an accompanying picture of a utility cyclist.
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I’m nominating the Daily Excess editor for the front page headline of “Fury at New Road Rules” with an accompanying picture of a utility cyclist.
And the comments !! Oh the comments ......
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I’m nominating the Daily Excess editor for the front page headline of “Fury at New Road Rules” with an accompanying picture of a utility cyclist.
And the comments !! Oh the comments ......
I’ve not ventured to the site to look at those…
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”Luke and Jo”, who refused to allow a couple of prospective buyers even to view their house because the said couple are gayers (https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/same-sex-couple-respond-after-22850896). Perhaps they should just swap their house for a cave.
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Crispin Blunt, for his pathetic attempt at covering BSJ's arse,
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Crispin Blunt, for his pathetic attempt at covering BSJ's arse,
Norn Iron minister Conor Burns, for the same reason.
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Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan
Then add in the Spotify management that gives these idiots a platform.
Apparently 11 million listened in as Peterson spouted absolute garbage about climate science.
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And can we nominate Mr Young for an anti-ST award ?
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It gave me the shove I needed to close my Premium Spotify account, so that's a bonus. Hopefully others are doing so as well and Spotify are out of pocket
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Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan
Then add in the Spotify management that gives these idiots a platform.
Apparently 11 million listened in as Peterson spouted absolute garbage about climate science.
I saw that, and being mostly unfamiliar with the oeuvre of JP, I had the misfortunate of watching a few other clips. Everything he says is that like, random pseudo-intellectualism that should be clearly nonsense (I call it spaffle), but he has quite a fan club of people who I suspect lack any form of detectable intelligence.
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Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan
Then add in the Spotify management that gives these idiots a platform.
Apparently 11 million listened in as Peterson spouted absolute garbage about climate science.
I saw that, and being mostly unfamiliar with the oeuvre of JP, I had the misfortunate of watching a few other clips. Everything he says is that like, random pseudo-intellectualism that should be clearly nonsense (I call it spaffle), but he has quite a fan club of people who I suspect lack any form of detectable intelligence.
JP really annoys me. He is clearly intelligent, unfortunately has a particular anti-PC agenda. He's gathered a huge following, a couple of my step-children among them. His 'message' has an appeal to people, notably young people who are in the "adults can't tell me what to think" phase. A type of rabble-rouser.
He spouts a load of crap on subjects in which he has no expertise (a while ago he was advocating a 'meat and salt' diet; predictably he ended up in hospital). He's welcome to his own opinions and even to academically lecture and write in his field.
The side effects of his spouting utter bollocks are significant.
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It gave me the shove I needed to close my Premium Spotify account, so that's a bonus. Hopefully others are doing so as well and Spotify are out of pocket
Spotify paid $100 million US for him.
He has the most popular podcast on Spotify. 12.5million Instagram followers. That's about the same population as Rwanda. 7.5million Twitter followers. The entire population of Libya, and some.
I don't think your drop in the ocean will help. The stupid are taking over the world. This shouldn't be a surprise- 50% of the world are of below average intelligence, and now they can share that with the other half of us.
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It gave me the shove I needed to close my Premium Spotify account, so that's a bonus. Hopefully others are doing so as well and Spotify are out of pocket
Spotify paid $100 million US for him.
He has the most popular podcast on Spotify. 12.5million Instagram followers. That's about the same population as Rwanda. 7.5million Twitter followers. The entire population of Libya, and some.
I don't think your drop in the ocean will help. The stupid are taking over the world. This shouldn't be a surprise- 50% of the world are of below average intelligence, and now they can share that with the other half of us.
Probably not, but if we all think like that nothing changes. And regardless, I don't want to be supporting him in any way, so goes spotify
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It's just the attraction of saying stuff that people want to hear, I guess. Cognitive resonance, if you will. It's an easy business (many of the big right-wing commentators in the US started this way, and it's basically Fox New's business model). JP just adds an intellectual veneer which makes it all the more attractive to a credulous audience.
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Join the morons on the compost heap of Super-Twattery, Sunday Torygraph editor Allister Heath, for this piece of classic Tory Fuck You-ism (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jRgOB5p5dX8J:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/26/conservatives-face-1997-style-annihilation-dont-stop-drift/&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0). You want Bloody Stupid Johnson to install
a David Frost-like CEO in No 10
by which I assume he means someone like Frosty the Wasteman rather than the bloke who interviewed that other celebrated political liar Richard Nixon :facepalm:
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It gave me the shove I needed to close my Premium Spotify account, so that's a bonus. Hopefully others are doing so as well and Spotify are out of pocket
What's the advantage of a Premium account? I use Spotify ordinary now and then, don't recall the last time I heard an advert. Is it just that I miss out on supertwattery?
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It gave me the shove I needed to close my Premium Spotify account, so that's a bonus. Hopefully others are doing so as well and Spotify are out of pocket
What's the advantage of a Premium account? I use Spotify ordinary now and then, don't recall the last time I heard an advert. Is it just that I miss out on supertwattery?
Now and then, you probably wouldn't notice much of a difference
I having been using it occasionally mostly as a digital method of dropping a few extra fractions to artists of music I own.
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think I'll go for Liz Truss today after reports of her £500k trip about Bojo 1 to Australia and back.
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think I'll go for Liz Truss today after reports of her £500k trip about Bojo 1 to Australia and back.
I'd love to know where they got this figure of £500k from.
The aircraft - an Airbus A321LR - is one of two leased full-time for Government use, to replace the 4 or 5 BAe 146s of 32 Sqn that have now been pensioned off (one arrives at Duxford very shortly). It's not chartered on an ad-hoc basis, so - depending on the deal with the operator - the costs of the trip would basically be fuel and engineering/logistic support. A 321 burns about 3 tonnes an hour, and the round trip would be about 45 - 48 hours. Call it 50 hours, and aviation fuel is about $1000 a tonne just now, so $150k (£120k-ish). Other trip-specific costs may have added £80k to that, so £200k total. I can't get it to anywhere near £500k however hard I try.
It's a matter of perspective whether governments should have access to dedicated aircraft for international travel, but it's hardly unique to the UK, and I would suggest that there are plenty of reasons (such as security and confidentiality) that can justify it. And that comes with a cost. Much as I have no time for Ms Truss as a politician, I have no particular problem with her trip to Australia as part of the business of doing the country's diplomatic and trade business, and nor do I see that using commercial flights are necessarily appropriate for such a visit.
The problem with knocking everything that government does is that you end up without government.
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think I'll go for Liz Truss today after reports of her £500k trip about Bojo 1 to Australia and back.
I'd love to know where they got this figure of £500k from.
The aircraft - an Airbus A321LR - is one of two leased full-time for Government use, to replace the 4 or 5 BAe 146s of 32 Sqn that have now been pensioned off (one arrives at Duxford very shortly). It's not chartered on an ad-hoc basis, so - depending on the deal with the operator - the costs of the trip would basically be fuel and engineering/logistic support. A 321 burns about 3 tonnes an hour, and the round trip would be about 45 - 48 hours. Call it 50 hours, and aviation fuel is about $1000 a tonne just now, so $150k (£120k-ish). Other trip-specific costs may have added £80k to that, so £200k total. I can't get it to anywhere near £500k however hard I try.
Maybe some depreciation factored in. I understand it wasn't just the odious Truss one her own either - there was a whole delegation. But hey, don't let that spoil a good story.
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The base lease covers the costs of crews, depreciation, scheduled engineering etc. It's not an additional cost per flight in the way that fuel is. It would not be charged separately.
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think I'll go for Liz Truss today after reports of her £500k trip about Bojo 1 to Australia and back.
I'd love to know where they got this figure of £500k from.
The aircraft - an Airbus A321LR - is one of two leased full-time for Government use, to replace the 4 or 5 BAe 146s of 32 Sqn that have now been pensioned off (one arrives at Duxford very shortly). It's not chartered on an ad-hoc basis, so - depending on the deal with the operator - the costs of the trip would basically be fuel and engineering/logistic support. A 321 burns about 3 tonnes an hour, and the round trip would be about 45 - 48 hours. Call it 50 hours, and aviation fuel is about $1000 a tonne just now, so $150k (£120k-ish). Other trip-specific costs may have added £80k to that, so £200k total. I can't get it to anywhere near £500k however hard I try.
It's a matter of perspective whether governments should have access to dedicated aircraft for international travel, but it's hardly unique to the UK, and I would suggest that there are plenty of reasons (such as security and confidentiality) that can justify it. And that comes with a cost. Much as I have no time for Ms Truss as a politician, I have no particular problem with her trip to Australia as part of the business of doing the country's diplomatic and trade business, and nor do I see that using commercial flights are necessarily appropriate for such a visit.
The problem with knocking everything that government does is that you end up without government.
I'm sure your figures are correct.
£120 000 - that is still very high. Could have flown them all business class on a standard flight for a heck of a lot less.
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I'm sure your figures are correct.
£120 000 - that is still very high. Could have flown them all business class on a standard flight for a heck of a lot less.
Except it would have probably been several different flights due to very limited capacity at the moment.
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It's a matter of perspective whether governments should have access to dedicated aircraft for international travel, but it's hardly unique to the UK, and I would suggest that there are plenty of reasons (such as security and confidentiality) that can justify it.
Possibly. But many other UK ministers past and present are happily in the habit of using the same transport as the plebs.
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About £8k the last time I went, though obviously there's the entire entourage, I have no idea how big that is. Like TimC says, there may have been valid reasons, though part of the problem is that no one trusts any of them to do anything sensible, so everything gets tainted by the stupid.
And, given the scale of her achievements in Australia, it might be a reasonable suggestion that she stayed home.
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There were 14 Government peeps of various kinds, plus an unknown number of security staff and possibly journalists.
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I would have thought that, given the entourage their egos demand travel with them that they could easily have made appropriate arrangement on an already scheduled commercial flight. With all those staff you'd think that somebody is capable of some proper planning. It's that they don't think about what they are doing which makes them all the more repulsive.
Taxpayer money has been pissed up every roll of entitled flock wallpaper for far too long and recently in disproportionately greater amounts. These people are supposed to be public servants but they seem to have forgotten this small but hugely important and significant fact. Their radicalised supporter base seems to have conveniently forgotten this too.
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Let's assume, say 18 people total – it's a trade delegation and Liz needs her carers – and be conservative, at £7k for a business class ticket – that's £126k plus other sundry expenses, so I doubt it's hugely disproportionate to using an already leased jet. I too don't know where £500k came from.
Like Brexit or not, and cheap jokes aside, we do need to negotiate national trade agreements, which means delegations have to meet.
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Despite the public perception that flights are still empty, they most certainly are not - though there are many fewer flights than in normal times. Getting 14 Government seats (and I would have thought that 14 is a very small party for what was supposedly an important visit) would be bloody hard without the airline bumping people off the flight. They will do that (well, BA will) for VIPs, but that bumps the price up very considerably as they will charge for the compensation, accommodation etc they have to pay those they bumped off. Also, it's normal for a fairly significant number of journalists to travel with the politicos, and their parent organisations pay for their seats on Government aircraft. It's possible there were none on this particular flight if it was at very short notice, but I suspect the story was broken by people who actually travelled with Ms Truss.
Just to add: getting 14 business-class seats return to Sydney at short notice, including the surcharge for bumping people off, would cost roughly double the regular J price, or in the order of £15-20k per seat. That's about the same as a short-notice First Class seat, but there normally aren't that many 1st seats on one flight even if there are no other passengers.
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So you're somewhere north of £250k. I doubt that's unusual for a large trade delegation and it's probably cost-effective to use the leased jet.
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It's also worth pointing out that it would be impossible for the delegation to discuss their work with any expectation of confidentiality on a commercial flight, and for a trade delegation that's a significant factor. I've seen at first hand the mess that can ensue when boozed-up business people say a bit too much when they've been at the aircraft bar. On a 22-hour flight, the scope for that is non-trivial. Keeping your people in a bubble where they can work with some degree of privacy is a huge benefit. It's probably also easier to keep the more wayward ones under control!
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So you're somewhere north of £250k. I doubt that's unusual for a large trade delegation and it's probably cost-effective to use the leased jet.
You're conflating a need to bump ahead of 14 first class tickets with the travel (planned? Although one should never assume) There was not a desperate need for them to instantaneously be in Australia. Or even travel together.
7k for 24hrs difference in arrival (and I'm using the lower bound cost of bumping here vs the normal cost of a ticket) does not equate to the amount of work or pay that any of the government could achieve.
Unless you think Truss couldn't keep her gob shut on a scheduled and planned first class flight with a couple of aides.
Then, maybe, the price starts to look sensible.
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Regardless, an international trade delegation is going to be a group of people who need to travel in the same time frame, so the cost will tot up, there are only so many flights to Australia in any given day. I'm pretty sure they all needed to be there at the same time, though I suspect there might have been some relief if Liz had arrived two days after the meeting had ended.
£6-8k is about what it costs to fly business to Australia, and I don't think unreasonable, it's a long way.
I'm minded there's no real story here.
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I'm minded there's no real story here.
Other than perhaps Bloody Stupid Johnson perceiving Cheesoid as a threat.
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I'm minded there's no real story here.
Other than perhaps Bloody Stupid Johnson perceiving Cheesoid as a threat.
Not just that.
Quantas says about 4k first class, if you're easy on the dates. I expect a scheduled trade delegation to be this.
15k max. Booked 3weeks ahead. First Class.
Business Class about half that.
So someone's got something wrong. It may be journalistic maths, it may be public opinion.
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They're not exactly easy on the dates, it's an international trade meeting, you don't exactly turn up in dribs and drabs and hope the other side aren't busy. This is a significant piece of people logistics. Trust me, it's not even easy with library consortia.
Picking up a scheduled flight with a week or three notice in the pre-plague era to Australia is going to cost what I said, I don't recall paying less than £5k (though I'd usually stop off in Singapore or HK). Sure, if you've booked a few months in advance you can bring it down to about £4k, but that's not really realistic in this situation (or most business situations). TimC explained the likely scenario re pricing here, and I have a feeling he knows a little bit about these things.
I'm pretty sure big international trade delegations always cost a lot of money. I'd be minded to focus on the lack of results, since we didn't get much for their efforts.
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The lack of results is why she got put in here again I guess
The rest is just icing and probably belongs in PAOB.
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I'd love to know where they got this figure of £500k from.
I rather suspect that if you or I were to google "charter flight to australia" and phone up the first on the list and ask how much for an Airbus this week, we'd get quoted something of the order of half a million quid.
Now, imagine what might get reported if that's how a journalist did their research.
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Mr Google, he say:
No results found for "self-drive Airbus hire".
Awwwwwwwww :P
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£6-8k is about what it costs to fly business to Australia, and I don't think unreasonable, it's a long way.
I'm minded there's no real story here.
The real story is why we're in a position of needing to send delegations to Australia to negotiate trade deals in the first place. The true cost of all this is probably much higher than half a million pounds.
Regardless of whether the figures for the flight quoted are correct and/or justified, Truss is still a massive twat for many other reasons.
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I expect having a plane just sitting around parked up and waiting for hours or even days with a crew and all associated costs of it being both away from base and unavailable for other use tends to rack up costs pretty rapidly.
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And can we nominate Mr Young for an anti-ST award ?
And the sainted Joni too !!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60177933
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I expect having a plane just sitting around parked up and waiting for hours or even days with a crew and all associated costs of it being both away from base and unavailable for other use tends to rack up costs pretty rapidly.
The aeroplane is on a full-time lease for Government (not military) use only. What else is it supposed to be doing?
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The point is though that dead time in Australia still costs money. Taxpayer money.
Who knows what it might have been doing or even if in fact it would be under utilised and thus be an even more egregious burn of taxpayer money.
Heaven forbid that having dedicated planes is nothing more than a vanity project and ego trip.
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The point is though that dead time in Australia still costs money. Taxpayer money.
Who knows what it might have been doing or even if in fact it would be under utilised and thus be an even more egregious burn of taxpayer money.
All that depends on the detail of the lease contract for the plane, the crew costs, the fuel and airport handling fees and whether that cost in total is less than the cost of the commercial flight tickets it displaces over the period of the lease. Given the lease contract is almost certainly for a period of years I would think, trying to work out whether an individual trip saves or costs money is fraught with difficulties.
And that’s before you bring in discussions on physical and communication security etc. I am in no way saying it did in this case as it would require replanning way beyond the historical capabilities of our current government but there are easily imaginable scenarios where dead time in Australia cost almost nothing.
My concern is more whether the flight was really necessary at all given the many tonnes of CO2 it pumped high into the atmosphere or whether it was just to top up Truss’s vitamin D levels prior to an energy sapping challenge for Bozo’s job.
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I’m sure an FOI request would reveal the lease costs with Titan, who provide the aircraft and (I believe) the crew and maintenance.
The requirement for provision of air travel at all is something I suspect many YACFers are never going to agree with, whatever justification is put forward. There is a tendency here to argue that if it can’t be done by Zoom or by bicycle, then it shouldn’t happen. But the world doesn’t work like that, and incremental changes in equipment and behaviour are what you’re going to get, whether you like it or not.
The A321s (I believe there are, or will be, 2 of them) have effectively replaced the 4 or 5 BAe 146s of 32 (The Royal) Sqn at RAF Northolt. Those aircraft were around 35 years old, were very dirty by modern standards, had a very limited range, but cost more than the 321s to maintain and fly. They also belonged to the RAF, so had potentially overriding military or Royal tasks that could render them unavailable to the Government. The A321s are brand new, have no military role, and are among the most efficient aircraft in the air.
I don’t have the data, but - Covid times aside - I suspect that diplomatic/trade missions are smaller and less common than they once were, despite the fact of Brexit meaning that they are rather more necessary than they were when we were in the EU and those things were an EU responsibility. In my days in the RAF, one or more of 10 Sqn’s VC10s would be pretty much permanently on Government duties. And yes, they had a posh fit for pollies/Royals even then.
The passenger VC10s disappeared in the late 90s, and by the time I joined Virgin in 1998 the U.K. Government had gone to a pretty much all-commercial policy except for a very few high-profile trips - PM to the United Nations, that sort of thing. To provide the flexibility and reliability of communication they wanted, 100 seats a day in each direction were contracted with Virgin to Washington. 100! At almost full fare; no big commercial discount because governments never negotiate anything in advance. About 10% of those were in business class, 90% economy. The daily cost in 2002 was around £100,000. Every day. That’s just one destination, though Washington was undoubtedly the biggest. That contract ended in around 2012, and they went to individual booking. I think that ended up costing them more! I don’t know what the situation is now, but I have no doubt that using the A321s is saving them a fortune.
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I have seen elsewhere a figure for the lease of the A321 of £75 million for two (2) years. I have also seen elsewhere, and noted in POBI, that Cheesoid and party recently travelled to Norn Iron on an Avro RJ-85* chartered from Jota Aviation. Jota is owned by one Simon Dolan, a notable Covidiot, Trump fanboi, general conspiraloon and Brexit supporter so infused with an abiding love of BRITAIN that he lives in, er, Monaco. I wonder if by any chance he’s made any donations to the Conservative Party recently?
* reworked version of the BAe 146
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Please can someone confirm that whatever this flight did cost, and all analagous costs for other trade negotiations, are added up together and put against the mahoosive brexit dividend that will surely reach these shores someday ::-) in the spirit of accurate accounting, y'know.
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Also add a new pair of shoes for Huw Merriman...
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I have seen elsewhere a figure for the lease of the A321 of £75 million for two (2) years. I have also seen elsewhere, and noted in POBI, that Cheesoid and party recently travelled to Norn Iron on an Avro RJ-85* chartered from Jota Aviation. Jota is owned by one Simon Dolan, a notable Covidiot, Trump fanboi, general conspiraloon and Brexit supporter so infused with an abiding love of BRITAIN that he lives in, er, Monaco. I wonder if by any chance he’s made any donations to the Conservative Party recently?
* reworked version of the BAe 146
£75m is not credible. The lease cost of a Boeing 747-400 in 2019 was around £750k a month. That’s a dry, long-term lease, but a wet lease of a very much smaller aircraft isn’t going to be 5 or more times the price of a 747. That said, £37bn for test and trace…
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I have seen elsewhere a figure for the lease of the A321 of £75 million for two (2) years. I have also seen elsewhere, and noted in POBI, that Cheesoid and party recently travelled to Norn Iron on an Avro RJ-85* chartered from Jota Aviation. Jota is owned by one Simon Dolan, a notable Covidiot, Trump fanboi, general conspiraloon and Brexit supporter so infused with an abiding love of BRITAIN that he lives in, er, Monaco. I wonder if by any chance he’s made any donations to the Conservative Party recently?
* reworked version of the BAe 146
£75m is not credible. The lease cost of a Boeing 747-400 in 2019 was around £750k a month. That’s a dry, long-term lease, but a wet lease of a very much smaller aircraft isn’t going to be 5 or more times the price of a 747. That said, £37bn for test and trace…
I didn’t think it was credible either, since the list price of a brand-new A321 is apparently £79 million. OK, you still have to find crew and maintenance and wotnot, and put petril in it, but after two years you at least have a barely run-in A321. Having said that, the lease was tacked onto .gov's existing contract with CTM and not put out to tender or subject to any kind of accountability or checked for any connection to Dido Queen of Carnage or nuffink.
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It seems that the 75 million is a maximum price.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/government-pay-75m-for-exclusive-use-of-charter-aircraft/ (https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/government-pay-75m-for-exclusive-use-of-charter-aircraft/)
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Recently-ennobled private healthcare fanboi and Super-Twat Daniel Hannan attributes all BRITAIN'S problems to an intransigent, incompetent, politically-motivated Civil Service, which is probably “woke” to boot. No, Danny-boy, that not how it works. Even if it was some low-echelon clod in the Ministry of Cow-Counting* who signed off on the £14 million contract awarded to a ferry company with no fucking ships the responsibility ultimately lies with the Minister, because that’s what he’s paid for.
* © ScaryDuck
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It seems that the 75 million is a maximum price.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/government-pay-75m-for-exclusive-use-of-charter-aircraft/ (https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/government-pay-75m-for-exclusive-use-of-charter-aircraft/)
Ok, £75m over 5 years is a little more credible than over 2, and I’m sure that the maximum is exactly what will be charged. It’s interesting that the article suggests that Royal use is included; just now I think that the Royal household will avoid most air travel, and would probably continue to use fully military resources for security reasons when HMQ is involved, and regular commercial flights for most of the others.
Also interesting that the article refers to £10m for the Voyager upgrade. Most of that was the cost of the ‘D’ check which it needed anyway, plus the installation of additional military kit which the whole fleet was getting. The additional cost for the 58 business class seats and IFE system was probably around £1.5m. But, probably to Boris’ consternation, this is an active military aircraft with a day job to do.
(https://i.imgur.com/jkD5Naq.jpg)
A Voyager on its day job with no pollies around.
(C) MoD Crown Copyright.
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Mason Greenwood (Manchester United footballer, for those who don't know).
I just heard something on the radio saying he's been "accused" of stuff on social media, but on reading more about it, that sounds like typical BBC equivocation and apparently the videos and pictures that were posted by his girlfriend were pretty unambiguous.
But since this is now in the hands of the law, maybe best leave it there.
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Does Jimmy Carr have a mention yet ? :sick: https://twitter.com/thatbloodyMikey/status/1489599828707397635?s=20&t=FZ51XcZGFzGATtvVq0jkUw
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That is outrageous. Almost charge-worthy I would have thought.
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Does Jimmy Carr have a mention yet ? :sick: https://twitter.com/thatbloodyMikey/status/1489599828707397635?s=20&t=FZ51XcZGFzGATtvVq0jkUw
That's well past the "It's comedy, don't be a snowflake" territory and into the 'racial hatred incitement' country.
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Even by Jimmy Carr's standards, that's poor.
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The clip is cut for effect, he leaves it 10 seconds for the audience to think wtf? That is his standard schtick, like it or not, say something awful, let the audience and laugh themselves into an awkward really, we're laughing at that.
In other news, people offended on Twitter, demanding that whatever it is must be stopped. I'm all for offending people on Twitter.
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That cunt on QT last night.
The one who is now my avatar
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Does Jimmy Carr have a mention yet ? :sick: https://twitter.com/thatbloodyMikey/status/1489599828707397635?s=20&t=FZ51XcZGFzGATtvVq0jkUw
Super-Twat and former Tory MP Matthew Parris has form for that sort of thing too (https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2021/05/15/this-vile-article-in-the-times-shows-us-why-we-must-unite-to-stamp-out-anti-grt-racism/).
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Ah such a persecuted minority.
Only time I've been struck by an object thrown from a van at me on my bike, can brick or whatever, couldn't find it when site revisited with polis, missed my head, struck on chest... pikey. Confirmed by vehicle registration post 999 call.
Only time my vehicle has had window smashed to steal a backpack visible on back seat, some PPE kit... pikey.
Group descend on local open space, trash it, junk everywhere, destroy local kids' art installation... pikeys. Ejected under blue lights plus helicopter.
PC Andrew Harper....
But yeah, Jimmy Carr is a real problem.
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I'll stick my neck out, but for obvious reasons, we shouldn't judge an entire group by the actions of some. I've never done any of those things you say. Things go around, people have pretty low expectations when you come from a certain background. Sometimes we create our own monsters.
There's a significant element of stage persona in the entire Jimmy Carr thing, as a comedian you need your thing. He's got his thing. It might not be everyone's thing, but he's not the first comedian to use shock to get a laugh. And well, it's a show called His Dark Materials, so what the fuck are people expecting. It's also very, very funny.
Also deliberately editing the clip so it looks like they're laughing at that rather than the reaction, which completely misses the point. Are people really that keen to demonstrate how offended they are?
Well, obviously, of course. We all have the right to be offended, but we don't have the right not to be offended. And if you think otherwise, fuck you.
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I had an accident many moons ago near a travellers site. The folk there were kind and warm, helpful and generous. They looked after me until the ambulance arrived and when I returned next day for my bike they had cleaned it up. They showed me great kindness and humanity.
Carr on the other hand isn't a traveller, is he?
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Out groups always make good targets for humour. It helps maintain them as out groups. The thing is, people are arses or they’re not, and you can find both sorts across all humanity. Be nice to one another; it’s the only thing that really makes sense when you actually think about it.
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There's a significant element of stage persona in the entire Jimmy Carr thing, as a comedian you need your thing. He's got his thing. It might not be everyone's thing, but he's not the first comedian to use shock to get a laugh.
That’s the thing, isn’t it - it’s not even original.
I don’t for a second imagine he believes what he said literally, but I don’t find it very funny either.
But I’m not Jimmy Carr’s audience and I would have remained blissfully unaware of this if not for the social media outrage. I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.
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Edited due to faulty memory.
Cycling in the Camargue with others of this parish a few years back we unexpectedly came across an ex concentration camp site, basically in the middle of nowhere, The camp was established by the Vichy regime to hold Romani. Many died due to malnutrition and poor treatment. More were killed by American bombers thinking it was a military camp. No humour was involved.
(https://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/0/99/13/66/20140610/ob_f5b090_camp-de-saliers.jpg) (https://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/0/99/13/66/20140610/ob_f5b090_camp-de-saliers.jpg)
700 Roms y furent internés entre 1942 et 1944, dont beaucoup sont morts de faim, maladie, froid ou mauvais traitements. Le camp a complètement disparu. Un mémorial a cependant été dressé dans la ville d'Arles le 2 février 2006 en présence du sous-préfet d'Arles, de Claude Vulpian, maire de Saint-Martin-de-Crau, représentant le président du Conseil général, de Michel Vauzelle président du Conseil régional, d'Hervé Schiavetti maire d'Arles et Nicolas Koukas adjoint au maire, adjoint au Devoir de mémoire, en présence également du député maire du XVe arrondissement de Marseille, Frédéric Dutoit et de la cheville ouvrière de tout ce travail, Georges Carlevan.
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Some years ago, I helped out at a gym with the kid's classes.
There were a substantial number of parents who were an absolute pain. Problems ranged from them always being 10min to an hour late picking up their kid, to being abusive to coaches, insisting that their little darling is the next Simone Biel.
Some of the parents were traditional travelers who lived on one or the other of the York travelers camps.
They were always on time or early to pick up their children.
They were always polite to the coaches, and interested in how their children were doing (and if they behaved).
There children were always polite and attentive.
Sure, there are bad apples in any barrel. If there is something that easy distinguishes the apple (maybe it is a green one in a barrel of reds, or it has a different stalk), then people will say "Those green ones are all bad apples!".
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Carr was simply making people confront their own prejudices. A lot of people will choose not to understand that, or maybe be too thick to. And folk who enjoy taking scalps will howl joyously for his. I can't stand his asinine laugh, but I hope he rides it out.
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The problem is with "making people confront their own prejudices" is that if you do it in certain ways in reality you simply reinforce them. Carr is in danger of becoming the next Jim Davidson with such an approach in my opinion.
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The problem is with "making people confront their own prejudices" is that if you do it in certain ways in reality you simply reinforce them.
That was always the problem with Alf Garnett - too many people laughed with him, not at him.
As for Jimmy Carr, I find myself feeling more sympathy towards him now that Nadine Dorries has piped up. Bit rich of her to criticise others for being offensive.
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Points for Netflix: the show is still there.
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There's a wider context here. Being racist against Travellers, Roma and Gypsies is utterly normal and socially acceptable in many places. Our government is increasingly legislating against nomadic people and making it harder and more illegal for them to live their nomadic lives - without any recognition of the decades of refusing to provide safe and suitable places for them to stop around the country.
I'm always surprised that what would be unacceptable hate against any other group is accepted, normalised, agreed with and laughed at when it comes to Gypsy/Roma/Traveller people.
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Yes, but like most people I expect you'd be an entire hypocrite when it comes to having a traveller site nearby, everyone starts writing the letters then (and not entirely without good reason). And yes, of course, they have a right to an education, but really they'd be very disruptive in my child's school, of course. Etc. Even settled travellers don't like their mobile brethren that much. Ultimately it's a problematic lifestyle, there's very little legitimate employment to be gained, there are poor education outcomes for the children.
I find Jimmy Carr amusing, but he does attract the pile-ons often purposefully (and his heckler put-downs are worth the entrance price), horses for courses when it comes to comedy. Laughs have to be at the expense of something.
But that's my thing, I'm tired of being told by the left or the right – anyone with a self-righteous ideology – what I can watch or read. I'm tired of hearing how offended they are by whatever it is that is offending them. I'm tired of their campaigns to ban or remove things that seem unable to simply not expose themselves to. I don't fucking care what they think. I wish the utter thundercunts on either side would take their offence, wrap it around a baseball bat, and shove it up their arses. That, at least, might be entertainingly offensive.
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Maybe you are lucky that you aren't a target.
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What, of the joke? I seem to be in the minority that had seen the show in question. The audience is the target. It's a bait and switch. Watch it and tell me otherwise.
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No, a target of the jokes to which some people object, who you then label 'cunts'.
You see Carr's joke is more disingenuous than you make out. Yes, it purports to be educational pointing out that nobody remembers the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust but then carries on with the joke, this time making Jehovahs Witnesses the target with references to having a shower. Is it making light of their deaths? Yes. Is it funny? Well, I laughed, but then I don't have any relatives who were murdered and then incinerated, and I have an amoral sense of humour.
Where are we left at the end of the joke? That hundreds of thousands of gypsies were murdered but that is OK, because they are a social nuisance. Did it do anything to shatter prejudice or did covertly reinforce it? Equally, would you have been comfortable with the Jews being the butt of the joke, because prejudice against them is justified? If not, why not? It is ironic after all, bait and switch, as you say.
There are two elements that are starkly missing from this joke. That the oppressors evil is condemned, and that the humanity of the victims is highlighted. But the Jehovahs are portrayed as fools, so stupid that they blindly walk into a concentration camp, easily outwitted by the concentration camp guards who humorously trick them.
Har de fucking ha.
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Ah such a persecuted minority.
Only time I've been struck by an object thrown from a van at me on my bike, can brick or whatever, couldn't find it when site revisited with polis, missed my head, struck on chest... pikey. Confirmed by vehicle registration post 999 call.
Only time my vehicle has had window smashed to steal a backpack visible on back seat, some PPE kit... pikey.
Group descend on local open space, trash it, junk everywhere, destroy local kids' art installation... pikeys. Ejected under blue lights plus helicopter.
PC Andrew Harper....
But yeah, Jimmy Carr is a real problem.
You know very well “pikeys” aren’t necessarily Roma. And certainly the Roma of the Holocaust weren’t.
I understand what Ian’s position is, but the fact that Carr is a comedian, out for laughs, undermines the “the jokes on them” approach. He’s out for laughs, and he got them.
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No, they're cunts (technically thundercunts) for deliberately manufacturing their own offence and then shouting about just how offended they are. Fair enough, if you are genuinely offended, that's your right. But for people who haven't seen it (and will go to great lengths to explain how much they never found him funny anyway and won't be seeing it), and for whoever edited the clip deliberately to remove the awkward gap at the end. It's a bait and switch, a standard of stand-up. Bad taste, of course, but that really was the unambiguous point of the show. Censorship should start with yourself.
I'm curious about the motivations, it doesn't seem that any of the complainers actually cares about travellers, and I know you don't want them parked up next door – no one here does. That's a problem, of course, that's difficult to solve. I don't even think Carr really intended that sort of solution, however.
(And indeed, there's no relationship between Roma and UK travellers, who at the most have Irish heritage.)
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There is, apparently, a significant Roma population in the UK (2013)
https://repository.uel.ac.uk/download/c523bfd9d3c8f848d3f53a4fd9abee6047ce4f6382845608587f2e11a660ff53/350493/ERS%20Roma%20comparative%20AEB%20roma%20comparative%20revised_after_Editors_28_July_FINAL.pdf (https://repository.uel.ac.uk/download/c523bfd9d3c8f848d3f53a4fd9abee6047ce4f6382845608587f2e11a660ff53/350493/ERS%20Roma%20comparative%20AEB%20roma%20comparative%20revised_after_Editors_28_July_FINAL.pdf)
In the 2011 Census, 730 people recorded themselves as Roma through the ethnic group write-in options. The University of Salford (http://www.salford.ac.uk/sustainable-housing-and-urban-studies-unit-archived/downloads/Migrant_Roma_in_the_UK_final_report_October_2013.pdf) estimates that the Roma population living in England and Wales was 194,000 in 2012.
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No, they're cunts (technically thundercunts) for deliberately manufacturing their own offence and then shouting about just how offended they are. Fair enough, if you are genuinely offended, that's your right. But for people who haven't seen it (and will go to great lengths to explain how much they never found him funny anyway and won't be seeing it), and for whoever edited the clip deliberately to remove the awkward gap at the end. It's a bait and switch, a standard of stand-up. Bad taste, of course, but that really was the unambiguous point of the show. Censorship should start with yourself.
I'm curious about the motivations, it doesn't seem that any of the complainers actually cares about travellers, and I know you don't want them parked up next door – no one here does. That's a problem, of course, that's difficult to solve. I don't even think Carr really intended that sort of solution, however.
(And indeed, there's no relationship between Roma and UK travellers, who at the most have Irish heritage.)
This is really just a paraphrasing of a post you've already made.
I note that you make repeated reference to people 'taking offence', and indeed accuse them of 'manufacturing their offence', in order that they have something to shout about, and that by implication their 'offence' is in bad faith.*
This is where you, as do all culture warriors, go wrong. You assume people are offended.
They may be, but it is just as likely that they are not, and that their response is not the emotional response of a headless chicken, but a rational response contextualised by a knowledge of history. In other words, it may be possible to think that the mass dissemination of Carr's joke is a very bad idea, whilst not finding it personally offensive.
I am not offended by prolific use of the 'N word'. Why would I be? It affects me not in the slightest way. But, I object to its usage because I think it is a very bad idea, and very harmful. Real harm, not just offence.
Equally, I would not welcome a traveller camp next to me any more than I would take up their offers to trim my hedge or fix a broken roof tile I didn't know about. But that doesn't mean that I welcome jokes that risk further alienating them from settled society.
*FWIW I think Carr's joke was in bad faith. The caveat he gives that it was educational was merely an attempt at justifying a joke based on racism. (Gervase tries this trick too.) Carr then goes on to portray the JW as gullible fools easily tricked by German guards. These were men, women and children gassed to death, shot, buried in lime pits or incinerated in crematoria. Where is the recognition of their humanity?
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I gained a lot of value from reading "Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race".
The experiences in that book seem to apply here.
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Presumably this gypsy is manufacturing his offence?
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/andrew-castle/head-gypsy-jimmy-carr-holocaust-roma-traveller-joke-struck-fear/
The Traveller Movement also don't seem to be welcoming Jimmy Carr's efforts at education the nation about their suffering:
https://twitter.com/GypsyTravellerM/status/1489644064609910786?s=20&t=Bfw_5B3xfUflQdiiivbdsA
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Is that the same Andrew Castle who was accused of “creepy sexism” while colemantating at Wmbldn in 2016?
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You know, it might have been bad taste, but it was a bait and switch, so there's little point arguing about a joke that everyone else seems determined to interpret as something else. I've seen the show, which I expect is more than most of the critics, and well, it's intentionally bad taste.
As to manufacturing offence, the only version of the clip I've seen deliberately removes the last few seconds, so you get the bait but not the switch. That seems disingenuous to say the least.
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Seems Carr has a history of anti-GRT jokes going back more than fifteen years, as well as a general air of smugness that makes me want to punch him.
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I've not experienced much of his comedy, but I vaguely recall some sort of C-list-celebrities-ride-a-long-way-on-a-bike-for-charidee challenge, in which he was a) a smug wanker and b) spectacularly failed at riding a long way on a bike.
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https://apple.news/A0PXvR3pnRT2slGOC-YgRwg
Downing Street has condemned the Jimmy Carr joke.
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but not the Kier Starmer character assassination, they left that to the Speaker
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https://apple.news/A0PXvR3pnRT2slGOC-YgRwg
Downing Street has condemned the Jimmy Carr joke.
Excellent - I was on the fence for a while there!
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Downing Street has condemned the Jimmy Carr joke.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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https://apple.news/A0PXvR3pnRT2slGOC-YgRwg
Downing Street has condemned the Jimmy Carr joke.
There is a cruel irony in there somewhere ...
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I've not experienced much of his comedy, but I vaguely recall some sort of C-list-celebrities-ride-a-long-way-on-a-bike-for-charidee challenge, in which he was a) a smug wanker and b) spectacularly failed at riding a long way on a bike.
Oh yes. The rest of them trained and made a massive effort. Whereas he didn't bother and let them all down. I had no wish to learn/see anything more of him after that. It was LeJoG relay-style in February, organised by David Walliams iirc.
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/me wonders what the reaction would have been if Mr Carr had said “Homosexuals” instead of “Roma”.
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Despite Ian's assurances, I think Carr's disclaimer that his joke is educational is done with his fingers crossed behind his back.
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https://apple.news/A0PXvR3pnRT2slGOC-YgRwg
Downing Street has condemned the Jimmy Carr joke.
Have they condemned Kurt Zouma yet? So useful to have these idiots giving them something to deflect attention from themselves.
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Aaarrrggh! Now that Piers “Morgan” Moron has signed a multi-million pound contract with Don Rupino there are bigger-than-lifesize pictures of the colossal bellend plastered all over the buses of the nation's capital :sick:
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Well, one out of the two cocks has finally done the right thing.
Bye bye dick. Please take johnson with you
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Well, one out of the two cocks has finally done the right thing.
Bye bye dick. Please take johnson with you
Does it say when she’s leaving?
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After a handover it sounds like.
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The Graun names seven potential replacements but it probably won’t be Neil Basu as he's said Rude Things about Bloody Stupid Johnson.
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I was in one of those slightly dull team meetings yesterday, but paid more attention when I heard someone say "Boris needs to be replaced with another tool". Sadly Boris is some legacy IT system in France...
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;D
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Oliver Dowden, co-chairman of the Conservative Party and latest appointment to the Wokefinder Army, for claiming:
Today, a social media mob can cancel you merely because you have dared to challenge one of the left’s fashionable nostrums … so conservatives themselves must find the confidence to mount a vigorous defence of the value of a free society.
Oliver Dowden: Super-Twat.
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Oliver Dowden, co-chairman of the Conservative Party and latest appointment to the Wokefinder Army, for claiming:
Today, a social media mob can cancel you merely because you have dared to challenge one of the left’s fashionable nostrums … so conservatives themselves must find the confidence to mount a vigorous defence of the value of a free society.
Oliver Dowden: Super-Twat.
Story here - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/14/oliver-dowden-says-painful-woke-psychodrama-weakening-the-west
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Oliver Dowden: "LOOK A SQUIRREL!!"
Beats talking about billowing child poverty, growing chasm of wealth inequality, and institutional corruption I suppose.
Nothing new about culture wars, it used to be about gays, and before that women.
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Novak? Interview on bbc1 tonight where he is willing to give up his tennis rather than have the vaccine but he is not anti vaccination!
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Oliver Dowden: "LOOK A SQUIRREL!!"
Beats talking about billowing child poverty, growing chasm of wealth inequality, and institutional corruption I suppose.
Nothing new about culture wars, it used to be about gays, and before that women.
Wait till the women merge with the gays. Cyclist. Metropolitan elites. Remainers.
Behold, the woketopus!
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Token LBC non-Gammon James O'Brien retorts:
Speaking at the Heritage Foundation because there are so few secretly-funded hard right ‘think tanks’ in the U.K. that he had to find an American one … It’s easy to mock Oliver but 12 years of Tory government culminating in an 80-seat majority built on the jingoistic lies of Brexit & led by the most blatantly dishonest British politician in living memory clearly validates his insistence that people like him are the real victims.
Ouch :thumbsup:
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Jacob Grease-Smugg, who is against the fur and foie gras ban on the grounds that it "Limits personal choice".
It is illegal in this country to whack supercilious Tory cnuts with cricket bats. Can this be repealed as it is limiting my personal choice.
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Jacob Grease-Smugg, who is against the fur and foie gras ban on the grounds that it "Limits personal choice".
It is illegal in this country to whack supercilious Tory cnuts with cricket bats. Can this be repealed as it is limiting my personal choice.
Really good point, Guy.
I feel the need for a petition.
Does it have to be a cricket bat? I personally find that a pickaxe handle has a superior balance.
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Jacob Grease-Smugg, who is against the fur and foie gras ban on the grounds that it "Limits personal choice".
It is illegal in this country to whack supercilious Tory cnuts with cricket bats. Can this be repealed as it is limiting my personal choice.
Really good point, Guy.
I feel the need for a petition.
Does it have to be a cricket bat? I personally find that a pickaxe handle has a superior balance.
There's certainly less wind-resistance on the swing.
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Jacob Grease-Smugg, who is against the fur and foie gras ban on the grounds that it "Limits personal choice".
It is illegal in this country to whack supercilious Tory cnuts with cricket bats. Can this be repealed as it is limiting my personal choice.
Really good point, Guy.
I feel the need for a petition.
Does it have to be a cricket bat? I personally find that a pickaxe handle has a superior balance.
There's certainly less wind-resistance on the swing.
Where's The Wolf of Kabul when you need him?
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Has anybody bothered to put ol' Poo-tin in here yet?
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Jacob Grease-Smugg, who is against the fur and foie gras ban on the grounds that it "Limits personal choice".
It is illegal in this country to whack supercilious Tory cnuts with cricket bats. Can this be repealed as it is limiting my personal choice.
Really good point, Guy.
I feel the need for a petition.
Does it have to be a cricket bat? I personally find that a pickaxe handle has a superior balance.
I have cracked many skulls with Clicky-Ba! (http://www.britishcomics.20m.com/wolf.htm)
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Has anybody bothered to put ol' Poo-tin in here yet?
Pushing it a bit to claim he is a Tory.
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True. He is a little too centrist for the likes of the conservatives. 🤔
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What king of Super-Twat could go on record as saying the Scots Guards "kicked the backside" of Nicholas I of Russia in the Crimean War, and could do so again?
Why, Secretary of State for Defence, Honourable Member for Wyre and Preston North and Super-Twat Robert Ben Lobban Wallace, of course! That kind of Super-Twat.
H/t to Guy otp for naming and shaming the guilty Twat.
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It feels a bit facetious to be talking about Putin in this thread - I think it's more for the likes of Piers Moron, who for all his sins is unlikely to cause global thermonuclear war any time soon.
Rather mention the likes of Owen Jones, who wants to use the situation as a platform to rant incoherently about factional in-fighting within the Labour Party. Because that's obviously what's really important right now.
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According to some people, there's nothing more important than factional infighting in the Labour Party.
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To be fair, shooting wars and imperialist posturing come and go. Factional infighting in the Labour party is forever.
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Owen Jones is stirrer-in-chief. A perfect candidate for super twattishness status.
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Tucker Carlson :sick:
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Tucker Carlson :sick:
A latter-day William Joyce.
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Has Putin ever called me a racist?
Probably not, but I reckon the Russian equivalent of “useful idiot” may have crept into his conversation.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/26/rwanda-tucker-carlson-ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-biden-fox-news
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Quoth the wannabe Ted Bundy stunt double:
“Let’s say you really didn’t care about the country you lead,” he said. “Let’s say you wanted to humiliate and degrade it and undermine its ancient institutions. What would you do?
He could just as easily have been talking about Trump there. :demon:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been laying into Carlson too, calling him “pendejo”, “basura” and “creep” :thumbsup:
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It feels a bit facetious to be talking about Putin in this thread - I think it's more for the likes of Piers Moron, who for all his sins is unlikely to cause global thermonuclear war any time soon.
Rather mention the likes of Owen Jones, who wants to use the situation as a platform to rant incoherently about factional in-fighting within the Labour Party. Because that's obviously what's really important right now.
You have broken a forum rule. All references to Piers Morgan MUST be suffixed with "colossal bell end".
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It feels a bit facetious to be talking about Putin in this thread - I think it's more for the likes of Piers Moron, who for all his sins is unlikely to cause global thermonuclear war any time soon.
Rather mention the likes of Owen Jones, who wants to use the situation as a platform to rant incoherently about factional in-fighting within the Labour Party. Because that's obviously what's really important right now.
We clearly need a thermo-nuclear mega twat thread for the likes of Vlad the really very nasty and bad then.
IMO Owen Jones has become more toxic to Labour than the Tories. He should go and join them. Definitely in the Piers Morgan Complete Bell End category of flappy jawed windbags who like the sound of their own voice and think that somehow they know better than anybody else. Tosser.
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Peter Hitchens, yet again. After last week's column suggesting all Ukrainians are Nazis & that they're no better than Russia (combined with yet more slagging off the BBC), this week's says Xi's China is far worse than Putin's Russia (and again insulting the BBC). 'Long Live The Blackshirts' has clearly escaped his memory…
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Victor Lewis-Smith's observation about The Beatles is equally applicable to the Hitchens brothers.
Edit: add Spiked's improbable-of-forehead rectumburger Brendan O'Neill and multi-purpose shitsmith Richard “Smellyface” Littlejohn(son) to the list. If you like Russia so much why don’t you go live there? Especially Littlejohn, whose other crimes include whining about “immigrunts” while being one
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"Sir" Edward Leigh :sick: >:( https://twitter.com/BenHurst/status/1498670774240137223?s=20&t=JDk8HJjxp_aebrSNpxEONQ
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"Sir" Edward Leigh :sick: >:( https://twitter.com/BenHurst/status/1498670774240137223?s=20&t=JDk8HJjxp_aebrSNpxEONQ
What an utter prick. He's led a life of complete privilege and doesn't have a sliver of compassion in his body.
I felt vaguely ill after listening to that.
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Fuck me, he’s definitely a candidate for the Oxtail Illustrated Dictionary's definition of “gammon”.
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WAC
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Daniel Kvyat, former F1 driver and a Russian.
"Banning russian athletes from sport is unfair".
How about invading Ukraine and killing innocent people Daniel?
Fucking moron.
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"Sir" Edward Leigh :sick: >:( https://twitter.com/BenHurst/status/1498670774240137223?s=20&t=JDk8HJjxp_aebrSNpxEONQ
It's those Eastern Europeans that are holding the economy together in the land of the Eastern Angles, the locals are a bunch of snowflakes who wouldn't know hard work if it bit them on the arse.
Harrumph
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"Sir" Edward Leigh :sick: >:( https://twitter.com/BenHurst/status/1498670774240137223?s=20&t=JDk8HJjxp_aebrSNpxEONQ
It's those Eastern Europeans that are holding the economy together in the land of the Eastern Angles, the locals are a bunch of snowflakes who wouldn't know hard work if it bit them on the arse.
Harrumph
Well, complaining that someone else is taking their jobs is, for some, a full-time job in itself.
I'd hazard Sir Edward's knowledge of crop picking isn't extensive.
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From the look of him, he has extensive knowledge of some of the uses of barley.
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I think this has been covered before, but his complexion is a genetic/medical thing.
His opinions/spoutings are purely his choice though.
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Daniel Kvyat, former F1 driver and a Russian.
"Banning russian athletes from sport is unfair".
How about invading Ukraine and killing innocent people Daniel?
Fucking moron.
Although the slant of the whole of his message was that he's horrified by the conflict and wants there to be peace, and that sport should promote unity and peace, not division.
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Competing in sport is only possible because we are not indiscriminately killing our fellow competitors in the human race.
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Competing in sport is only possible because we are not indiscriminately killing our fellow competitors in the human race.
Games without frontiers - war without tears
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Competing in sport is only possible because we are not indiscriminately killing our fellow competitors in the human race.
Games without frontiers - war without tears
Is immediately transported back to the 80s. Considering I’m currently visiting my old school town, that’s not that difficult at all.
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Imagine someone who is so totally Out There that even noted Super-Twat Arron Banks described him as “a total fruit loop”. Now imagine the same person has said:
“Is there any slightest chance, however small, that Russia may have a just cause? And if there is. Should we try to understand it? […] Do you think our government would stage a Nuclear False Flag just to cover up vax side effects?”
Actually you don’t need to imagine it, because such a person exists in the form of Turnip Point UK “founder” and Super-Twat John Mappin. Turnip Point UK have officially tried to distance themselves from the S-T, but not very convincingly, and he’s also been spotted recently in the dubious company of Maajid Nawaz, Looza Fox, Niggles Fartrage, Pinochet and Yaxley-Lennon fanboi Andrew Rosindell and Mark François.
Definitely a worthy addition to the pantheon.
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Ivan Kuliak, Russian gymnast.
Stands on the podium next to Ukranian gymnast Kovtun Illia, with the letter Z added to his shirt. As The Grauniad reports:
"The “Z”, a letter that does not exist in the Cyrillic Russian alphabet, has been seen daubed on Russian tanks and vehicles in Ukraine and has come to symbolise support for the invasion."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/07/shocking-behaviour-russian-gymnast-shows-z-symbol-on-podium-next-to-ukrainian-winner (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/07/shocking-behaviour-russian-gymnast-shows-z-symbol-on-podium-next-to-ukrainian-winner)
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I'm surprised the Ukrainian gold medal winner didn't thump him. I think I would have done!
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I'm surprised the Ukrainian gold medal winner didn't thump him. I think I would have done!
I suspect there would have been a significant amount of satisfaction in looking down on the S-T from the Gold medal block.
"You can put a Z on your uniform, but I beat you, you S-T."
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In a similar vein...
Dmitry Rogozin, the firebrand head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, has had personnel at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan apply "V" and "Z" markings to the transporter vehicle used to move Soyuz rockets into the launch position. Rogozin says that these symbols show "solidarity" with Russian forces in Ukraine, ...
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"Baikonur is in solidarity with the actions of our Armed Forces, supports our guys who are fulfilling their patriotic and military duty," Rogozin wrote on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/1499711693655625733) in a post, [...] that included pictures of the markings and of personnel applying them.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44589/russia-adorns-its-space-centers-soyuz-rocket-transporter-with-ukraine-invasion-markings
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Now I'm wondering whether space fanboi Sel Balamir, front man of the mighty Amplifier, will be changing the name of his record label. It's called “Rockosmos”.
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I'm surprised the Ukrainian gold medal winner didn't thump him. I think I would have done!
See also Hungary vs USSR in the water polo at the 1956 Olympics.
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Allison Pearson.
Extreme fascist and Putin apologist who pretends to completely not understand why sanctions at all levels are both necessary and important.
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Allison Pearson.
Extreme fascist and Putin apologist who pretends to completely not understand why sanctions at all levels are both necessary and important.
sh
She might not be pretending. After all she is incredibly thick.
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That is always possible but I'm not buying the "Dorries" act.
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She just writes those contrarian, clickbait opinion pieces for the usual sources, with no particular skill or insight, and they aren't even entertaining. I'm never sure if they're just milking what is ultimately easy work or they genuinely believe what they're writing. I suspect there's a point when they themselves are unsure.
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Journalists can move between the Guardian and the Torygraph. They follow editorial policy. It's their job. Ethics and morals don't seem to come into it much.
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Pearson, Dorries and Hartley Brewer make up the Unholy Trinity of Stupid, albeit that they all bow before disgraced former International Development Secretary Piggi Patel.
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What’s that you ask, Mr Neil? “Can you cite when and where Mr Corbyn was opposing Putin so I can give such exemplary behaviour a wider currency?”
Brillo promptly gets his arse handed to him with examples of El Corbo warning about Vladolf going back more than twenty years.
Andrew “Brillo” Neil: Super-Twat.
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J K Rowling can FRO
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/13/jk-rowling-keir-starmer-misrepresents-law-woman-definition-labour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/13/jk-rowling-keir-starmer-misrepresents-law-woman-definition-labour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)
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Given the qualifications of the two, I think I’ll take Mt Starmers view on what the law says over that of bigot.
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Rowling is a perfect example of somebody who excels and is widely admired for their achievements in one area but when they broaden their reach it reveals rather more about them than perhaps they actually realise.
She appears to me to be a good fit for a tory candidate at the next election.
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DP World aka P&O
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/17/po-ferries-halts-sailings-before-major-announcement
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Two Super-Twats for the price of one yesterday as Bloody Stupid Johnson delivers a speech to a half-empty hall at the Tory Spring Conference, in which he compared the Ukrainian people's current fight to rid itself of unwanted house guests to the UK voting for Brexit. YA RLY.
“Absolute pleasure to welcome the Ukrainian Ambassador [Vadym Prystaiko] to Spring Conference to watch [Bloody Stupid Johnson ]’s brilliant speech” simpered Peter Lilley's successor as perennial Slimy Git of the Week Oliver Durrrrden. This man sounds like a bit of a crawler, Moriarty.
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Rowling is a perfect example of somebody who excels and is widely admired for their achievements in one area but when they broaden their reach it reveals rather more about them than perhaps they actually realise.
She appears to me to be a good fit for a tory candidate at the next election.
She doesn't to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling#Politics
In 2008 Rowling donated £1 million to the Labour Party, endorsed Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown over his Conservative challenger David Cameron, and commended Labour's policies on child poverty
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Rowling dislikes the British tabloid the Daily Mail,[386] which she successfully sued in 2014 for libel about her time as a single mother
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As an antidote to the twattery, what a gesture by Josh Adams... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/rugby-union/60809520 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/rugby-union/60809520)
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Rowling is a perfect example of somebody who excels and is widely admired for their achievements in one area but when they broaden their reach it reveals rather more about them than perhaps they actually realise.
She appears to me to be a good fit for a tory candidate at the next election.
She doesn't to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling#Politics
In 2008 Rowling donated £1 million to the Labour Party, endorsed Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown over his Conservative challenger David Cameron, and commended Labour's policies on child poverty
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Rowling dislikes the British tabloid the Daily Mail,[386] which she successfully sued in 2014 for libel about her time as a single mother
The problem is that as people age they do tend to shift their opinions to the right. Obviously not everybody does but it is a known trait.
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Sebastian Coe for being a transphobic twat.
Coe against trans women in sport (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/21/coe-warns-transgender-athletes-pose-risk-to-integrity-of-womens-sport?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
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While Coe is generally a twat, none of that seems unreasonable.
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Sebastian Coe for being a transphobic twat.
Coe against trans women in sport (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/21/coe-warns-transgender-athletes-pose-risk-to-integrity-of-womens-sport?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
"... gender cannot trump biology"
We are all different. If Coe had been born to my body I guarantee no manner of elite training would ever have seen him beat any elite athlete let alone those with whom he identifies.
There is a wider, mature debate needed I accept but there is a vociferous bunch of deniers refusing to accept that we are simply identifiable by a binary system. This is so closed-minded and almost witch-finder in nature.
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Well yes, but that's not what he says in the article.
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The problem is that as people age they do tend to shift their opinions to the right. Obviously not everybody does but it is a known trait.
I saw some research (which was conducted on USAnians, so may not apply to the same extent in civilised countries) that suggested this effect was simply an artefact of wealthy people living long enough to become old.
The moral panic around trans people, on the other hand, is something that's being deliberately stoked for political aims. That's why it wasn't a 'debate', let alone a mainstream issue until 2016. The people directly involved were quietly getting on with establishing legal rights, providing medical care and regulating sport until [left as an exercise for the reader] decided it would be a useful element in a culture war.
And the thing about culture wars is that they provide an easy way to get your name in the papers with "$celebrity expresses opinion". And since the existence of trans people is now being framed as an attack on women's rights, that means every female celebrity is now entitled to an opinion, no matter how ill-informed.
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Well yes, but that's not what he says in the article.
Quite. The headline is clickbait.
Coe is head of World Athletics, and has overseen changes in regulations that permit transgender people to compete.
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The thing about the culture war is that both sides seem similarly eager to join up. It's a righteous crusade on either side and there can be no weakness, no acknowledgement, no compromise, even thinking such a thing is moral weakness.
I'd agree a terrible headline, but a perfectly sensible comment about sensible, evidence-based regulation than enables people to compete fairly.
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All the members of the Gammonariat who think Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe should smile prettily for the cameras and express her undying gratitude to BRITAIN for springing her from chokey rather than being an assertive and pissed-off non-white woman saying harsh things about successive FOREIGN Secretaries, especially Bloody Stupid Johnson, can fuck the fuck off, and then do it again.
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The thing about the culture war is that both sides seem similarly eager to join up. It's a righteous crusade on either side and there can be no weakness, no acknowledgement, no compromise, even thinking such a thing is moral weakness.
I'd agree a terrible headline, but a perfectly sensible comment about sensible, evidence-based regulation than enables people to compete fairly.
The thing about the "culture war" is the eagerness for folk to throw anything in as part of it just because they are ideologically opposed to it.
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The thing about the culture war is that both sides seem similarly eager to join up. It's a righteous crusade on either side and there can be no weakness, no acknowledgement, no compromise, even thinking such a thing is moral weakness.
That's by design, I think. Attack a precarious minority with decades of experience campaigning for equality, and they've got two options: a) meekly accept their vilification and consequential erosion of their human rights or b) fight tooth and nail. The LGBT community is acutely aware of how they were treated for most of the 20th century, and what sort of tactics won them the rights and acceptance they had in the UK in 2016.
...Which plays right into the culture war when the media's idea of balance is to two-sides everything, and sensationalism always wins. So "We just want to pee without being harassed" starts to look like a righteous crusade, rather than a perfectly reasonable position.
I'd agree a terrible headline, but a perfectly sensible comment about sensible, evidence-based regulation than enables people to compete fairly.
Agreed.
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I see republican moderate and all round thoroughly nice chap Governor Ron DeSantis has contributed his usual measured and reasoned two cents to the transgender participants in sport debate.
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Oh, and I see that the tenacious and scrupulously neutral journalist Allison Pearson has weighed in too. Good to see the debate being played out in such a balanced and thoughtful way in public.
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Everyone's favourite fascist rabble-rousing shit-stirrer. Again.
Tommy Robinson has failed to appear at the High Court for questioning over his finances after losing a libel case brought against him by a teenager.
The English Defence League founder, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was due to appear on Tuesday in connection with unpaid legal bills...
...Speaking on Tuesday, Judge John Dagnall found Robinson knew "perfectly well" that he was due to attend court and had emailed the court asking for his hearing to be adjourned.
"It seems to me at first sight a classic situation where he has decided not to attend," he said.
Judge Dagnall said that "all I can do" is refer Robinson's non-attendance to a High Court judge, adding: "They may, if he or she chooses to do so, hold Mr Yaxley-Lennon in contempt."...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-60841114
Expect the Twattersphere to be full of the "WHy is U PIcKinG on ARE TOMMEH?" morons very shortly.
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If Tiny Tommeh Ten-Names had learned anything from his long, varied and notably unsuccessful criminal career it would surely be to turn up to court at the appointed time. However, learning appears to be beyond his ken, the thick fuck.
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He’s been successful enough to get filthy rich. Hopefully he won’t get to keep it.
Probably hoping a short prison sentence will get the contributions rolling in from the knuckle draggers & dodgy media outfits again.
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2022/03/22/tommy-two-homes-hope-not-hate-reveal-another-property-linked-to-tommy-robinson/ (https://hopenothate.org.uk/2022/03/22/tommy-two-homes-hope-not-hate-reveal-another-property-linked-to-tommy-robinson/)
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Rishi Sunak is an utter shit*.
*Apologies to shit.
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Rishi Sunak is an utter shit*.
*Apologies to shit.
https://twitter.com/marinapurkiss/status/1506914608648491014?s=10
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I think we are all so jaded by BJ that we don't bother . . .
However, him gurning and laughing as Sunak talked about people suffering in Ukraine is a new low, even for BJ.
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peter hebblethwaite of P&O ferries talking about the sacking of the staff today in front of a Commons committee
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peter hebblethwaite of P&O ferries talking about the sacking of the staff today in front of a Commons committee
I was about to say that!
P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite has admitted to MPs that a decision to sack 800 workers last week without consulting the unions broke the law.
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I have a wild idea – what if we had some kind of sanction that we could apply to people who knowingly break the law? I'd model it on something like school detentions. We'd obviously need some people to enforce it and we'd probably have to write down the rules to stop people wriggling around them, but I think it's doable.
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A quick scan of the ferry accounts and the strategic report for 2020 indicates large pension liabilities, and a significant operating profit in 2020 following accounting losses in 2019. A 50% margin doesn't sound too shabby.
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I have a wild idea – what if we had some kind of sanction that we could apply to people who knowingly break the law? I'd model it on something like school detentions. We'd obviously need some people to enforce it and we'd probably have to write down the rules to stop people wriggling around them, but I think it's doable.
That sounds like a neat idea. Run is past someone in charge, such as the Prime Minister, to see what they say.
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I have a wild idea – what if we had some kind of sanction that we could apply to people who knowingly break the law? I'd model it on something like school detentions. We'd obviously need some people to enforce it and we'd probably have to write down the rules to stop people wriggling around them, but I think it's doable.
That sounds like a neat idea. Run is past someone in charge, such as the Prime Minister, to see what they say.
I perceive a problem might arise with enforcement. The problem would be who appoints the enforcers and how independent the enforcers actually are. If the enforcers are paid from the public purse then there is a real risk of undue influence applied by those in "power" with control of the public purse and the ability to appoint at any given time. If they are private sector enforcers then it's pure Russian roulette ...
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peter hebblethwaite of P&O ferries talking about the sacking of the staff today in front of a Commons committee
Dear me, what a revolting slimy git. Imagine being so twattish that even Grant Shapps notices :jurek:
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So many candidates…..
Have we had Bill Wiggin yet ?
https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1509185820393185286?s=21&t=FNGhbh8t5JhehyMAj4UVgQ (https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1509185820393185286?s=21&t=FNGhbh8t5JhehyMAj4UVgQ)
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So many candidates…..
Have we had Bill Wiggin yet ?
https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1509185820393185286?s=21&t=FNGhbh8t5JhehyMAj4UVgQ (https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1509185820393185286?s=21&t=FNGhbh8t5JhehyMAj4UVgQ)
WAC
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I was going to nominate Viktor Orban but then I thought no, it's the 53% who voted for him who should be nominated. Then I thought shit, that's horrifically close numbers to the berxshit referendum.
Now I find myself nominating all nationalist/fascist pricks everywhere.
It's as if the past 90 years never happened ...
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And Hatey Katie strikes again.
Perhaps putin or one of his rich friends is bunging her a few quid.
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What’s the professional gobshite come out with this time? Mr Google is being Unhelpful.
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She's been ranting on her "authentic" YouTube channel about Zelezny at the Grammies. I managed to avoid clicking on it but the text on preview was enough to make me vomit.
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Eric Pickles is an arrogant ST.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/07/eric-pickles-asks-grenfell-inquiry-not-to-waste-his-time-but-gets-death-toll-wrong
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Good to see that a spell out of the slimelight has not reduced Piggles' capacity for twattery.
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Straight in at number one…
“It’s the clear moral responsibility of all taxpayers to pay as little tax as the law allows. Family comes first.”
http://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1512337026670022659
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Blimey, I thought that was a parody for a bit.
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You don’t give The Man your money 'less you has to!
Edit: plus His Lordship appears to have been binge-watching Horrid Cockneys Eastenders. Iss orl abaht faaaaamlee, innit!
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Apparently he's "the son of Irish Immigrants", whatever that is meant to imply. He's also a Brexiter who's got an Irish passport, who recently characterised Yorkshire thus 'transformed into a county of leftist whingers begging for handouts' . He should have a season ticket here.
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Blimey, I thought that was a parody for a bit.
Poe's law applies? Except that he seems to really believe what he says.
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December 2013: Ukraine is right to sign an FTA with the EU rather than joining a customs union with Russia; FTAs, unlike customs unions, are non-exclusive.
April 2022: Delighted that we're scrapping all tariffs and quotas for Ukraine. Thanks, [Boris Johnson], [Liz Truss] and [Anne-Marie Trevelyan]. We're able to do it because we're outside the EU. It would be nice if Brussels followed suit.
Ten house points if you recognise the author of both sentiments as former MEP and perpetual Super-Twat Daniel “Lord” Hanna.
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Blimey, I thought that was a parody for a bit.
Poe's law applies? Except that he seems to really believe what he says.
He is a prize super-twat. I had to deal with him a lot when he was Johnson's sidekick at City hall and was the main mouthpiece for his crazy Estuary Airport idea, as well as having the day-to-day oversight of Transport for London. He seems to have moved even further to the right and become more ludicrous since collecting his reward for loyal servitude.
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Eric Pickles is an arrogant ST.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/07/eric-pickles-asks-grenfell-inquiry-not-to-waste-his-time-but-gets-death-toll-wrong
At least he overestimated. Could have been even worse.
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Crispin Blunt, whose name appears to be rhyming slang.
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Seems Mr [“Rhyming Slang”– Ed.] has retracted his statement. This may actually have the Streisand Effect, viz. making him appear even more of an S-T than was previously the case.
Edit: while looking for a summary of Mr [“Rhyming Slang”– Ed.]'s S-T behaviour, I noted with alarm that Nadine Dorries is “trending”. From which I deduce we can expect news of a further piece of egregious boneheadedness from Mad Nad shortly.
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MadNad's most recent Twitter claim included the words 'food doesn't grow on trees.'
Except it didn't, as it was fake, but let's face it, it would have been one of her more reasoned recent comments.
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Seems she’s got into a verbal catfight with TV's Kirstie Allsopp too. Bring popcorn and [“Removed to save mind bleach” – The Invigilator].
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MadNad's most recent Twitter claim included the words 'food doesn't grow on trees.'
Except it didn't, as it was fake, but let's face it, it would have been one of her more reasoned recent comments.
Well, she's partly right, but mostly wrong as always. And I'm sure she didn't intend to be only partly stupid
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Now that would be proper reality TV. Mad Nad and Kirstie Allsopp with nunchucks, in a paddling pool of lime jelly.
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Bethany (11): U disgust me! Smash teh patriarky!!1!
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MadNad's most recent Twitter claim included the words 'food doesn't grow on trees.'
Except it didn't, as it was fake, but let's face it, it would have been one of her more reasoned recent comments.
I saw that and had to think long and hard before deciding it was probably fake, which was later confirmed by Full Fact. That's the problem with Dorries - it has to be something *extremely* idiotic before you'll question whether or not she might have actually said it.
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Now that would be proper reality TV. Mad Nad and Kirstie Allsopp with nunchucks, in a paddling pool of lime jelly.
I'd pay to watch that - private box natch.
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Fabricant for his attempt to divert attention from the habitual crook and all round vile mega super twat johnson and onto nurses and teachers. What fabricant forgets is that these people worked to keep the nation going whilst the tories simply partied.
Edit:
Sorry, the tories simply partied presumably celebrating how much taxpayer money they'd shovelled off into their own and their cronies pockets. Just my opinion mind ...
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Patel /Johnson for the Rwanda scheme. Better they lawyer up now because it will run and run. No doubt involving loss of life, corrupt politicians both here and Africa.
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I’m sure that taking former politicians to task re:their actions who’ll in office, is soon to become illegal
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I don’t believe that the police investigate crimes that have happened in the past.
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A welcome return to the ranks of the Super-Twat Army for prize dick Calvin Robinson who, improbable as it may sound, is in training for the Anglican priesthood. Except – onoz – his progress has been blocked by the high heidyins of the church because he is insufficiently woke and has a gig at Gammon BroadcastingTM. Fancy a Christian denomination being in favour of being alert to social injustices! Natch he has been defended by the likes of porridge fangrrl and self-confessed jellybean Isabel Talkshitte, who clearly wasn’t paying attention in those div. lessons that dealt with J Christ being, well, woke :facepalm:
Honourable mention for haunted pencil and member for Salem Witchtrial Jacob Grease-Smugg, merely for tweeting:
Christ is risen, Alleluia. He is risen indeed, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Joak about sourdough starters goes here ==>
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The far-right dishonourable member for the 17th century also reckons that the Rwanda asylum plan is ‘almost Easter story of redemption’ (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/17/uk-asylum-seekers-plan-rwanda-jacob-rees-mogg).
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A welcome return to the ranks of the Super-Twat Army for prize dick Calvin Robinson who, improbable as it may sound, is in training for the Anglican priesthood. Except – onoz – his progress has been blocked by the high heidyins of the church because he is insufficiently woke and has a gig at Gammon BroadcastingTM. Fancy a Christian denomination being in favour of being alert to social injustices! Natch he has been defended by the likes of porridge fangrrl and self-confessed jellybean Isabel Talkshitte, who clearly wasn’t paying attention in those div. lessons that dealt with J Christ being, well, woke :facepalm:
Honourable mention for haunted pencil and member for Salem Witchtrial Jacob Grease-Smugg, merely for tweeting:
Christ is risen, Alleluia. He is risen indeed, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Joak about sourdough starters goes here ==>
Facebook is full of joaks like this
(https://scontent.flhr2-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/278546569_3090989364550156_7871915124943607709_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=T6lGJwrikTAAX9ijtQA&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr2-4.fna&oh=00_AT-1_3_70aiPvk5qiLXORFeatxojLajYDj7D4aCu537a0A&oe=62624189)
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I don’t believe that the police investigate crimes that have happened in the past.
All crimes have happened in the past. Are you saying the police investigate 0% of crimes?
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I don’t believe that the police investigate crimes that have happened in the past.
All crimes have happened in the past. Are you saying the police investigate 0% of crimes?
It’s a reference to the Mets initial response to being asked to investigate partygate, they claimed as it was in the past they wouldn’t be investigating…
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It was actually Midair Bacon who claimed that:
The police don't normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago
Proving that:
1. He’s an idiot, and
b) He never watched Waking The Dead
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Colossal Bell End.
Piers Morgan compares himself to Nelson Mandela
TV presenter says his battle for ‘free speech’ is similar to ex-South African leader’s struggle against apartheid (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/18/piers-morgan-compares-himself-nelson-mandela-free-speech)
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That slimy little shite Conor Burns is at it again defending Bloody Stupid Johnson. Apparently misleading Parliament is OK if
you're not Amber Rudderless you (pretend you) don’t know you’re doing it. Even TV's Cathy Newman was finding hard to land a glove on the horrible twat.
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Piers Moron Morgan (CBE) on The Media Show on R4 right now, proving, beyond all reasonable doubt, that his honorific and permanent position here is thoroughly deserved.
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Everyone's favourite colossal bellend* is, apparently, a lying liar who tells lies (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-releases-audio-appears-refute-claim-walked-interview-2020-questi-rcna25277).
* Piers “Morgan” Moron, of course. Who did you think I meant :demon:
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Everyone's favourite colossal bellend* is, apparently, a lying liar who tells lies (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-releases-audio-appears-refute-claim-walked-interview-2020-questi-rcna25277).
* Piers “Morgan” Moron, of course. Who did you think I meant :demon:
OTOH, Piers Morgan (CBE) is being accused of lying by Donald Trump (BYBE*) - someone whose relationship with the truth is... tangential, to say the least. ;)
<Godzilla> Dr. Ichiro Serizawa: Let them fight. </Godzilla>
* Bigly Yuge Bell End
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Rees-Mogg has been trying to cheer up the proles in the civil service. https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1517561184072962048
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Thanks Mogg. Your inspiring notes would really make me want to rush back to the hutch
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That is all about property investment returns and train fares. Nothing to do with efficiency.
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If I worked there and found a note from that arsehole on my desk I'd stay away even more. He might turn up but from what I can see he does nothing of any significance of importance for his bloated remuneration.
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One Jonathan Jones notes that:
“But … almost no civil servants have fixed desks … so he won’t know who he was ‘visiting’, where they were, or who they are if he ‘sees them in the office’”.
Ergo Grease-Smugg is an even more Superior Twat than previously suspected.
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So in other words it's just another cynical, nasty publicity stunt playing to the radicalised fascist supporters of the cabal.
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Anyone heard him come up with a Brexit opportunity yet? Exports are down 10% on 2019.
https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/brexit-is-now-coming-home-to-roost-for-boriss-britain-41578795.html
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Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiencies if you don’t mind. He’s setting his sights on the DVLA, amongst others, as not fit for purpose.
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He’s setting his sights on ... as not fit for purpose.
Matthew 7:5 applies? Or mebbe pot & kettle?
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It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that the Heil on Sunday has published yet another piece of misogynistic stool-water (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/angela-rayner-reacts-to-mail-on-sundays-peverted-basic-instinct-smear-320330/). It carries the byline of the foul rag's political editor Glen Owen who, in addition to be the latest addition to the S-T pantheon,
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/02/article-2571166-1BF3096C00000578-494_306x386.jpg)
has a prolapsed sphincter where most people have a chin.
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Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiencies if you don’t mind. He’s setting his sights on the DVLA, amongst others, as not fit for purpose.
Or as some wag pointed out on twitter: BOGEy
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One Jonathan Jones notes that:
“But … almost no civil servants have fixed desks … so he won’t know who he was ‘visiting’, where they were, or who they are if he ‘sees them in the office’”.
Ergo Grease-Smugg is an even more Superior Twat than previously suspected.
Also there is a clear desk policy, rigorously enforced.
Written warning for the haunted pencil.
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What we need is all the civil servants who work in the "estate" from time to time to drop by Smugg's office and leave a similar note but stating that he should make an appointment as they are incredibly busy with the spaghetti of government policy to deal with.
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Mr Speaker is to call in the editor of the Fail on Sunday for a stern talking-to :thumbsup:
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Oh No. The figurehead who's never demonstrated control of parliamentary "decency" is asking part of the media to explain itself. Murdoch et al must be quivering in their boots.
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Mr Speaker is to call in the editor of the Fail on Sunday for a stern talking-to :thumbsup:
More likely drinkies in the taxpayer-subsidised bar and a few juicy morsels of gossip.
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Mmmm. Not convinced by this new Mr Speaker. John Bercow would have had the Heil bloke executed for sorcery or something.
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Mr Speaker is to call in the editor of the Fail on Sunday for a stern talking-to :thumbsup:
More likely drinkies in the taxpayer-subsidised bar and a few juicy morsels of gossip.
Known in the Civil Service as death by sticky bun.
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Apparently said editor told Mr Speaker where he could go and shove it
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What we need is all the civil servants who work in the "estate" from time to time to drop by Smugg's office and leave a similar note but stating that he should make an appointment as they are incredibly busy with the spaghetti of government policy to deal with.
I think I'm going to suggest all turning up at the office on the same day as a form of industrial action.
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I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.
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I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.
These idiots don't like facts.
My last workplace. Productivity was up, during lockdown. Serious risk of burnout from some people, which we monitored and tried to ensure people took time off. But productivity was up.
End of lockdown in sight (light at end of tunnel, but remember that Metallica song), "We want everyone back in the office.".
Muggins has moved to other end of the country by this time "We really don't think you can do your job remotely" (but productivity is up). So I leave. Cue wails of distress.
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Indeed. I'm fortunate to work for a company that has embraced hybrid working – we have offices for those who want them, but there's no compulsion. The main concern in practice isn't people doing too little work, indeed it's that they do too much, so something management need to keep tabs on. It's also great for hiring, since I'm only limited by where we have the business logistics (legal, payroll etc.)
There are certainly some challenges, but honestly, these dinosaurs who evidently believe people only work if they're wearing a tie and chained to the desk. It also makes watching porn at work a lot less risky. You'd think they'd be celebrating that benefit at the mo.
My wife's company, on the other hand, is trying to force people back to the office at least for a few days a week – cue exodus of their most experienced staff and a recruitment crisis.
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Recalling all the home workers back to the office , by formal change of contracts, was used by my company as a bullying tactic to get people to leave. This was about 2 years before the pandemic and many of the home workers concerned had over ten years1 of home working under their belt. The offer of generous leavers package2 saw a lot of the older, more experienced (and more expensive) folk leave, so triple gins all round in HR. They tried to reduce the exodus of the brightest and the best youngsters by refusing their applications for the package, but many of them saw the company they were working for in its true colours and left anyway.
1. I had 18 years of home working. If I’d known that the pandemic was coming I might have tried to tough it out a bit.
2. BT had a no compulsory redundancy policy. I don’t know if it still exists.
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I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.
Mine took fifteen days. Part of me* thinks the delays are mostly happening to members of the lumpengammonariat who failed to read the instructions.
* My inner Crashing Snob, obv.
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I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.
Mine took fifteen days. Part of me* thinks the delays are mostly happening to members of the lumpengammonariat who failed to read the instructions.
* My inner Crashing Snob, obv.
Erm, I have to disagree with you.
Last time I renewed my passport, I had endless problems with the computer rejecting my photo. 'Background too dark'.
then 'not enough contrast between background and subject'.
Well, if you insist that the background is pale, then the subject is a bloke with long grey hair and a grey beard, there won't BE a lot of contrast! Had to resolve by appealing to speak to a human - who saw sense and overrode the computer.
That took a fair bit of wrangling. Someone not used to finagling bureaucracy would really struggle.
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Those new-fangled photo booths with a hotline to the pisspot office *ought* to take care of that. Leastways the use of one didn’t cause any problem for this long-haired greybeard.
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I did the turn up at the office things for an interview, which turned out to be someone sliding me a passport under the counter glass and shooing me off. I am sure the last time there was actual face-to-face contact with a human who asked me a few questions. I don't think there were words this time, just an exchange of confirmation number and passport.
As mentioned, the passport they gave me was so shoddy it got stuck in the first machine reader it encountered and now the laminated page is bent and torn. The remedy, they cheerlessly advised me, was that I pay for a new one.
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You'd think that since some mid-echelon Super-Twat decided to have the printing shifted to Poland turnaround would be quick… er, hang on! Presumably the bass boat office has a Special Photocopier for the people who fork out for the while-you-wait service.
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I took dozens of photos and fed the least photographically incompetent to the computer, which I suspect is using a neural net trained on a Jasper Carrott sketch about facial expressions in passport photographs to approve the most unflattering.
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You aren't allowed laser printed photos.
So that’s what I have done for friends and family. Never had one rejected.
You aren’t allowed to computer enhance photos.
So that’s what I have done for friends and family. Never had one rejected.
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In the past I have had one taken in one of those "passport approved" photo booths rejected because my hair had apparently become indistinguishable from the background. Even the blind man looking at it could see that this was not the case.
So I took a very unflattering selfie with my camera phone whilst standing about a metre in front on an off white wall and it was accepted.
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I just stood in the kitchen by a rare patch of a blank wall and got my wife to take a picture on her iPhone. I think I cropped and brightened it a bit. Job done.
Still got a shit passport though. I genuinely think it was done by photocopier and home laminator.
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I think the only suitable piece of wall in Larrington Towers would have required me to stand on a ladder halfway up the stairs. The photo booth at Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles seemed less fraught.
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Kitchen door and enough zoom that it filled the background. Which didn't help me not look like a convict.
My earlier attempt at sheet-drapery was thwarted by the RCD-tester staining it a funny colour when I attempted to remove the wrinkles. Fairly sure they're not supposed to do that.
Next time I'll use a booth and scan the photo, or something (unless they can give you a digital output these days?).
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Kitchen door and enough zoom that it filled the background. Which didn't help me not look like a convict.
Worse than the infamous "Kim the Jackal" pic from your forum debut ? ;)
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Think Anne Ramsey in The Goonies.
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We pop along to the local Chemist, that takes photos in amongst the wine making paraphernalia upstairs.
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Next time I'll use a booth and scan the photo, or something (unless they can give you a digital output these days?).
In addition to the printed photos they also provide a number which you then enter during the online renewal form-jibbling exercise, following which there is SCIENCE between the photo booth operator’s The Database and the Pisspot Office. Having both is quite handy coz it seems I need an International Driving Permit (1949) to, er, drive in USAnia these days but natch you can’t apply for one o' they online, no, you have to traipse to a The Post Office at least a mile away and queueueueue for a fortnight chiz.
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Selected post offices have their own digital photo booth for driving license and passport renewals. Hand over the documents pay the fee and get your photo taken. All very smooth.
Though if the Rock Ferry one is anything to go by you still look like a convict.
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I followed the instructions and had few rejections but eventually had a piss pot photie accepted which had the brightness tweaked upwards by a fair amount.
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Micros photo was a nightmare, hair too big, not standing out from her clothes... Complete wardrobe charge, hair tied back hard and it was eventually accepted.
And that's before you get to racist cameras and algorithms.
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Selected post offices have their own digital photo booth for driving license and passport renewals. Hand over the documents pay the fee and get your photo taken. All very smooth.
Though if the Rock Ferry one is anything to go by you still look like a convict.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52039142224_fe08081481_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nhwcY5)
I see… dead people! (https://flic.kr/p/2nhwcY5) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Selected post offices have their own digital photo booth for driving license and passport renewals. Hand over the documents pay the fee and get your photo taken. All very smooth.
They are withdrawing said booths in favour of laptops/tablets. I renewed my permit to commit automotive mayhem last year using the booth at the PO in Cirencester and it was all *very* easy. A tiny bit more expensive than the alternatives, but utterly simple. MrsL went to do the same a month or three back and the booth had been withdrawn from service and, this'll make you laugh, there was a - hand-written, in felt pen - sign up saying that the new tablets/laptops/whatever they'd been given to replace it *didn't* work. It was thus for several weeks, perhaps a couple of months.
My nomination for ST? The berk that decided to decommission the photo-booth before making sure the replacement tool (not the only "tool" in town it seems) actually worked.
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Tory Party chairdroid Oliver Dowden returns with Even Yet MOAR Joy Of Twat Part 4397. See the Local Elections thread downstairs in POBI for details.
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Lance Foreman. Someone needs to drown him in one of his own salmon pens.
https://twitter.com/dontbrexitfixit/status/1521024520454348802 (https://twitter.com/dontbrexitfixit/status/1521024520454348802?s=21&t=neiSMCQGkDdDmMXry-W5Rw)
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I don't think that he realises that in fact his bigoted twattery ensures that people have their already incredibly low opinion of him somewhat reinforced by his own efforts.
How much more of a twat can he make himself look I wonder?
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Lance Foreman. Someone needs to drown him in one of his own salmon pens.
https://twitter.com/dontbrexitfixit/status/1521024520454348802 (https://twitter.com/dontbrexitfixit/status/1521024520454348802?s=21&t=neiSMCQGkDdDmMXry-W5Rw)
I really hope Rayner pulls a Monroe on him.
Ditto I hope Starmer does it to Dorries for this:
https://twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1521092894987325445?s=20&t=srpo7PvQMn2P-JPGpbPR6g (https://twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1521092894987325445?s=20&t=srpo7PvQMn2P-JPGpbPR6g)
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Glen Owen, political editor of the Heil On Sunday and recently-emerged front-runner in the race for STOTY 2022 has excelled himself. Apparently he's had “a week of vile abuse at the hands of the Left's Twitter warriors”.
Trouble is, Glen Owen doesn’t have a Twitter account :facepalm:
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I think we need a new thread for Johnson because Super-Twat doesn’t even begin to cover him following his latest ‘performance’.
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I think we need a new thread for Johnson because Super-Twat doesn’t even begin to cover him following his latest ‘performance’.
Indeed. Even more "bus" bullshit but at least this time he lied rather than denied...
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"You’ll all suffer, but the people you hate will suffer a tiny little bit more”.
Not mine, but a reasonably good explanation for why people vote Tory despite all this shit. Or "the economy", which is just wrong if you look at historical performance. If you discount the 2008 crash (caused by the American subprime credit crunch), Labour are quite a lot better. Otherwise, they are on a par for growth, and better for stability and jobs.
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"You’ll all suffer, but the people you hate will suffer a tiny little bit more”.
Not mine, but a reasonably good explanation for why people vote Tory despite all this shit. Or "the economy", which is just wrong if you look at historical performance. If you discount the 2008 crash (caused by the American subprime credit crunch), Labour are quite a lot better. Otherwise, they are on a par for growth, and better for stability and jobs.
This is the theory of cake*. If you offer someone a cake. An entire cake. Their favourite flavour. With sprinkles. It's even magic cake that doesn't make them fat. There's one caveat, in order to receive the cake, they must give a quarter of that cake to someone else. Sounds good.
Many people, will quite reasonably, be pleased with this offer. They get three-quarters of a splendid cake for free. They might even feel good that someone less fortunate is getting a quarter.
But there are others. Sure, they want cake. But share? Especially with someone less worthwhile than themselves. They want the entire cake, all four quarters. You can point out that by being unwilling to share they will get no cake. They will stomp their feet and say no, no cake then. Then they'll complain about the unfairness, that they couldn't have any cake, and that everyone else got cake but them.
*proper psychologists may not have used cake. Jumbo sausage rolls, perhaps.
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An interesting and very poignant switch between "less fortunate" and "less worthwhile" there Ian.
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"You’ll all suffer, but the people you hate will suffer a tiny little bit more”.
Not mine, but a reasonably good explanation for why people vote Tory despite all this shit. Or "the economy", which is just wrong if you look at historical performance. If you discount the 2008 crash (caused by the American subprime credit crunch), Labour are quite a lot better. Otherwise, they are on a par for growth, and better for stability and jobs.
This is the theory of cake*. If you offer someone a cake. An entire cake. Their favourite flavour. With sprinkles. It's even magic cake that doesn't make them fat. There's one caveat, in order to receive the cake, they must give a quarter of that cake to someone else. Sounds good.
Many people, will quite reasonably, be pleased with this offer. They get three-quarters of a splendid cake for free. They might even feel good that someone less fortunate is getting a quarter.
But there are others. Sure, they want cake. But share? Especially with someone less worthwhile than themselves. They want the entire cake, all four quarters. You can point out that by being unwilling to share they will get no cake. They will stomp their feet and say no, no cake then. Then they'll complain about the unfairness, that they couldn't have any cake, and that everyone else got cake but them.
*proper psychologists may not have used cake. Jumbo sausage rolls, perhaps.
Is there a proper name for this? Sounds very plausible. Explains all sorts of human idiocy.
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"You’ll all suffer, but the people you hate will suffer a tiny little bit more”.
Not mine, but a reasonably good explanation for why people vote Tory despite all this shit. Or "the economy", which is just wrong if you look at historical performance. If you discount the 2008 crash (caused by the American subprime credit crunch), Labour are quite a lot better. Otherwise, they are on a par for growth, and better for stability and jobs.
This is the theory of cake*. If you offer someone a cake. An entire cake. Their favourite flavour. With sprinkles. It's even magic cake that doesn't make them fat. There's one caveat, in order to receive the cake, they must give a quarter of that cake to someone else. Sounds good.
Many people, will quite reasonably, be pleased with this offer. They get three-quarters of a splendid cake for free. They might even feel good that someone less fortunate is getting a quarter.
But there are others. Sure, they want cake. But share? Especially with someone less worthwhile than themselves. They want the entire cake, all four quarters. You can point out that by being unwilling to share they will get no cake. They will stomp their feet and say no, no cake then. Then they'll complain about the unfairness, that they couldn't have any cake, and that everyone else got cake but them.
*proper psychologists may not have used cake. Jumbo sausage rolls, perhaps.
Is there a proper name for this? Sounds very plausible. Explains all sorts of human idiocy.
Toryism?
<g,d&r>
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I've no idea, I might have just invented it, but honestly, it sounds a bit too clever to me so I'm going to credit someone else.
Yes, less worthwhile versus less fortunate is purposeful, it's how we are nudged to perceive the less fortunate as somehow morally undeserving. The should-have-tried-harder, the shirkers, the skivers, the foreigns. They're not people like you.
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An unwelcome return to the Twatheon for George “Useless” Eustice. When TV's Kay Burley noted that Bloody Stupid Johnson's claim to have introduced the Freedom Pass was based on a thick and squelchy bed of Lie, Useless retorted that the notorious lying liar “will know better than any of us what he might have done when he was London mayor”.
You might very well think that, Useless, but knowing what he did and telling the truth about it are two entirely different things. What a twat.
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And to think that porky pie told her that he was honest. 🤔
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An unwelcome return to the Twatheon for George “Useless” Eustice. When TV's Kay Burley noted that Bloody Stupid Johnson's claim to have introduced the Freedom Pass was based on a thick and squelchy bed of Lie, Useless retorted that the notorious lying liar “will know better than any of us what he might have done when he was London mayor”.
You might very well think that, Useless, but knowing what he did and telling the truth about it are to entirely different things. What a twat.
I really think TV companies should stop broadcasting any Johnson interviews live and check them for accuracy before they go out - and either remove the lies or insert editorial comments to point out that they are lies.
Pointing out the lies in later interviews is shutting the stable door somewhat too late.
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If the interviewers were properly prepared they could call out the lies as they are spouted. One suspects that this was explicitly forbidden by Herr jackass himself.
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If the interviewers were properly prepared they could call out the lies as they are spouted. One suspects that this was explicitly forbidden by Herr jackass himself.
I don’t think you can blame the interviewers - he’s so unpredictable, there’s no way of knowing what he’s going to say and it’s impossible to fact-check every statement on the fly.
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The writer of this article
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/06/election-tories-boris-johnson-robert-jenrick-oliver-dowden
should be an honorary poster here.
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Top chap, that John Crace.
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Top chap, that John Crace.
hes the chap who is now referring to BSJ as the convict.
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Professor Larrington, shameless #MediaTart that she be, had dinner with him once, at a literary festival in Gibraltar :D
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John Crace and Marina Hyde are compulsory reading in my house.
Hyde in her column on Friday:-
"Calling an election when you won an 80-seat majority not much more than two years ago feels like the equivalent of having a baby to keep your marriage together. A baby with your wife, I mean, not some art consultant or heavily injuncted Jane Doe".
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In what amounts to a straight flush of Super-Twats James Delingpole has written an article in “The
Super-Twat Gazette Spectator” in which he notes:
In fact, what Watson1, Meechan2, Benjamin3 and their ilk are saying is eminently reasonable, well thought through, logical and compelling.
O RLY, Jimbo? (https://bylinetimes.com/2022/05/06/wipe-jews-off-the-face-of-the-earth-racism-and-antisemitic-slurs-of-viral-youtuber-exposed/). If that is your idea of “reasonable, well thought through, logical and compelling” then you have confirmed what has long been suspected, viz. you're a cunt.
1: Paul Joseph Watson, the Battersea Basement Boi and InfoWars patsy
2: aka Count WDankula
3: aka Sardine of Yakult Sargon of Akkad
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Fabricunt. https://twitter.com/mike_fabricant/status/1523735821551308800 (https://twitter.com/mike_fabricant/status/1523735821551308800?s=21&t=_mEtiqt7oF4qdjzRYiTUoQ)
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How much of a twat do you have to be to get excited about having to queue to have Victorian-era technology applied to your passport (which is not blue)?
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Fabricunt. https://twitter.com/mike_fabricant/status/1523735821551308800 (https://twitter.com/mike_fabricant/status/1523735821551308800?s=21&t=_mEtiqt7oF4qdjzRYiTUoQ)
I wish I hadn't looked at that tweet. The other tweets below are really foul. Apparently, Starmer is trying to influence the police investigation by saying he'll resign if issued a fine.
Their cognitive dissonance is incredible.
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I nominate the daily hate and all of its politically motivated contributors as a swarm of super twats.
Durham police having been pressured for a week or more by mouthy super twat tories and the daily hate have the unenviable position of deciding that Sir K is guilty where Scummings was not. And poor bozo has to have his dire lack of integrity once more scrubbed and rinsed in public on a daily basis.
Partygate rumbles on. I hope that piggy is grateful to the daily hate.
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Desperate Dan Wootton, of Gammon BroadcastingTM
fame notoriety has compared Sir Keeves with…
…
…
…Richard Nixon. Well, we already knew Wootton was a Super-Twat.
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Alan Sugar who has branded staff at accountancy firm PWC lazy gits as they are being offered more relaxed working conditions. No doubt Lord Sugar hates Bob Cratchett.
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Desperate Dan Wootton, of Gammon BroadcastingTM fame notoriety has compared Sir Keeves with…
…
…
…Richard Nixon. Well, we already knew Wootton was a Super-Twat.
That would appear to be a monstrous slur against the memory of Tricky Dickey
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Westminster Village idiot Andrew Bridgen excels himself; asks why Metropolitan Police aren’t investigating Sir Keeves' alleged wrongdoing 300 miles from their manor (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/andrew-bridgen-calls-on-met-police-to-investigate-starmers-alleged-durham-party-322070/) :facepalm:
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Lee Anderson, MP for (and native of) Ashfield
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tory-mp-brits-dont-need-food-banks-cant-cook/
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Lee Anderson in “Still A Moron” shocker!
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Westminster Village idiot Andrew Bridgen excels himself; asks why Metropolitan Police aren’t investigating Sir Keeves' alleged wrongdoing 300 miles from their manor (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/andrew-bridgen-calls-on-met-police-to-investigate-starmers-alleged-durham-party-322070/) :facepalm:
Reminds me of a chap I knew when I was a lad who said, "hey, if this George Best is so good, how come he isn't playing for England?"
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Lee Anderson, MP for (and native of) Ashfield
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tory-mp-brits-dont-need-food-banks-cant-cook/
He claimed there was "not this massive use for food banks in this country", and those who knew how to cook and budget could make meals for 30p a day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61414951
FFS
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A celebrity chef should invite him to come and show us all how it is done.
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Anderson was a scab miner in the eighties and a disgraced Labour councillor in more recent times. He finally found his true home amongst the pond life within the tory party. Swimming with the likes of johnson, patel, dorries, kwateng, hancock, sunak, truss, javid, raab, barclay, etc., etc., etc., etc., ... gives him an awful lot of nasties to look up to.
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A celebrity chef should invite him to come and show us all how it is done.
Jack Monroe has done exactly that.
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A celebrity chef should invite him to come and show us all how it is done.
Jack Monroe has done exactly that.
And she has a very pertinent rant about it here. (https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2022/05/12/whats-the-difference-between-jack-monroe-suggesting-budget-recipes-and-a-tory-mp/)
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So many to choose from, but an extra special mention for whoever thought of throwing another 90,000 people into unemployment to use their salaries to dish out tax cuts.
So wrong and economically illiterate on too many levels to list without becoming apoplectic.
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Golfist Greg Norman.
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So many to choose from, but an extra special mention for whoever thought of throwing another 90,000 people into unemployment to use their salaries to dish out tax cuts.
So wrong and economically illiterate on too many levels to list without becoming apoplectic.
The delays in the passport office are unacceptable!
The delays in issuing driving licences are unacceptable!
It is almost like, I don't know, they need more staff. Lets get rid of staff, that will make things more efficient!
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So many to choose from, but an extra special mention for whoever thought of throwing another 90,000 people into unemployment to use their salaries to dish out tax cuts.
So wrong and economically illiterate on too many levels to list without becoming apoplectic.
The delays in the passport office are unacceptable!
The delays in issuing driving licences are unacceptable!
It is almost like, I don't know, they need more staff. Lets get rid of staff, that will make things more efficient!
It's sell off strategy. Make it totally shite then allow your mates to make a profit from the taxpayer.
The usual tory looting of the public purse.
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It is indeed, and undoubtedly the replacement will cost more and provide less.
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Lee Anderson (30p meals a day etc) has libelled Jack Monroe on GammonNews and she's instructing her lawyer.
<gets popcorn>
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Super-Twat frequent flyer Martin Daubney has joined in too. Get in, Jack :thumbsup:
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Lee Anderson (30p meals a day etc) has libelled Jack Monroe on GammonNews and she's instructing her lawyer.
<gets popcorn>
My bold.
Most excellent news.
Jack has form for this sort of thing.
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Oh yes. Ask Hatey Cockpins :D
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Clearly the gammonati just don't learn.
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Clearly the gammonati just don't learn.
Werl, that’s Lazza's Gammon Paradox inna nutshell, innit. If gammon were capable of learning then they wouldn’t be gammon.
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She is asking for donations for the fight. Link on twitter.
Go get 'em Jack!
Edit: confused myself a tad there. I found her Twitter by simply googling her.
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Clearly the gammonati just don't learn.
Werl, that’s Lazza's Gammon Paradox inna nutshell, innit. If gammon were capable of learning then they wouldn’t be gammon.
This is the thing, it's not just that I find their opinions disagreeable, it's that they're not really opinions, they're just the dull, aching final brown toilet bowl splatters of dumb. There are rocks smarter than Lee Anderson. Well, actually, it's safer to say that there aren't any rocks dumber than Lee Anderson.
Odds on my parents voted for him, mind.
It's a silly argument though, the real story ought to be that no one in one of the richest countries of the world ought to be trying to figure out how to make 30p meals. It's not an achievement, it's a failure.
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Super-Twat frequent flyer Martin Daubney has joined in too. Get in, Jack :thumbsup:
A brace of Super Twats.
I'm not rich ... I'm only on an MP wage of 80k+
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Don't forget Lee Anderson's expenses claims.
In the region of £190,000 IIRC.
ETA: It appears that I didn't RC:- £220,000 :- https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1609114/Lee-Anderson-food-banks-comments-Tory-MP-house-of-commons-cost-of-living-crisis-vn
Also:- https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/lee-anderson/expenses/claim-status
I appreciate it's an overview but, if I put that^ forward as an expenses claim, my company would really and correctly, ask questions.
I hope Jack Monroe either gets a grovelling apology or (metaphorically) takes his trousers down in court.
With luck, that would lead to a by election (MPs can't be declared bankrupt AIUI):- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/08/tory-mp-faces-bankruptcy-over-unpaid-taxes-and-may-have-to-step-down-adam-afriyie
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My reading of Teh Roolz* is that a bankrupt type:
- Cannot stand for election to Parliament, and/or
- If already a member, cannot sit in the Chamber or vote
It doesn’t, alas, state whether they still get paid, or whether they’re still entitled to subsidised grub in the works canteen.
* except for viewers in Scotland
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She is asking for donations for the fight. Link on twitter.
Go get 'em Jack!
Edit: confused myself a tad there. I found her Twitter by simply googling her.
Jack, one of the best independent journalists we have, can also be supported via patreon.
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I've just noticed something:
(https://www.thehandbook.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=264,height=264,fit=cover,q=85/https://files.thehandbook.com/uploads/2014/10/Martin-Daubney.jpg)
Tim Nice-But-Dim
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j4BAix7ZCvo/Rujx7vVRtJI/AAAAAAAAAfw/B4QZBpfETQ4/s200/Tim+Nice+But+Dim.jpg)
Martin Daubney
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Ted Nugent. https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1525591090526572544 (https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1525591090526572544?s=21&t=I2kYrMu0Lu0_xVoDqKHALQ)
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I've just noticed something:
{snap goes here}
Tim Nice-But-Dim
{other snap goes here}
Martin Daubney
You are Richard Ingrams Ian Hislop AICMFP.
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Ella Whelan. Who I hear some of you ask?
A right wing brexit "journalist" who seems to lack the very thing that she accuses Sir Kier Starmer of lacking: personality.
I just couldn't help laughing incredulously at somebody who supports bozo on the basis that he's a fun guy.
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Ella Whelan. Who I hear some of you ask?
A right wing brexit "journalist" who seems to lack the very thing that she accuses Sir Kier Starmer of lacking: personality.
I just couldn't help laughing incredulously at somebody who supports bozo on the basis that he's a fun guy.
Aye, well, hmmmm.... she's in with the Spiked/Institue of "Ideas" mob. Yet another intellectual pygmy.
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Ella Whelan. Who I hear some of you ask?
A right wing brexit "journalist" who seems to lack the very thing that she accuses Sir Kier Starmer of lacking: personality.
I just couldn't help laughing incredulously at somebody who supports bozo on the basis that he's a fun guy.
Boris is a fun guy. A poisonous toadstool.
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Best to ignore these people, they just set themselves up as rightwing-ish agent provocateurs in the sound knowledge that the culture warriors in the opposing trench will rise to the bait every time. Bonus points if they're vaguely telegenic youngish women (the entire Titania McGrath joke basically) who can get booked anywhere. A quick glance at their CVs might illustrate they have no experience to develop any interesting ideas or perspectives, and generally they make Jordan Peterson look like a maven for coherent ideas.
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Rachel McLean, Safeguarding Minister.
A UK Government minister has said people who are struggling with the cost of living should take on more hours or move to a better-paid job. Rachel Maclean, the safeguarding minister, made those suggestion as some of the ways households could "protect themselves" as prices soar.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/struggling-people-should-work-more-23967714 (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/struggling-people-should-work-more-23967714)
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If Ms McLean were to move to a job more in keeping with her apparent levels of intelligence and empathy, such as a greeter in an abattoir, there'd be at least one vacancy for some struggling povvo to potentially fill.
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She's a fine example that ineptitude and a lack of skills don't have to hold a person back.
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The Tory party would do itself a favour if it told all of its elected members to keep their traps shut for the forseeable.
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The Tory party would do itself a favour if it told all of its elected members to keep their traps shut for the forseeable.
Unfortunately it seems quite acceptable to Tory voters for the cabinet ministers to be as thick as pig shit and constantly proving it in public.
It does worry me that this is the best that's available from a pool of privately educated elite.
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Unfortunately the radicalised masses along with the lifelong fascist believers don't care what their idols say. They are unthinkingly loyal and unbelievably uncaring*.
I have a close relative who still believes all of johnson's lies including the Starmer slurs and gets very angry about foreigners living here. The fact that they provide much of the care that she needs for her ongoing back problems is neither here nor there.
* All of this flies out of the window when the state isn't filling their social care needs, pension triple lock or covid small business grant pockets of course ...
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Erdogan.
Currently Russia's useful idiot.
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NATO needs a way to expel nations if it doesn't have one already.
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We already knew Looza Fox was a Super-Twat with golden oak leaves, swords and diamonds but now he's wading in to the defence of fellow S-T Lee Anderson in, unsurprisingly, The Spectidiot (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-lee-anderson). How's your libel case going, Looza? You want it heard in front of a jury? (https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/drag-race-crystal-laurence-fox-homophobic-defamation-case-jury/) Because ‘a jury would be better at reaching fair verdicts “in light of the cultural and social context of this case”’? Jokes about jury selection in the trial of Martin Shkreli (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/martin-shkreli-trial-jurors-wu-tang-clan) go here ==>
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It's coming to something when wanking over tractors in the workplace puts you at the more savoury end of the sexual deviancy spectrum among your colleagues.
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Michael Fabricunt has previous, of course, but this:
I am expecting a strong turnout of Conservative MPs at Prime Minister's Questions today. Not only to demonstrate their strong support for #Boris (!!). BUT also to prove they are NOT the one told by the Chief Whip to stay at home. I'll be there!
represents some kind of rancid low even by the lower-than-an-adder's-armpit standards of this pack of recycled bog paper.
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They are like a bunch of silly, pre-pubescent prep school boys, aren't they.
And yet they pull off this trick that they are able to convince the plebs that they have their best interests at heart
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They are like a bunch of silly, pre-pubescent prep school boys, aren't they.
And yet they pull off this trick that they are able to convince the plebs that they gave their best interests at heart
Exactly. Scameron lowered political discourse to the intellectual level of a Public School third-form debating society. Things have only got worse.
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It's bizarre how Labour politicians are held to a much higher standard than Tories. It has to be the residual traces of the Lord and Serf mentality within the class system. I don't think we will get away from this until we've got rid of the pointless monarchy.
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I’d settle for a voting system that isn’t defunct.
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Idrissa Gueye, and all his twitter apologists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61492696
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Idrissa Gueye, and all his twitter apologists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61492696
Fine. Let him skip matches.
Dock his pay by the amount of potential impact that has on the club's progress.
Don't like UK attitudes to homosexual people? We aren't stopping you from going back to Senegal.
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Kit Malrhouse Starving people won’t steal food (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/dont-let-people-off-if-they-steal-food-in-desperation-minister-tells-police-kit-malthouse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
Is this a new entrant to these hallowed halls? I haven’t heard of him before.
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Maltloaf has form for being a first-class dickhead going back many years. He was a sideprick to Bloody Stupid Johnson when the latter was pretending to be Mayor of London’s famous London. And he doesn’t look like he's skipped many meals recently either.
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Following on from Fabricunt's faux-pas, everyone's favourite toffee-nosed stain on humanity Julia Dunning Kruger has done, well, exactly the same thing. And then doubled down by saying, and I swear I ent making this up
I've laughed at many good jokes about rape
The reply
No you haven't because there's no such thing as a good joke about rape.
was not long in appearing. I don’t think we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party will even bother to send Tory Sewer to a Reëducation Camp.
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Jonty Campbell, Tory Council candidate. He's (unsurprisingly and thankfully) since deleted the tweet.
Here’s the thing with girls 22 or under, they smell massively different to a girl of 28. Girls aged 16 to, say 23, have this buttery, creamy, slightly sweet smell that is unbelievably magnetic.”
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/weird-news/tory-council-candidate-tweet-16-year-old-girls-smell-scent-bizarre-323578/ (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/weird-news/tory-council-candidate-tweet-16-year-old-girls-smell-scent-bizarre-323578/)
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He's definitely stupid. I just hope he’s not contagious as well.
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Idrissa Gueye, and all his twitter apologists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61492696
Fine. Let him skip matches.
Dock his pay by the amount of potential impact that has on the club's progress.
Don't like UK attitudes to homosexual people? We aren't stopping you from going back to Senegal.
I can understand where apologists start from, is it acceptable for your employer to demand that you promote X political issue? Would it be okay for his employer to ask him to wear a top that promotes the FN for example?
But it doesn't take that much thought to realise that sportspeople are already sandwich boards for advertisers (that they may or may not agree with) and that (as mrcharly says) if you don't want to do your job you should face the consequences. Especially in sports where the money from your image rights is linked to your being a role model/commodity, which should indeed preclude you from being a ST.
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is it acceptable for your employer to demand that you promote X political issue? Would it be okay for his employer to ask him to wear a top that promotes the FN for example?
Can't remember who it was, but there was one footballer who came in for an awful lot of stick from the gammonati last year for refusing to wear a shirt emblazoned with a poppy.
It's fine to stand up for what you believe in. But it's also fine for other people to think you're a colossal bellend because of what you believe in. That's one of the benefits of living in a democracy. Unlike living in Senegal, where homosexuality is illegal.
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^ I do think that’s different. There’s lots of nuance to what the poppy represents and it is defo closer on the likely scale to taking political sides. LGBT branding on the psg top is not promoting lgbt, it’s opposing people being dicks to lgbt people.
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LGBT branding on the psg top is not promoting lgbt, it’s opposing people being dicks to lgbt people.
Exactly!
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Conservative MP Richard Bacon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994)
"You haven't gone and investigated it but there are one and a half million people who work in the NHS. I bet if you tried hard enough you could find some people letting their hair down who were working 24/7 in the NHS as well."
::-)
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Conservative MP Richard Bacon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994)
"You haven't gone and investigated it but there are one and a half million people who work in the NHS. I bet if you tried hard enough you could find some people letting their hair down who were working 24/7 in the NHS as well."
::-)
If you tried really hard, it might be possible to find a brain cell in Richard Bacon's skull (but I doubt it).
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It has reached hysterical levels of comparison now, while there were bacchanalian parties at number 10 (seriously, someone spilled red wine at one of them and then there was the time when someone didn't go to bed till 4am, crazy stuff!), poor NHS workers were working 28 hour days, nine days a week, working so hard they often didn't even eat for eight months at a time, pausing only briefly to scourge themselves in supplication to the greater good.
I mean, Johnson should go because he's a lying liar who lies a lot and all his cohorts can only aspire to basic incompetence, but I can't bring myself to care that he had a leaving do (that sadly wasn't his own).
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Conservative MP Richard Bacon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994)
"You haven't gone and investigated it but there are one and a half million people who work in the NHS. I bet if you tried hard enough you could find some people letting their hair down who were working 24/7 in the NHS as well."
::-)
Looks like gammon.
Should I put this observation on the 'Nominative Determinism' thread?
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Conservative MP Richard Bacon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61587994)
"You haven't gone and investigated it but there are one and a half million people who work in the NHS. I bet if you tried hard enough you could find some people letting their hair down who were working 24/7 in the NHS as well."
Quite possibly you could indeed find such people, Gammon-boi, but you won’t find any of them repeatedly lying to Parliament about it.
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I mean, Johnson should go because he's a lying liar who lies a lot and all his cohorts can only aspire to basic incompetence, but I can't bring myself to care that he had a leaving do (that sadly wasn't his own).
I can.
We couldn't go to funerals. People were dropped off on the curb outside A&E. But because "people had been working hard" it was okay to "mark the occasion" of colleagues leaving.
Like fuck it's ok.
Sure, he's done worse, but that doesn't make this OK. Now that we know that they will break the law whenever they feel like it, why stop now?
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I don't think you will find anyone who was working in the health service did anything of the sort, they would have been a) far too knackered after a day's hard* work to do anything but swill down some food and fall into bed and b) very, very aware of the consequences of doing anything that increased transmission having spent all day dealing with those consequences.
*I have to say that I doubt that any of those in No. 10 know what unremitting *hard* work that leaves you utterly bone weary looks like and that using that as an excuse for what was done compounds the offence in my eyes.
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It was Laurence Fox's birthday yesterday and he celebrated it by losing a libel battle and being ordered to pay his opponents £36k costs (on too of his own £116k costs).
Happy birthday Laurence 🎂
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I mean, Johnson should go because he's a lying liar who lies a lot and all his cohorts can only aspire to basic incompetence, but I can't bring myself to care that he had a leaving do (that sadly wasn't his own).
I can.
We couldn't go to funerals. People were dropped off on the curb outside A&E. But because "people had been working hard" it was okay to "mark the occasion" of colleagues leaving.
Like fuck it's ok.
Sure, he's done worse, but that doesn't make this OK. Now that we know that they will break the law whenever they feel like it, why stop now?
Well, like I say, perhaps these were the bigger crimes.
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It was Laurence Fox's birthday yesterday and he celebrated it by losing a libel battle and being ordered to pay his opponents £36k costs (on too of his own £116k costs).
Happy birthday Laurence 🎂
Never thought that Laurence's birthday could make me smile.
He hasn't actually lost the libel case, as far as I can tell. That hasn't gone to trial. He's lost his appeal to have the libel case heard by jury.
So there is hope that he'll be hit with more court costs.
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AND lose the case and have to fork out loadsa compo to the aggrieved parties, inna-Hatey-Cockpins-stylee. Bring it!
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I'm not sure where to put this one, but given this thread is her natural home, has anyone seen the latest Mad Nad Joint (downstreamable on TikTok)?
Imagine your mum, if she tried to rap, after drinking a litre of cheap gin. Then multiply it by two. Rosie Holt and co are going to have some trouble parodying this one. Watch this and remind yourself that she's a government minister. Then reach for the gin, you're going to need it.
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I did, but - fortunately - without the sound.
I assume some internet-savvy younger staff member who's facing a partygate-related career nosedive put her up to it.
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It one of those occasions where subtitles really don't do it justice.
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You're not wrong... https://www.tiktok.com/@nadinedorriesmp/video/7102004456182631686
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I'm not sure where to put this one, but given this thread is her natural home, has anyone seen the latest Mad Nad Joint (downstreamable on TikTok)?
Imagine your mum, if she tried to rap, after drinking a litre of cheap gin. Then multiply it by two. Rosie Holt and co are going to have some trouble parodying this one. Watch this and remind yourself that she's a government minister. Then reach for the gin, you're going to need it.
Since she ate kangaroo testicles* on national telly, nothing she does could possibly surprise me.
*or whatever gruesome animal part it was - no need to correct me if I'm wrong, I really don't need to know the details
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Did someone mention Looza Fox ? https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1530214366351597569
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I'm not sure where to put this one, but given this thread is her natural home, has anyone seen the latest Mad Nad Joint (downstreamable on TikTok)?
Imagine your mum, if she tried to rap, after drinking a litre of cheap gin. Then multiply it by two. Rosie Holt and co are going to have some trouble parodying this one. Watch this and remind yourself that she's a government minister. Then reach for the gin, you're going to need it.
Since she ate kangaroo testicles* on national telly, nothing she does could possibly surprise me.
This actually might.
Remember when Obama did the mic drop? It's so far from that it's actually in another universe.
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(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/53/64/4653644a90f817b7617aee8d11c84c09.jpg)
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/27/boris-johnson-sue-gray-partygate
Quote: "No drive, no spine, very little vision: even science can’t explain the creatures clinging on to Johnson.
Marina Hyde".
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It has been argued that Bloody Stupid Johnson's drinking habits are taking the Churchill fanboïsm a little too far.
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I'm more concerned with BSJ's Breathing habit!
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^POTD?
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Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.
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half of the YOOF on my team will probably have no idea what an imperial measure is, other than a pint, some of them were born after I left university FFS
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half of the YOOF on my team will probably have no idea what an imperial measure is, other than a pint, some of them were born after I left university FFS
My B-in-L worked in the oil industry (now retired) and due to more specialised degrees being offered, he was often in the position where he was interviewing those youngsters for jobs he would not be qualified to apply for.
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Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.
This, I suspect, wins the thread.
And their motive is usually the standard fodder for this thread.
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Reminds me actually, yesterday while hiding the pile of Daily Mails (better known as the Hitler Digest in these parts) under the Croydon Advertiser I noted the headline was about the glory of overthrowing EU tyranny by point crown signs back on pint glasses. Done by Boris, of course.
I don't actually know what this symbol means, maybe the Queen spit shines every glass, though I expect they're made in France anyway*.
*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.
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*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.
Duralex ? https://www.divertimenti.co.uk/collections/duralex I think these were the ones we had from early 70's onwards. Are they still in use, or have they been replaced by disposable plastic that doesn't need to be washed & stacked ?
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*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.
Duralex ? https://www.divertimenti.co.uk/collections/duralex I think these were the ones we had from early 70's onwards. Are they still in use, or have they been replaced by disposable plastic that doesn't need to be washed & stacked ?
I have one atop my carafe across the table from me, and a further five of them at home.
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Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.
This, I suspect, wins the thread.
And their motive is usually the standard fodder for this thread.
Several wise people on the Twitters have pointed out that "bringing back" imperial measures is a disingenuous policy anyway, given that they've never really gone away.
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*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.
Definitely not the only one Ian. I remember noting that at school lunchtime.
Then we had lots of schòolboy sniggering because it nearly said Durex.
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Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.
This, I suspect, wins the thread.
And their motive is usually the standard fodder for this thread.
Several wise people on the Twitters have pointed out that "bringing back" imperial measures is a disingenuous policy anyway, given that they've never really gone away.
I mentioned that on the other thread, I'm not supremely bothered by whatever units for casual use, but obviously metric is a lot more sensible in many more applied cases.
But 'bringing them back' is the same shit as crowns on pint glasses (yes, pints, somehow they escaped EU tyranny).
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*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.
Definitely not the only one Ian. I remember noting that at school lunchtime.
Then we had lots of schòolboy sniggering because it nearly said Durex.
Those were the ones, every glass at every school I went to had French glasses. We had the round ones. You could throw them at someone's head and they bounce off and not break.
For a good portion of my life, I assumed Durex was a male hair care product.
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In Captain Cook's Mistake it's the local equivalent of SellotapeTM.
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I think it was about age twelve that we assembled enough money to dare Grant Hodgkins to dash into the male loos at the Moon & Stars and buy a packet of Durex from the vending machine that legend had it was located in there. So I presume around that age I realised that they were sold in the barbers not because they were a hair care product and men didn't only wash their hair at the weekend, sir.
Of course, having obtained a packet of the fabled 'rubber johnnies' cue a half dozen small boys standing around in a pub car park thinking 'now what?' – girls were still a distant and mysterious commodity. I suspect they passed their use-by date unscathed or got flerted at someone's head.
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In Captain Cook's Mistake it's the local equivalent of SellotapeTM.
not as effective and a bugger to get off if you have gone for the maximum protection application.
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Britain adopted the metric system in 1965. We joined the EU in 1973.
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Britain adopted the metric system in 1965. We joined the EU in 1973.
And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...
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And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...
Ahem. I think you will find it was your parents who fucked you up, not the metric system. :)
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And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...
Ahem. I think you will find it was your parents who fucked you up, not the metric system. :)
FPWM!
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Britain adopted the metric system in 1965. We joined the EU in 1973.
And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...
Given that I’m 1957 vintage I feel qualified to comment - didn’t bother me in the slightest - and I didn’t get to grapple with ergs and therms to boot.
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And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...
Ahem. I think you will find it was your parents who fucked you up, not the metric system. :)
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
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Entirely unsurprisingly, the 'crown' thing on pint glasses turns out to be an entire lie too, so say the manufacturers of said glasses.
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I started to learn imperial at school - then they switched to metric.
So my brain is hybrid. Seems natural to think in imperial for some things, but I'm comfortable in metric.
Have never got head around the 'litres per 100km' thing though. Dunno why they didn't go for 'km per 10l'.
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I learned metric at school, and stubbornly decided to have as little to do with imperial units as possible on the basis they were at least as pointless as learning multiplication tables[1].
It worked, in as much that I'd never deliberately use one to measure something in real life, other than to determine if an item was made in an imperial size.
Industry-Specific Units are an occupational hazard. Speed limits, pin pitches, penis lengths, pint glasses and so on. But you rarely have to mix them with anything else. You also have to smile and nod when Old People talk about their weight, but that would also be a sound strategy if they were using kilograms. USAnians can be safely ignored, if they're not the ones who habitually use metric they're probably wrong anyway.
Have never got head around the 'litres per 100km' thing though. Dunno why they didn't go for 'km per 10l'.
Distance per unit (litres, lbs, slices of CAKE, kWhs) seems more mental-arithmetic-friendly for fuel consumption. Otherwise you might as well use square metres.
[1] Which, much to the annoyance of my parents and teachers, I refused to do. I was right, in as much that at primary school age I was good enough at mental arithmetic that there was no benefit to rote-learning a lookup table. By the end of secondary I'd rote-learned them anyway through repeated use.
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I remember the swap as a seven or eight year old. Suddenly we were counting in decimal and the weird quirkiness of imperial slipped away. Would be thoroughly stupid to bring it back but hey, no telling what these people will do for "popularity".
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Specific industries or specific uses have odd imperial measurements, and there are occasional places where historic items in the English speaking world (so 10 years ago in USA) had metric measurement.
Cars have wheel diameters in inches*
Gas connections to the German DIN standard use a variety of inch-based BSP*** threads.
Electronics is often mounted in 19" racking. The height unit for those is 1 3/4"
Conversely, cars world-wide have used spark plugs with M14 x 1.25 mm threads**** for around a century.
Engine capacity has been in litres for a long time as well.
If films and TV are to be believed, illegal drugs in America are sold in kg.
* Tyre widths in mm**, obviously, to avoid confusion.
** Except for cross-ply tyres
*** British Standard Pipe (not used in America)
**** Thread length usually measure in inches
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Engine capacity has been in litres for a long time as well.
Do you mind! You know very well it's cc. :)
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Britain adopted the metric system in 1965. We joined the EU in 1973.
And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...
My school went fully metric in its science subjects in around 1967, when it adopted ‘New Maths’ (I think it was under the Oxford exam board). By the time I started A-Level Physics in 1972, Imperial units were only encountered (by me) in sweet shops and petrol stations.
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Britain adopted the metric system in 1965. We joined the EU in 1973.
And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...
My school went fully metric in its science subjects in around 1967, when it adopted ‘New Maths’ (I think it was under the Oxford exam board). By the time I started A-Level Physics in 1972, Imperial units were only encountered (by me) in sweet shops and petrol stations.
I started school in 1968. It must have been 1971 or 1972 when suddenly we started to learn metric so in fact I was eight or nine, not seven or eight as I thought above.
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Entirely unsurprisingly, the 'crown' thing on pint glasses turns out to be an entire lie too, so say the manufacturers of said glasses.
I’ve been drinking beer for over 40 years, and consider myself something of a connoisseur, and do you know, the crown mark, or lack there of, on the side of the glass has never affected the drinking experience. Indeed, the only reason I know it’s not been there is because it was reported as a fact in the press.
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Entirely unsurprisingly, the 'crown' thing on pint glasses turns out to be an entire lie too, so say the manufacturers of said glasses.
I’ve been drinking beer for over 40 years, and consider myself something of a connoisseur, and do you know, the crown mark, or lack there of, on the side of the glass has never affected the drinking experience. Indeed, the only reason I know it’s not been there is because it was reported as a fact in the press.
Something being reported as a fact in the press suggests it almost certainly isn't true...
I must confess if I look at the glass each time I order my 568ml of beer, its to admire the graphics, and complain good naturedly to the landlord about why he's given me Three Tuns beer in a Woods glass. Most of my beer is home consumed, and comes in 500ml bottles...
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The BBC has noted that while the beastly bullying bureaucrats of Brussels did indeed say “Your glasses, Engleeesh, zey must 'ave ze CE mark on zem” they also said “but if you wanna 'ave ze leetle crowns on zem also, zis is up to you. Jus' make-a sure she does not, 'ow you say, overlap ze CE one, for sure!” Before going off to a bar to sup yummy Belgian BEER from a glass with all sorts of fancy graphic design plastered over it.
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I'm sorry, you must surely be mistaken.
It is completely inconceivable that our great and wondrous government brim full with honesty and integrity or their upright friends, the moral and independent citizens of the press should lie and weaponise a largely unimportant to most people crown on the side of a glass purely on a matter of fascist ideology...
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Yes, well, with that sort of biased pinko reporting from the nest of unrepentant Trots that masquerades as an impartial broadcaster it’s little wonder that our glorious leadership wants to scrap the BBC Tax and flog the whole operation to Jeff fucking Bezos*.
* Other megalomaniacal media moguls are available.
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The BBC has noted that while the beastly bullying bureaucrats of Brussels did indeed say “Your glasses, Engleeesh, zey must 'ave ze CE mark on zem” they also said “but if you wanna 'ave ze leetle crowns on zem also, zis is up to you. Jus' make-a sure she does not, 'ow you say, overlap ze CE one, for sure!” Before going off to a bar to sup yummy Belgian BEER from a glass with all sorts of fancy graphic design plastered over it.
Drifting slightly off topic (Hurrah!), I have a theory that Belgian breweries have over active marketing departments that dream up more and more ridiculous glasses from which their wares must be sampled. Pauwel Kwak is a prime example.
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My one-time favourite pub has Kwak; if I had time for only one pint that's what I had. Always had an ordinary glass though as the Kwak glass annoyed me.
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There's one of those in the kitchen at work.
I have to confess to thinking it was some sort of coffee filtering device .
*Doesn't drink coffee*
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Drifting slightly off topic (Hurrah!), I have a theory that Belgian breweries have over active marketing departments that dream up more and more ridiculous glasses from which their wares must be sampled. Pauwel Kwak is a prime example.
Your theory is sound.
The official spiel for Kwak would have you believe they've been drinking it from those stupid glasses since the 18th century, but the beer itself was invented in the 1980s. ::-)
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Got to be the ST in the Lancaster area who apparently set one of his dogs on a cyclist after some interaction between her and some pedestrians. I've had a few moments with drivers etc but setting your dog onto someone?? I suppose if it had been the US he would have shot her and/or any cyclist within the area
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Got to be the ST in the Lancaster area who apparently set one of his dogs on a cyclist after some interaction between her and some pedestrians. I've had a few moments with drivers etc but setting your dog onto someone?? I suppose if it had been the US he would have shot her and/or any cyclist within the area
The internet is rife with clips of people in the US using their dogs as offensive weapons. Almost certainly a corollary with gun use.
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Dog vs gun, gun vs dog? Faites vos jeux, mesdames messieurs.
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Whoever at Ryanair thoiught up the wheeze to "test" South African (potential) passengers in Afrikaans to prove their identity in light of a large number for fake SA passports. I understand that the airline is liable if they transport someone who gets denied entry, but I don't think this was thought through.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/06/ryanair-south-africans-afrikaans-test-nationality-passports
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I gather that some minister (possibly Truss) has tweeted a comment about tiennman square and how we would never do anything like that.
Completely ignoring the bill her government has just passed that would have all the protestors arrested for making a noise if it happened here.
No link as people don't seem to like twitter links and I'm not a member anywy
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Yes, Cheesoid has Tweeted on the Tiananmen Square anniversary: https://mobile.twitter.com/trussliz/status/1533206335113797633 Not a few responders have pointed out the “making a noise” thing.
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Heather Wheeler, Conservative MP for South Derbyshire.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/10/tory-minister-calls-birmingham-and-blackpool-godawful
Doesn’t look the type to give a quid to a homeless person, despite her job title.
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Paper-brained chipmunk and alleged Attorney-General Suella Braverman was on “The World At One” yesterday.
The Beeb: This Government keeps doing things that others judge to be illegal. We can go back to prorogation, Partygate, the Northern Ireland Protocol, deporting asylum seekers. I wonder how comfortable you feel with the reputation this Government has guilt up with regard to lawbreaking.
S Braverman: Well, with respect I think that’s a BBC view, if you don’t mind me saying, that the UK Government is somehow is always malevolent and the EU is always acting as the honest broker … when it comes to our international reputation, we only have to look to our partners in Ukraine.
No, you giant twatter. That may well be “a BBC view” but it’s a BBC view echoing the findings of senior legal types. As Attorney-General, the principal legal adviser to the Crown and the Government in England and Wales, you really ought to know that.
Suella Braverman: Super-Twat.
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I think we're back again with the 'are we the baddies?' sketch again.
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Paper-brained chipmunk and alleged Attorney-General Suella Braverman was on “The World At One” yesterday.
The Beeb: This Government keeps doing things that others judge to be illegal. We can go back to prorogation, Partygate, the Northern Ireland Protocol, deporting asylum seekers. I wonder how comfortable you feel with the reputation this Government has guilt up with regard to lawbreaking.
S Braverman: Well, with respect I think that’s a BBC view, if you don’t mind me saying, that the UK Government is somehow is always malevolent and the EU is always acting as the honest broker … when it comes to our international reputation, we only have to look to our partners in Ukraine.
No, you giant twatter. That may well be “a BBC view” but it’s a BBC view echoing the findings of senior legal types. As Attorney-General, the principal legal adviser to the Crown and the Government in England and Wales, you really ought to know that.
Suella Braverman: Super-Twat.
Typical tory lies and distraction. Accuse others and blame your favourite victims: in this case the BBC and the EU. Interesting that out of four items only the NI Protocol relates directly to the EU. The other three are just Tory turds in the bathtub of distraction and hate.
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How do you fire an Attorney General?
She appears (given the multiple rulings against the government) to be incompetent.
Anyone know how she stacks up against previous holders of the office?
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Let me guess. She's thicker than the rest of them put together.
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Let me guess. She's thicker than the rest of them put together.
Put it this way: her nickname for Liz Truss is "The Professor"
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Let me guess. She's thicker than the rest of them put together.
Put it this way: her nickname for Liz Truss is "The Professor"
;D
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Typical tory lies and distraction. Accuse others and blame your favourite victims: in this case the BBC and the EU. Interesting that out of four items only the NI Protocol relates directly to the EU. The other three are just Tory turds in the bathtub of distraction and hate.
Not to mention their continued attempts to link the ECHR with the EU, the contemptible tubs of fucktoplasm.
How do you fire an Attorney General?
Very large artillery piece?
Anyone know how she stacks up against previous holders of the office?
Potted biographies of this millennium's crop:
- Baron Goldsmith (Lab) – reckoned the invasion of Iraq was legal.
- Baroness Scotland (Lab) – employed an illegal immigrant as a cleaner.
- Dominic Grieve (Con) – sacked by gammon-faced pig-botherer Cameron, which must count in his favour. Also he's been a pal of my brother-in-law for more than forty years ;D
- Jeremy Wright (Con) – attempted to prosecute the Stansted 15 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stansted_15) under anti-terror laws. Failed.
- Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con) – friend to the tax-dodging; did all that stuff in the BRITISH Virgin Islands (after being sacked as A-G by Bloody Stupid Johnson) when he was supposed to be staying at home because Plague.
- Suella Braverman (Con). Idiot-with-Portfolio; made to look a bit dim on “Question Time” the other week by noted legal expert and political pundit Sebastian ”der Fingerflingenkind” Vettel.
- Michael Ellis (Con) – acting A-G while Braverman was on maternity leave. Remainer; seems not to have done anything particularly controversial/stupid during his Parliamentary career.
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Suella Braverman (Con). Idiot-with-Portfolio; made to look a bit dim on “Question Time” the other week by noted legal expert and political pundit Sebastian ”der Fingerflingenkind” Vettel.
She can be made to look a bit dim by a 15W tungsten bulb.
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Also der Fingerflingenkind seems to be far less of an S-T himself than he was ten years ago.
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Get your tiny violins out, Sir Fred Barclay is "terrified of going to jail" for not paying his divorce settlement.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/16/frederick-barclay-judge-rules-he-must-stand-trial-divorce
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Suella Braverman (Con). Idiot-with-Portfolio; made to look a bit dim on “Question Time” the other week by noted legal expert and political pundit Sebastian ”der Fingerflingenkind” Vettel.
She can be made to look a bit dim by a 15W tungsten bulb.
I remember brighter Eveready lights on my Raleigh Chopper.
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Cruella is only there to make Mad Nad, Piggi and "Cheese" Truss look vaguely functional.
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Cruella is only there to make Mad Nad, Piggi and "Cheese" Truss look vaguely functional.
If that's the plan, it's not working.
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Go to Doncaster to meet your own party or Kyiv to meet a clown? Poor Zelensky didn't have a choice.
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Well, it’s not as if there’s a by-election in Yorkshire next week or anyth… oh, wait!
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Well, it’s not as if there’s a by-election in Yorkshire next week or anyth… oh, wait!
It looks like he's given up on that one, not even trying. Slightly weird, but I suppose he still has enough of a majority for it to not matter too much.
Meanwhile, instead of focusing his efforts on marginal seats, he's been bringing in changes to the electoral system to make it harder for him to lose the next general election - eg by disenfranchising many poorer voters who don't have ID cards, and by making it possible to refuse to accept the results of the vote.
Wakefield schmakefield.
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Ben Habib: a name that I haven't seen in here but probably is.
His great idea is for Rwandan flagged vessels to pick up migrants crossing the channel thus they are already "in Rwanda". I don't suppose that he's even considered international law (because we know the right respect the law) or the fact that Rwanda is landlocked. Gonna be difficult to sail your boat to a place without sea, river or canal ports with access to the open seas. Perhaps he's going to sell them an aircraft carrier too ...
This cynical Rwandan matter reminds me rather chillingly of the Nazis and their despicable and inhumane treatment of the Jews.
Oh, and some bright spark also suggested that boat migrants should be electronically tagged. Would that be a yellow tag?
Why are these vile scum so popular?
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Why are these vile scum so popular?
Partly human nature, I fear. But mainly because of the constant lies they've been fed by the right-wing media, driven by the greed and corruption of the super-rich.
People criticise Labour, and Starmer in particular, for not making more headway in the polls against such an awful rabble, but the plutocrats don't want him in charge any more than they wanted Corbyn, which makes it a real uphill struggle.
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My namesake, MP Nick “it’s only a phase” Fletcher
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-61842311
He has previous on gender matters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59421259
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My namesake, MP Nick “it’s only a phase” Fletcher
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-61842311
He has previous on gender matters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59421259
I just came here to add him, beaten to it.
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Kay Burley
If you're going to try to gaslight us by telling a blatantly different version of events to the one that went out live on TV, it's a bit stupid to include a link to video evidence that clearly shows you're lying through your teeth.
a) he didn't say what you claim he said
b) it wasn't him getting flustered
https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1539166310227116034?s=20&t=KstJGQ6tVPQlQz4l6H2n6w
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Kay Burley
If you're going to try to gaslight us by telling a blatantly different version of events to the one that went out live on TV, it's a bit stupid to include a link to video evidence that clearly shows you're lying through your teeth.
a) he didn't say what you claim he said
b) it wasn't him getting flustered
https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1539166310227116034?s=20&t=KstJGQ6tVPQlQz4l6H2n6w
Brilliant parody by Matt Green:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0BBY8ea84
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Tory MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/danny-kruger-women-bodily-autonomy-abortion_uk_62baf9c3e4b094be76a85fbb
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Nelson
Picknose Piquet Sr (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/28/uncceptable-f1-nelson-piquet-under-fire-for-racist-epithet-about-lewis-hamilton). He has previous for twattery going back more than forty years but has now achieved the covet accolade of Super-Twat.
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Yes, it does seem he's just a bit of a dick.
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Bernie Ecclestone
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What is he on? :hand:
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Bernie Ecclestone
Wow. First class moron and S-T.
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I think that qualifies as Mega-twattery.
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That well-known ST Matt Hancock studied PPE at Oxford - didn't learn much, I feel.
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A classic fascist double header. Praising Putin then telling Sir Lewis to get over the discrimination that the likes of Ecclestone throw at him and others every single day.
I don't do hate as a rule but there is a special cauldron of hate in my heart for people who deny discrimation of any kind in such a dismissive way. May Ecclestone and his nasty ilk burn in eternity.
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Oh dear, Bernard. You really have confirmed our suspicions. With fondant icing and a candle on the top. Get in the fucking trebuchet.
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Bernie Eccle$$$tone seems to be on a bit of a roll, given that he was arrested late last month trying to board a flight to Switzerland with an unlicenced (and Ecclestone-scale) handgun in his luggage.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/26/former-formula-one-chief-bernie-ecclestone-arrested-in-brazil-for-carrying-gun-motor-sport
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Wot's 'e done now? Had a quick look at the beeb, couldn't see anything. Not that I'm surprised to see him here
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/30/bernie-ecclestone-id-take-a-bullet-for-putin-formula-one-good-morning-britain-interview
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/30/bernie-ecclestone-id-take-a-bullet-for-putin-formula-one-good-morning-britain-interview
Given the state of Russia's armed forces in Ukraine, was that wise of him to say that?
"Dear Comrade Bernard Sidneyvych,
Fraternal greetings!
You are hearby invited to report to the Donetsk recruitment office by July 15th 2022 at the latest.
Love and hugs,
Vova"
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Wot's 'e done now? Had a quick look at the beeb, couldn't see anything. Not that I'm surprised to see him here
Bernie Eccleston - "I'd still take a bullet for Putin, because he's a first class person... & a sensible person"
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1542403079223623680?s=20&t=S4N19GfRdVULKayoh8UfqA
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I think young Master Verstapen is looking for a listing in these hallowed pages after he came out in support of Piquet Sr. Apparent Nelly isn’t racist at all, and what’s more some of his best friends are n****
That last bit minty t contain lie.
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I think young Master Verstapen is looking for a listing in these hallowed pages after he came out in support of Piquet Sr. Apparent Nelly isn’t racist at all, and what’s more some of his best friends are n****
That last bit minty t contain lie.
Yebbut his paramour is a certain Miss Piquet, so that might explain his.... ambivalence shall we say?
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2/3 of the US Supreme Court.
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No, Dr Rose de Geus of Reading University. Theresa May was not “put in charge” of Brexit. She wasn’t “put in charge” of anything. She campaigned vigorously for the job. Stop trying to make her sound like a victim.
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I am always amused when an apparently intelligent and well qualified academic demonstrates that qualifications only tell half of the story.
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It's the difference between "Educated" and "Intelligent", innit?
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Petronella Wyatt: come on down! We already knew you were dangerously lacking in critical judgment because you had (presumably consensual) sexual relations with the concussed musk ox in an ill-fitting suit who does Prime Minister impressions on the telly, but now you write:
Boris will never resign. He thinks he has a God given right to rule in perpetuity. This is going to be long, drawn out and very bad for the Tory Party and the country. There will be no government, as every minute of the day will be devoted to saving Boris.
Note the order of the phrase wot I have emboldened. Putting the needs of the Tory Party above those of the country is exactly why we're in this fucking mess in the first place, you whirling heap of batshite! It's what SpamTM-hued pig-botherer Cameron did. Hence Brexit. Hence Bloody Stupid Johnson in Number Ten. Get in the fucking sea!
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Out new Education Minister, Andrea Jenkyns.
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Jenkyns has previous. See for e.g.
Oh mister Wokeman, We will continue to take a stand against you and your anti-Britsh (sic), anti-free speech agenda. Socialism is not the answer and time will demonstrate what a real idiot you are! #ProBrexit, #ProBoris, #ProTrump
aimed at TV's Radio's James O'Brien. I'm sure there was at least one more Brexit-related toes-meet-teeth moment but the Search wossname in here being what it is...
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Mad Nad has competition it seems. How did it get this grim?
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Mad Nad is but the tip of an iceberg of Stupid. A veritable Rampart Berg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_Berg) of incompetence, brainlessness and toe-curling embarrassment.
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I’ve just read that the squatter gets to nominate a resignation honours list! That should be fun. Dame Nads?
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He'll take the piss, as usual. There'll be a whole bunch of people he expects to sponge off in the future.
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I for one would like to listen in to Missis Kwin’s reaction when she receives the list. But at least shoving Mad Nad off to the Lords would:
- remove practically any chance of her ever being PM, and
- allow the honest burghers of Mid-
Narnia Bedfordshire the chance to elect an MP who isn’t a moonhowling thick-o
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I’ve just read that the squatter gets to nominate a resignation honours list! That should be fun. Dame Nads?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/08/boris-johnsons-resignation-honours-list-sneak-peak
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And Bernie Eccle$$$tone gets the triple:
Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone will be charged with fraud by false representation following an investigation into overseas assets believed to be worth more than £400m.
The 91-year-old spent 40 years as the head of F1 before being removed as its chief executive officer in 2017.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the charge follows an investigation by HMRC.
"The CPS has authorised a charge against Bernard Ecclestone," it said.
The CPS said the charge of fraud is "in respect of his failure to declare to HMRC the existence of assets held overseas believed to be worth in excess of £400m".
Last month Ecclestone said he would "take a bullet" for Russia's president Vladimir Putin in an interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain.
In May, Ecclestone - who was involved with F1 in various roles since the 1950s - was arrested in Brazil for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a plane.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/62119689
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Ecclstone said that he'd take a bullet for Putin; he's then found with a gun.
OK, two for the price of one: send him to Moscow, with his gun and a bullet for Putin. Two STs gone!
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Whitehall farces are back with a vengeance!
'Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg back Truss for next leader'. Vegetable power.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-62132179
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Whitehall farces are back with a vengeance!
'Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg back Truss for next leader'. Vegetable power.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-62132179
They need some "Support Truss!" badges made.
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Mad Nad heckling "you're just boring" in the HoC yesterday.
Is this the best that the fascists can do? Do Tory voters really think that this is the behaviour of a government minister?
Super Twat award (yet again) to Mad Nad but also to anybody out there who supports and approves of these imbeciles and their frankly ridiculous behaviour.
I wonder what collection of "talent" awaits us in September ...
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Mad Nad heckling "you're just boring" in the HoC yesterday.
Are there not rules against being *that* drunk in the chamber?
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sHo SuM cOmPaShN ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, sHeS dIsLeXtRiC!!!!,!!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62344354
Trumpian judge goes nah nah nananah.
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Appalling so-far-right-wing-he's-over-the-event-horizon berk Gregory (Lauder-) Frost of the “Traditional BRITAIN Group”, for his comment that Hi-Risk Anus is:
an alien-origin Minister […] with questionable citizenship, taxation and loyalty questions
Bloody Stupid Johnson was born in USAnia. Gregory Frost was born in Australia. Rishi Sunak was born in, er, Southampton. Get in the fucking sea, Frost, preferably in a shark-infested area of your homeland’s coastline.
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Appalling so-far-right-wing-he's-over-the-event-horizon berk Gregory (Lauder-) Frost of the “Traditional BRITAIN Group”, for his comment that Hi-Risk Anus is:
an alien-origin Minister […] with questionable citizenship, taxation and loyalty questions
Bloody Stupid Johnson was born in USAnia. Gregory Frost was born in Australia. Rishi Sunak was born in, er, Southampton. Get in the fucking sea, Frost, preferably in a shark-infested area of your homeland’s coastline.
How to say you are racist, without saying you are racist.
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It seemed to me he was trying to say
i’m not racist
But saying the quiet part loud
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Today its Sunak and his diverting of funds from the feral areas to the needy of Royal Tunbridge Wells and other areas
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Anyone would think that having been afforded a massive majority by the former Red Wall, the Tories have stopped pretending to give a shit.
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Did they ever give a shit?
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ITW Mr L meant to say was pretending to give a shit.
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ITW Mr L did say was pretending to give a shit
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Charlotte Hawkins
(talking to Ed Miliband) "You are looking very tanned, have you been on holiday?"
Ed "This is what I look like, it is my european heritage."
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^Lacking an emoji that encompasses laughing out loud but wanting to hide under a chair at the same time.
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Charlotte Hawkins
(talking to Ed Miliband) "You are looking very tanned, have you been on holiday?"
Ed "This is what I look like, it is my european heritage."
"Is it cuz I is black?" would have been funnier, if inaccurate.
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Charlotte Hawkins
(talking to Ed Miliband) "You are looking very tanned, have you been on holiday?"
Ed "This is what I look like, it is my european heritage."
"Is it cuz I is black?" would have been funnier, if inaccurate.
What would have been really good is if he'd said "Is it because I'm Jewish?".
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Rose Tremain, for this bucket of wank published by the increasingly downmarket and desperate Torygraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/24/princess-diana-death-memorial-anniversary-year-how-old-alive/). Do not read if you’ve just had your tea.
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Rose Tremain, for this bucket of wank published by the increasingly downmarket and desperate Torygraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/24/princess-diana-death-memorial-anniversary-year-how-old-alive/). Do not read if you’ve just had your tea.
Oh dear god what did I just read?
CN: It gets worse after the pudding.
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Rose Tremain, for this bucket of wank published by the increasingly downmarket and desperate Torygraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/24/princess-diana-death-memorial-anniversary-year-how-old-alive/). Do not read if you’ve just had your tea.
Oh dear god what did I just read?
CN: It gets worse after the pudding.
More to the point, M le Maire, wtf were you searching for to stumble across that literary gem?
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Rose Tremain, for this bucket of wank published by the increasingly downmarket and desperate Torygraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/24/princess-diana-death-memorial-anniversary-year-how-old-alive/). Do not read if you’ve just had your tea.
Oh dear god what did I just read?
CN: It gets worse after the pudding.
More to the point, M le Maire, wtf were you searching for to stumble across that literary gem?
Came across it in Mic “brokenbottleboy” Wright's irregular blog on Teh Meeja, Conquest Of The Useless (https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/), which this Unit commends to the House.
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Too good not to put in here
Nadhim Zahami says we should all try to cut back on our energy use.
Yes, that's right, the MP who charged us expenses to heat his fucking horse stables.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/aug/26/energy-price-cap-ofgem-cost-of-living-royal-mail-strike-business-live?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-63089a7e8f082376964749a1#block-63089a7e8f082376964749a1
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/10/nadhim-zahawi-admits-taxpayers-electricity-stables
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^ An utter cockwomble. Might I add that he was one of the better options the Con party could scrape together for pm. :facepalm:
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Jamie Oliver
Trying to 'help' people struggling, by releasing a new £20 book trumpeting one-pot meals. One such recipe included cumberland sausage, parmesan cheese, red wine, etc.
No wonder his restaurants went bust, he can't add up cost of ingredients.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM)
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BloJo himself for suggesting that buying a new kettle would be the answer to your energy consumption woes.
BloJo himself for suggesting that after 12 years of fascist energy policy favouring nukes and fossil whilst deliberately blocking renewables that it's all Labour's fault.
BloJo himself for sticking two fingers up at the British public and fucking off on holiday what the UK bathes in shit and poverty.
Oh fuck it: BloJo. Just because.
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Jamie Oliver
Trying to 'help' people struggling, by releasing a new £20 book trumpeting one-pot meals. One such recipe included cumberland sausage, parmesan cheese, red wine, etc.
No wonder his restaurants went bust, he can't add up cost of ingredients.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM)
In fairness to the Fat-Tongued Mockney, you can get really cheap parmesan substitutes like grana padano for £2, Cumberland sausages (pack of 8) for £1.49, and a bottle of red wine for £2.69 in Aldi, so it may well be do-able.
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Jamie Oliver
Trying to 'help' people struggling, by releasing a new £20 book trumpeting one-pot meals. One such recipe included cumberland sausage, parmesan cheese, red wine, etc.
No wonder his restaurants went bust, he can't add up cost of ingredients.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM)
In fairness to the Fat-Tongued Mockney, you can get really cheap parmesan substitutes like grana padano for £2, Cumberland sausages (pack of 8) for £1.49, and a bottle of red wine for £2.69 in Aldi, so it may well be do-able.
Still doesn't come out as under £1.45 per person, for four servings, though, does it?
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And as far as I could see from the tv programmes it was nothing to do with cheaper meals, just less 1 pan meals, so you’re criticising him for something he’s not trying to do AFAICS.
And precisely no-one pays full price for the books if they’ve an ounce of sense.
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Then perhaps he was unwise to quote said £1.45 pp.
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Jamie Oliver
Trying to 'help' people struggling, by releasing a new £20 book trumpeting one-pot meals. One such recipe included cumberland sausage, parmesan cheese, red wine, etc.
No wonder his restaurants went bust, he can't add up cost of ingredients.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM)
In fairness to the Fat-Tongued Mockney, you can get really cheap parmesan substitutes like grana padano for £2, Cumberland sausages (pack of 8) for £1.49, and a bottle of red wine for £2.69 in Aldi, so it may well be do-able.
Still doesn't come out as under £1.45 per person, for four servings, though, does it?
Well I don't know as I haven't seen the recipe, so I don't know how much of each product is needed.
EDIT: Was it this recipe?
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/cumberland-sausage-casserole/
If it was then the ingredients for the recipe work out at £4 for 4 servings. (excluding olive oil, dried chillies and breadcrumbs)
That's £1 a serving.
I mean, I had a look at the comments below the line in that newspaper article to which you linked, and judging by the lack of literacy I'm going to assume inummeracy in the correspondents as well. The sort of people who think that 'parmesan to serve', means a whole 200g block, and not a few scrapings.
Or, in cycling terms, people who think it costs £8 to oil their chain, because that is how much a tube of chain lube costs.
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We shouldn’t let poor people eat Parmesan. It’ll give them ideas.
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They'll be pricing the likes of you out of Tuscany, Ian.
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We shouldn’t let poor people eat Parmesan. It’ll give them ideas.
Qu’ils mangent de l’avocat
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Let them eat lawyers? :P
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If the barristers stay out on strike much longer it could well come to that.
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Jamie Oliver
Trying to 'help' people struggling, by releasing a new £20 book trumpeting one-pot meals. One such recipe included cumberland sausage, parmesan cheese, red wine, etc.
No wonder his restaurants went bust, he can't add up cost of ingredients.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-one-show-viewers-slam-24909805?fbclid=IwAR1-4laKPXXx8U_3WykVOjapAUHxdil-sLscP2domQ5IJYMOxDQdJAtx6WM)
In fairness to the Fat-Tongued Mockney, you can get really cheap parmesan substitutes like grana padano for £2, Cumberland sausages (pack of 8) for £1.49, and a bottle of red wine for £2.69 in Aldi, so it may well be do-able.
Still doesn't come out as under £1.45 per person, for four servings, though, does it?
Well I don't know as I haven't seen the recipe, so I don't know how much of each product is needed.
EDIT: Was it this recipe?
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/cumberland-sausage-casserole/
If it was then the ingredients for the recipe work out at £4 for 4 servings. (excluding olive oil, dried chillies and breadcrumbs)
That's £1 a serving.
I mean, I had a look at the comments below the line in that newspaper article to which you linked, and judging by the lack of literacy I'm going to assume inummeracy in the correspondents as well. The sort of people who think that 'parmesan to serve', means a whole 200g block, and not a few scrapings.
Or, in cycling terms, people who think it costs £8 to oil their chain, because that is how much a tube of chain lube costs.
I don't know where you get your prices from. I just checked on Asda - ignoring the olive oil (!), rosemary etc, the basic ingredients come to £8.10.
Adding in purchase of olive oil, cost of cooking, chillies etc and it is going to be much higher.
Assuming that someone has fresh rosemary, a handy bottle of olive oil, some spare red wine is right into Sam Vimes boots theory of poverty. That is the sort of thinking that gives Jack Monroe apoplexy, and rightly so.
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I agree we need more celebrity chefs advising poor people how to make nutritious meals out of canal sludge, twigs, hairballs, and despair.
The average poor person could replicate that recipe easy, chop up some onions, chuck in some chopped garden weeds and a splash of Tesco value lager, a tin of baked beans, and then at the end, a Greggs sausage roll. Et voilà!
We need to ensure poor people know their place, so please, let's not encourage them. They'll be squandering their meagre income on capers rather than potato waffles.
In other news, didn't Jack Monroe turn out to be a bit of a bluffer? The Sam Vines thing doesn't seem to have gone anywhere other than a single headline.
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As an aside, re JM's hyperbolic claims of food price inflation that kicked off the Vimes Boots thing, there's a more nuanced ONS report here (https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/trackingthelowestcostgroceryitemsukexperimentalanalysis/april2021toapril2022) that shows pricing overall is tracking inflation, which is what you'd expect.
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As an aside, re JM's hyperbolic claims of food price inflation that kicked off the Vimes Boots thing, there's a more nuanced ONS report here (https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/trackingthelowestcostgroceryitemsukexperimentalanalysis/april2021toapril2022) that shows pricing overall is tracking inflation, which is what you'd expect.
I think it’s the “overall” in your statement that’s perhaps missing JM’s point. Yes, overall prices will generally track inflation, but very cheap low margin foods are going to disappear from the market, forcing the poorest consumers to spend proportionately more.
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The report has a breakdown (so pasta has gone up significantly, probably reflecting global wheat prices) whereas potatoes, for instance, are cheaper.
I'd agree it's a more worrisome trend that processed foods are getting relatively cheaper, pizza and oven chips is down. I suspect a degree of cynical and exploitative pricing from our ever-lovable supermarkets doing what they can 'to help' by shifting more high-margin junk.
Fortunately, poor people shouldn't eat pasta, as it might patronize them or detract them from eating an entire parmesan wheel.
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(Looks at report)
Some obvious solutions:
- Pasta - replace with chips
- Crisps - replace with potatoes
- Bread - replace with pizza
- Beef mince - replace with anything you can catch with a stolen tin of Pedigree Chum and a shovel
:demon:
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I agree we need more celebrity chefs advising poor people how to make nutritious meals out of canal sludge, twigs, hairballs, and despair.
The average poor person could replicate that recipe easy, chop up some onions, chuck in some chopped garden weeds and a splash of Tesco value lager, a tin of baked beans, and then at the end, a Greggs sausage roll. Et voilà!
We need to ensure poor people know their place, so please, let's not encourage them. They'll be squandering their meagre income on capers rather than potato waffles.
In other news, didn't Jack Monroe turn out to be a bit of a bluffer? The Sam Vines thing doesn't seem to have gone anywhere other than a single headline.
Actually, not enough JM publicity.
Her public shouting had two effects:
Multiple supermarket reinstated their 'value' ranges, at reasonable prices.
The ONS were prompted to do new research, which showed a large rise in the cost of value products (50%, not the 141% JM had claimed, although she was citing a particular item, not a statistically-calculated sample).
The Office for National Statistics said it accepted that every person had their own inflation rate and it would do more to capture the impact of price increases on different income groups.
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Gotta love Jack Monroe.
The fascist establishment have been biting at her for a while. Hatey Katie took a kicking and I think Lee "blackleg" Anderson is having to deal with the consequences of his nasty mouth too at the moment.
Not sure why the right wing hate her. Oh yes, it's because she knows what it's like to be poor and isn't afraid to say so.
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ONS were already re-evaluating this (and they do so every year), so while no publicity is bad publicity, it was probably going to happen anyway. Supermarkets are as mercenary as ever, they want to sell products at the best margin, which is processed and packaged goods, and surprise, surprise, what's cheapest? Poverty is a market opportunity for them. They're not there to provide people with cheap, good-quality food. They want to sell frozen pizza and oven chips.
Arguably, Jack Monroe does a good job in publicising the issues, but I find her poverty schtick a bit tiresome and she seems to go through a lot of confabulation concerning her history of straitened circumstance.
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Interestingly, I unfollowed her on twitter early this morning as I was finding her a bit boring.
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Assuming that someone has fresh rosemary, a handy bottle of olive oil, some spare red wine is right into Sam Vimes boots theory of poverty. That is the sort of thinking that gives Jack Monroe apoplexy, and rightly so.
Prices from Aldi. It's where the poors shop. And me.
Whatever supplementary ingredients are needed, like oil, have to be costed pro rata. Arguably, the £2 bottle of wine, might be an extravagance unless of course the remainder can be used in another recipe.
With regards to online apoplexy, somebody somewhere is always getting apoplectic about something, but in this case, judging by my calculations (which are correct) the apoplexy is unwarranted.
Maybe Jack Monroe shops at Waitrose?
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Assuming that someone has fresh rosemary, a handy bottle of olive oil, some spare red wine is right into Sam Vimes boots theory of poverty. That is the sort of thinking that gives Jack Monroe apoplexy, and rightly so.
Prices from Aldi. It's where the poors shop. And me.
Whatever supplementary ingredients are needed, like oil, have to be costed pro rata. Arguably, the £2 bottle of wine, might be an extravagance unless of course the remainder can be used in another recipe.
With regards to online apoplexy, somebody somewhere is always getting apoplectic about something, but in this case, judging by my calculations (which are correct) the apoplexy is unwarranted.
Maybe Jack Monroe shops at Waitrose?
My bold.
Deeply provocative remark.
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Tongue in cheek. You know me :P
I haven't got it in for JM. Anybody that fucks Katie Hopkins over deserves respect.
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Indeed. ;)
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[…]wine […] remainder […]
Nope, don’t get it ???
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Tongue in cheek. You know me :P
I haven't got it in for JM. Anybody that fucks Katie Hopkins over deserves respect.
While that might be true, and deeply satisfying, she does overdo the poverty porn and comes across as very narcissistic, single-handedly saving the poor (which might come as a surprise to all the people who are running food banks, the many other chefs who specifically create meal plans and recipes etc.) Despite what must be a series of lucrative media gigs, books, and brand deals, she's often raising money, with little transparency on where the money goes. Her approach seems a bit haphazard at best.
Even the ONS example – it's well-known (as they said this at the time and, well, it's actually their job to do that kind of thing) that they've been adjusting their calculations and doing a statistical take on purchases per income bracket, which is – of course – a far better approach than cherry-picking a few items for Twitter likes.
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Assuming that someone has fresh rosemary, a handy bottle of olive oil, some spare red wine is right into Sam Vimes boots theory of poverty. That is the sort of thinking that gives Jack Monroe apoplexy, and rightly so.
Prices from Aldi. It's where the poors shop. And me.
Whatever supplementary ingredients are needed, like oil, have to be costed pro rata. Arguably, the £2 bottle of wine, might be an extravagance unless of course the remainder can be used in another recipe.
With regards to online apoplexy, somebody somewhere is always getting apoplectic about something, but in this case, judging by my calculations (which are correct) the apoplexy is unwarranted.
Maybe Jack Monroe shops at Waitrose?
Whatever supplementary ingredients are needed, like oil, have to be costed pro rata
No, they don't.
That's the thing about being really short of money, you can't think "Oh, I'll buy this olive oil this week because it will be cheap to use per meal." That simply doesn't work when the single bottle of olive oil costs two day's food budget.
Hence me referencing the Boot Theory.
I have been that short of money. So has my partner. Skipping meals so you can feed your children level of short of money.
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Using that theory, poor people wouldn't eat anything ever, since they can never buy oil, a block of cheese, a bottle of ketchup or really anything that spreads across more than a single meal.
I grew up pretty poor and I'm pretty sure that we had all these things. And quite a lot of fish fingers.
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I think that until people have genuinely been short of cash for more than a couple of days they will never appreciate the problems facing the low waged and vulnerable poor.
I spent a few years making mistake after mistake trying to budget on polluted air: it is mentally destroying as well as physically exhausting. Going hungry for a couple of days is truly awful. I can only imagine that going hungry for weeks, even years on end must be the toughest gig out there.
It's a pity more people don't do more to alleviate these issues in our "rich" nation as oppose to simply attack those who are making an effort. Says all you need to know about the aggressors in my book and none of it is nice.
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Using that theory, poor people wouldn't eat anything ever, since they can never buy oil, a block of cheese, a bottle of ketchup or really anything that spreads across more than a single meal.
I grew up pretty poor and I'm pretty sure that we had all these things. And quite a lot of fish fingers.
Chips, fish fingers, beans; these provide lots of calories for the up-front cost.
Ian, it seems to have escaped your attention that there are a lot of poor people who are only able to eat because of food banks.
The need for, and use, of food banks is a recent phenomenon. Either you or I saying "We didn't have money when we were young but we didn't go hungry, Mum and Dad always had cash for ciggies and there was food on the table." just doesn't apply.
The ratio between low-end wages and housing costs was already appalling and that was before energy bills started to skyrocket.
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I'm not sure what food banks have to do with it – do they really not have any ingredients that spread across more than a single meal? Do people really eat a block of cheese in one sitting, use an entire bag of pasta, a litre of cooking oil etc. The suggestion that any meal is unsustainable if it contains ingredients that span more than a single meal time. That's nonsensical and a bit patronising.
Unless we're saying that poor people shouldn't indulge in such noble ingredients as parmesan and olive oil* because they're not just poor, but unable to appreciate our more refined middle-class tastes.
*admittedly only used to clean out ear wax from errant children in my day, and the only parmesan was the dried sick variety in a tub, best before the First Crusade.
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Have you ever been to a foodbank or understand how they work?
They are overly reliant upon donations and the range is heavily oriented to dried and tinned produce. In the years I spent doing the pro bono law clinic in the same building in Coventry where there was an operational foodbank the shelves are filled with rice and pasta, beans and soup, breakfast cereals and toilet rolls. Condiments, herbs and spices, sauces and dairy produce or crest fruit and veg were not in the storerooms.
You could make a pasta meal with a jar of sauce and some dried pasta or a tin of chilli con carne and some rice but don't be ambitious.
People use foodbanks because after all their monthly commitments (and no, I don't mean their Sky TV or their data plan and monthly payment for an iPhone, I mean rent, fuel bills, petrol to run a knackered car to get to work because there are no buses, etc.) they simply no longer have enough money to feed themselves let alone that they might have children. They certainly don't have enough money to consider buying olive oil and parmesan cheese let alone fake ketchup or in date cheap bread.
Being poor is genuinely fucking tough in 21st century Britain. I do not recommend it.
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The Politics of DNA (https://youtu.be/hIIgAIB5AWw)
Hope that linky works ...
Did anybody else watch this yesterday evening?
It helped me join a few dots but also to realise just how many historical figures who are reverred in certain circles qualify for super twat status.
If you have an hour so I recommend that you watch it. It is hugely thought-provoking.
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The fact that they need to exist sucks
The reason it's all tins and dry is due to it needing a long shelf life, some food banks have an unofficial extras table where maybe things that don't fit the usual criteria such as veg can be given out
I do worry for the food bank users, PB is correct in them being mainly reliant on donations and as the squeeze on finances tighten less people will have the money to be topping up other peoples food stocks
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So foodbanks do, in fact, supply ingredients that contribute to several meals. Bottles of oil. Bags of pasta. As do shops. That's the point, someone pointed out that costings can't be pro-rated in this way, when clearly most meals require precisely this calculation.
No one sane thinks that foodbanks should exist and that people should be dependent on them. That said, the reliance on foodbank is (still) a minority, and many people who rely on these services, still do shop for additional items. To assume they're universally incapable of preparing a meal is a patronising assumption.
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I think at least a lot of it is the ground down tiredness that comes from worrying about where every single penny is going to be saved or spent. Almost all of us have come home from work feeling tired and have gone “let’s have a carry out.” Imagine if you are like that every night and every day where you just do not have the energy to think beyond putting some food into the mouths of your children. Then you simply buy a small packet of ready chips and perhaps some sausages for the one meal that will get your children off to sleep and you through to the next day when it all starts again.
That is I think the reality of UC.
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So foodbanks do, in fact, supply ingredients that contribute to several meals. Bottles of oil...
YMMV. I have yet to see in any of the food-bank donation bins, in any supermarket, what you might classify as cookery basics such as cooking oil, salt, pepper or anything like that. It may be that food-banks do supply these things, but as almost all of them seem to rely very heavily, if not exclusively, on donations I wonder how widespread the provision of ingredients is that would allow someone to do anything except open a tin or packet and warm it up.
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Llandysul food bank are struggling and begging. Due to large increase in demand and massive decrease in donations.
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I've seen foodbanks saying that people are refusing to take anything that requires refrigerating or significant cooking because they're trying to keep the fridge unplugged and don't have the power for heating. Also foodbank volunteers reporting people eating food that's gone bad cos of turning the fridge off to save power.
Now I don't doubt some of the refusing heatables or turning off the fridge is ignorance about what uses what-amount of power so skimping on the wrong things (or possibly skimping EVERYTHING) But that's POVERTY! The grinding fear and exhaustion and not having the cognitive capacity to research what's the most expensive cos EVERYTHING is too expensive.
I've been on a low income, and had literally no money beyond very basic cheap food + bills + rent (fuck you London) and stuff, sometimes for a fair amount of time, but I've never been properly poor where I couldn't afford the basics whatever I did. If I was on benefits now, I'd end up properly poor pretty fast. I'm very aware that it is basically luck AND privilege that I can earn enough on part time hours to do OK, but also that my health could crap out at any minute and I'd land back in proper-DWP land and more.
It is worse to be poor now than poor in the past cos the cost of rent and energy is waaaay higher relative to the value of money than it was in the 70s, 80s and even 90s! Benefits are far meaner because the government froze them in relation to inflation and punishes people with sanctions which get worse and worse every year.
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I think at least a lot of it is the ground down tiredness that comes from worrying about where every single penny is going to be saved or spent. Almost all of us have come home from work feeling tired and have gone “let’s have a carry out.” Imagine if you are like that every night and every day where you just do not have the energy to think beyond putting some food into the mouths of your children. Then you simply buy a small packet of ready chips and perhaps some sausages for the one meal that will get your children off to sleep and you through to the next day when it all starts again.
That is I think the reality of UC.
It's called bandwidth scarcity (https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/02/scarcity) – and it's one of those things that embeds people in poverty, because they don't have the cognitive bandwidth to plan their way out of it. There's no capacity to get home in an evening and sort for the cheapest deal, or do a bit of retirement planning, or any of the wonderful choices modern society has given us.
There's a sting though, we make poverty even more difficult, with complex procedures and forms, other hoops and hurdles, which ensure what little capacity that remains is (and remains) sapped. I do sometimes wonder if some of this is purposeful, after all, there is no reason for poverty to exist, we do – as a society – have the money and resources to end it overnight. Just not the will.
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Like you say, we have more than enough money in our rich country to eradicate national poverty. It is difficult to look beyond political ideology as the primary cause of poverty in the UK.
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Fridges are huge energy users (because they're on 24/7, even if the compressor isn't constantly running). They are, however, the one thing most people really need electricity for. You can't get a candle-powered or paper fridge.
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Maybe Jack Monroe shops at Waitrose?
If you actually took a moment, you'd know that Jack is very public about how they shop.
https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1563527138417917953
Jack is very open about their methodology, the stocktake, the plan, the method, etc...
J
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Like you say, we have more than enough money in our rich country to eradicate national poverty. It is difficult to look beyond political ideology as the primary cause of poverty in the UK.
A friend explained that you (I don't mean you, Polar Bear) vote Tory in the full knowledge that the Tories hate you, but they hate the people that you hate a bit more.
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Like you say, we have more than enough money in our rich country to eradicate national poverty. It is difficult to look beyond political ideology as the primary cause of poverty in the UK.
It's not just mere political ideology, many people thrive on having someone to look down upon, after all that informs their own social position. So indeed, they will vote for policies that keep the status quo.
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While that might be true, and deeply satisfying, she does overdo the poverty porn and comes across as very narcissistic, single-handedly saving the poor (which might come as a surprise to all the people who are running food banks, the many other chefs who specifically create meal plans and recipes etc.) Despite what must be a series of lucrative media gigs, books, and brand deals, she's often raising money, with little transparency on where the money goes. Her approach seems a bit haphazard at best.
Wow, I think, I'd like to nominate Ian for this thread.
Jack is incredibly transparent about where the money goes, what gets turned down, and the requirements of any brand deal. It's all there, in detail on twitter.
J
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candle-powered [...] fridge.
You could probably run an absorption fridge on candles. But that makes about as much sense as using them for light.
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While that might be true, and deeply satisfying, she does overdo the poverty porn and comes across as very narcissistic, single-handedly saving the poor (which might come as a surprise to all the people who are running food banks, the many other chefs who specifically create meal plans and recipes etc.) Despite what must be a series of lucrative media gigs, books, and brand deals, she's often raising money, with little transparency on where the money goes. Her approach seems a bit haphazard at best.
Wow, I think, I'd like to nominate Ian for this thread.
Jack is incredibly transparent about where the money goes, what gets turned down, and the requirements of any brand deal. It's all there, in detail on twitter.
Thanks
Though you might want to check with the Trussell Trust and others, who seem a bit confused about some of her endeavours. I mean, I think it's OK to say you distributed the money to charities who 'want to stay out of the limelight' because that's exactly what charities want to do. No publicity for us!
What does St Jack earn, btw, in between her periodic bouts of poverty? It's fine, I don't care that she undoubtedly has a six-figure income, but she's still asking for handouts now, check her blog, her Patreon page, etc. To be fair, she found time among all her other illnesses (honestly, she's a walking medical textbook) to catch autism which means she literally can't lie. It all seems a bit performative.
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About 200W per fridge?
2 old fashioned light bulbs, a tenth of a kettle. Not a lot really compared with an electric fire, microwave oven, etc false economy, or lack of knowledge, I don't know, but it seems that our education system has failed as much as our social safety net.
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Thanks
Though you might want to check with the Trussell Trust and others, who seem a bit confused about some of her endeavours. I mean, I think it's OK to say you distributed the money to charities who 'want to stay out of the limelight' because that's exactly what charities want to do. No publicity for us!
What does St Jack earn, btw, in between her periodic bouts of poverty? It's fine, I don't care that she undoubtedly has a six-figure income, but she's still asking for handouts now, check her blog, her Patreon page, etc. To be fair, she found time among all her other illnesses (honestly, she's a walking medical textbook) to catch autism which means she literally can't lie. It all seems a bit performative.
[citation needed]
And kindly take your "catch autism" elsewhere. You should know that it takes decades to get an autism diagnosis if you are brought up as a woman. It took me over 15 years to jump through the hoops to get my diagnosis, and that's with jumping ship to a different country with working healthcare.
Your bigotry here is just embarrassing you.
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About 200W per fridge?
2 old fashioned light bulbs, a tenth of a kettle. Not a lot really compared with an electric fire, microwave oven, etc false economy, or lack of knowledge, I don't know, but it seems that our education system has failed as much as our social safety net.
For years fridges have listed their typical power consumption.
I.e. this fridge from Ikea:
https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/p/lagan-fridge-with-freezer-compartment-freestanding-white-00496939/
- 175 kWh/annum
Just under half a kwh per day. At 50p a kwh, that would be 25p. At 30p/kwh, 15p... etc...
Just checked my freezer (https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/p/frysa-freezer-ikea-700-integrated-80501418/)
- 294 kWh/annum
805wh/day.
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Our fridge-freezer's actual power consumption is a steady-state 82W with the compressor running, and an alarming 3W with the compressor not running[1]. It averages almost exactly 1
pirate-ninja kWh/day (with fluctuations due to the thermostat cycle not being a neat fraction of 24 hours, and the occasional loading up with warm food or room-temperature cartons of fruit juice).
It's pretty hard to know the duty cycle of your fridge without instrumentation (temperature or power metering) that's impractical for poor people, or sitting there listening to the fridging noises. Hence the EU energy ratings being rather useful.
[1] I can only assume there's a heater in the thermostat. There's no electronics or frost-free gubbins in it.
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Hence the EU energy ratings being rather useful.
My fridge and freezer were A++ rated when i bought them. These days they are an F. After the EU change the way appliances are measured.
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About 200W per fridge?
2 old fashioned light bulbs, a tenth of a kettle. Not a lot really compared with an electric fire, microwave oven, etc false economy, or lack of knowledge, I don't know, but it seems that our education system has failed as much as our social safety net.
For years fridges have listed their typical power consumption.
I.e. this fridge from Ikea:
https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/p/lagan-fridge-with-freezer-compartment-freestanding-white-00496939/
- 175 kWh/annum
Just under half a kwh per day. At 50p a kwh, that would be 25p. At 30p/kwh, 15p... etc...
Just checked my freezer (https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/p/frysa-freezer-ikea-700-integrated-80501418/)
- 294 kWh/annum
805wh/day.
J
So, about 40W average, or pretty much fuckall, hence educational failure if people are turning them off, as well as educational failure in basic living skills. I count myself lucky in having parents who encouraged self reliance, first one home starts getting dinner ready, good practise as a 13yo
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Thing about fridges is you need to keep them powered up more or less continuously. Which might not be so much about the cost of the 40W average, as the fact that you won't have any money to put on the pre-payment meter until next week, and it's down to the last few quid. If your situation's that precarious, the last thing you need is a load of perishable food that'll go off in the meantime.
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Anyway, dragging this away from QG and ian's need to get a room, and back to Dave's original point about Jamie Oliver, it's worth pointing out that his recipes are not intended for food bank users, because quite clearly he gives a costing for his menus.
I'm not going to gainsay Dave's experience of poverty, but I will say that the notion of factoring in using a small proportion of a larger purchase is usual in other aspects of spending. For example, I drove 10 miles to work yesterday, but if I tell you it cost me £75 in petrol, you would find that odd. I wore jeans tonight. It cost me £50. I watched the TV for an hour. It cost me £500. And so on.
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So, about 40W average, or pretty much fuckall, hence educational failure if people are turning them off, as well as educational failure in basic living skills. I count myself lucky in having parents who encouraged self reliance, first one home starts getting dinner ready, good practise as a 13yo
Yes and no, if it's costing you 10p a day, that's 70p a week. If you are having to goto the food bank to eat cos you can't afford food. 70p for the fridge might actually be beyond reach.
Esp if you are on a prepayment meter.
Yes it's not much, but if you have very little, it's still something. When electricity is getting to 50p/kwh, that's 1.75 a week.
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Thanks
Though you might want to check with the Trussell Trust and others, who seem a bit confused about some of her endeavours. I mean, I think it's OK to say you distributed the money to charities who 'want to stay out of the limelight' because that's exactly what charities want to do. No publicity for us!
What does St Jack earn, btw, in between her periodic bouts of poverty? It's fine, I don't care that she undoubtedly has a six-figure income, but she's still asking for handouts now, check her blog, her Patreon page, etc. To be fair, she found time among all her other illnesses (honestly, she's a walking medical textbook) to catch autism which means she literally can't lie. It all seems a bit performative.
[citation needed]
And kindly take your "catch autism" elsewhere. You should know that it takes decades to get an autism diagnosis if you are brought up as a woman. It took me over 15 years to jump through the hoops to get my diagnosis, and that's with jumping ship to a different country with working healthcare.
Your bigotry here is just embarrassing you.
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Because she has an extraordinary (and expanding) constellation of illnesses that crop up everything time she faces criticism.
Oh fuck it, it's performative poverty, she's from an upper-middle class background, with supportive parents and partners, she has tv shows, books, celebrity endorsements and like, and she's still claiming she can't afford shower gel and unscrew lightbulbs (July 2022). It's all a theatre of me.
It's absolutely fine for her to do well, to acknowledge that, and continue to campaign. Marcus Rashford, Jamie Oliver, and many others have done just that. I actually come from a working-class family, my father was unemployed for most of my teenage years, I know what was on the menu in the few days before the next giro, I know what it was like to stand in the line of shame for the school dinner tokens. I've done that shit, it wasn't a performance, and I don't go pretending to be working class and poor now, because I'm not. Too many people don't get this choice. I think I've been clear where I stand on that.
There's an interesting read here (https://medium.com/@AwfullyMolly/jack-monroe-saint-or-scammer-80ec92f37bb6), and considering how litigious Jack Monroe is, she's yet to call on her expert team of paralegals (which she definitely has, because otherwise she'd be lying, and remember she can't because autism). I realise she's beatified now. I don't, to be honest, think she's a grifter, just that she is disorganized and attention-seeking. Whether the ends justify the means, I leave as an exercise for the reader.
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If wiki is to be believed then a fair chunk if that isn't true. Wiki says her background is "described as working class", and that she was diagnosed with autism as a child, but wasn't told.
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If wiki is to be believed then a fair chunk if that isn't true. Wiki says her background is "described as working class", and that she was diagnosed with autism as a child, but wasn't told.
She described herself as middle class here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2013/jun/06/food-poverty-jack-monroe-it-could-happen-to-anyone
"I had a £27 grand a year job. I've not been brought up on benefits and a tracksuit watching Jeremy Kyle. I'm a middle class, well educated young woman who fell a bit by the way side. You think it doesn't happen to normal people, and you think we are all scumbags, eating burgers and watching day time TV. It can happen to anyone."
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Liz Truss. For putting a climate change denier and someone who wants Britain back in the dark ages in charge of the dept for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy. That's going to go well then...
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Fridges are huge energy users (because they're on 24/7, even if the compressor isn't constantly running). They are, however, the one thing most people really need electricity for. You can't get a candle-powered or paper fridge.
Gas-powered fridges used to be a Thing – IIRC we had one in Abroad in the late 60s – so adapting one to run on candles can’t be that hard ;)
At one time we also had a Thing which was basically a metal box surrounded by porous polystyrene foam. You poured water into a divot in the top and it cooled the box, and contents, via evaporation. It could only hold a couple of bottles of milk, but it cost nowt to run.
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Let's put it this way: do I buy a new kettle or do I buy a book written by Jack Monroe?
Is there anybody that thinks that a new kettle is going to be of more use than a book of recipes which by it's very nature will help me (or the recipient to whom I shall gift it) in planning and preparing healthy and nutritious meals on an extremely tight budget?
Of course, if they cannot afford the light to read the book by ...
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Let's put it this way: do I buy a new kettle or do I buy a book written by Jack Monroe?
I'd buy neither and spend the money on some food instead.
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO. My son worked in one of his 'restaurants' and was worked into the ground, with no consideration for his health. I'd visit him, find he hadn't eaten a meal for 3-4 days (just bits of bread snatched while working), notching up 13-14 hour days 6 days a week.
Most of the issues also existed in many big-chain restaurants, but JO was one of the worst, His chain started out serving good food cooked to order to reheated shite.
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO.
No need to apologise. Your feelings were patently obvious from your first post.
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO. My son worked in one of his 'restaurants' and was worked into the ground, with no consideration for his health. I'd visit him, find he hadn't eaten a meal for 3-4 days (just bits of bread snatched while working), notching up 13-14 hour days 6 days a week.
Most of the issues also existed in many big-chain restaurants, but JO was one of the worst, His chain started out serving good food cooked to order to reheated shite.
When my wife was a journalist we ate at the restaurant at the cock Inn which was run by the i think winner from his prodigy thing. Was great as was effectively free as we did a review which could never be bad incase affected advertising,
The locals hated it as had been a popular enough pub before it got taken over
I have no strong feelings towards JO but have been compared to him, less so for my chef skills despite them being good but because I'm usually scruffy haired, from Essex and can't talk properly either
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I am expecting deluge of posts given the "new" cabinet appointments.
At least us Brits can laugh in the face of adversity. Sometimes.
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I ain’t laughing.
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO. My son worked in one of his 'restaurants' and was worked into the ground, with no consideration for his health. I'd visit him, find he hadn't eaten a meal for 3-4 days (just bits of bread snatched while working), notching up 13-14 hour days 6 days a week.
Most of the issues also existed in many big-chain restaurants, but JO was one of the worst, His chain started out serving good food cooked to order to reheated shite.
They weren't really his restaurants though, they just had his name on them and the sort of notional role that celebrity chefs typically have in these ventures (indeed, a think a number of them were just franchises in the end). Employee conditions in the industry are typically poor, which doesn't excuse them, but I don't think that's the fault of Jamie Oliver, who I doubt had any control over the day to day running of those kitchens.
There's always a group of disgruntled locals when a local pub gets gastro'ed, even though it's hard to run a local village pub when you sell six pints of Fosters and a bag of crisps on a weekday night.
I have no particular axe to grind on him, he comes across as nice enough, he's done well for himself and unlike many he has worked for his success, and his campaigning has raised the profile of many issues, indeed long before St Jack joined the market. I am completely with Uncle Ralph when it comes to Jamie's Thai green curry though. Abomination.
I'm not sure my 'described as a working-class background' featured a grammar school, a father with a senior role in the fire service, or my parents owning a couple of properties. They may have failed to mention this to me. Her parents fostered 70 kids (blimey) though that might explain why she tries so hard for attention.
She's welcome to confabulate her history (which she's evidently done consistently), but I do get narked by her cosplay poverty (more so when her periodic outbursts are followed by a shake of the collection plate). The only people who think it's noble to be poor aren't poor. It's not fun, poor people want to be anything but.
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO. My son worked in one of his 'restaurants' and was worked into the ground, with no consideration for his health. I'd visit him, find he hadn't eaten a meal for 3-4 days (just bits of bread snatched while working), notching up 13-14 hour days 6 days a week.
Most of the issues also existed in many big-chain restaurants, but JO was one of the worst, His chain started out serving good food cooked to order to reheated shite.
They weren't really his restaurants though, they just had his name on them and the sort of notional role that celebrity chefs typically have in these ventures (indeed, a think a number of them were just franchises in the end). Employee conditions in the industry are typically poor, which doesn't excuse them, but I don't think that's the fault of Jamie Oliver, who I doubt had any control over the day to day running of those kitchens.
Ian, you are wrong, dead wrong.
Jamie Oliver was directly involved in the day to day running. He visited individual restaurants, frequently, to check how the kitchen was run, the customer reception, etc. There are photos of him with my son (since he was a senior-enough chef to be in the meetings with JO).
I could say a lot more, but this is a public forum, and the UK has libel laws.
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO. My son worked in one of his 'restaurants' and was worked into the ground, with no consideration for his health. I'd visit him, find he hadn't eaten a meal for 3-4 days (just bits of bread snatched while working), notching up 13-14 hour days 6 days a week.
Most of the issues also existed in many big-chain restaurants, but JO was one of the worst, His chain started out serving good food cooked to order to reheated shite.
When my wife was a journalist we ate at the restaurant at the cock Inn which was run by the i think winner from his prodigy thing. Was great as was effectively free as we did a review which could never be bad incase affected advertising,
The locals hated it as had been a popular enough pub before it got taken over
I have no strong feelings towards JO but have been compared to him, less so for my chef skills despite them being good but because I'm usually scruffy haired, from Essex and can't talk properly either
I once at at his franchised place in Gatwick, very disappointing in all manner of ways.
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO. My son worked in one of his 'restaurants' and was worked into the ground, with no consideration for his health. I'd visit him, find he hadn't eaten a meal for 3-4 days (just bits of bread snatched while working), notching up 13-14 hour days 6 days a week.
Most of the issues also existed in many big-chain restaurants, but JO was one of the worst, His chain started out serving good food cooked to order to reheated shite.
They weren't really his restaurants though, they just had his name on them and the sort of notional role that celebrity chefs typically have in these ventures (indeed, a think a number of them were just franchises in the end). Employee conditions in the industry are typically poor, which doesn't excuse them, but I don't think that's the fault of Jamie Oliver, who I doubt had any control over the day to day running of those kitchens.
Ian, you are wrong, dead wrong.
Jamie Oliver was directly involved in the day to day running. He visited individual restaurants, frequently, to check how the kitchen was run, the customer reception, etc. There are photos of him with my son (since he was a senior-enough chef to be in the meetings with JO).
I could say a lot more, but this is a public forum, and the UK has libel laws.
I think there's a fundamental category difference between turning up to do a quick inspection and to show your face to the actual day-to-day operational management of a busy restaurant kitchen. Did your son raise his concerns?
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I feel the need to apologise to the readers of the thread. It was me who nominated Jamie Oliver.
At this point I should confess that I have a bee in my bonnet about JO. My son worked in one of his 'restaurants' and was worked into the ground, with no consideration for his health. I'd visit him, find he hadn't eaten a meal for 3-4 days (just bits of bread snatched while working), notching up 13-14 hour days 6 days a week.
Most of the issues also existed in many big-chain restaurants, but JO was one of the worst, His chain started out serving good food cooked to order to reheated shite.
They weren't really his restaurants though, they just had his name on them and the sort of notional role that celebrity chefs typically have in these ventures (indeed, a think a number of them were just franchises in the end). Employee conditions in the industry are typically poor, which doesn't excuse them, but I don't think that's the fault of Jamie Oliver, who I doubt had any control over the day to day running of those kitchens.
Ian, you are wrong, dead wrong.
Jamie Oliver was directly involved in the day to day running. He visited individual restaurants, frequently, to check how the kitchen was run, the customer reception, etc. There are photos of him with my son (since he was a senior-enough chef to be in the meetings with JO).
I could say a lot more, but this is a public forum, and the UK has libel laws.
I think there's a fundamental category difference between turning up to do a quick inspection and to show your face to the actual day-to-day operational management of a busy restaurant kitchen. Did your son raise his concerns?
Please, Ian, stop.
JO was fundamentally involved. He dictated the menus, how the dishes should be cooked. The kitchen setup and staffing organisation. He met with regional managers to discuss policy and operation. He went to individual restaurants to check on how they were run, he had a quality inspection team that reported back to him.
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I think the Jamies chain restaurants were started with good intent, but like many such ventures, the accountants strip it out. See also Carluccio's amd Petit Blanc.
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My comments were based on a friend of mine who used to be the overall manager of one his concerns in London (so literally was in charge of the kitchens), late empire (indeed, she was made redundant by the group, but she's made a career out of managing failing restaurant chains). She met Jamie Oliver once (and briefly) in three years. I'll acknowledge that he was probably more involved in the initial years, but it's hard to see that he had any significant operational involvement once the group had grown into a significant chain (at its peak, minus franchises, it numbered 42 branches). But anyway, shitty jobs in catering aren't exactly news.
I am, of course, a bigot. I might sue.
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I think all of these food outlets where they are named after a person eventually fall down as the bean counters take over. That is not to criticise bean counters. There is a big difference between being a brilliant chef and being a brilliant businessman. You cannot source from a single small farmer when you get to 42 restuarants. But we generally want the warm and cozy, emotional feel that jamie could pop out of the kitchen and say hello. Talking with a friend this morning, he reminded me that I am a rational science person whereas increasingly the world is emotion driven.
My view is that if I go to a named chef restaurant, I want named chef in the kitchen. Otherwise why bother with named chef restaurant. We have 3 local restaurants we eat at, all with a single chef owner. One has become more popular, taken on a trainee and the wife is now doing the desserts. It shows in the standards and we have reduced our visits.
I would rather eat at a proper chain restaurant than a faux named chain. Yo sushi rather than Carluccios any day.
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Once a chain gets going, you need significant capital and resources to keep expanding, at that point you've got to hand over to the people with that money, and they're paying for the name not for the chef to be in the kitchen.
Jamie's various concerns fell to the same model of rapid, ultimately unsustainable expansion that, almost inevitable, results in eventual demise. But the investors get their payback, even if the suppliers and employees don't.
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There’s a well defined point of failure for entrepreneurial business development, the point at which it is no longer possible for a single person to manage the day to day operations. Appointing the right people and letting go of the right parts of the day to day operations is a skill very different to starting a business and one that may entrepreneurs lack.
Coupled to that, the hospitality industry is renowned for hideous hours, with split shifts and antisocial attendance patterns.
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Colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron opens mouth, inserts foot. Again. (https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1567119352721276929)
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CBE feeling a bit left out with all the new ST fodder in Apocaliz's new Turd Reich Cabinet of National Salvation grabbing the fascist media headlines ...
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My comments were based on a friend of mine who used to be the overall manager of one his concerns in London (so literally was in charge of the kitchens), late empire (indeed, she was made redundant by the group, but she's made a career out of managing failing restaurant chains). She met Jamie Oliver once (and briefly) in three years. I'll acknowledge that he was probably more involved in the initial years, but it's hard to see that he had any significant operational involvement once the group had grown into a significant chain (at its peak, minus franchises, it numbered 42 branches). But anyway, shitty jobs in catering aren't exactly news.
I am, of course, a bigot. I might sue.
The Cock at Beazley End was bought by Jamie's Fifteen Foundation in 2007 (IIRC). I was an irregular visitor when it was just the village pub, and ate there a couple of times when it was under Aaron Craze. It was an unpredictable experience. It returned to being a village pub after a year, and closed for good in 2013.
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In case people think I'm defending Jamie Oliver, I should state that he is a man who puts mushrooms in Thai green curry and chilli jam in egg-fried rice. Crimes against humanity both. That's probably how Hitler cooked them.
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In case people think I'm defending Jamie Oliver, I should state that he is a man who puts mushrooms in Thai green curry and chilli jam in egg-fried rice. Crimes against humanity both. That's probably how Hitler cooked them.
Yebbut, Uncle Roger was a bit harsh on the chilli jam by just binning it.
It has it's place.
It's an essential ingredient in a Dishoom Bacon Naan Roll, which is the breakfast of champions:
https://www.dishoom.com/journal/dishooms-bacon-naan-roll-recipe/
Of course, you should make your own ( from your own home-cultivated chillies, obv.. ), but I succumbed and bought a jar from Dishoom as I was standing waiting to settle the bill, watching the dude make the naans in the commercial tandoor, which looked not unlike a stainless steel Yankeedoodle stylee top-loader washing machine; the sort that half-heartedly slops your washing back and forth for 20 minutes and declares it done.
I'm not sure if Hitler did Dishoom style cooking, he definitely didn't in the Indiana Jones movies, and that's pretty historically accurate.
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Start a business that is great! The people flock to it. The reviewers love it!
Grow it and think "we could have another branch/shop/restaurant"
Open another branch/shop/restaurant.
You now have operations in which it is only possible to spend half your time, so you need to find someone else like you to run branch/shop/restaurant 2. The chances are that you won't find such a person. So standards drop, but you might not notice, as you are only there half the time. So you open a third branch/shop/restaurant.
Instead of sourcing wonderful stuff and lovingly preparing it, displaying it, delivering it, being a craftsperson, you are now a manager of people and money. Quite different.
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Did Hitler Like Curry is not the investigative documentary I've yet discovered, but it ought to exist, because I want to know. Maybe he invented currywurst but no one will admit it, because then they'd be ruined, and who doesn't like currywurst? Well, Jews, obviously.
No fan of chilli jam here, jam should be strawberry and fruity things. Jews for Jam has quite a ring to it though.
But anyway, fruit or chilli, not in egg-fried rice. I confess I'm a bit meh on Dishoom, though as chains go, there aren't the worst. I'm not sure I'd queue outside, as seems to be popular these days.
Possible Jack Monroe should start a restaurant chain, though I probably shouldn't give her ideas for another Kickstarter.
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I would rather eat at a proper chain restaurant than a faux named chain. Yo sushi rather than Carluccios any day.
I wouldn't eat in either through choice, but if forced to choose, I would go for Carluccio's - faux named or not, the food is better than at Yo Sushi IME. And at least it was started by someone who actually knows and cares about food. I remember when Yo Sushi was launched by Simon Woodroffe in the late 90s, a a time when kaiten was a brief fad in London, and it was always a purely commercial venture. Which, to be fair, is probably why it has been so successful (although iirc it has nearly gone under a few times). But it was always inferior to the decent kaiten places, like the excellent Moshi Moshi Sushi - which, apparently, is still going in its original Liverpool St site, though I've not been for many years.
I used to go to the original Harry Ramsden's in the early 90s. Given that the original Harry Ramsden died in 1963 and apparently sold the business in 1957, he wouldn't have had much day to day involvement when I was visiting. It had already been taken over by Barnes & Richardson by then and was starting to expand, but only had a few branches, and the original still felt like a proper fish and chip shop - and was very good indeed.
It would take a lot of persuading to get me to eat in a branch of Harry Ramsden's now.
Also used to eat at the original Wagamama in Lexington Street, when it was a one-off. I remember the kerfuffle when they opened their second branch. Surprisingly, though, Wagamama still seems to be fundamentally the same as it always was - though it's certainly possible that my memory of the original has been dulled over time and maybe the current incarnations are a pale imitation of the original. I would still eat in Wagamama though.
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Wagamama's is one of those safe-bet chains, I think. I can't say I've had a bad meal in the couple of times I've been. Though I prefer the Hare and Tortoise, which did briefly spread from the original at Brunswick Square (I'm old enough to remember when it was a gloomy bit of brutalism), though judging by the closed outpost by Blackfriars at the weekend, has now contracted. By and large I prefer singular restaurants, even if it's a bit more hit-and-miss. I've never minded the Côte brasseries, which seem to be everywhere. Not so sure about the rash of Ivys, I always figured the original to be a bit overrated, but someone else was paying the bills.
Absolutely huge queues for the Dishoom in Convent Garden at the weekend. I don't believe in queuing for restaurants. That's the world gone wrong, where we reserve tables in pubs (fuck you, Sophie 7pm, fuck you) and queue for restaurants.
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We tried Dishoom in Edinburgh at the recommendation of friends and were distinctly underwhelmed.
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We've given up asking for recommendations here.
"Great food" always means the quantity of the food; never the quality.
We've also given up making recommendations.
"Well, we went to that restaurant you mentioned. We only got half a plateful. It was a disgrace."
"And it was twice the price"
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We've given up asking for recommendations here.
"Great food" always means the quantity of the food; never the quality.
Have you accidentally moved to USAnia? Popped out for a bag of sugar sort of thing...
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We've given up asking for recommendations here.
"Great food" always means the quantity of the food; never the quality.
We've also given up making recommendations.
"Well, we went to that restaurant you mentioned. We only got half a plateful. It was a disgrace."
"And it was twice the price"
The only outside food that hasn’t left me underwhelmed in the last few years was from Van Zeller in Harrogate (now closed) and House of Tides in Gateshead (starred the day after I visited as luck would have it). Both singular with the chef in the kitchen. Eating out is rarely worth it for the food in my experience. It may be worth it for the company and lack of washing up, or to support business relationships - and even then I have to keep quiet about my view of the food, service and general atmosphere.
I know, I’m a curmudgeon.
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Never going to get a memorable meal in a chain restaurant. Last time I tried Wagamama the steak was inedibly tough. At least the till operator deducted it from the bill after I responded negatively to her question as to whether I had enjoyed my meal.
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Never going to get a memorable meal in a chain restaurant.
I've had a couple that were memorable for the wrong reasons...
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Never going to get a memorable meal in a chain restaurant. Last time I tried Wagamama the steak was inedibly tough. At least the till operator deducted it from the bill after I responded negatively to her question as to whether I had enjoyed my meal.
Whereas my experience at a great little bistro in Aberdeen, they kind of forgot our mains, we gently prompted them. The bill came without drinks on it
"you've forgotten the drinks"
"no, we took those off because the mains were late, sorry about that"
I left a decent tip.
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Recommended Indian restaurants are often the worst, they're usually terrible, a variety of pre-cooked meats in red or brown sauce, which if you're used to have a decent Indian restaurant nearby, are dismal. You can replicate the experience with a jar of supermarket curry sauce. The recommenders are always wasn't it nice and you have to, for politeness sake nod, yes. We got dragged to one in the Cotswoldian area once, our hosts were gushing about it, best Indian they'd had apparently. Honestly, I've had better at a Wetherspoons curry night.
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Recommended Indian restaurants are often the worst, they're usually terrible, a variety of pre-cooked meats in red or brown sauce, which if you're used to have a decent Indian restaurant nearby, are dismal. You can replicate the experience with a jar of supermarket curry sauce. The recommenders are always wasn't it nice and you have to, for politeness sake nod, yes. We got dragged to one in the Cotswoldian area once, our hosts were gushing about it, best Indian they'd had apparently. Honestly, I've had better at a Wetherspoons curry night.
Well, that's your upper middle-class Remainer cred busted. :demon: ;D :demon:
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I have to say, most people on this thread are coming across as a bunch of hard to please curmudgeonly old fucks.
Has anyone got anything *positive* to say about their eating-out experiences?
At ordinary places?
The "I never eat in chain restaurants" is just the "I never watch TV, well perhaps just the occasional documentary on channel 4, but we then write a 2000 word essay on what we've learned" thing all over again.
I'm going to defend Dishoom as pretty good.
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We usually get a fair to good pizza at pizza express.
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I have to say, most people on this thread forum are coming across as a bunch of hard to please curmudgeonly old fucks.
You've only just noticed? :)
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I enjoy the "xxxxxxxx Lounge" chain. The food is consistently very acceptable and I can get a pint of half decent IPA to sup with my veggie burger and sweet potato fries. It's good enough that I keep on returning.
I discovered the chain when on a trip associated to my Deputyship role for a vulnerable adult and have visited a number of their outlets now.
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Come on, I said I didn't mind Wagamama and Côte. But I am hard to please. Had a very enjoyable curry at an ordinary looking suburban curry house with a vista of South Croydon bus garage the other week and life doesn't get much better than that. I had a perfectly good steak in a non-gastro pub the other day.
I do generally try to avoid chain places though, not because I'm a snob, I just reckon small restaurant deserve my custom rather than the shareholders of whatever chain.
I didn't dislike Dishoom, which mostly ploughs the same field as Masala Zone has been doing for years (and I've always had a soft spot for their thali), it was just a bit ordinary and I didn't really get the buzz. I wouldn't queue for it, though I might use it as a venue to meet friends for lunch.
I think there's space in the market of a Monroe-esque poverty themed restaurant though, you pay £15 for spaghetti hoops and a fish finger. It'll be peak Shoreditch.
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I'm going to defend Dishoom as pretty good.
I like Dishoom.
We did actually have a very memorable visit to Dishoom a few years ago. The boy was at Manchester uni and we called in to pick him up on the way up north for a family gathering for his 21st. We took him to Dishoom for breakfast and it was splendid.
Sure, it was perhaps more about the occasion than the venue, but I’ve had special occasions ruined by supposedly good restaurants before, and Dishoom Manchester get a lot of credit for contributing a good start to a memorable day.
During lockdown, we relived the experience by ordering one of their at home kits for him and his girlfriend as a birthday treat - the vegan sausage naan (she’s a veggie or it would have been the bacon naan). Absolutely brilliant - I highly recommend it. The vegan sausages are amazing (all the better for not pretending to be meat).
The Guardian had their recipe for kejriwal a while ago. That’s also excellent - I make it occasionally for an indulgent Sunday brunch treat.
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I'm going to defend Dishoom as pretty good.
I like Dishoom.
We did actually have a very memorable visit to Dishoom a few years ago. The boy was at Manchester uni and we called in to pick him up on the way up north for a family gathering for his 21st. We took him to Dishoom for breakfast and it was splendid.
Sure, it was perhaps more about the occasion than the venue, but I’ve had special occasions ruined by supposedly good restaurants before, and Dishoom Manchester get a lot of credit for contributing a good start to a memorable day.
During lockdown, we relived the experience by ordering one of their at home kits for him and his girlfriend as a birthday treat - the vegan sausage naan (she’s a veggie or it would have been the bacon naan). Absolutely brilliant - I highly recommend it. The vegan sausages are amazing (all the better for not pretending to be meat).
The Guardian had their recipe for kejriwal a while ago. That’s also excellent - I make it occasionally for an indulgent Sunday brunch treat.
Your post here linking to the Grauniad article was the first time I'd heard of Dishoom, and I made the kejriwal based on that.
I've only been at the actual restaurant (Edinburgh) once, on a breakfast occasion because my Eldest Junior was coming off night shifts as a FY1 Junior Doctor, and Dishoom Breakfasts were A Thing on that day.
I've subsequently bought the book, and done a bunch of stuffs from it, and although the recipes are Ottolengi level fiddly, they do work and are worth the effort.
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We were very impressed with the Wagamama gluten free service. Only the manager can take your order and deliver your food, only the head cook can cook your meal. Very reassuring. The food was excellent for a chain restaurant, well flavoured and served quickly. We have a superb group of Indian restaurants nearby called Anoki. Home deliveries, a fridge to collect from as well as eating. All gluten free and gluten free chapatis as well. Brilliant.
We were in Chester last weekend and ate at Upstairs at the grill and Sticky walnut. Both superb, real atmosphere and good food.
If I want a steak locally then I will put on my old clothes and go to a local restaurant Emily's. Half a dozen tables, superb steak and to die for onion rings.
I am not anti chain restaurants but if I am going out I want to eat good food well cooked.
The problem is that with a good butcher I can have a piece of fillet each on a Sunday evening with a half bottle of wine cooked to perfection for less than a badly cooked rump for one in most restaurants.
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We might have elevated Wagamama but no updates on whether Hitler Liked Curry though. I do eat in Wagamama a reasonable number of times, mostly because they're willing to squeeze us after concert or cinema (there's one next to the Everyman in Reigate, and opposite Fairfield Halls in Croydon, and yes, I go to all the best places).
Probably went too far with the poverty-theme Shoreditch hipster restaurant, but trust me, in a year, you'll see me as a visionary.
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Also used to eat at the original Wagamama in Lexington Street, when it was a one-off.
Streatham St, I fancy.
House of Tides in Gateshead (starred the day after I visited as luck would have it).
Newcastle, surely? Other side of the river from Baltic, and upstream a bit. (Was in Newcastle with a friend three or four years ago. Late afternoon wandering around Baltic, a couple of points in the sun outside the Wetherspoons on the quayside, contemplated eating there but decided that HoT looked interesting. Went in on spec, got a table as walk-ins. Very much the right decision, even if it was a tad more than 'Spoons.)
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I have to say, most people on this thread are coming across as a bunch of hard to please curmudgeonly old fucks.
Has anyone got anything *positive* to say about their eating-out experiences?
At ordinary places?
The "I never eat in chain restaurants" is just the "I never watch TV, well perhaps just the occasional documentary on channel 4, but we then write a 2000 word essay on what we've learned" thing all over again.
I'm going to defend Dishoom as pretty good.
Ahem,
Never going to get a memorable meal in a chain restaurant. Last time I tried Wagamama the steak was inedibly tough. At least the till operator deducted it from the bill after I responded negatively to her question as to whether I had enjoyed my meal.
Whereas my experience at a great little bistro in Aberdeen, they kind of forgot our mains, we gently prompted them. The bill came without drinks on it
"you've forgotten the drinks"
"no, we took those off because the mains were late, sorry about that"
I left a decent tip.
I also like Muriel's, both the Kings Cross and theatreland branches, but don't take that as a recommendation ;D
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Steve Brine, fascist low ranker and scum of the earth MP complaining about Gary Lineker having the audacity to tweet about water quality. Apparently voters don't pay Lineker's huge BBC salary for him to tweet about sewage.
Hmmm...
Firstly Mr Brine, you voted to allow the water companies to pump sewage into our rivers in ever increasing amounts.
Secondly, the BBC do not employ or compensate Gary Lineker to tweet in his own time.
Thirdly, you yourself have tweeted about football. Do we pay you to tweet about something you know even less about than your job, apparently?
Fourthly, we do pay your salary for you to act in the best interests of the nation, not your corporate backers. You shouldn't be voting for shit in the rivers and for people to be knee deep in the Bexhill on Sewage Mr. Brine.
And lastly, what about freedom of expression? Don't you fascists claim to seek to cancel "cancel culture" whilst in reality you are the ones pushing cancel culture and the culture wars.
He is also the ST who got his Feldgrau Langhosen in a twist about Joe Lycett iirc.
Welcome to the ranks of Super Twatishness Mr. Salty, er I mean Brine.
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Also used to eat at the original Wagamama in Lexington Street, when it was a one-off.
Streatham St, I fancy.
I’m sure you’re right. It’s quite plausible that I’ve misremembered which came first.
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Also used to eat at the original Wagamama in Lexington Street, when it was a one-off.
Streatham St, I fancy.
I’m sure you’re right. It’s quite plausible that I’ve misremembered which came first.
Apologies - pedantry has always been a vice.
Funnily enough, I can distinctly remember going to Streatham St two or three times in 1993 (can probably pinpoint the date of one visit) but although the photos I've found look familiar, I have no unprompted recollection of the Lexington St one at all, despite working round the corner from 1996-99, with a group of colleagues with whom I would certainly have gone there.
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Today I nominate the man sitting across the aisle of the bus playing the news out loud on his phone. I can't hear radio 3 even with my headphones up high, because of the incessant tinny prattling. >:(
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I would rather eat at a proper chain restaurant than a faux named chain. Yo sushi rather than Carluccios any day.
I wouldn't eat in either through choice, but if forced to choose, I would go for Carluccio's - faux named or not, the food is better than at Yo Sushi IME. And at least it was started by someone who actually knows and cares about food. I remember when Yo Sushi was launched by Simon Woodroffe in the late 90s, a a time when kaiten was a brief fad in London, and it was always a purely commercial venture. Which, to be fair, is probably why it has been so successful (although iirc it has nearly gone under a few times). But it was always inferior to the decent kaiten places, like the excellent Moshi Moshi Sushi - which, apparently, is still going in its original Liverpool St site, though I've not been for many years.
I used to go to the original Harry Ramsden's in the early 90s. Given that the original Harry Ramsden died in 1963 and apparently sold the business in 1957, he wouldn't have had much day to day involvement when I was visiting. It had already been taken over by Barnes & Richardson by then and was starting to expand, but only had a few branches, and the original still felt like a proper fish and chip shop - and was very good indeed.
It would take a lot of persuading to get me to eat in a branch of Harry Ramsden's now.
Also used to eat at the original Wagamama in Lexington Street, when it was a one-off. I remember the kerfuffle when they opened their second branch. Surprisingly, though, Wagamama still seems to be fundamentally the same as it always was - though it's certainly possible that my memory of the original has been dulled over time and maybe the current incarnations are a pale imitation of the original. I would still eat in Wagamama though.
My bold.
I note with interest that there is a Harry Ramsden franchise in my local branch of Sainos.
Which probably tells you everything you need to know.....
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The irony is that the owners of the Harry Ramsden’s trade mark sold the original Harry Ramsdens restaurant a good few years ago because it didn’t make enough money. One of my cycle routes to work went past the place, and my brother-in-law worked there during his summer university breaks.
There was always a queueueue outside the restaurant, though strangely, not outside the takeaway counter. Growing up close by, I’ve been taken there a couple or three times, and the experience was somewhat surreal, even to the younger me. Fish and chips with a cup of tea, served by waitresses in black and white waitress uniforms, and tables with white linen. The decor was opulent Edwardian and the place was lit by glass chandeliers. I don’t remember the cod’n’nerks being anything special though.
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They opened a Harry Ramsden's at Cribbs Causeway (nr Brizzle) a loong time ago. We went there not long after it opened to see if it was all it was cracked up to be. Never went back.
The reason I dropped by. The Haunted Pencil for blatently trying to skew a survey on what we should use to measure stuff in favour of Imperial units. In brief and to save you the bother of looking it up. Two options (and I paraphrase)...
a) Should everything be in Imperial (God Fearing and Proper!) units.
b) Should everything be in Imperial (God Fearing and Proper!) units and (if we really must) metric (Spit! Nasty! Foreign!) units?
Observent readers will have noticed the missing option c).
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The irony is that the owners of the Harry Ramsden’s trade mark sold the original Harry Ramsdens restaurant a good few years ago because it didn’t make enough money.
How can anyone not make money from a fish & chip shop?!
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The irony is that the owners of the Harry Ramsden’s trade mark sold the original Harry Ramsdens restaurant a good few years ago because it didn’t make enough money.
How can anyone not make money from a fish & chip shop?!
Ah I draw my learned friends attention to,the emboldened word. Running a posh restaurant requires many people and people cost money. Running a brand mark via franchise requires collection of money.
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How can anyone not make money from a fish & chip shop?!
In normal times that would seem to be a reasonable question, but with the cost of fuel now making it ruinously expensive to run deep fat fryers, the drought leading to the prospect of a very poor potato harvest together with inflation driving up the cost of the ingredients past a point were people can no longer afford to buy fish and chips because their incomes are shrinking I fear the answer to that question is now; far, far too easily.
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The reason I dropped by. The Haunted Pencil for blatently trying to skew a survey on what we should use to measure stuff in favour of Imperial units. In brief and to save you the bother of looking it up. Two options (and I paraphrase)...
a) Should everything be in Imperial (God Fearing and Proper!) units.
b) Should everything be in Imperial (God Fearing and Proper!) units and (if we really must) metric (Spit! Nasty! Foreign!) units?
Observent readers will have noticed the missing option c).
I sent in a response to the consultation in June. Then I sent the link to as many scientist colleagues as I could find. There should be a good few suitably scathing responses to the BEIS survey.
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How can anyone not make money from a fish & chip shop?!
In normal times that would seem to be a reasonable question, but with the cost of fuel now making it ruinously expensive to run deep fat fryers, the drought leading to the prospect of a very poor potato harvest together with inflation driving up the cost of the ingredients past a point were people can no longer afford to buy fish and chips because their incomes are shrinking I fear the answer to that question is now; far, far too easily.
Also the price of oil. Sunflower comes from Ukraine (among others). Indonesia had at one point banned the export of palm oil. Prices of oil I believe at one point had gone up four-fold!
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Yebbut the Harry Ramsden sale was years ago.
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The reason I dropped by. The Haunted Pencil for blatently trying to skew a survey on what we should use to measure stuff in favour of Imperial units. In brief and to save you the bother of looking it up. Two options (and I paraphrase)...
a) Should everything be in Imperial (God Fearing and Proper!) units.
b) Should everything be in Imperial (God Fearing and Proper!) units and (if we really must) metric (Spit! Nasty! Foreign!) units?
Observent readers will have noticed the missing option c).
It got covered by BBC Radio 4's More or Less program. They were very scathing.
J
I sent in a response to the consultation in June. Then I sent the link to as many scientist colleagues as I could find. There should be a good few suitably scathing responses to the BEIS survey.
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Yebbut the Harry Ramsden sale was years ago.
years and years ago. Let me just flex my googlefu
ETA:
Only 11 years ago in fact. The reason cited where as I’m said above, not enough money made and refurbishment would cost too much. I hadn’t realised that it’s new name (the Wetherby Whaler) is actually the name of a chain of fish and chip shops. Well, you live and learn.
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The minister for the 17th century calling other people Luddites. The mind boggles.
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I thought he was the minister for the 19th Century, which would make Luddites (in the original sense of uppity working class people) a prime concern.
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I thought he was the Honourable Member for 1685. Or was that during The Enlightenment, in which case it’s unlikely?
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I thought he was the minister for the 19th Century, which would make Luddites (in the original sense of uppity working class people) a prime concern.
Either way, he is most certainly not a minister fit for the 21st century.
Also accusing those against fracking of being funded by Putin. Which is outrageous - and there is something seriously wrong with the functioning of parliament that he wasn't called out on it.
Especially when he himself has received funding from a sanctioned oligarch.
Absolutely scandalous behaviour from the tories in the house today. Coffey just as bad.
In the first days of the Truss administration, the only members of the cabinet who haven't disgraced themselves publicly are the ones who haven't spoken publicly yet.
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I thought he was the minister for the 19th Century, which would make Luddites (in the original sense of uppity working class people) a prime concern.
Either way, he is most certainly not a minister fit for the 21st century.
Also accusing those against fracking of being funded by Putin. Which is outrageous - and there is something seriously wrong with the functioning of parliament that he wasn't called out on it.
Especially when he himself has received funding from a sanctioned oligarch.
Absolutely scandalous behaviour from the tories in the house today. Coffey just as bad.
In the first days of the Truss administration, the only members of the cabinet who haven't disgraced themselves publicly are the ones who haven't spoken publicly yet.
TBF, that's hardly a surprise is it ?
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It’s almost enough to cause one to pine for those halcyon days of joined up and effective government we had under BSJ…
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TBF, that's hardly a surprise is it ?
I'm slightly surprised by quite how hard and how fast they are setting about wrecking absolutely everything.
It's like they know they won't have long.
ETA: as someone on twitter described it, it’s a smash and grab raid.
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The Orange Ogre - aka Trump - has a civil suit against it by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Because James is mid-brown, the OO is saying that it's racially motivated; for once it's correct - James is very obviously human race and the OO, er, isn't, like all the other members of the Gormless Old Pillocks).
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Roger Waters.
https://news.sky.com/story/leave-them-kids-alone-why-pink-floyds-roger-waters-and-the-ukrainian-first-lady-olena-zelenska-have-fallen-out-12705159
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You beat me to it.
What an absolute bell end.
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It's a pretty incoherent letter he sent, but then he is nearly 80.
He was on RT a week before the invasion saying that talk of invasion was bullshit, and anti-Russian propaganda.
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Oh dear, one can see why Wright + Gilmour went anti Waters, while Nick Mason bless him, saw his excellent Saucerful of Secrets band a few months ago, went whatevs. Waters been advertising his 'final tour' recently. That'll go well now. Hey You!
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Wright was also fired from the band and brought back as effectively a session musician. By Waters. I gave up on Floyd post-Animals and only returned to the fold after Waters had buggered off.
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Liz Truss and especially KK, for not,only crashing the UK economy in record time, but also for sticking their fingers in their ears and singing LA LA LA LA very Loudly.
In fact the only thing stopping me creating a new Super C thread especially for them is that Rog would probably get a bit cross.
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Serial offender Daniel Hannan, who is blaming Keir Starmer for all this, saying the pound is crashing because the markets fear the possibility that he could be PM in two years time.
Absolute fucking fruitcake.
Also the Daily Mail and Daily Express for running "Look! Squirrels!" (or words to that effect) as their front page splashes today, with no mention of anything actually newsworthy.
(ETA: I see this has already been discussed in t'other thread)
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Rees-Mogg makes a predictable return to these hallowed halls, this time for saying that the BBC is anti-Tory for reporting that the mini-budget caused market turmoil.
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Graham Stuart gaslighting (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/12/uk-fracking-and-oil-drilling-good-for-environment-says-climate-minister-graham-stuart) :facepalm:
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Graham Stuart gaslighting (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/12/uk-fracking-and-oil-drilling-good-for-environment-says-climate-minister-graham-stuart) :facepalm:
But Stuart disagreed: “You have given me these assertions from these various bodies.”
“Scientific research, I think it is called,” said Lewis.
We really are stuffed. Government ministers are starting to sound like flat earth idiots.
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Graham Stuart gaslighting (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/12/uk-fracking-and-oil-drilling-good-for-environment-says-climate-minister-graham-stuart) :facepalm:
See also: the haunted pencil accusing a BBC reporter of failing to be impartial because he dared ask him a question about policy.
>:(
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Graham Stuart gaslighting (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/12/uk-fracking-and-oil-drilling-good-for-environment-says-climate-minister-graham-stuart) :facepalm:
But Stuart disagreed: “You have given me these assertions from these various bodies.”
“Scientific research, I think it is called,” said Lewis.
We really are stuffed. Government ministers are starting to sound like flat earth idiots.
I did like this response from Lewis: “So I hear what you are saying, but it seems from my perspective and, I imagine, the public’s perspective, that you are talking about 100 new licences, more exploration, more oil coming out of the ground. It sounds like you are peeing on our heads and telling us it is raining.”
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Truss, of course, for failing the Turing Test.
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Kriss Akabusi, if only for being interviewed on GB News by Farage.
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Whichever shower of cunts is in charge of Royal Mail right now.
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Whichever shower of cunts is in charge of Royal Mail right now.
And the majority of the shareholders, who should be the ones stumping up the cash to support the business, not bleeding it dry.
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We should really blame the government – this is the inevitable outcome of the sell-off.
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Oh yes, once again the myth that public services will function better if run as "competitive" businesses on the open market laid bare.
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The Royal Mail made decent profits last year, on their biggest turnover since privatisation (remember, 10% of the company went to the employees, who currently number around 160,000). They most certainly should have invested more of their profits into their workforce, but to declare the company a failure as a result of privatisation is a curious interpretation of the facts.
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Those record profits came on the back of ever worsening working conditions for employees and a downgraded service for customers. Running the business like that was never sustainable.
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The Royal Mail made decent profits last year, on their biggest turnover since privatisation (remember, 10% of the company went to the employees, who currently number around 160,000). They most certainly should have invested more of their profits into their workforce, but to declare the company a failure as a result of privatisation is a curious interpretation of the facts.
Yes, but it's a divergent business, and the domestic side is lumbered with liabilities that its competitors don't have and the management would obviously rather be rid of it. I wouldn't argue that should have invested (I'd say that for many businesses who'd rather pay shareholder dividends or cream it off in executive pay) but they're a public company (and we made it so) and so are entitled, if their shareholders don't demur to chase the shorter term profit. I think expecting to go any other way is a bit naive. It's like expecting my friendly local, ToC to run a better service when all the incentives are for them to do the opposite.
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And the fundamental question remains why does a vital public service need to be run as a profit making business?
It’s never going to be the taxpayer who benefits from that philosophy.
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I said it at the time of the Bt privatisation and I’ll repeat it again, public services and utilities have no place in private hands.
The interconnected nature of their businesses means that there can be no realist competition without strong regulation, and the public service obligations will either go by the wayside, or will be pilled onto on firm and insufficient lay funded by the others (through more regulation).
On top of that, the long term planning and investment that is vital to service delivery security, is an anathema1 to private enterprise and will be paid little more than lip service. See the current power issues and this summers water issues as cases in point.
1. Indeed a public limited company could argue that its legal duty to maximise shareholder value trumps its need to invest in the future. Let’s face it, an CEO who does get sacked for short termism will have already banked his bonus so is unlikely to be that bothered.
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I think the point was that competition rules had allowed lots of other players into the market, and thus there was no point or need for the government to run the service. They put in place minimum service rules to protect rural and remote communities, but otherwise released RM to compete. The advent of electronic communications makes the contention that post is an essential public service moot, and I would certainly argue that it is not in the least comparable to utility services which are a requirement for existence. To a very large extent, the withdrawal of postal services either by strikes or commercial expediency will make no difference to most peoples' lives.
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I think the point was that competition rules had allowed lots of other players into the market, and thus there was no point or need for the government to run the service.
They* deregulated delivery services with the express intention of undermining Royal Mail in order to justify their goal of selling it off.
*the last Labour government, which makes it all the more galling. Doing the tories job for them. I’ve stuck up for them in other threads, but I know they made some horrendous mistakes too.
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Paul Dacre isn’t getting his peerage after all.
Break out the tiny violins.
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I think the point was that competition rules had allowed lots of other players into the market, and thus there was no point or need for the government to run the service. They put in place minimum service rules to protect rural and remote communities, but otherwise released RM to compete. The advent of electronic communications makes the contention that post is an essential public service moot, and I would certainly argue that it is not in the least comparable to utility services which are a requirement for existence. To a very large extent, the withdrawal of postal services either by strikes or commercial expediency will make no difference to most peoples' lives.
Certainly, good point, but I expect the same runes are being read by the Royal Mail's management team, sadly.
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Paul Dacre isn’t getting his peerage after all.
Break out the tiny violins.
You'd struggle to see mine with a transmission electron microscope.
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Paul Dacre isn’t getting his peerage after all.
Break out the tiny violins.
A scintilla of good news in an otherwise bleak few weeks.
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Not yet, anyway.
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Not yet, anyway.
Yes, not while he is a practising journalist, I read.
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Not yet, anyway.
Yes, not while he is a practising journalist, I read.
Hmmm. That may be the *official* reason…
Do we seriously believe that being a practising journalist is more of a bar to becoming a member of the lords than being the newspaper-owning son of a former KGB officer?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg for his twattish and not pretentious oh no not at all resignation letter.
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And here it is in full:
(https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/uploads/2014/07/roland-f.-99v.jpg)
Edit: his handwriting is fucking terrible. He should’ve got Nanny Astaroth to write it. In blood.
Edit 2: Those wags at Metro – Jacob Reeſ-Mogg’ſ hand-written resignation letter iſ ſlathered with pretention (https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/25/jacob-rees-moggs-hand-written-resignation-letter-is-slathered-with-pretention-17633956/)
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He does write like a pisse-mire.
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I would like to get in a first nomination for our new PM, for putting together a government of 'integrity', and then re-appointing a minister who was sacked 6 days previously for breaking the ministerial code.
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I suspect that the 'breaking' was an excuse to resign without appearing to be disloyal - a cunning ruse to leave a way back. She appeared to have honesty and integrity whilst saying 'f-you, brain-dead bimbo!'.
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A government of integrity?
Sunak, Braverman, Hunt, Jenrick, Raab, Gove, Mordaunt, Coffey, Cleverly, Shapps, Zahawi, Badenoch, Williamson, Mitchell, ...
Hmmm, maybe not.
A clusterfuck of Super Twats? Yes, definitely.
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A government of integrity....
Oh at last. One is completely reassured. I will sleep peacefully tonight.
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It's the sense of disappointment, isn't it.
New leader. Cabinet reshuffle. Chance for a change.
But he's filled it with fucking Tories.
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Thing is, the talent pool is excruciatingly small and the list of cynical, narcissistic, greedy tory MP's who have served in government since 2010 is long. They are struggling for choice.
Thankfully my local fascist remains too dumb to serve.
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Braverman if the Guardian report is correct. I suspect she will have a reserved spot here.
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Braverman if the Guardian report is correct. I suspect she will have a reserved spot here.
Linky?
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Braverman if the Guardian report is correct. I suspect she will have a reserved spot here.
Linky?
Gardian article on anti-woke Braverman (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/29/suella-braverman-secretive-meetings-antiwoke-mp-officials?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
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So much for Sunak’s promise of “integrity”, or did that only apply to him personally?
Thing is, the talent pool is excruciatingly small and the list of cynical, narcissistic, greedy tory MP's who have served in government since 2010 is long. They are struggling for choice.
Thankfully my local fascist remains too dumb to serve.
Hell's teeth, PB, how do they remember to breathe?
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Oh, they don't breathe. They suck the life out of everything and everybody around them!
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A new elevation to the pantheon of Super-Twattery: Jonathan Gullis MP. The whole business with the record numbers of people crossing the Channel in small boats is the fault of the last Labour government, the EU, “lefty lawyers” preventing “our” wonderful, fab and not at all illegal proposal to deport them to fucking Rwanda, FOREIGNS trying to buck the system/jump the queue, and criminal gangs. And nothing to do with twelve years of Tory misrule. At all. Oh no.
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I had to fast forward past Gullis for fear that I'd need to purchase a replacement tv.
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I'd never heard of the horrible twat before today and rather wish I'd remained in blissful ignorance.
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Gullis, you say? Has a bit of a thing about Albanians. Yes, he’s unbearable but this is quite interesting and worth listening to…
https://twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1587542006242447360?s=46&t=BkNZVYcFAhMSqcoDH4JLhw
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An exemplar of super-twattery.
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Gullis, you say? Has a bit of a thing about Albanians. Yes, he’s unbearable but this is quite interesting and worth listening to…
https://twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1587542006242447360?s=46&t=BkNZVYcFAhMSqcoDH4JLhw
:D
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Elon Musk is clearly an antidote to any foolish and inaccurate belief that any of these rich techbros got anywhere through being smart. I've encountered dimmer lightbulbs during a power cut.
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I think the problem with Musk is that he has come to beleive the hype about his infallibility.
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Indeed. But it's also the entire lack of perception that really, had they not been the progeny of rich, confident, and well networked families, they'd probably be working in KFC.
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Elon Musk is clearly an antidote to any foolish and inaccurate belief that any of these rich techbros got anywhere through being smart. I've encountered dimmer lightbulbs during a power cut.
That goes for most of the people I work with. Very smart, very clever in their field. Utterly oblivious to the fact that they are unskilled and ignorant in other fields.
Convinced, to their soul, that they do such difficult and clever work, that anything else would be easy for them.
There are exceptions, like the engineer who built his own flight simulator chair, with actuators. The most difficult part of the build? Cooling the motors. Not the control code, not the physical construction. Real world engineering.
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The weird thing about this whole blue tick business is that by putting a price on them, he's stripping them of all their value. Surely even he is intelligent enough to see that?
Like so many areas of modern life, the problem stems from the people in charge only being able to perceive the worth of anything in purely monetary terms.
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The weird thing about this whole blue tick business is that by putting a price on them, he's stripping them of all their value. Surely even he is intelligent enough to see that?
Like so many areas of modern life, the problem stems from the people in charge only being able to perceive the worth of anything in purely monetary terms.
He's kind of forced himself into a position where he has to start charging.
Twitter doesn't make money. About the only revenue it gets is advertising, which means pandering to the requests of advertisers.
Musk wants Twitter to be independent of outside influences, particularly the tofuwokerati, so he has to get revenue from somewhere.
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It could be "interesting"
Is he really against a confabulation that Braverman made up?
I really don't think she features on his list of "things to try and exploit and make money"
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I think the Wokerati were in place already. Braverman just supplied the tofu.
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Big gamble by Musk. Twitter is not the must do draw that it used to be so turning away your followers inevitably reduces membership and traffic which in turn reduces advertising revenues. Bringing in the polar opposite crowd to the "Wokerati" has worked really well on Truth Social, right?
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Big gamble by Musk...reduces advertising revenues. Bringing in the polar opposite crowd to the "Wokerati" has worked really well on Truth Social, right?
Several multi-nationals have already announced that they are "pausing" advertising on Twitter. Details on various news websites.
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Bringing in the polar opposite crowd to the "Wokerati" has worked really well on Truth Social, right?
The key appeal of twitter to the polar opposite crowd is that it's not just an echo chamber; there's an ample supply of wokerati and mainstream journalists (who, from a far right enough position appear to be wokerati) to get enraged by and abuse.
Contrary to popular belief, I don't think the reverse is actually true.
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Space Karen the business genius is sacking half Twitter’s workforce :jurek:
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I'm rebadging my aphorism 'don't be a dick' to 'don't be an Elon.'
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I'm seeing rumours that one of the sacked employees suspended Elon's account on their way out. Probably isn't true, but would be funny.
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I read somewhere today (Grauniad? Indy?) that the Chief Tw*t is going to have to find close to one USD billion (Paging Dr. Evil, paging Dr. Evil) a year in interest payments on the debt incurred. I can't find the damned article now, but if it's true it makes one wonder quite how much of a genius he is.
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If you were a technobro you'd understand that he's a Business Genius. He invented a tiny submarine with just His Brain.
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https://lettuce.wtf/
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...you'd understand that he's a Business Genius.
Ah, right. A business genius. Like Gerald Ratner.
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I'm seeing rumours that one of the sacked employees suspended Elon's account on their way out. Probably isn't true, but would be funny.
Only one?
I suppose it might not be a great look on a reference.
The blue tick thing is proving useful to Musk, in that anyone famous talking about leaving is met with a load of “you’re really objecting to paying $8”. I’d have suggested pay to tweet, but I’m not a business genius.
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The way I see the "pay to tweet" move is to introduce cancel culture in the guise of "sound business practice".
If enough big twatters pull out Musk's business model is kaput.
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Someone cleverer than me has pointed out that two of Twitter's large advertisers are GM and Volkswagen, who have a strong incentive to help Twitter to implode by pulling out. On the basis that, due to Elon's business genius, the financial positive void coefficient will very likely drag Tesla down with it.
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Ooh, evil.
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I'm seeing rumours that one of the sacked employees suspended Elon's account on their way out. Probably isn't true, but would be funny.
There’s a screen grab of a suspended @eIonmusk account with a blue tick doing the rounds but if you look closely, the l is in fact an I
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I suppose the great thing about people being so hopeless with computers that they think screenshots are proof of anything is that none of them know how to fake screenshots properly...
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It’s not a fake screen grab, it’s a fake account - and that is why it was suspended.
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My point exactly.
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I'm seeing rumours that one of the sacked employees suspended Elon's account on their way out. Probably isn't true, but would be funny.
If some of the staff there didn't set a dead man's switch the moment the idea of layoffs were announced, I will be severely disappointed.
J
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Twitter is now unusable.
Not because of Musk, but because Musk is all anyone is talking about.
SM platforms come and go. Life went on pre-SM too.
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Hitler reacts badly to Elon Musk buying Twitter (https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2283299/hitler-reacts-badly-to-elon-musk-buying-twitter).
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Musk
I am a champion of free speech!
Also Musk
Not fair, they are making fun of me! I'll ban them, I'll ban all of them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63539617 (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63539617)
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I see Musk is now advocating for Americans to vote fascist to improve the balance of power. What an utter shit.
Super twat status is assured for life Musk.
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Marc@MarcSnetiker
I always forget Elon is short for Watermelon
... made me chuckle.
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I see Musk is now advocating for Americans to vote fascist to improve the balance of power his bank account.
FTFY
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🤣🤣🤣 👍
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I see Musk is now advocating for Americans to vote fascist to improve the balance of power his bank account.
FTFY
Hold on, if the Яepublicans win they’ll probably make electric cars illegal and make everyone drive one of these:
(https://www.imcdb.org/i004112.jpg)
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Guess he ain't so clever after all.
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I'm going to nominate researcher, Zdeněk Lajbner, for this
Species that are carnivorous in the wild do not need to be carnivorous in captivity,” Lajbner said. “For instance, I know vegan cats that are healthy, happy animals.
No you don't, you lying arse. Cats need proteins that aren't available in a vegan diet, and struggle to digest carbohydrates.
If you know any cats fed on vegan catfood, those cats are almost certainly 'supplementing' their diet.
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I'm sure you could devise a non-meat diet for an obligate carnivore, though I'm not sure you should, and it would be complicated, and besides, cats are never good test subjects for dietary interventions. Ours are mostly turning their nose up at the kidney-care food* we're presenting them with, so good luck with a vegan diet.
*failing kidneys, of course, being a corollary of a life-long high protein diet. Take that low carb.
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I'm going to nominate researcher, Zdeněk Lajbner, for this
Species that are carnivorous in the wild do not need to be carnivorous in captivity,” Lajbner said. “For instance, I know vegan cats that are healthy, happy animals.
No you don't, you lying arse. Cats need proteins that aren't available in a vegan diet, and struggle to digest carbohydrates.
If you know any cats fed on vegan catfood, those cats are almost certainly 'supplementing' their diet.
On the other hand, cats are contrary fuckers (it's one of their biggest charms) and an alarming number of them never read the being-a-cat manual, so I can believe there might be one or two out there happily getting by on a vegan diet. I'm also pretty sure that any attempt to convert J Random Cat to veganism is going to be hilariously unsuccessful.
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Dan Hodges, M**l on Sunday hack, who this morning tweeted:
"The reality is Matt Hancock did more to protect people from the impact of Covid than any of the celebrities sitting round that jungle campfire."
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I'm surprised Simon Wolfson hasn't mage it before today
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/10/brexit-next-boss-foreign-workers-uk-lord-wolfson
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"I jUsT wAnt3D fEweR br0WN peOplE And bEndY bANAnaS"
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The Arschloch who thought using Kristallnacht as a promotional tool was appropriate: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion)
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Dan Hodges, M**l on Sunday hack, who this morning tweeted:
"The reality is Matt Hancock did more to protect people from the impact of Covid than any of the celebrities sitting round that jungle campfire."
Technically true, if fuck all > two-thirds of four-fifths of fuck all.
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I'm surprised Simon Wolfson hasn't mage it before today
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/10/brexit-next-boss-foreign-workers-uk-lord-wolfson
Tax business more is not a mantra oft heard from the Tories.
Is the correct phrase "ran out of talent"?
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Someone I'm surprised is not mentioned more often
Sajid Javid sticks his twoot in unnecessarily.
Playing to his audience not to the what's best for [well everyone really] Typical Tory Twat.
(For those that avoid Twitter links, it's that video of the 5yr old kid riding along a road being driven towards by a big and potentially lethal machine, and the danger is "the fault of the father')
WAC. As well as a ST.
https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1590693903334006785 (https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1590693903334006785)?
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Dan Hodges, M**l on Sunday hack, who this morning tweeted:
"The reality is Matt Hancock did more to protect people from the impact of Covid than any of the celebrities sitting round that jungle campfire."
Technically true, if fuck all > two-thirds of four-fifths of fuck all.
Just worth checking a detail, I think, before I gauge my reaction to that tweet: did any of the other celebrities around that jungle campfire have a job that expressly required them to do more than anyone else in that regard, and then, specifically in the context of the responsible-for-the-health-service job that they had, did any of those other celebrities around that jungle campfire act like a weapons-grade bellend and fuck it all up?
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Surprisingly* few of them.
*fsvo surprisingly
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Meanwhile, back in Twitland Space Karen has lost the services of his chief information security officer. And his chief privacy officer. And his chief compliance officer. To lose one of those might be regarded as unfortunate, but to lose all three goes some way beyond carelessness and into “They’re trying to tell you something*” territory.
And the FT is reporting that the Muskrat is banning WFH and henceforth his minions must put in at least 40 hours a week at the office. If that is the way he treats his employees then he doesn’t deserve to have any.
* That something being “we doan wanna work for a Super-Twat”
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It's actually quite entertaining watching him practice his Business Genius in real time. It's hard to believe he managed to invent a both a Tiny Submarine and a Space Penis. He should have stuck to phallic objects.
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In a toughly contested field we may have a winner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-berkshire-63586321
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In a toughly contested field we may have a winner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-berkshire-63586321
Doubly so by also having an appearance in today's motorised moron thread.
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Musk is doing a fine job of distracting us from the travails of our esteemed leaders on the Treasury benches.
Heaton Harris seemed to suggest in an interview with Kay Burley that because in his opinion nursing is a vocation it shouldn't be considered a high value occupation. My question is, is politics a vocation?
I am just wondering which out of a tory politician or a nurse folk would instinctively prefer to come to their assistance in the event of an accident or illness?
I haven't seen him in these pages very often but raging brexit cheerleader and non-vocational politician CHH wins a Super Twat award in my opinion.
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In a toughly contested field we may have a winner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-berkshire-63586321
Truly superb effort there.
I note he has a sentence, suspended for 18months. What do you think are the chances of him managing to last out that 18months?
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... in his opinion nursing is a vocation it shouldn't be considered a high value occupation.
I believe one now needs a degree to be a nurse, if so then surely nursing should now be considered a profession and be paid accordingly i.e. extremely well? Either way Harris is an utter pillock and I do so hope he finds himself in an NHS hospital* in the very near future and at the mercy of nurses.
*Nothing life threatening, something embarrassing and very, very uncomfortable will do nicely.
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I completely agree but because nurses are also decent and caring people any nasty fascist will not suffer for their spite.
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To exercise one’s vocation of nursing one indeed needs a degree. One also has to maintain one’s professional status through continuous additional training and submit evidence of the same along with professional references to the professional body every three years to maintains one’s entry on the professional register.
And in spite of a dangerous shortage of active nursing professionals, gaining reregistration after even a short lapse, requires both practical and theory exams at not insubstantial costs to you or your parents!
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Space Karen is too distracted with T****r and space flights to worry about things that might help the environment:- https://electrek.co/2022/11/10/tesla-cancels-solar-projects-scales-back-division/ (https://electrek.co/2022/11/10/tesla-cancels-solar-projects-scales-back-division/)
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Space Karen...
I note, with more than a little amusement, that the, "I am Spartacus and what's more here's 8 bucks to prove it." scheme is already in trouble. Hands up anyone here who couldn't see something like that happening? No-one? No, thought not.
See here .... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/11/twitter-blue-check-verification-impostor-accounts
...for more merriment.
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I found the 'verified' Pepsi account tweeting "Coca Cola tastes better" quite funny.
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The SpaceX ones are also good.
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$44 billion is an awful big tax right off, although I doubt it’s his money that he’s about to lose. I suspect he might find it difficult to,obtain a line of credit going forward.
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By all accounts Twitter’s revenue is insufficient to service even the interest on the $44 billion. Even using the kind of hypermathematics beloved of Disaster Area's tax accountants it’s difficult to square that with “business genius”.
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Space Karen: | Twitter for Android is slow because it makes loadsa RPCs! |
Twitter Techie: | Pish, & moreover, tosh! |
E Muskrat: | Then please correct me. What is the right number? |
TT: | None. I counted them. Twice. |
EM: | Ur fired! |
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Space Karen: | Twitter for Android is slow because it makes loadsa RPCs! |
Twitter Techie: | Pish, & moreover, tosh! |
E Muskrat: | Then please correct me. What is the right number? |
TT: | None. I counted them. Twice. |
EM: | Ur fired! |
The real punchline is that the LOMBARD ran with the techie's point that it's not the RPCs it's the features/services/tech bloat (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhjWxdtVUAAfUEP?format=jpg) as if he'd come up with it himself, declared that unnecessary services would be ditched (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhjX-QDXkAAxumH?format=jpg) and now 2-factor authorisation is borked because the service that delivers the log-in code has been shut down (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhjX-QcXkAExlfw?format=jpg). ;D :facepalm:
As the meme goes, "This is fine... (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhjYISgXkAA62oP?format=jpg)"
ETA: The LOMBARD has deleted his tweet saying the techie was fired and the poster Elon was replying to, who suggested the techie should be fired for having an attitude problem has gone and limited who can view their tweets (probably got flamed something rotten).
Scrolling through the replies to a tweet (https://twitter.com/SixTwoPoo/status/1592202267977191425) replying to LOMBARD's "he's fired" tweet, I've just seen a post suggesting that SMS services started going wrong after the first round of mass firings.
A Very Nervous Gamedev@NervousGamedev·12h
Replying to @Scott_A_Moody @SixTwoPoo and 5 others
I want to point out that this was a problem even before that microservices shutdown was announced. I think the SMS stuff was a delayed side effect of the first wave of employee attrition
A Very Nervous Gamedev@NervousGamedev·11 Nov
i think twitter might eat it soon
i tried requesting data archive but it won't send confirmation texts anymore
it was working the other day for my main acct :c
https://twitter.com/NervousGamedev/status/1592381119097622530
ETA 2: In case you're wondering, "LOMBARD" = Loads Of Money But A Real Dickhead - I think Kim mentioned this (William Gibson-coined?) acronym either upthread or in another Musk/Twitter-related thread...
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I noted LOMBARD inna William-Gibson-stylee a while back – it was in the first bok of his Blue Ant trilogy.
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Another day, another ill-conceived pronouncement from Space Karen (https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592801188277538818).
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Another day, another ill-conceived pronouncement from Space Karen (https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592801188277538818).
Elon wants "hardcore", eh? What's the worst that could happen?
Well...
Elon demanded Hardcore.
Now he’s begging for PG-13.
Techmeme@Techmeme·1h
Sources: Elon Musk softens his remote work stance and is trying to convince staffers to stay, as more than anticipated opt to leave ahead of his 5pm ET deadline (Bloomberg)
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-17/musk-softens-remote-work-mandate-to-retain-twitter-staffers
http://techmeme.com/221117/p32#a221117p32
https://twitter.com/davepell/status/1593355951452565504
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Gianni Infantino and his rambling 'I'm gay, I'm Arab, I'm African, I'm disabled and oh yes I'm a woman' speech today.
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Is there a bit in the FIFA President's job description that states the holder of the post must be:
- Corrupt, or
- An utter twat, or
- Both
???
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Is there a bit in the FIFA President's job description that states the holder of the post must be:
- Corrupt, or
- An utter twat, or
- Both
???
There’s no need for an entry into,the job description because the only candidates that the corrupt board of utter twats would ask to apply for the job would be one of their own.
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Is there a bit in the FIFA President's job description that states the holder of the post must be:
- Corrupt, or
- An utter twat, or
- Both
???
It's one of those unspoken things that is too obvious to need stating.
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FIFA.
What a terrible message to send the world in my opinion.
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If I wasn't already put off, it would be enough to put me off the Association Football.
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Owen Paterson, eurosceptic…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63714944
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Owen Paterson, eurosceptic…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63714944
You beat me to it! Brexiteer who says we should have nothing to do with the European Court of Human Rights (of which the UK is a founding member, and is nothing to do with the EU) is now trying to take a case to the ECHR arguing that he has been unfairly treated. Couldn't make it up FFS.
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The badgers have moved the eurosceptic goalposts.
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Beat me to it too.
The sheer bare-faced entitlement of the b@st@rd staggers me. Suddenly parliamentary sovereignty comes second to a European court in the eyes of a rabid berkshiteer when he doesn't get his own way because he's been a little corrupt. Great example Patterson you mega super twat.
Natural justice he calls it. I call it entitled hypocrisy.
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I doubt Armando Iannucci could have come up with anything as bonkers as that.
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Braverman. Again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63730054 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63730054)
'Yes, the UK has utterly failed to control its borders, despite BREXIT delivering the freedom to 'take back control'. But it's not the fault of the home office, no, it's those nasty immigrants; or the people smugglers; anyone but the government that has the responsibility for it.' ::-)
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interesting comment by Sathnam Sanghera on the empire podcast today noting that racism is prevalent in the asian community and that among them are the most racist people he has met. He points out that just because they (Suella) benefited from being allowed in, that does not stop her being intensely racist. Also the question of does she get to the top table by being racist or by espousing racist sentiments to be allowed to the top table?
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interesting comment by Sathnam Sanghera on the empire podcast today noting that racism is prevalent in the asian community and that among them are the most racist people he has met. He points out that just because they (Suella) benefited from being allowed in, that does not stop her being intensely racist. Also the question of does she get to the top table by being racist or by espousing racist sentiments to be allowed to the top table?
This aligns with my experience while working in Bradford in the Eighties, although much of the discrimination was based on caste, religion or region (though that was largely a religious based bigotry). Certainly, the comments and behaviours of some of the people I worked with whom hailed from the Asian subcontinent towards others from the same, would not have been tolerated from non subcontinentals and my awakening liberalism was naively shocked.
Having said that, nothing I witnessed then or since has disabused me from my core belief that a persons skin colour or geographical location of their birth makes little difference who they are or how they behave, if they’re going to be a dick, they’ll be a dick. Yes, their upbringing and education will have a mighty impact, but in the final analysis how people behave is a choice.
As an aside, I have held a (possibly naive) view for many years that Bradford council supported ongoing segregation and separatist behaviours by attempting to support a myriad of communities rather than encouraging and supporting integration by everyone concerned. If the likes of Ms Patel and Ms Braverman are the most likely outcome of integration, then perhaps Bradford Council were right all along.
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interesting comment by Sathnam Sanghera on the empire podcast today noting that racism is prevalent in the asian community and that among them are the most racist people he has met. He points out that just because they (Suella) benefited from being allowed in, that does not stop her being intensely racist. Also the question of does she get to the top table by being racist or by espousing racist sentiments to be allowed to the top table?
This aligns with my experience while working in Bradford in the Eighties, although much of the discrimination was based on caste, religion or region (though that was largely a religious based bigotry). Certainly, the comments and behaviours of some of the people I worked with whom hailed from the Asian subcontinent towards others from the same, would not have been tolerated from non subcontinentals and my awakening liberalism was naively shocked.
Having said that, nothing I witnessed then or since has disabused me from my core belief that a persons skin colour or geographical location of their birth makes little difference who they are or how they behave, if they’re going to be a dick, they’ll be a dick. Yes, their upbringing and education will have a mighty impact, but in the final analysis how people behave is a choice.
As an aside, I have held a (possibly naive) view for many years that Bradford council supported ongoing segregation and separatist behaviours by attempting to support a myriad of communities rather than encouraging and supporting integration by everyone concerned. If the likes of Ms Patel and Ms Braverman are the most likely outcome of integration, then perhaps Bradford Council were right all along.
There is some evidence that the impact of the caste system was a result of the rigid stratification demanded by the British in their census/censi.
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There is some evidence that the impact of the caste system was a result of the rigid stratification demanded by the British in their census/censi.
There seems to have been little appetite in India to do away with it over the last 70 years.
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Lady Susan Hussey.
Astoundingly tone deaf.
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Lady Susan Hussey.
Astoundingly tone deaf.
One cannot go full Phil the Greek mode if one is not, erm, Phil the Greek.
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From the BBC's profile:
Lady Susan Hussey (far right)
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As part of that, Petronella Wyatt was interviewed on PM. She needs to learn how to step away from the shovel.
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La Wyatt is already in the frame for having had consensual sex with Bloody Stupid Johnson.
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Anybody crazy enough to admit to having BloJo as their partner is probably clinically insane but I don't think that should disqualify them from acquiring super twat status.
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“Father” Calvin Robinson
I’m not posting any links. This piece of shit doesn’t deserve the clicks.
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As part of that, Petronella Wyatt was interviewed on PM. She needs to learn how to step away from the shovel.
My thoughts precisely as I listened.
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“Father” Calvin Robinson
I’m not posting any links. This piece of shit doesn’t deserve the clicks.
yehbut, I then had to ggogle him ... I got as far as "free church of england" which, based on previous entries to this thread, left me none the wiser as to the specifics but was enough for me to pass judgement.
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Odious prick Robinson had previous even before he was ordained into the Church of Low Gammon.
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“Father” Calvin Robinson
I’m not posting any links. This piece of shit doesn’t deserve the clicks.
yehbut, I then had to ggogle him ... I got as far as "free church of england" which, based on previous entries to this thread, left me none the wiser as to the specifics but was enough for me to pass judgement.
He’s a regular on GB News, which should also help to shape your view of him.
And, it turns out, a leading light in the Enoch Powell fan club.
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Yes, that Enoch Powell revelation was the icing on the cake.
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He’s a regular on GB News, which should also help to shape your view of him.
And, it turns out, a leading light in the Enoch Powell fan club.
We have BINGO!
Well played that ST! Where is the standing ovation emoji when you need it?
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Kanye West.
So bad that even the New. improved. Twitter have suspended him.
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And of course yet another nail alongside that of the banning of parody accounts in the coffin of ST Musk's free speech.
I wonder if Herr Musk is beginning to privately acknowledge the folly of his ways ...
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I'm sure it's merely a sign of my lack of knowledge of other cultures & their child naming practices, but "Elon Musk" sounds terribly L. Ron Hubbard to me.
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Enron Musk?
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Kanye West.
So bad that even the New. improved. Twitter have suspended him.
Yeah.....buuuuut, I'm quite looking forward to when he starts rapping about all this stuff.
(on a serious note, I think he's done a Michael Jackson and lost his fucking mind. What he is saying is horrid, but at the same time it's pretty sad to see his life implode and the vulture media circling. Just stick him in a big wicker basket, whisk him off, and bring him back when he's better)
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I think the problem is, when you've got that much money there are too many yes men and not enough people prepared to stage an intervention.
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Also, WTF is Trump doing dining with antisemites given his SIL and therefore his DHLF are jews?
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He doesn't read his own speeches before giving them, so why would he vet his dinner guests?
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Kanye West.
So bad that even the New. improved. Twitter have suspended him.
Yeah.....buuuuut, I'm quite looking forward to when he starts rapping about all this stuff.
(on a serious note, I think he's done a Michael Jackson and lost his fucking mind. What he is saying is horrid, but at the same time it's pretty sad to see his life implode and the vulture media circling. Just stick him in a big wicker basket, whisk him off, and bring him back when he's better)
I'd agree that he is in dire need of people who genuinely care about him staging an intervention, but in terms of salvaging his artistic career, he's probably blown it up for good. Yesterday, he doubled down by going on InfoWars and weirding out Alex Jones:
On Thursday, December 1st, West joined alt-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his InfoWars talk show. Over the course of a two-hour appearance, West proudly declared himself a Nazi (https://consequence.net/2022/12/kanye-west-alex-jones-hitler/), questioned the existence of the Holocaust, and praised Adolf Hitler for doing “good things.” He railed against “Zionists” as “evil,” and even pulled out a net and bottle of Yoo-hoo chocolate milk, which he claimed was longtime Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an apparent attempt at prop comedy. At times, West’s remarks were so outlandish that even Jones, a man himself in financial ruin for defamatory comments made about the Sandy Hook mass shooting, appeared taken aback. All the while, Nick Fuentes, the Neo-Nazi who recently infiltrated West’s inner circle and accompanied him to the interview, squealed with glee.
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There will be no redemption story. West, the musical artist, is over. His career has imploded and the debris is radioactive. His radio airplay will continue to dwindle. No respectable record label or concert promoter will associate themselves with him. The days of headlining Coachella, hosting listening parties at Madison Square Garden, or having music critics anticipating his every move with bated breath are gone.
https://consequence.net/2022/12/kanye-west-nazi/
It's worth reading the whole article and the timeline of Ye's antisemitism linked therein - he's had troubling views for years, to the point that it can't really be excused by his bipolar disorder. He's not an antisemite because he's bipolar, he's an antisemite who happens to be bipolar.
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Also, WTF is Trump doing dining with antisemites given his SIL and therefore his DHLF are jews?
Well...
On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Donald Trump insisted to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.”
The remark from the former US president on the 2018 trip, which reportedly “stunned” Kelly, a retired US Marine Corps general, is reported in a new book by Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal.
Frankly, We Did Win This Election has been widely trailed ahead of publication next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.
Bender reports that Trump made the remark during an impromptu history lesson in which Kelly “reminded the president which countries were on which side during the conflict” and “connected the dots from the first world war to the second world war and all of Hitler’s atrocities”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/06/donald-trump-hitler-michael-bender-book
Then there was the thing about the book of Hitler's speeches - per Marie Brenner's article for Vanity Fair in 1990 (re-posted in July 2015):
Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitler’s speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler’s genius at propaganda.
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
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Isabel Oakshott, Katherine “I’ve been asked loads ‘where are you from’ it’s only curiosity” Birbalsingh and their like, defending Hussey and her racism.
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But of course they are. And nearly all of them have misconstrued the episode with false equivalences.
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To be fair though, we’ve now reached the point where she has to be lynched. We might settle for a good pyre. The old bitch needs to die though.
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No, we haven't reached that point. We've reached the point where the usual right-wing edgelord culture warriors are saying we've reached that point.
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I'm curious as to what answer Sideshow Birb would give someone asking that question, though not very.
Also, her middle name is “Moana”. Srsly.
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I’m not joking. We can’t move forward unless we kill them off. Burn her. Step up warriors, get off Twitter or whatever it is this week, and do it. She’s 83 so it’s not like she’s going to outrun anyone.
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That is what all the edgelords are saying is being said. But only you and the edgelords are saying it. Weird.
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Also, her middle name is “Moana”. Srsly.
Ooh. The Quicksilver Messenger Service.
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That is what all the edgelords are saying is being said. But only you and the edgelords are saying it. Weird.
Come on, Deflatus, I had you down as a tough guy #harshbutfair.
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You need to bring more game if you wish to achieve true Edgelord status, Ian. At the moment it's all just regurgitated Laurence Fox, but without the intellectual underpinning.
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Erm, thanks. I was only seeking your validation. See you on the trans thread later?
Seriously though, while I agree broadly with the commentary, I’m not sure what hounding someone achieves, or what the expected outcome should be. It just brings the Lozzers out to play.
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She resigned.
As far as I'm aware she hasn't been crucified, hounded or....even interviewed. Matter of fact I have seen no indication of door-stepping by press, or undeed anything at all. She has been entirely left alone.
Worth bearing that in mind.
The Lozzers are permanently in play. Its how they make a living. One of them put Enoch Powell as his profile pic this week on twitter. Not sure why you think people should be cowed by these cunts.
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Nadhim Zahawi
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Serial failure Nick Timothy is being interviewed by the Today programme. He's a nasty piece of work and should remind us why Theresa May was not, in retrospect, one of the nice ones.
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In case you ever need reminding whether or not Mike Graham deserves his place in the ST pantheon, it's the first anniversary of this gem:
https://twitter.com/AccidentalP/status/1600038355814817792?s=20&t=EfL28QVdaOj-Akvet57YkQ
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In case you ever need reminding whether or not Mike Graham deserves his place in the ST pantheon, it's the first anniversary of this gem:
https://twitter.com/AccidentalP/status/1600038355814817792?s=20&t=EfL28QVdaOj-Akvet57YkQ
Ah, yes, Mr 'grow concrete'. I'd forgotten about that.
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I'd never seen that before (or heard of Mike Graham), pure gold just for the look on the guest's face when Mike declares that you can grow concrete.
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Mike Graham was so focused on condescending to and patronising the young man that he forgot to think.
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Mike Graham is the Sean Hannity of LBC. Not quite Tucker Carlson but an unthinking piece of rotting gammon nevertheless.
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Outstanding.
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I'd never seen that before (or heard of Mike Graham), pure gold just for the look on the guest's face when Mike declares that you can grow concrete.
Leaving him to stew in his own idiocy by not responding was a stroke of genius.
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Graham is a prize-winning example of cured pork alright.
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I thought the carpenter played an absolute blinder through the whole ‘interview’. He never looked out of water, but also paused long enough in all the right places to maximise the stupidity of Graham.
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Mark Steel still regularly features 'Mike Concrete' skits on his 'What the F*** is going on?' podcast. Shamefully, it took me two or three of them before I made the connection! :facepalm:
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I'd like to nominate the NZ parents who demanded that the NZ health system set up a separate blood transfusion service, 'guaranteed free of blood contaminated by vaccines'.
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Mark Steel still regularly features 'Mike Concrete' skits on his 'What the F*** is going on?' podcast. Shamefully, it took me two or three of them before I made the connection! :facepalm:
More podcast episodes for me! But then I never watch gobshite tv.
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Connor "Only those with a vested interest in the future should be allowed to vote" Tomlinson.
Married women, working men, and veterans apparently. No-one else.
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Connor "Only those with a vested interest in the future should be allowed to vote" Tomlinson.
Married women, working men, and veterans apparently. No-one else.
Never heard of him. Googled. What a thick tw*t.
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Musk, for sacking the cleaners.
People who've never used a bog brush in their life think that robots will clean everything.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63912116 (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63912116)
until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
Well, I can hope.
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The old adage is that you can tell everything you need to know about a company and its leadership by how they treat the cleaners.
Mind you, when one of these robots catches fire and burns down his office, no one is going to putting it out with their tears.
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The old adage is that you can tell everything you need to know about a company and its leadership by how they treat the cleaners.
Mind you, when one of these robots catches fire and burns down his office, no one is going to putting it out with their tears.
There is a lot of truth in that.
although, I'm not impressed with my office cleaner. No way are they getting a pay rise this year, based on performance.
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although, I'm not impressed with my office cleaner. No way are they getting a pay rise this year, based on performance.
I see what you did there ;D
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Simon Thompson, CEO, Royal Mail - a person who has so much conviction in his "open letter" that he turns off replies on twitter.
Hey, twat, the good news is you can't turn off quote tweets.
https://twitter.com/CWUnews/status/1600845151907323905?s=20&t=ZvAkwDvHEbaskyjcZIWrfg
"Brutal ratio" indeed.
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Doug Ducey (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/11/arizona-governor-border-wall-shipping-containers)
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Stephen Bear (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-63911965)
And not an ounce of remorse.
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Alexander Darwell. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/13/landowners-lawyer-says-there-has-never-been-legal-right-to-wild-camp-on-dartmoor
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Stephen Bear (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-63911965)
And not an ounce of remorse.
It's not fair, they are being mean to me
says man who ignored someone else's privacy and wishes.
That sound? It is the world's smallest violin.
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He comes across as a real narcissistic arsehole to me.
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Stephen Bear (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-63911965)
And not an ounce of remorse.
Anyone who wears a coat like that non-ironically deserves everything they get and more.
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Stephen Bear (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-63911965)
And not an ounce of remorse.
Anyone who wears a coat like that non-ironically deserves everything they get and more.
The suit and the sunglasses don't help...
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That'll be Australian Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2022/dec/16/peter-dutton-calls-sharon-claydon-mr-speaker-18-times-in-one-speech-video
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As if we needed reminding what a piece of shit Jeremy Clarkson is, he’s given us the benefit of his opinion on Meghan in the Sun today. The extract I saw screengrabbed on Twitter was rotten even by his standards.
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Mindless racist, misogynistic, entitled white bloke share his wisdom ...
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Mindless racist, misogynistic, entitled white bloke share his wisdom ...
'tis the season to make some headlines, to remind people to buy their relatives your book for Christmas...
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As if we needed reminding what a piece of shit Jeremy Clarkson is, he’s given us the benefit of his opinion on Meghan in the Sun today. The extract I saw screengrabbed on Twitter was rotten even by his standards.
As an isolated screen grab, absolutely. But in the hyperbolic context of the rest of the piece, it was probably just regular Clarkson. He said she wears Harry like a glove puppet. He said that at one point he laughed so hard his spleen fell out. He said that he can predict with absolute certainty that she'll release a book called "I Think I May Be God."
He doesn't think she literally has her arm all the way up Harry's arse, her fingers thrust into his head to control him. He didn't literally lose his spleen with laughter. He doesn't literally think she'll claim divinity, or that she needs to be paraded naked and shit-bombed.
To be clear, I still think he's a weapons-grade bellend. I just don't think this particular piece of cartoon violence makes him any more of one than he already was.
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WTAF?
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Clarkson's column merely proves that everything Haz’n’Megs have said about the BRITISH press is true.
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As an isolated screen grab, absolutely. But in the hyperbolic context of the rest of the piece, it was probably just regular Clarkson.
Sure, but I had no desire to read the rest of it to find out.
To be clear, I still think he's a weapons-grade bellend. I just don't think this particular piece of cartoon violence makes him any more of one than he already was.
Absolutely. This is just a reminder of how much of a dick he is, not exactly breaking new ground for him.
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WTAF?
I only go on Twitter to interact with the people I want to interact with. Unfortunately, Twitter likes to feed stuff to you that it thinks you will want to see... Hitting the block button is like a game of whack a mole.
And still you will end up seeing this shit anyway because people you follow share it. :facepalm:
People say you should expose yourself to this stuff to avoid being stuck in an echo chamber. But the problem is that Twitter’s algorithms work by promoting stuff that gets more views. If you don’t actively block it, eventually it will take over your timeline. It’s a self-fulfilling nightmare.
I would leave twitter but there are people/communities on there I actively enjoy engaging with.
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If it’s any consolation one of Clarkson's daughters has called him an S-T* on Instagram.
* Or words to that effect
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Dreadful hate-filled spam-faced old misogynist of the year competition ends in a tie (https://newsthump.com/2022/12/19/dreadful-hate-filled-spam-faced-old-misogynist-of-the-year-competition-ends-in-a-tie/).
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Dreadful hate-filled spam-faced old misogynist of the year competition ends in a tie (https://newsthump.com/2022/12/19/dreadful-hate-filled-spam-faced-old-misogynist-of-the-year-competition-ends-in-a-tie/).
Preferably the Columbian version.....
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Alex Phillips: a steaming pile of berkshit herself making feeble and inexcusable excuses for Clarkson.
This individual joins the likes of Oakenshott for me: two entitled berkshiteers whom I believe to be radicalised by the misogynistic Christian nationalist white supremacists. Until I see a reasoned opinion from either of them my opinion though possibly offensive to some will continue to stand.
Posted by a woke middle aged white male.
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It's notable that Taury Kuenssberg’s guests on her BBC prog yesterday were notorious virtue-signaller Justin Welby, the long-suffering Susanna Reid and…
… Victoria Newton of The Sc*m. Natch the Haz’n’Megs Saga came up. And was Clarkson’s already-published column mentioned? Why, no! No, it was not!
The Sc*m has already received more than 6,000 complaints which it will no doubt tear up and file in the bin because Clarkson’s column is “Opinion” and Freeze Peach ect and, moreover, etc.
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There’s a saying about scum and the sun…
(Though i gather they’ve pulled the article and he’s kinda apologised for any offence caused.)
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"I appear to have upset a lot of people" does not equal an apology.
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It'll be of the "upsetting all the right people" type upsetting. ie. entirely deliberate.Like all his racist dogwhustles on Top Gear.
I've just watched the next few episodes of the Harry & Meghan doc. They both come across as very straightforward and honest, and what they say about the media rings true. Clarkson is a part of that cess-pool.
Man is a piece of excrement.
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Bahrain Bob aka Bob Stewart. An apologist for authoritarian regimes in tory clothing.
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Tory MP Jonathan Gullis attacks bishops for ‘using the pulpit to preach from’ (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-deport-jonathan-gullis-bishops-pulpit-preach-b2248192.html)
O RLY?
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Tory MP Jonathan Gullis attacks bishops for ‘using the pulpit to preach from’ (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-deport-jonathan-gullis-bishops-pulpit-preach-b2248192.html)
O RLY?
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Wanker.
1:- It should be "...from which to preach". Therese Coffin will hand him his arse on a plate for such egregious grammar.
2:- He's full of shit, * and should be put back in the box.
* My second Oxforf Comma today.
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Can people like Gullis ever have existed without the enabling crucible of Brexit?
So many charlatan opportunists have found their way into positions of power off the back of it.
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An ex Home Secretary, whom I shall *not* dignify by naming, for sending an unfeeling, amoral, downright *vicious* xmas card to her cronies.
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I'm going to take a wild guess here, but I reckon it’s probably not Wacqui Jacqui Smith…
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As a Scouser (and decent human being) I may already be slightly prejudiced against the chap, but Kelvin bloody Mackenzie.
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Most of the boorish and anonymous keyboard warriors in the BBC HYS threads taking a pop at Beth Mead for being exceptional at what she does.
All these anonymous keyboard warriors appear to exceptional at is being misogynistic arseholes and super twats.
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Couple of weeks ago we had cosplaying freaky-clown vicar, Calvin Robinson, changing his twitter profile image to Enoch Powell.
Not to be outdone, Laurence Fox has come up with this gem:
(https://i.ibb.co/bNfpFZh/Screenshot-20221223-103341-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gtnsdp1)
javascript check screen size (https://whatsmyscreenresolution.com/)
Now let's sir back and watch the alt-right entertainment industry devour itself.
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Couple of weeks ago we had cosplaying freaky-clown vicar, Calvin Robinson, changing his twitter profile image to Enoch Powell.
Not to be outdone, Laurence Fox has come up with this gem:
(https://i.ibb.co/bNfpFZh/Screenshot-20221223-103341-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gtnsdp1)
javascript check screen size (https://whatsmyscreenresolution.com/)
Now let's sir back and watch the alt-right entertainment industry devour itself.
Struth. When he first started plumetting from the cliff edge of public decency, it all seemed...well, I guess the media through it was filtered before it reached me made it sound like he was saying "not everything is abuse and bigotry - you're not necessarily a victim just because you're in a traditional 'victim' category - it doesn't all need to be so fraught with knee-jerk fingerpointing for minor problems, if indeed they're really problems at all", and that he was being unfairly slapped down for trying to have a discussion about things maybe being more OK than the teeth-gnashing zeitgeist suggested.
Like I say though - that's the slant the story seemed to have when I encountered it.
It appears though that the man is a twat.
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There's a trajectory with these people, though. They are part of the alt-right entertainment industry, so it really isn't political commentary in any real sense. No solutions are offered, just (fake) problems identified.
Starts off sounding reasonable, with the notion that people are over-reacting and finding offence where none lies, to this kind of stuff. Its 'outrage inflation', that in order to maintain attention they have to say ever more outrageous things. See also Katie Hopkins.
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If it speaks like a super twat and behaves like a super twat it almost inevitably is, a super twat !!!
I wonder how he would justify the conundrum of a raped woman becoming pregnant and then seeking an abortion?
Ah no, forget it. I definitely don't want to know what he thinks any more.
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If it speaks like a super twat and behaves like a super twat it almost inevitably is, a super twat !!!
I wonder how he would justify the conundrum of a raped woman becoming pregnant and then seeking an abortion?
Ah no, forget it. I definitely don't want to know what he thinks any more.
He's a shock-jock, nothing more. There will be no intellectual grounding behind his remark, nor will he ever thresh out his reasoning. He probably doesn't even believe it himself, in so far as he believes anything. It's all about money.
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If it speaks like a super twat and behaves like a super twat it almost inevitably is, a super twat !!!
I wonder how he would justify the conundrum of a raped woman becoming pregnant and then seeking an abortion?
Ah no, forget it. I definitely don't want to know what he thinks any more.
He's a shock-jock, nothing more. There will be no intellectual grounding behind his remark, nor will he ever thresh out his reasoning. He probably doesn't even believe it himself, in so far as he believes anything. It's all about money.
Yeah, but that doesn’t make him any less of a super twat does it.
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Did I say it did?
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Fox is like a turd in the bathtub. Thoroughly unwelcome.
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Tory MP Jonathan Gullis attacks bishops for ‘using the pulpit to preach from’ (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-deport-jonathan-gullis-bishops-pulpit-preach-b2248192.html)
O RLY?
ROTFLPMS
Fucking virtue signalling from the space faries, nice to see that they are consistently getting the Cons' backs up.
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Dishi Rishi asks homeless man if he's in business. Are these people for real?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/24/rishi-sunak-rebuked-over-excruciating-exchange-with-homeless-man
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Watching this I am concerned that the prime minister thinks homeless means ‘doesn’t have a country pile at the moment’.
This Unit is pleased to note that she’s my MP.
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Tex-arse governor Greg Abbot.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-migrants-dropped-off-outside-vp-kamala-harris-home-on-christmas-eve-in-frigid-temps/ar-AA15DsEx (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-migrants-dropped-off-outside-vp-kamala-harris-home-on-christmas-eve-in-frigid-temps/ar-AA15DsEx)
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George Santos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/27/new-york-congressman-elect-george-santos-admits-lying-about-college-and-work-history
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Another nomination for “30p Lee” Anderson aka Leanderthal, for this hilarious piece of Teh Stupidz: https://mobile.twitter.com/AlanKelloggs/status/1607690867070107648
Simon Harris' response led to much roffling at Fort Larrington https://mobile.twitter.com/simonharris_mbd/status/160771249059028172
Also, Anderson publicly ripped up his TV licence in May 2021 so he couldn't have watched it anyway…
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This tweet has been deleted
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Bah!
Edit: full SP at The Poke: https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2022/12/28/tory-mp-30p-lee-said-les-dawson-wouldnt-be-on-telly-these-days-and-his-biographer-schooled-him-into-next-year/
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Julia Hateful Spewer and Andrew Tate.
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1608379654372560896?s=20
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A good example of why Twitter is largely just people throwing clumps of shit at each other ::-)
<rushes over to twitter clutching a fat turd>
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A match made in the Turd Reich.
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Tate's comment about books merits this reply:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52593710218_3b72cd04af_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o8wvHd)
Not to mention that his Bugatti, his Ferraris and the device he uses to access Twitter were all designed by people who read a lot of books, some of them containing long words
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Perhaps Tate comes from a background where reading and writing is uncommon so he believes from his formative years that you learn everything from word of mouth, deed and action. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I would like to think that he's not as utterly stupid as he comes across, but ...
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I think it's perhaps more about validating the world view of his own followers.
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Following that link and reading some of the following tweets was a thoroughly unpleasant activity. <shudder>
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Following that link and reading some of the following tweets was a thoroughly unpleasant activity. <shudder>
Yes. I see twitter started working again overnight.
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Twitter now saying that Tate & his brother have been arrested by police in Romania on human trafficking charges.
https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1608579950663307264 (https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1608579950663307264)
https://twitter.com/vlad/status/1608580879181557760
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Why am I not surprised
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The brilliant thing is he gave away his location to police by leaving a pizza box on display in a video he posted online.
As stupid as he is noxious.
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(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/b1/f0/2fb1f0ff1589fb03ffa4814f3aef0929.jpg)
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(https://i.ibb.co/5BvGmZz/Screenshot-20221230-003132-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/2gPWxJL)
She posted this earlier today.
The gift that keeps on giving.
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That’s the revised version. The original included “autistic” in its cavalcade of bile. Simon “Southend News Network” Harris laid into Julia Dunning Kruger with considerable gusto, and screenshots.
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I wonder if Hate Spewer is rethinking her impetuous hate post or is going to double down?
I wish somebody on Twitter would ask her, nicely...
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I expect she will stay off twitter for a day. Twitterstorms are nothing if not ephemeral. Another edgelord somewhere will say something disgusting and take the heat off her.
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I'd never heard of her but a quick google shows she ticks all the usual gammon/Trumpian boxes.
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QT get her on when they want a culture war contrarian to generate views and clicks.
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That’s the revised version. The original included “autistic” in its cavalcade of bile. Simon “Southend News Network” Harris laid into Julia Dunning Kruger with considerable gusto, and screenshots.
She posted that she’d deleted the previous post because “some people decided to take offence at a fact”. Surely her raison d’etre is to give offence?
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Title of “Andrew, the pizza-loving sex offender” finally passes to the next generation of high-profile deviant (https://newsthump.com/2022/12/30/title-of-andrew-the-pizza-loving-sex-offender-finally-passes-to-the-next-generation-of-high-profile-deviant/).
(Make unattractive snorting noise)
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That’s the revised version. The original included “autistic” in its cavalcade of bile. Simon “Southend News Network” Harris laid into Julia Dunning Kruger with considerable gusto, and screenshots.
She posted that she’d deleted the previous post because “some people decided to take offence at a fact”. Surely her raison d’etre is to give offence?
Yeah, coz if you call someone an “autistic fuck” it’s just the “fuck” that’s the rude part … just like calling someone a “black fuck” … would only be rude on both accounts if they aren’t actually black?
Views expressed above include lashings of sarcasm.
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Needless to say some Photoshop artiste has put Tate's head on Michelangelo’s Adam, with a smiling Greta Thunberg pointing at his very very tiny dick.
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She put "autistic" in the middle of a stream of insults, so she clearly intended it as an insult. Fine. But to then deny it was intended as an insult is staggering.
What is it with these RW clowns? They all seem to implode by their own hand eventually.
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A friend of mine knew JHB at journo college (Cardiff mid-90s). She used to be quite liberal in those days, apparently, but was always somewhat self-obsessed and performatively opinionated. He reckons her current shtick is all just an act for money. Which will surprise no one, I’m sure.
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https://twitter.com/simonharris_mbd/status/1608883298088124416?cxt=HHwWgIDQubu189MsAAAA
I’ve been counting, and as it stands the number of meaningful apologies and explanations from Julia Hartley-Brewer for using the word ‘autistic’ as an insult currently remains steady at zero.
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She put "autistic" in the middle of a stream of insults, so she clearly intended it as an insult. Fine. But to then deny it was intended as an insult is staggering.
What is it with these RW clowns? They all seem to implode by their own hand eventually.
In her retraction, she states that autistic wasn’t an insult as it’s true. So everything else she said is a lie?
So, if I say she’s an idiot, it’s not an insult, but if I say she’s likeable, then it is?
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It's not a retraction, it's a restatementification. She gets twice the publicity from this method.
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If somebody could be that nasty just for money then they never were a liberal. Lettuce Fuss springs to mind. Seeds from the same packet ...
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First Twat of the New Year shews a return to form for noted divot Calvin Robinson: https://mobile.twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1610006108990574594
Yes, bloke who wears a dress to tell fairytales rails about blokes in dresses telling fairytales.
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It's as if all of the scandals surrounding clergy and children just never happened ...
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I see Julia Hate Spewer is relentlessly living up to her moniker with her comments about the rioting in Brazil.
Got to redeem herself after embarrassing herself over Tate I guess ...
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Andrew Bridgen, for comparing Covid vaccines to the Holocaust... whilst already servig a 5 day suspension for
lying about breaching the code of conduct wrt his financial interests.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64236687
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He's on the trajectory of every rw grifter.
Got to say more and more outrageous things to get attention
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Michelle Donelan for her twattish standpoint on the Parthenon Marbles.
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Michelle Donelan for her twattish standpoint on the Parthenon Marbles.
To be fair, she is the minister for gammons (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64235854).
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You'd think she'd be in favour, if we return the stolen property the museums would have either BRITISH artefacts or, erm, nowt; and have to shut up shop...
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They're probably working on a way to privatise them...
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You'd think she'd be in favour, if we return the stolen property the museums would have either BRITISH artefacts or, erm, nowt; and have to shut up shop...
It would free up space that could be used to house all the statues torn down by Teh WOKERATI in thare CamPaiN ,,,,,,,, too rerite Are Histry!!!?!2!
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Don't see a problem sending them back. So straightforward these days to make digital and/or 3D replicas we could put on display.
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Possible precedent for sending the Crown Jewels etc back where they came from?
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Don't see a problem sending them back.
Just forget to put a stamp on them ;D
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Don't see a problem sending them back. So straightforward these days to make digital and/or 3D replicas we could put on display.
They have replicas in the museum in Athens.
Having seen both the BM and the Acropolis museum, I'm all in favour of returning them. The display in the BM is very dated and does not show the marbles in the way they were originally laid out. That large space could be much better used. In the Acropolis museum, the marbles and replicas are arranged as they would have been, round the outside of the structure. The only difference is that they are rather closer to the floor level so you can see them properly. They are even on the same alignment as the Parthenon itself, which is visible out of the window.
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Hedge fund twat Alexander Darwall & Judge twat Sir Julian Flaux. >:(
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/13/dartmoor-estate-landowner-alexander-darwall-court-case-right-to-camp
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Our friend the Billionaire/Brexiteer/tax exile Sir Jim of Ineos who has set up a ski charity for the underprivileged children or has he?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/16/watchdog-investigates-charity-set-up-by-uk-billionaire-jim-ratcliffe-over-16m-ski-clubhouse
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Our friend the Billionaire/Brexiteer/tax exile Sir Jim of Ineos who has set up a ski charity for the underprivileged children or has he?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/16/watchdog-investigates-charity-set-up-by-uk-billionaire-jim-ratcliffe-over-16m-ski-clubhouse
I’m sure the tax office will find sufficient mitigating circumstances to allow him to avoid a large tax bill. After all, we want him to feel wanted and have sufficient funds to donate to a suitable political party.
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Our friend the Billionaire/Brexiteer/tax exile Sir Jim of Ineos who has set up a ski charity for the underprivileged children or has he?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/16/watchdog-investigates-charity-set-up-by-uk-billionaire-jim-ratcliffe-over-16m-ski-clubhouse
He, or at least Ineo$, is also looking to buy Manchester United after failing to buy Chelsea last year.
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Nadim Zahawi. Yet another tory with their hands in the till.
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Our friend the Billionaire/Brexiteer/tax exile Sir Jim of Ineos who has set up a ski charity for the underprivileged children or has he?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/16/watchdog-investigates-charity-set-up-by-uk-billionaire-jim-ratcliffe-over-16m-ski-clubhouse
He, or at least Ineo$, is also looking to buy Manchester United after failing to buy Chelsea last year.
He won't be buying it. Some company in the Cayman Islands will.
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Nadim Zahawi. Yet another tory with their hands in the till.
Got to keep those stables heated.
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Isabel Oakenshott.
IMO a thoroughly nasty piece of work gaslighting the British people with her lies and absurdly unbelievable assertions yet again.
This is a brexiteer who refuses to accept that the GFA effectively makes the application of a "smart border" impossible with current available technological capabilities. But of course, it's just the fault of people who don't want it to happen because they are the ones in power, aren't they?
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James Dyson, maker of overpriced Malaysian tat, moaning sbout corporation tax and saying businesses will just relocate overseas.
Like he did, years and years ago.
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Scab traitor to the working classes and radicalised fascist, Lee Anderson, MP.
What a thoroughly despicable human being.
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AKA “30p Lee” or “Leeanderthal”.
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Isabel Oakenshott.
Private Eye call her Cheapshott.
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Isabel Oakenshott.
Private Eye call her Cheapshott.
I prefer Talkeshitte.
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Isn't that the name of a "popular" radio station?
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Not sure it *quite* qualifies him for here, but the *second* serving Tory Prime Minister to be fined in office. Not a good look, is it?
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Not sure it *quite* qualifies him for here, but the *second* serving Tory Prime Minister to be fined in office. Not a good look, is it?
The Law, like taxes, are for the little people.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64344963
Ex-chancellor zahawi. You could only just make this shit up.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64344963
Ex-chancellor zahawi. You could only just make this shit up.
no one would believe you if you did make this shit up…
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Not sure it *quite* qualifies him for here, but the *second* serving Tory Prime Minister to be fined in office. Not a good look, is it?
I thought the driver was fined for back seat passengers not wearing belts? Or is that just when they're children?
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Not sure it *quite* qualifies him for here, but the *second* serving Tory Prime Minister to be fined in office. Not a good look, is it?
I thought the driver was fined for back seat passengers not wearing belts? Or is that just when they're children?
Under 14s are the responsibility of the driver, over 14s are responsible for themselves.
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in my humble opinion it takes an awful lot of mega super twattishness to make Twat Hancock look like the good guy but oh boy, did Andrew Bridgen achieve this. And then some.
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Braverman's gonna Braverman.
Despicable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64414451
Ms Braverman added the department "regularly reviews the best way to deliver against the intent" of the inquiry.
Commission an enquiry, commit to its recommendations, then renege on the commitments. Classy.
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What's that you say, Space Karen? Freeze peach is sacrosanct unless it’s critical of the Prime Minister of India, where the Tigers come from? (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/25/india-ban-on-bbc-modi-film-elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-emergency-laws)
Elon Musk: Super-Twat and not for the first time
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Imo Musk is just another vile fascist hypocrite.
Cancel culture is a far right thing and they just hate it every time they get caught cancelling free speech.
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Giles Watling, MP for Bigotry and Fascism suggests that we now need to send our soldiers to France to "stop them on the beaches".
Amusingly, autocorrect changed Giles to Vile. I was tempted to leave it as was but for the sake of clarity ...
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Cressida Dick, the cheeky cow
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/29/revealed-cressida-dick-sought-500000-to-quit-as-met-chief
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"give me people who say nasty things about me so I can execute them" Erdogan
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Sara Vine bemoaning her lot as a hardworking taxpayer ...
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I doubt it's his first nomination but V Putin
"80 years on we are facing German tanks again."
If you hadn't invaded someone elses country the old Leopards would still be sitting in a warehouse awaiting scrapping
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The IOC
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The IOC
Well, they never suggested athletes from the USA or GB compete as neutrals - and nor did (any?) other nations - despite their governments and troops invading other countries on false pretexts. Why should the fate of Russian and Belarussian athletes be different?
And no, I'm not supporting the invasion, but nor am I assuming all athletes support their current government's actions.
Maybe a subject for POBI.
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^Probably. My intuition is that when Eurovision leads and most other sports follow the IOC must be taking a stand/making a statement by going against what everyone else is doing.
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I doubt it's his first nomination but V Putin
"80 years on we are facing German tanks again."
If you hadn't invaded someone elses country the old Leopards would still be sitting in a warehouse awaiting scrapping
He talks some utter shite when he's addressing his cowed subjects.
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Sir Richard Kleinwort who has LAND and doesnt want you common folk walking or cycling across it
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/02/landowner-blocks-plans-for-green-walkway-through-sussex-estate
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Has Allison Pearson ever been nominated for a life entry to this hallowed hall?
According to the Torygraph front page banner, The Dominic Raab “bullying” row shows our civil servants are far too delicate. Her emphasis on bullying.
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The Haunted Pencil was saying much the same last week according to a Graun headline.
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You’d have thought that even the raddled poshos of Eton College would have considered Grease-Smugg enough of any annoyance to tuough him up on a regular basis.
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Lee Anderson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64580487
The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, has said he would support the return of the death penalty.
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Look! A squirrel!
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May I add a member of a popular beat combo to this hall of infamy?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64580688
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Look! A squirrel!
Yes, it's very useful for them to have all these idiots on their books who will say literally anything without the slightest hint of embarrassment.
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30p Lee is guilty - we have the evidence...
https://twitter.com/newsthump/status/1623657586745540609?s=20&t=mE_289ewiG7qUdxxzQM6yQ
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I used to support the concept of the death penalty, but always with the rider ‘when you can prove categorically that you have the right person’. I’ve long since changed my stance and beleive it is wrong for anybody, even on behalf of the state, to talk a life premeditatedly. I’m also unhappy with the idea of taking life in defence of you and yours, but recognise that sometimes it might occur, and to charge somebody with murder for such an occurrence would be wrong.
Of course there is lots of nuance in the above statement, but I think my intent is clearly stated.
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Certain incorrigibles are not worth the trouble and expense of a sojourn in a Reëducation Camp.
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The only exception to the "no death penalty" rule in my mind is the aristocracy.
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May I add a member of a popular beat combo to this hall of infamy?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64580688
Wife of guitar player in said beat combo may agree with you https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-gilmour-attacks-former-pink-floyd-bandmate-roger-waters-social-media-3393588
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Wesley Russell, and whoever gave him a microphone.
https://twitter.com/sangitamyska/status/1627795731292585984?s=46&t=97Qfw7GMqSDdB3n9r8uJ1g (https://twitter.com/sangitamyska/status/1627795731292585984?s=46&t=97Qfw7GMqSDdB3n9r8uJ1g)
https://twitter.com/spilleroftea/status/1627591412744130560?s=46&t=97Qfw7GMqSDdB3n9r8uJ1g (https://twitter.com/spilleroftea/status/1627591412744130560?s=46&t=97Qfw7GMqSDdB3n9r8uJ1g)
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The myriad S-Ts of Turning Point UK are holding a protest against “drag storytelling” on Saturday. (https://twitter.com/TPointUK/status/1626250742460739585/photo/1) Special guest speaker “Reverend” Calvin Robinson, the cosplay clergyman. A bloke who wears a dress while telling fairytales to the impressionable.
Those chumps are beyond parody.
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He hasn't done anything new worth mentioning, but this seems the only thread in which it is tolerable to even mention his name:
Gullis on Mastermind
https://twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1628018037474439169?s=20
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https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23336324.swindon-celeb-matt-fiddes-ignored-whilst-ferrari-dealership/
Matt Fiddes. No, me neither.
The comments under the story are delicious.
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Matt Fiddes. No, me neither.
“Matt Fiddes has been on television several times”
Yeah, so have I.
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He hasn't done anything new worth mentioning, but this seems the only thread in which it is tolerable to even mention his name:
Gullis on Mastermind
https://twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1628018037474439169?s=20
Apparently Gullis is deaf in only one ear. I wonder if it's the one he uses for listening.
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Matt Fiddes. No, me neither.
“Matt Fiddes has been on television several times”
Yeah, so have I.
I had never heard the name but having read the article I feel certain that he is a bit lot of a tool and a worthy entrant into these hallowed halls.
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Perhaps the staff of Dick Lovett Ferrari were mindful of the rep of the last millionaire martial artist and supercar fanboi to hit the news :demon:
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https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23336324.swindon-celeb-matt-fiddes-ignored-whilst-ferrari-dealership/
Matt Fiddes. No, me neither.
The comments under the story are delicious.
Is "Swindon Celebrity" a euphemism or an oxymoron?
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Bodyguard for M Jackson? BS. In late 80s I was in a hotel lift in NY when I met MJ, he declined to get in with me when it stopped at a floor on way down. Howevs, my attention (me being 6'4") was not on the little fella standing in front but drawn to the 2 mahoosive guys standing behind him, well bigger than me.
When I got out of lift and joined colleagues in the bar, they said 'hey Michael Jackson is in here tonight...'. Ah!! So that's who it was...
Swindon internet persona is a rel midget.
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30p Lee has been at that Twitter they have these days. Again.
Complaining that economic good news isn't being reported in Main Stream Media. To emphasise his point, he illustrates it with pics of the so called good news as reported in those Not Main Stream Media At All outlets of, umm, Bloomberg, The Times and Sky News.
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https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23336324.swindon-celeb-matt-fiddes-ignored-whilst-ferrari-dealership/
Matt Fiddes. No, me neither.
The comments under the story are delicious.
Is "Swindon Celebrity" a euphemism or an oxymoron?
In this case a poxy moron.
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https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23336324.swindon-celeb-matt-fiddes-ignored-whilst-ferrari-dealership/
Matt Fiddes. No, me neither.
The comments under the story are delicious.
Is "Swindon Celebrity" a euphemism or an oxymoron?
In this case a poxy moron.
Arf and indeed :thumbsup:
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https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23336324.swindon-celeb-matt-fiddes-ignored-whilst-ferrari-dealership/
Matt Fiddes. No, me neither.
The comments under the story are delicious.
Is "Swindon Celebrity" a euphemism or an oxymoron?
In this case a poxy moron.
Arf and indeed :thumbsup:
I'llhave to roffle, Larrington style. ;D
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64745258
The Scouse Swamp Monster emerges with another "you don't have to be poor" soundbite :facepalm:
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Oh, and apparently she thinks we should eat turnips instead. Not bad, only 6 1/2 years and, as I predicted in 2016, we'd be eating mangel-wurzels.
I'm off to make a ham and turnip sandwich.
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Want some nice fried turnips with that?
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I have a thingy shaped like a turnip.
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You should see a doctor.
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Or Esther Rantzen.
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About 3 minutes into this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la-L4hFWVxU
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Terrific!
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If I am reading the reports correctly, Scott Adams of Dilbert fame.
I am somewhat shocked by this.
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Scott Adams is known to be right wing thinking and I’ve seen stuff about his views in the past that have made me feel uncomfortable about being a dilbert fan.
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Adams started displaying disturbing S-T symptoms a Several of years ago when he endorsed Trump, but this appears to have taken it to a whole new level of Twatcendescence (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/26/dilbert-cartoon-dropped-by-us-newspapers-over-creators-racist-comments).
Dilbert has been dropped by the LA Times, the WaPo and the USA Today group among others, which will doubtless have the Gammonariat bleating about “cancel culture” again.
Edit: xp with Beardy
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I have no problem with people being left or right leaning in their political views but I do have problems with hatred and discrimination on any level. I have caught myself saying stupid things and immediately regretted my moronic drivel. He only seems to be upset about losing his lucrative income stream and apparently has not expressed any regret or felt the need to clarify.
A real Hall of Famer
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Permanent seat on the council of Super Twat obviously.
(https://i.ibb.co/VHtB9Fy/IMG-20230226-104753.jpg) (https://ibb.co/n3bkmX2)
It is beyond batshit. And it is on the TV.
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It's easier to say rationing than brexit if you are a rabbit super twat of a berkshiteer.
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I’d be happy to have my tomato selection rationed if I could get tomatoes.
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Oliver: the increasingly shit Eric Cantona tribute act.
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Adams started displaying disturbing S-T symptoms a Several of years ago when he endorsed Trump
IIRC he had form for misogyny well before that.
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< sigh >
The renowned white supremacist, megalomaniac and narcissist Elon Musk uses his social media platform to spew racist misinformation and hatred.
Pity that he appears to lack the capacity to reason between his ears ...
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Adams started displaying disturbing S-T symptoms a Several of years ago when he endorsed Trump
IIRC he had form for misogyny well before that.
Was it misogyny against men or women?
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Permanent seat on the council of Super Twat obviously.
(https://i.ibb.co/VHtB9Fy/IMG-20230226-104753.jpg) (https://ibb.co/n3bkmX2)
It is beyond batshit. And it is on the TV.
"I blame the Highland Clearances"
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You mean they cleared the wrong ones?!
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That halfwit who does Prime Minister impressions on TV for this piece of unmitigated bollocks:
“If we get this right, if we get this framework implemented, we get the executive back up and running, Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position, the unique position in the entire world in having privileged access not just to the UK home market, which is the fifth biggest in the world, but also the European Union single market. Nobody else has that. No one – only you guys only here. And that is the prize. I can tell you, when I go around the world and talk to businesses, they say: ‘That’s interesting.’ Nowhere else does that exist. It’s like the world’s most exciting economic zone.”
You absolute fucking dicknozzle >:(
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Nigel Fromage (so what's new?)
Ranting that KCIII has been dragged into trying to mend the VTP that is B*****t. Easy when you are not in Parliament.....
is he going to join the UN next and destroy that?
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That halfwit who does Prime Minister impressions on TV for this piece of unmitigated bollocks:
“If we get this right, if we get this framework implemented, we get the executive back up and running, Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position, the unique position in the entire world in having privileged access not just to the UK home market, which is the fifth biggest in the world, but also the European Union single market. Just like you had before we fucked up the economy seven ways from Sunday by leaving the EU.
He left the important bit out.
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TBF, they'd been fucking up the economy since well before Brexit. Brexit was merely the turd-flavoured icing on a cake made of alternating layers of shit and, er, more shit.
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30p Lee
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64823712
Conservative Party deputy chairman [And prize-winning S-T] Lee Anderson has said he has sympathy with people protesting outside hotels providing refuge for asylum seekers.
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Apparently setting fire to police vehicles is normal family behaviour chez Leeanderthal.
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Unrepentant ST Stephen Bear goes to prison and gets put on the sex offenders register. Good.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/03/stephen-bear-jailed-21-months-sharing-sex-video-without-consent-georgia-harrison
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Unrepentant ST Stephen Bear goes to prison and gets put on the sex offenders register. Good.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/03/stephen-bear-jailed-21-months-sharing-sex-video-without-consent-georgia-harrison
Sorry, but how does this work?
He will have notification requirements to keep police updated with his address and whereabouts for 10 years.
If he doesn't update, how will they be able to trace? If that isn't glaringly obvs?
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Presumably non compliance gets your face on TV as a sex offender and locked up when caught. So stay in touch or we make your life shit.
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Liz Truss agrees she might not have been perfect in all aspects.
She’s just been on the local news because she’s been in her constituency after the fools have selected her as the Tory candidate for the next election.
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:facepalm:
I blame Labour
:facepalm:
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...constituency after the fools have selected her as the Tory candidate for the next election.
I think you already know the answer to this one; "For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong." :)
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Liz Truss agrees she might not have been perfect in all aspects.
She’s just been on the local news because she’s been in her constituency after the fools have selected her as the Tory candidate for the next election.
On the bright side, there's a reasonable chance of her predecessor being recalled...and he has a slim majority.
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Rees-Mogg again. Super Twat hosting more Super Twats. https://twitter.com/mendiphuntsabs/status/1632107993876647941
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Braverman. is she not doing that stupid thumbs up thing? Just a horrible person. Some immigrants are more equal than others
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Petronella Wyatt, who appears to be thicker than even the hypothetical offspring of Suella Braverman and 30p Lee.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/03/10/mail-columnist-said-nazis-not-fascists/
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Well she was foolish enough to believe Boris Johnson when he said he would leave his wife for her, after getting her pregnant
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Well she was foolish enough to believe Boris Johnson when he said he would leave his wife for her, after getting her pregnant
I'd forgotten about that...all BSJ's impregnations kind of blur into one another.
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Petronella Wyatt, who appears to be thicker than even the hypothetical offspring of Suella Braverman and 30p Lee.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/03/10/mail-columnist-said-nazis-not-fascists/
(Makes unattractive snorting noise)
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Petronella Wyatt, who appears to be thicker than even the hypothetical offspring of Suella Braverman and 30p Lee.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/03/10/mail-columnist-said-nazis-not-fascists/
Fred West would have preferred the title ‘amateur landscape gardener,’ but he was still a murderer.
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If it's Thursday*, it must be Racist Tory Councillor Day! (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-64944952). Alexis McEvoy, councillor in some foetid swamp in Hampshire, becomes the latest in a long line of Super-Twats outing themselves on Twitter. Ian Wright was available for comment and is deeply unimpressed with her mealy-mouthed “apology”.
* FSVO “Thursday”
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Gianni Infantino: doesn't see the problem with the Saudis sponsoring the Womens World Cup.
Clearly he hasn't read the memo about women's rights or lack of in Saudi then.
Can somebody in such a position really be that tone deaf?
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Yes, if they want to be.
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There’s none so blind as those that do not wish to see.
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Knob riding one of those delimited throttle controlled electric bikes down the old great north road at considerable speed this evening with no lights at all. I am told local druggies use these to avoid/escape the police.
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If it's Thursday*, it must be Racist Tory Councillor Day! (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-64944952). Alexis McEvoy, councillor in some foetid swamp in Hampshire, becomes the latest in a long line of Super-Twats outing themselves on Twitter. Ian Wright was available for comment and is deeply unimpressed with her mealy-mouthed “apology”.
* FSVO “Thursday”
I was about to testily reply that there aren't any foetid swamps in Hampshire, being a proud ex-hog, but then I remembered Netley Marsh (which is nowhere near Netley Abbey where I was dragged up). Comically I believe Netley Marsh falls within the demesne of New Forest District Council, which is where said racist tory twat seems to be.
The New Forest area seems to be full of strange throwbacks (and very few trees!).
Hampshire is a wonderful county, so wonderful that I now live in Wales...
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The bunch of STs that re-sollected Mr Wiffle-Waffle for the next election. Maj. of 7,000, so there's some hope.
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Yet more reasons to loathe & despise Dan Hannan. http://leftungagged.org/2023/03/03/daniel-hannan-animal-cruelty/
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Stone me, that takes cuntery to a whole new level :jurek:
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The bunch of STs that re-sollected Mr Wiffle-Waffle for the next election. Maj. of 7,000, so there's some hope.
Like he cares. He's making millions from stammering bullshit at dinner guests.
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Neckless ignoramus and rising star of the Gammonati Andrew Bridgen is unhappy. (https://twitter.com/ABridgen/status/1636824545330905117). COVID conspiraloonery pulled by YouTube; freeze peach ect &, moreover, ect.
It’s because you’re a fucking crank. Happy to help!
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Well she was foolish enough to believe Boris Johnson when he said he would leave his wife for her, after getting her pregnant
Twice I think
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Gianni Infantino: doesn't see the problem with the Saudis sponsoring the Womens World Cup.
Clearly he hasn't read the memo about women's rights or lack of in Saudi then.
Can somebody in such a position really be that tone deaf?
Yes esp where large amounts of money may change hands or be used to influence
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Gianni Infantino: doesn't see the problem with the Saudis sponsoring the Womens World Cup.
Clearly he hasn't read the memo about women's rights or lack of in Saudi then.
Can somebody in such a position really be that tone deaf?
Yes esp where large amounts of money may change hands or be used to influence
indeed but to just blurt it out takes a special kind of super twattery.
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Neckless ignoramus and rising star of the Gammonati Andrew Bridgen is unhappy. (https://twitter.com/ABridgen/status/1636824545330905117). COVID conspiraloonery pulled by YouTube; freeze peach ect &, moreover, ect.
It’s because you’re a fucking crank. Happy to help!
Blimey, he's nuts, isn't he? Still, it was somewhat reassuring to see the other remaining MPs get up and leave as he started. If there's any credit to him, he's offering a good excuse to go to the bar.
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the email account for the Twitter press office now automatically sends out poo emojis in response to requests (for comment, from journalists)
Musk
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Blimey, he's nuts, isn't he? Still, it was somewhat reassuring to see the other remaining MPs get up and leave as he started. If there's any credit to him, he's offering a good excuse to go to the bar.
That’s hilarious.
His supporters are complaining about censorship but to me it just highlights the problems inherent in making Parliament exempt from such concerns as having to tell the truth. He’s abusing his privilege.
There’s another serial abuser of this privilege currently getting a roasting from his colleagues. Alas far too late to reverse the massive damage his lies have done to the country.
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He's not nuts.
He's been disgraced in High Court as a liar. his Brexit lies are catching up with him, Sunak now has the momentum to start ignoring the ERG, and he's probably going to lose his seat.
So what do you do? Sit there quietly? Or start developing a new income stream...
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^ on which note, Lee Anderson has just got a £100k a year job presenting for GBNews
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30p Lee, Grease-Smugg, McVile & Philipbuster Davies plus Mad Nad on TalkTV. Anyone would think they couldn’t be arsed with minor-league stuff like representing their constituents.
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According to The Telegraph's Max Stevens on LBC earlier, Jacob Rees-Mogg belongs in a museum and not in the cabinet.
Fine words.
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Seeing Douglas Ross on C4 News reminded me what a wee fanny he is.
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30p Lee, Grease-Smugg, McVile & Philipbuster Davies plus Mad Nad on TalkTV. Anyone would think they couldn’t be arsed with minor-league stuff like representing their constituents.
According to the latest food price inflation, he's now 35.4p Lee.
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Policing Minister Chris Philp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65081765
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Policing Minister Chris Philp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65081765
(https://i.natgeofe.com/n/87934625-4196-4b02-94a9-cc20fe16eda2/Baboon_4x3.jpg)
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/3949/15345628508_efc2cfb11c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/po3mHS)
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I was being kind ;D
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https://twitter.com/den_jw/status/1641307061483978754?s=20
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The Daily Mail and The Times running child gender scare stories straight out of the Fox News / Newsmax playbook.
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Driven by another of these "grassroots" campaign groups no doubt
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Based on a report by Policy Exchange (Tufton St) with an intro by Labour's Rosie Duffield.
https://twitter.com/nateffo/status/1641347255025139712
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Based on a report by Policy Exchange (Tufton St) with an intro by Labour's Rosie Duffield.
https://twitter.com/nateffo/status/1641347255025139712
I'm pleasantly surprised with how good and reasonable the statutory guidance is (quoted on that twitter feed).
People not following such risk terrible harm to vulnerable people.
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Based on a report by Policy Exchange (Tufton St) with an intro by Labour's Rosie Duffield.
https://twitter.com/nateffo/status/1641347255025139712
Duffield's in with the Fufton street lot?
It's even worse than I feared. How does she keep the whip?
J
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I can't be arsed with Twitter, but Policy Exchange aren't even based in Tufton St. I also don't think it's (yet) a crime to associate with them.
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On the other hand, two of its founders were Francis Maude and Slithy Gove so their address pales into insignificance.
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Its a two decade old pressure group aimed at influencing Tory policy. Sunak used to work for them.
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I'm not saying I like or agree with them, but they do have a web page which outlines the work they do and where they are located. Took me under 30 seconds. There's nothing inherently wrong with a conservative-leaning 'think-tank' (though yes, I'd agree for any of these entities to be transparent about their funding and their links with government).
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I think there is something very wrong with many of the Tufton lot, given that they are proxies for fossil fuel lobby groups, or culture warriors liked Spiked, aimed at spreading social discord with opaque funding from hard right US groups.
Take the IAE, and its former employee Kate Richards. How on earth did that woman get a regular seat on QT and Politics Live, given that she possesses zero qualifications or expertise in economics.
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Its a two decade old pressure group aimed at influencing Tory policy. Sunak used to work for them.
Why is labour MP Rosie fucking Duffield associating with them ?!?!?
J
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Its a two decade old pressure group aimed at influencing Tory policy. Sunak used to work for them.
Why is labour MP Rosie fucking Duffield associating with them ?!?!?
J
Because she hates trans people, and that is the current prime culture war as mentioned by Flatus. She has just done a(nother) front-page hit piece on trans people for that bastion of Labour support, the Daily Heil.
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Because she hates trans people, and that is the current prime culture war as mentioned by Flatus. She has just done a(nother) front-page hit piece on trans people for that bastion of Labour support, the Daily Heil.
My question stands. How does she keep the whip?
J
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Rosie Duffield deserves her own cesspit in Super Twat hell.
Over recent times there have been a number of "Labour" MP's who deserve Super Twat hell. Duffield is up there with the worst of them.
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Ian Austin, to name but one. That he was ennobled by Bloody Stupid Johnson tells you everything you need to know.
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And Kate Hoey. Became Farage's wingman an peddler of bigoted hate. And still does with her later comments comparing Stormont with Vichy France.
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If Hoey had lived in Vichy France she’d have suddenly gone bald after the Liberation.
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Rosie Duffield deserves her own cesspit in Super Twat hell.
Over recent times there have been a number of "Labour" MP's who deserve Super Twat hell. Duffield is up there with the worst of them.
Really, can you explain why? Her voting record marks her out as pretty much the star pupil of yacf.
Hoey can get in the sea though.
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Because of her very open bigotry, intolerance of and prejudice towards trans people.
See upthrread.
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Cool, you’ll have quotes and examples to share, I’m sure. It’s a mad world when an otherwise liberal and progressive mp is otherwise slandered because you disagree on one issue.
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In another universe there is an Ian complaining sulkily about people posting supportive messages about something he disagrees with, and let's everyone know at every possible opportunity, on threads on which he doesn't think they should be posted.
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Fair enough. Let’s keep it in that topic.
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Former Education Minister Andrea Jenkyns stages a return to form with a Tweet supporting Midair Bacon (anag.) in which she manages to misspell “courteous”, “precedent” and – best of all – “Thatcherite”.
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...Andrea Jenkyns stages a return to form with a Tweet supporting...
Twitter, the logical and inevitable outcome of, "Care in the Community."
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40p Lee [Food price inflation ::-)] generally, but today for his "questions" to the Met police chief.
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40p Lee [Food price inflation ::-)] generally, but today for his "questions" to the Met police chief.
Came here to say this. His language and attitude were quite disgusting.
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30p Lee is the voice of the Daily Hate.
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Bloody Woke virtue signalling by the Conservatives.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/03/essex-pub-that-displayed-racist-dolls-closes-after-boycott-by-suppliers
Boo-hoo
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Needless to say, the gam-gams are absolutely FUMMIN about this particular consequence of the free market in operation and my violin has slipped down a crack in the floorboards.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/03/essex-pub-that-displayed-racist-dolls-closes-after-boycott-by-suppliers
Boo-hoo
There used to be a quaint little gift shop in the delightful Dorset village of Corfe Castle run by an absolute mentalist who had golliwog and 'British values' (or some other shite) tea towels in her windows. Her reasoning was that she was of Indian descent, and therefore could not be racist...which is a whole can of worms in itself, worthy of a thread of its own. The shop closed down after years of complaints. Last I heard of her she was manning the Baden Powell monument in Poole Harbour during The Great Statue Panic of June 2022.
Countryside can be pretty racist ;)
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I'm sure the regulars will fit in just fine at the nearest Spoons.
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There used to be a quaint little gift shop in the delightful Dorset village of Corfe Castle run by an absolute mentalist...
Oh gosh, I remember that! Such a shame it's gone.
My favourite bit of provincial horror was the time I was in Carlisle and spotted a shop selling military memorabilia. Their main window display was a very detailed miniature diorama depicting the Nuremburg rally.
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Is it OK to admit that I used to collect Robinson’s Jam Gollies, specifically the musician figurines you could send off for when you saved up enough tokens from the marmalade jar label? I became uncomfortable with the whole idea of what they represented in about 1977 and ditched the collection. If it was pretty obvious to an average 8 year old then it really shouldn’t be rocket science to a worldly wise publican.
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Is it OK to admit that I used to collect Robinson’s Jam Gollies, specifically the musician figurines you could send off for when you saved up enough tokens from the marmalade jar label? I became uncomfortable with the whole idea of what they represented in about 1977 and ditched the collection. If it was pretty obvious to an average 8 year old then it really shouldn’t be rocket science to a worldly wise publican.
Yes, it is ok.
Different times.
And we move on.
And I've fixed the last two words before 'publican' for you ;)
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There used to be a quaint little gift shop in the delightful Dorset village of Corfe Castle run by an absolute mentalist who had golliwog and 'British values' (or some other shite) tea towels in her windows. Her reasoning was that she was of Indian descent, and therefore could not be racist...which is a whole can of worms in itself, worthy of a thread of its own. The shop closed down after years of complaints. Last I heard of her she was manning the Baden Powell monument in Poole Harbour during The Great Statue Panic of June 2022.
Countryside can be pretty racist ;)
I wondered what Suella Braverman did in her spare time
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Braverman. Again
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The Tory party. End of.
They just piss me off big time with their unrelenting bigoted, racist, misogynist, bullying fascism.
Can't wait to see all those former councillors fruit picking ...
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Farage
The turd that won't flush.
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The Tory party.
Farage
Really struggling to distinguish between the two.
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Douglas Kear Murray, not least for https://www.indy100.com/news/douglas-murray-holocaust-national-conservatism
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aka “Murray the KKK”.
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Douglas Kear Murray, not least for https://www.indy100.com/news/douglas-murray-holocaust-national-conservatism
Do not read that link unless you want to do bad swears.
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My iPad won’t open that link, probably due to concerns for its own safety.
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aka “Murray the KKK”.
Nice one D - I'm old enough!
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The Water Companies - "We're vewy vewy sowwy"
Way too little, way too late.
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No doubt lots of pleas from their chums in government reminding them that if Labour get in they will have to make a serious effort to clean up their act.
Surely this is strong enough motivation for them to mumble their insincere and grossly inadequate faux regrets and apologies whilst counting their ill-gotten gains.
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And increasing our (incredibly cheap) water charges.
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Quite simply, this 'sorry' has made me bloody angry
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Quite simply, this 'sorry' has made me bloody angry
+1
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When they say they are sorry, what they mean is that they are sorry that they were caught. The apology is to their shareholders because they are going to have to reduce dividends to pay for the remedial work.
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https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/theyre-your-turds-say-water-companies-20230518235325
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When they say they are sorry, what they mean is that they are sorry that they were caught. The apology is to their shareholders because they are going to have to reduce dividends to pay for the remedial work.
That's not quite how it works. Pricing, including funding for remedial and development works, is set by Ofwat. They have kept investment low by mandating lower prices for consumers.
Today's investment news could not have happened without Ofwat's agreement. And it will be funded by price increases approved by Ofwat.
And none of this investment will do anything to address the primary cause of water pollution - runoff from farmland, or the third largest cause - runoff from highways.
I must stress this is not criticism of the investment news. I am delighted it is happening and I accept it will cost me.
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The river near me is mostly road run-off when it rains. Despite this, it has small fish and is visited by grey herons and little egrets. There is some nasty stuff on roads but, here at least, it seems that it is pretty well diluted.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/18/marjorie-taylor-greene-white-supremacist-label-n-word)
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She's basically the winner of Chumpie's Apprentice scheme. Total box of frogs, raging white supremacist, rabid right to life before birth only loon and just like chumpie, very very dangerous.
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Will Self
He kind of has a point - no way did Adrian Chiles get the job on merit - but mate, there are ways of saying this that don't make you look like a cunt.
I know it's his shtick, and I love his books, but these are real people he's talking about.
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He won't be writing any Guardian opinion columns any time soon, I guess. I thought it was quite funny, it does cast some typically Selfian logorrheic shade over what is increasingly a terrible newspaper.
I'm not entirely sure Chiles is a real person though.
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^ is there a link for those of us ???
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https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/my-obsession-with-adrian-chiles-column/
Brokenbottleboy's response: https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/obliteration-of-the-self
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Skimming through both of those, I don’t really care, am more inclined to agree with self, and am not convinced that this raises him above the level of simple vulgarity to the lauded level of ST. Surely he does not deserve a place at the same table as Farage or the conservative partay
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By an unfortunate coincidence Mr Self has a piece in today's Guardian. An obituary for Martin Amis.... :(
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-he-stamped-his-style-over-a-generation-of-writers-and-readers
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Skimming through both of those, I don’t really care, am more inclined to agree with self, and am not convinced that this raises him above the level of simple vulgarity to the lauded level of ST. Surely he does not deserve a place at the same table as Farage or the conservative partay
Thing is, this is not his first offence.
With this piece, it’s the thinly veiled misogyny I find problematic. I don’t mind him calling out the waste of space that is Chiles.
Still think he’s a brilliant writer but this is not his best work.
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By an unfortunate coincidence Mr Self has a piece in today's Guardian. An obituary for Martin Amis.... :(
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-he-stamped-his-style-over-a-generation-of-writers-and-readers
That appears to be by John Self, not Will Self.
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Not sure if that's an in joke, John Self was a character in one of Amis' books, I think.
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Skimming through both of those, I don’t really care, am more inclined to agree with self, and am not convinced that this raises him above the level of simple vulgarity to the lauded level of ST. Surely he does not deserve a place at the same table as Farage or the conservative partay
Thing is, this is not his first offence.
With this piece, it’s the thinly veiled misogyny I find problematic. I don’t mind him calling out the waste of space that is Chiles.
Still think he’s a brilliant writer but this is not his best work.
I read it. One of the few things I've read in the Guardian in recent months, such is their decline in quality. Yes, the imputation that Viner is so feeble as to be easily influenced by Chile's cock is misogyny, but it is only a tiny part of the column (pun intended). What struck me is just how poor the rest of the article is. Way under par for Self.
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In here coz we don't have an inverse nominative determinism thread, and she's a permanent here anyhow Suella Scaredeywoman (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/20/braverman-asked-civil-servants-for-help-after-being-caught-speeding)
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Been bubbling a while that story. It was explained to her by her civil servants that as Attorney General she should understand the Law and as as HS it wouldn't be appropriate to claim the fine as an MP expense.
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By an unfortunate coincidence Mr Self has a piece in today's Guardian. An obituary for Martin Amis.... :(
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-he-stamped-his-style-over-a-generation-of-writers-and-readers (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-he-stamped-his-style-over-a-generation-of-writers-and-readers)
That appears to be by John Self, not Will Self.
Oops! :-[
" John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character"
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Yes, the imputation that Viner is so feeble as to be easily influenced by Chile's cock is misogyny, but it is only a tiny part of the column (pun intended).
Agreed, it's only a small part of the content, but it's what he leads with - first impressions, and all that.
What struck me is just how poor the rest of the article is. Way under par for Self.
Yes, it's very poor.
But not so bad as to make me feel any sympathy for Chiles, who is just a weird creep. (I already knew this for reasons I'm not sharing here.)
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In which case, I daresay Self knows it too, and it might be a bit of an in-joke
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I'm seeing accusation of nepotism, not sure how that == misogyny.
I could say that "shit article" could be levelled at so many articles on the BBC these days.
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“I’m backing Brexit all the way, as hard as you like” – Grant Shapps and Corinne Stockheath, in 2016
“I was never a Brexiter, so it’s not my ideology” – Sebastian Fox and Michael Green, this week
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At the recent Nat-C Conference professional gobshite Katharine Birbalsingh asked:
How much do you love your country?
Enough to Tweet under your own name?
Sideshow Birb calls herself “Miss_Snuffy” on Twitter.
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Oakeshitt. :sick:
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Oakeshitt. :sick:
She has a permanent seat on the Council of Super Twat.
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Every single one of the utter cunts who was involved in any way in creating this piece of shit:
https://twitter.com/LeoHickman/status/1662357455513190400?s=20
[yet another tedious Littlejohn rant in the Daily Heil, illustrated in just about the most offensive way possible - deeply cynical way to provoke a reaction]
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So he’s claiming that elected members of parliament are out of order because they oppose other elected members of parliament? Twat!
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Does that tedious peasant
Smellyface Littlejohn still pontificate about “broken BRITAIN” from a gated community in Florida?
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"We're rich old white men and the world is slipping from our grasp".
That's the reason for this article, Brexit, Trump, Erdogan, Putin and most other nasty shit today.
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Must’ve been a week or two since Piers “Morgan” Moron said anything twattish enough to keep his position at the head of the pantheon of S-Ts assured during the silly season but he's called for an end to the “relentless persecution” of Philip Schofield. “He hasn’t committed a crime and he's not a Govt minister” says the colossal bellend and… hold on a sec! I've got Haz’n’Megs on line two.
Piers “Morgan” Moron CBE: Il twatto di tutti twatti.
Edit to increase twat content
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... Piers “Morgan” Moron ...
Edit to increase twat content
Surely further editing was unnecessary as the needle on the Molesworth-Peason Twatometer (pat. pending all rites reserved, the world in space) was already bouncing off the end-stop?
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Odious Odey https://archive.ph/a7jB5 from the F.T.
"How Crispin Odey evaded sexual assault allegations for decades
Thirteen women accuse the hedge fund titan of harassment, abuse and fostering a toxic workplace"
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https://t.co/75QoMskAzx "Crispin Odey leaves Odey Asset Management after misconduct allegations" He's still got all of his money though. >:(
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Mad Nad. Again.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12187013/NADINE-DORRIES-sinister-forces-stopped-girl-reaching-House-Lords.html
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One quarter of the UK population
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/13/quarter-in-uk-believe-covid-was-a-hoax-poll-on-conspiracy-theories-finds (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/13/quarter-in-uk-believe-covid-was-a-hoax-poll-on-conspiracy-theories-finds)
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That is a *lot* of stupid.
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/me wonders what the equivalent figures in USAnia would be :demon:
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That is a *lot* of stupid.
I'll leave this one from a few years back (first posted in the Conspiracies thread in P&OBI) about the prevalence of tinfoilism in France for you to ponder...
https://www.france24.com/en/20180108-8-10-french-people-believe-conspiracy-theory-survey
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One quarter of the UK population
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/13/quarter-in-uk-believe-covid-was-a-hoax-poll-on-conspiracy-theories-finds (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/13/quarter-in-uk-believe-covid-was-a-hoax-poll-on-conspiracy-theories-finds)
That's a bit harsh - you only need to pick up a random copy of the Times, Mail etc to see this shit in print. Surprised they didn't mention that in the article, really.
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/me wonders what the equivalent figures in USAnia would be :demon:
There's all of the covid stupid, all of the Trump stupid and then the Gormless Old Pillocks party stupid - there might be some overlap, otherwise there'd be >100% of stupid in Usania and that's not possible...
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No idea who Emma Duncan is - beyond the fact that she is clearly deserving of instant election to the ST pantheon...
https://twitter.com/greg_jenner/status/1669619978406952961?s=20
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Mr Google says she write for The Times and is therefore another manifestation of the malaise that has struck that once-august publication since that damn' Colonial upstart took over.
(Pours another G&T)
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Mr Google says she write for The Times
Yes, it was always going to be one of the Times, Tele or M**l but I didn't care enough to find out which.
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Mr Google says she write for The Times
Yes, it was always going to be one of the Times, Tele or M**l but I didn't care enough to find out which.
I think the two words in the bottom right hand corner of the image that you linked to were a bit of a giveaway.
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Mr Google says she write for The Times
Yes, it was always going to be one of the Times, Tele or M**l but I didn't care enough to find out which.
I think the two words in the bottom right hand corner of the image that you linked to were a bit of a giveaway.
Er… oh yeah!
I didn’t bother reading that far. I’d already seen enough.
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Is PPE a Humanity, by any chance?
It appears to be what she read at Oxford....
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They try to disguise PPE by referring to it as "Modern Greats" when it's neither.
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Didn’t the Tory party cause a bit of a furore with their lavish spending on useless PPE during the pandemic?
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That is filed under national security, particularly so in PM's diaries.
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('Baroness' Michelle) Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich woman's world
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Gavin Williamson….s stalker!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65939820
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Sir Gavin. FFS.
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Osbourne. No, you ST, austerity didn’t fund the furlough scheme, it meant that you had to piss epic amounts of money against a wall to get/not ppe in a rush.
What’s next? Public sector cuts paid for the kamikwazi budget?
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The Gammon Faced Pig Botherer and Gideon are still utter shits, I see.
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The motorcycle industry:
https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/news/2023/june/motorcycle-industry-zero-emissions-meeting
We don't have enough carbon neutral power for our existing loads and these cunts want to use some of what we have to power 1) hydrogen production (a technology struggling to scale) and 2) carbon extraction (a technology still in development) to combine these to make e-fuel (using more power). All that so that motorbikes don't have to go through reduced range (like cars have), poorer handling (like cars have) and poor performance. Because 2.2 seconds to 60 and 180 miles of range (https://luxe.digital/lifestyle/cars/best-electric-motorcycles/#Lightning-LS-218) obviously isn't enough.
Fuck off and die (wrapped round a tree in all likelihood) the lot of you.
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This man:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405)
Who carved his name on a wall in Italy.
A wall forming part of the Colosseum.
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The motorcycle industry:
https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/news/2023/june/motorcycle-industry-zero-emissions-meeting
We don't have enough carbon neutral power for our existing loads and these cunts want to use some of what we have to power 1) hydrogen production (a technology struggling to scale) and 2) carbon extraction (a technology still in development) to combine these to make e-fuel (using more power). All that so that motorbikes don't have to go through reduced range (like cars have), poorer handling (like cars have) and poor performance. Because 2.2 seconds to 60 and 180 miles of range (https://luxe.digital/lifestyle/cars/best-electric-motorcycles/#Lightning-LS-218) obviously isn't enough.
Fuck off and die (wrapped round a tree in all likelihood) the lot of you.
Just like the hydrogen lobby the green fuel lobby is desperate to get in there. The fact that green fuel uses even more electricity to produce it (5 times iirc) than just powering the car with one fifth of the juice for the same journey is completely lost on them.
The Jeremy Clarksons of this world are experts at gaslighting.
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This man:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405)
Who carved his name on a wall in Italy.
A wall forming part of the Colosseum.
I really, really hope he goes to jail. Preferably one that has lions.
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This man:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405)
Who carved his name on a wall in Italy.
A wall forming part of the Colosseum.
I disagree. More of a schmuck that a twat.
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This man:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405)
Who carved his name on a wall in Italy.
A wall forming part of the Colosseum.
Romani Ite Domum?
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The 'New Conservatives' (i.e. Lee Neandethal) for their plan to close visa schemes for care workers...
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The 'New Conservatives'
At least they've shown they have a sense of irony with that name.
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Not to be confused with the National Conservatives who, while not an oxymoron, can still be legitimately abbreviated to “Nat-Cs”. They certainly did Nazi that coming.
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Not to be confused with the National Conservatives who, while not an oxymoron, can still be legitimately abbreviated to “Nat-Cs”. They certainly did Nazi that coming.
;D
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The 'New Conservatives' (i.e. Lee Neandethal) for their plan to close visa schemes for care workers...
Again, S-T or Super-Stupid?
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The 'New Conservatives' (i.e. Lee Neandethal) for their plan to close visa schemes for care workers...
Again, S-T or Super-Stupid?
Or perhaps, both.
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Lee Anderthal is definitely an S-T with crossed swords, oak leaves and diamonds.
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The Graun says he threw a sickie today.
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The Graun says he threw a sickie today.
That's what happens if you eat cat food.
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That list of “25” New Conservatives in full:
- Gareth Bacon
- Duncan Baker
- Jack Brereton
- Paul Bristow
- Miriam Cates
- Brendan Clarke-Smith
- James Daly
- Anna Firth
- Nick Fletcher
- Chris Green
- James Grundy
- Jonathan Gullis
- Eddie Hughes
- Tom Hunt
- Mark Jenkinson
- Danny Kruger
- Andrew Lewer
- Marco Longhi
- Robin Millar
- Lia Nici
The eagle-eyed will observe that the list does not, in fact, contain 25 names. Thereby proving that their arithmetic is as half-baked as their “ideas”.
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So who is pulling the strings?
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Lee Anderthal is said to “agree with” their position but can’t get officially involved “because of his Party position”. Also, I have this very nice bridge for sale.
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A welcome* return to the S-T ranks for alleged MP and no-alleged-about-it thicko Andrea Jenkyns, who asks:
Children suffered enough with their education during lockdown, teachers should put children first and not strike. Why dont [sic] they strike during summer holidays when kids wont [sic] have to miss lessons!
Philomena Cunk would be proud of that one.
* FSVO
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Jenrick. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/home-office-painted-mickey-mouse-murals-children-asylum-centre-2461147 (https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/home-office-painted-mickey-mouse-murals-children-asylum-centre-2461147)
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Jenrick. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/home-office-painted-mickey-mouse-murals-children-asylum-centre-2461147 (https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/home-office-painted-mickey-mouse-murals-children-asylum-centre-2461147)
There's a man in need of a kicking.
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Didn't even have the sense to blame the Mega-Global Mouse Corporation of Orlando, USAnia's copyright lawyers...
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Jenrick. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/home-office-painted-mickey-mouse-murals-children-asylum-centre-2461147 (https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/home-office-painted-mickey-mouse-murals-children-asylum-centre-2461147)
There's a man in need of a kicking.
to quote a very good man
So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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Tony Blair. For his suggestion that more private Co.s in the NHS would be a good thing. Not only a twat, but a fucking idiot into the bargain. Sciencus refers.
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Blair shat all over the history of Labour and set the party on track for it's centrist positioning. He didn't need to start the butchering of the NHS in the process though. Bastard
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He also got the party elected and in power for 13 years. The only 13 years in 44 years.
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He also got the party elected and in power for 13 years. The only 13 years in 44 years.
During which time he cemented in business's power over ordinary people with more privatisation and anti-trade union legislation.
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Ah, the old dichotomy, proper Labour vs more generally palatable Labour. IMO only the latter has a snowballs chance of getting in to power, but under Starmer? Yeuch.
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He also got the party elected and in power for 13 years. The only 13 years in 44 years.
Very much this
He didn't need to start the butchering of the NHS in the process though. Bastard
But also this. (and academies, and tuition fees, and that little thing in Iraq...).
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It's depressing that there are people (including on here) who continue to regard the (partial) record of somebody who hasn't been leading the Labour Party for 16 years as a valid reason for depriving that party of their vote in the coming election and thereby almost certainly perpetuating the appalling situation we have now. The people who are hardest hit by the situation certainly won't be thanking these "purists" for their supposed nobility. "What did you vote in the election, Daddy?" "Erm ..."
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And reduced NHS waiting lists to pretty much the lowest they have been in my working lifetime
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@peter, I think there' a different point on the Likert scale here, as opposed to a Boolean choice.
Blair had a number of faults and made some significant errors, many of them unforced and unnecessary.
He was also the best PM in my lifetime.
The consequences of his mistakes make it harder to explain to a new generation why Labour are better than the Conservatives (while it remains clear that they are less worse).
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So "less worse" should be what we bang on about, rather than past errors. We are not voting for a past government.
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The problem remains our parliamentary system of first past the post, a system that favours the group that suppresses or absorbs its close competitors and whose supporters more readily accept what they are told. An opposition that is more liberal in its views and practically encourages debate is going to be more fragmented and thus unlikely to have a single party.
Why the Labour Party continue to support FPTP is a mystery yet to be resolved.
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@peter, I think there' a different point on the Likert scale here, as opposed to a Boolean choice.
Blair had a number of faults and made some significant errors, many of them unforced and unnecessary.
He was also the best PM in my lifetime.
The consequences of his mistakes make it harder to explain to a new generation why Labour are better than the Conservatives (while it remains clear that they are less worse).
Best comment I've ever read on this subject.
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I should like to point out that at the last Labour conference the motion to support PR was passed. The leaders might not be fully onboard yet but the pressure will grow from within.
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And reduced NHS waiting lists to pretty much the lowest they have been in my working lifetime
Child poverty also. It’s almost like they don’t actually care and would much rather have a government they can angry about.
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That's my point, really, Ian.
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Simon Murray, the "Lord" replying to Alf Dubs ..... https://twitter.com/JMPSimor/status/1678527005317292033
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Simon Murray, the "Lord" replying to Alf Dubs ..... https://twitter.com/JMPSimor/status/1678527005317292033
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Initially thought the tweet had been deleted.
Nope, it is all of Twitter for me. Maybe it detected that I have Threads membership and is blocking me?
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Nope, it is all of Twitter for me. Maybe it detected that I have Threads membership and is blocking me?
I'm on threads and Mastodon, but can still see twitter.
I no longer post on twitter but my account is still visible.
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Simon Murray, the "Lord" replying to Alf Dubs ..... https://twitter.com/JMPSimor/status/1678527005317292033
Out of touch much?
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I know not whether gullible airhead Petronella Wyatt has graced this thread yet and CBA to check but her averral that:
I know of two British women in a well known London hospital who came back from Turkey with no kidneys. Their organs were literally stolen while the women were under anesthetic.
was met with exactly the kind of scorn and derision you’d expect. Some examples are assembled here: https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/07/18/34-favourite-funny-reactions-to-a-mail-columnists-kidney-theft-hearsay/
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just having an affair with Johnson and carrying his child (briefly) makes her a ST
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I know not whether gullible airhead Petronella Wyatt has graced this thread yet
She has but but was ages ago and by a v forgettable forummer https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10772.msg2734862#msg2734862 (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10772.msg2734862#msg2734862)
;)
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Being thick doesn’t make you a ST candidate, but repeatedly demonstrating it in public probably does.
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Pah, I came back from holiday and discovered three days later that I HAD NO LEGS.
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I've gone on _several_ cycling holidays and found I HAD NO LEGS!
Be kind. This is a woman who had an affair with Boris Johnson. She'll swallow anything..
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I've gone on _several_ cycling holidays and found I HAD NO LEGS!
Be kind. This is a woman who had an affair with Boris Johnson. She'll swallow anything..
Eeew. Thanks for that image.
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Bit seedy that.
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Rachel Johnson prattling on on LBC about this being a free country and the rights and freedoms for Farage to bank with Coutts should be in essence, sacrosanct.
Clearly the erosion of rights and freedoms of ordinary people who are not part of her fascist chumocracy don't count ...
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I rather enjoyed pointing out to the frog-mouthed fascist that I have a bank account to which I am strictly no longer entitled (I met the criteria very briefly many years ago) but my bank are happy to let me keep the account…
…probably because I am not a right wing c*nt who puts their reputation at risk.
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Everyone, EVERYONE is entitled to their opinions. However, this is a double edged sword, and everyone also has the right to think you’re a c*nt for holding those opinions, and if they run a business and they think your opinions are likely to impact on their bottom line they have the right to not do business with you.
I wonder if there would be a similar uproar if, say, Greta Thunberg was the subject of similar business actions.
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Banks have been closing left-wing activists' (especially those who support Palestine) bank accounts for years with no outcry... And Fartrage wasn't refused an account, he was refused a specific kind of account...
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And as was pointed out by a corresponsdent to the Graun, there are hundreds if not thousands of UK citizens living in the EU who have had access to UK banking withdrawn post Brexit, cos the banks won't apply for the necessary permits
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Well we can't have all that lovely suss cash from Russia and elsewhere being declined now can we?
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Just when you thought that Braverman couldn't sink any lower ... grauniad link (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/24/suella-braverman-acted-unlawfully-over-asylum-seekers-judge-rules)
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Just when you thought that Braverman couldn't sink any lower ... grauniad link (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/24/suella-braverman-acted-unlawfully-over-asylum-seekers-judge-rules)
For me, her defining behaviour was personally intervening in the case of a man who had british residency and went on holiday to SA. Because he had a conviction for cannabis possession with intent to supply, from over a decade ago, she declared him a dangerous person, not to be admitted to the UK.
Apart from the ridiculousness of that, the fact that she had the time to look at this and make a judgement proves her petty small mindedness, sheer vindictiveness. There are cabinet ministers who have admitted to being cocaine users, FFS.
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Everyone, EVERYONE is entitled to their opinions. However, this is a double edged sword, and everyone also has the right to think you’re a c*nt for holding those opinions, and if they run a business and they think your opinions are likely to impact on their bottom line they have the right to not do business with you.
I wonder if there would be a similar uproar if, say, Greta Thunberg was the subject of similar business actions.
I said similar earlier. Arbitrary denial of service on the basis of political belief is, I think, a dangerous slope. I think also a dangerous argument that someone, somewhere on a different axis of the political spectrum had a similar experience (I've no idea) so that makes it ok. Possibly the worst argument is the 'well, he could get an account elsewhere' for very obvious reasons.
Of course, it's a service and if he doesn't meet their T&Cs, then fair enough, but they should be clear about that (as I understand it, their rationale had to be legally pried from their paws). Rejoice the schadenfreude all we want, it's the sort of good press he thrives on. All good stuff for the bastion of the anti-establishment, the terror of the elites, who had – erm – a Coutt's bank account.
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I watched an interview where a woman who was an "expert" and Farage were exchanging "points of view". The woman had read the entire report from Coutts and pointed out that because his mortgage had been paid off his property was no longer regarded as an asset in terms of his wealth. I don't know the status of the formerly mortgaged property but his financial assets held with the bank had dipped below the threshold for qualifying for a Coutts account. The despicable nature of him as a person was an observation and probably taken into consideration (in my view) whether to overlook his financial status or not. They made ostensibly a business decision.
It seems that there are double standards at play. A baker can refuse to bake a cake on the grounds of their religious beliefs and that's OK but a person who no longer qualifies for an account due to their financial status suddenly gets the weight of the fascist regime, it's politicians, cod influencers and commentators and the weasely vermin of the print media calling for justice.
This country is fucked up big time.
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The real beauty of this story is that both sides are in the wrong, both sides have achieved monumental levels of twattery.
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The real beauty of this story is that both sides are in the wrong, both sides have achieved monumental levels of twattery.
Hands up who knew Farage banked with Coutts prior to them closing his account?
No, me neither.
Apart from anything else if this decision was about negative PR, then they need a new PR director.
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If they’d told him straight at the begin7that he no longer met their t&cs as he was now, in their eyes, a pauper he would have hrumphed, but probably not made a big noise about it. So I agree, they need a new communications manager at the very least.
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I watched an interview where a woman who was an "expert" and Farage were exchanging "points of view". The woman had read the entire report from Coutts and pointed out that because his mortgage had been paid off his property was no longer regarded as an asset in terms of his wealth. I don't know the status of the formerly mortgaged property but his financial assets held with the bank had dipped below the threshold for qualifying for a Coutts account. The despicable nature of him as a person was an observation and probably taken into consideration (in my view) whether to overlook his financial status or not. They made ostensibly a business decision.
It seems that there are double standards at play. A baker can refuse to bake a cake on the grounds of their religious beliefs and that's OK but a person who no longer qualifies for an account due to their financial status suddenly gets the weight of the fascist regime, it's politicians, cod influencers and commentators and the weasely vermin of the print media calling for justice.
This country is fucked up big time.
The woman on Newsnight was Frances Coppola. She was very impressive, and she’s since posted this statement: https://open.substack.com/pub/coppolacomment/p/i-told-the-truth-and-i-will-not-apologise?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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So yet again Farage has lied, blustered, damaged people and got more publicity for himself.
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So yet again Farage has lied, blustered, damaged people and got more publicity for himself.
And achieved his principal goal in all this, which was to get the "woke" Alison Rose out of her job.
Cowing the BBC into making a craven apology (even though it was actually correct in what it said in its report) is a bonus.
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And now he says the whole board of NatWest should resign.
He’s just a loathsome individual isn’t he.
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If Farage and the entire right wing insist upon accountability for their lies, deceit, corruption, ...
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The bus driver that caused the old lady to have her legs amputated.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66318718
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I feel that he was lucky to get such a relatively lenient sentence.
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Sunak today with his ploy for the motoring vote.
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Scraping the dregs ...
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Sunak today with his ploy for the motoring vote.
It's hard to imagine what he's trying to achieve with the latest pronouncements. I've been working on a report on LTNs recently so I can tell him that they are already the subject of extensive reviews. Since the start of the pandemic, 120 new LTNs have been installed around London, most of them using emergency traffic orders. The ones that have proved not to be successful have been removed but the fact that over 100 of them are still in place tells its own story.
It's well established through numerous studies that they don't have an adverse impact on surrounding areas, and the evidence of their benefits is overwhelmingly in favour. What's more, the large majority of people who live and work in them actually like them.
So who exactly is he pandering to here?
He's a monumental fuckwit.
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So who exactly is he pandering to here?
Sclerodexiamaniac tories.
Σκληρός - Hard. Also cruel, rough, harsh.
Δεχιά - Of or on the right.
P.S. Frog-mouthed fascist has become my insult of choice. I love this forum.
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The batrachian bellend has just launched https://www.accountclosed.org On no account should the “help” at that domain e-mail address be passed to the RNLI, purveyors of goat pr0n or the ECHR.
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Rish! - all he's got is culture wars bollocks.
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Be fair. He’s got tEh WaR oN ,,,,,,, tEh MoToRiSt too.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2RtU5KWUAIZB92?format=webp&name=medium)
Nicked from a X by Otto English.
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Neil Oliver, for outright lies
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66314338 (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66314338)
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Professor Jim Saker.
In 2017 he claimed that over half of Brits were worried about their car being hacked. Now he claims that with Chinese built EV's China could simply bring them all to a halt and cause gridlock.
I cannot help but think that Jim is caught in the headlights of the conspiracy theorists stupidity.
Problem is Jim, once disabled they will be simply removed and probably destroyed. A one time hit which serves what purpose exactly? China relies upon the West for increasing trade. Why destroy your market for a one-off stunt?
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Neil Oliver, for outright lies being
FTFY.
On a lesser scale, some of those local to me. A field, agricultural use only, oft waterlogge and with one boundary being the canal, at tghe bottom of our village was sold off about 3 years ago in 5 parcels, for leisure use.
First there were the 2 who decided to build un-authorised landing stages along the canal. the better to moor their boats (the towpath is on the other side). They got told to remove them.
Then there was the coupe who wanted to build, on their 1/3 acre, an "agricultural storage building with tractor store" that looked uncannily like an L shaped two storey house with an integral garage, permission refused.
Them there's the ST who likes to post meaniningless notices, held on with a multiple of screws, see blow.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53081757883_e329f69edd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oSDTh8)Supertwat (https://flic.kr/p/2oSDTh8) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
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Them there's the ST who likes to post meaniningless notices, held on with a multiple of screws, see blow.
Uh-oh! Freeman on the land alert!
"Statutory legislation does not apply."
Yeah, good luck with that.
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Entry by….Police …an unlawful trespass but the owner reserves the right of access for… the emergency services. ::-)
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It's the magical 'stick up a notice and it becomes law' trick, innit. He forgot to mention poor old Bill Stickers, always at risk of prosecution for unspecified reasons.
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There is a nutjob round the corner from us who has a sign threatening a wheelclamp for anybody who parks in front of his garage.
He himself often parks there both on and along the pavement leaving a gap significantly less than 1 metre for pedestrian access.
Just shows what a narcissistic, deluded and selfish piece of shit that he is.
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There is a nutjob round the corner from us who has a sign threatening a wheelclamp for anybody who parks in front of his garage.
He himself often parks there both on and along the pavement leaving a gap significantly less than 1 metre for pedestrian access.
Just shows what a narcissistic, deluded and selfish piece of shit that he is.
Near my daughter's flat there are three garages, each with a notice that they are in constant use. All three are screwed shut or otherwise obviously not used for cars.
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Can I nominate last night's train guard, on the 1931 from Cambridge North?
I line up ready for the front of the train, to allow swifter exit at Ely, vestibule barren of any other bikes, about 5 people in the carriage
"you can't put it in here mate" says guard
"why not, it's MT?"
"Rools, innit, go to the other end"
"Alright" sez I
bimble rearwards, as I get to the last carriage the doors lock
Utter f*&@incg cnut.
Station platform staff right on the spot, he's livid, guard has cameras so can see what I'm doing and it can only be vindictive.
Starts unloading on me about the state of the railways and how he's about to lose a job after 24 years. Lukcily another train due in about 8 mins.
TBH, I don't mind going to the back, it's the rools, but to direct me there when it makes no effin' difference and just lock the doors on me? What kind of small minded arse does that kind of shit?
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One that is in the wrong job.
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Oliver Dowden
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Oliver Dowden
D’you know, I was just going to say that. Because of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/dowden-comments-on-unions-asylum-seeker-barge-concerns-disgraceful
Grenfell
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Aaah, poor Dan Wooton..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66401554
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Oliver Dowden
D’you know, I was just going to say that. Because of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/dowden-comments-on-unions-asylum-seeker-barge-concerns-disgraceful
Grenfell
"The germans used this for asylum seekers and it was fine!"
Yes, you absolute arsehole, the Germans put no more than 220 people on board. You and your moronic colleagues think that increasing that to 500 people doesn't change anything.
Honestly, what a useless bloody shower, they can't get anything done. How much as this barge cost to date?
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Their next jolly wheeze will be to tow it to Rwanda.
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And it won’t be until it arrives off the mouth of Congo that they discover 1: Rwanda is landlocked and c) the Livingstone Falls.
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'Cos they use Midair Bacon's atlas.
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An unwelcome return to the Twatheon for colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron:
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/08/08/piers-morgan-said-he-was-glad-he-wasnt-canadian-and-an-entire-nation-spoke-as-one/
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It’s at times like this that I wish I’d followed my cousin’s example and emigrated to Canada when that was a possibility. Hey ho.
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CBE is like that unwelcome turd in the river. Oddly in berkshit Britain we have loads of CBE's bobbing along in our rivers now ...
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Jenrik
Yesterday, on radio interview about the Bibby Stockholm he started off by saying that if he were an asylum seeker, he'd be perfectly happy with staying on the Bibby, that it was very comfortable.
Then he stated that using vessels like the Bibby was essential, "because we have to have a deterrent".
Utter cockwombling moron.
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Jenrik
Yesterday, on radio interview about the Bibby Stockholm he started off by saying that if he were an asylum seeker, he'd be perfectly happy with staying on the Bibby, that it was very comfortable.
Then he stated that using vessels like the Bibby was essential, "because we have to have a deterrent".
Utter cockwombling moron.
Super Twat and Bar, I feel. Did you hear him defending 30p Lee in the same interview? 30p Lee who said assylum seekers should "fuck off back to France", that 30p Lee.
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Have we had Mr Fox this week?
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1689250318213623808 (https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1689250318213623808?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
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Jenrik
Yesterday, on radio interview about the Bibby Stockholm he started off by saying that if he were an asylum seeker, he'd be perfectly happy with staying on the Bibby, that it was very comfortable.
Then he stated that using vessels like the Bibby was essential, "because we have to have a deterrent".
Utter cockwombling moron.
Super Twat and Bar, I feel. Did you hear him defending 30p Lee in the same interview? 30p Lee who said assylum seekers should "fuck off back to France", that 30p Lee.
The very same Lee Anderson who took a job with GB News?
In a Facebook post, he hit out at MPs who took second jobs for £100,000, saying: “We are paid handsomely for the job we do and if you need extra then you should really be looking for another job.”
Anderson will earn £100k a year for 8 hours work a week on the show, which pretty much gives you a measure of the man.
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Jenrik
Yesterday, on radio interview about the Bibby Stockholm he started off by saying that if he were an asylum seeker, he'd be perfectly happy with staying on the Bibby, that it was very comfortable.
Then he stated that using vessels like the Bibby was essential, "because we have to have a deterrent".
Utter cockwombling moron.
Super Twat and Bar, I feel. Did you hear him defending 30p Lee in the same interview? 30p Lee who said assylum seekers should "fuck off back to France", that 30p Lee.
The very same Lee Anderson who took a job with GB News?
In a Facebook post, he hit out at MPs who took second jobs for £100,000, saying: “We are paid handsomely for the job we do and if you need extra then you should really be looking for another job.”
Anderson will earn £100k a year for 8 hours work a week on the show, which pretty much gives you a measure of the man.
If M le Maire's Democratic Ruthless Bastard's Party doesn't get a shift on, I may have to start compiling a list of people In Need of A Slap. That Norvern* Monkey may well feature on it.
*Midlands probs, not Norvern.
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In addition to the “30p Lee” and “Leeanderthal” nicknames I have recently seen the aforementioned S-T referred to as “Leenoch”.
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... “Leeanderthal” ...
A deeply unfair comparison to our cousins. He's nowhere near as intelligent.
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... “Leeanderthal” ...
A deeply unfair comparison to our cousins. He's nowhere near as intelligent.
I'm pretty sure that neanderthal man was a more tolerant and compassionate being too.
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Our not even a little bit esteemed The Home Secretary for this piece of rank and stinking stool water:
My thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the tragic loss of life in the Channel today.
Now, normally when your country is being “invaded”, which Josef Gerbils assures us it is, you rejoice in the news of the invaders being killed utterly to DETH but with that goes the risk of the Tories being perceived as the “nasty party” and even Heinrich Hamster is self-aware enough to realise that doing so might be a PR blunder. Better to sit this one out, Cruella.
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I did appreciate the work of the satirist at Auntie Beeb who chose a snap of Cruella beaming from ear to ear to accompany that quote when it was displayed on the television news. I may be reading too much into it, but ...
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Swivel-eyed Suzy doing her best to alienate large swathes of the London population...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/22/tory-london-mayor-candidate-criticised-notting-hill-carnival
I'm kind of happy about this - she's doing her best to make herself unelectable. Which is good.
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The misogynistic, entitled, ignorant, tone deaf Spanish FA.
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PB I totally agree. Putting your hands behind somebodies head and pulling them towards you is a sexual assault in my book.
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And threatening to sue the ladies because they have the temerity to protest against the unwanted behaviour.
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Unusual for FIFA to step in apparently on the right side. Might have to get the popcorn ready for a bit of a dust up between the Spanish FA and FIFA.
Never expected this.
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I have not followed this closely enough to comment really.
Seems to me that
1 it's not good form to kiss people on the lips if you are not already at least on a flirting basis
2 moreso if colleagues
3 even worse if you are their boss
But really it was poorly handled. He should have said he misread the situation and is sorry, would prob have been brushed under the rug.
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Agree but folk have a tendency to keep on digging the hole rather than accept their mistakes.
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I've just seen a headline saying that his Mum is going on hunger strike in support of his position. I think this has now strayed into 'you couldn't make it up' territory.
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I've just seen a headline saying that his Mum is going on hunger strike in support of his position. I think this has now strayed into 'you couldn't make it up' territory.
Correction: apparently she has locked herself a church in order to reinforce the validity of her argument. This has now gone way beyond anything anyone could possibly make up.
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These people. https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057 (https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
Take your stuff home.
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Humans are unfathomably stupid and selfish don't ya think?
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These people. https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057 (https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
Take your stuff home.
A bit old fashioned I know, but I wonder how you can afford to chuck a tent after one use.
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These people. https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057 (https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
Take your stuff home.
A bit old fashioned I know, but I wonder how you can afford to chuck a tent after one use.
I have a tent I got at decathlon for €20. I use it for festivals on the basis that I don't care if it gets completely trashed.
J
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Some of these tents cost less than the takeaway that the owners consumed whilst in it.
I remember encountering a £10 Tesco tent whilst camping in Orkney a few years back. The wind blew and the guy line loops just pulled from the tent leaving holes in the seams.
The tent itself was just a shelter to them.
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Whoever it was that left a plastic bag full of assorted rubbish just lying on the ground at the Sacagawea Monument on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. I hope the vultures get you.
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Some of these tents cost less than the takeaway that the owners consumed whilst in it.
I remember encountering a £10 Tesco tent whilst camping in Orkney a few years back. The wind blew and the guy line loops just pulled from the tent leaving holes in the seams.
The tent itself was just a shelter to them.
It’s not just the tents though, it’s the rubbish and other crap they couldn’t even be bothered bagging up.
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These people. https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057 (https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
Take your stuff home.
A bit old fashioned I know, but I wonder how you can afford to chuck a tent after one use.
I have a tent I got at decathlon for €20. I use it for festivals on the basis that I don't care if it gets completely trashed.
J
But would you just abandon it if it did?
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But would you just abandon it if it did?
No. Cos I'm not an arsehole.
I just wouldn't be upset if I had to take it over to a bin to dump.
J
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Charlie Mullins... https://twitter.com/roadcc/status/1696933338408198415
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Charlie Mullins... https://twitter.com/roadcc/status/1696933338408198415
Blimey
It is surprising that X would suspend someone for something as innocuous as incitement to violence.
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Mullins cements his place in fascist folklore.
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These people. https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057 (https://x.com/mrjacklowe/status/1696432901737337057?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
Take your stuff home.
A bit old fashioned I know, but I wonder how you can afford to chuck a tent after one use.
I have a tent I got at decathlon for €20. I use it for festivals on the basis that I don't care if it gets completely trashed.
It's obviously a culture thing. People expect their stuff to get trashed at festivals, so bring stuff they don't care about. Manufacturers understandably see that gap in the market and produce barely-functional low-cost camping gear for the purpose. So we now have the concept of the 'festival tent', organisers expect to be picking up litter and abandoned equipment after the event, and the festival goers now have the expectation that they can just abandon everything they don't want to bring home.
That this doesn't happen at, say, a folk festival or the York Rally proves the point.
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I’m still trying to see the attraction of going to a music festival. I might manage a Folk festival for a couple of days, but I go camping to get away from people.
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I’m still trying to see the attraction of going to a music festival. I might manage a Folk festival for a couple of days, but I go camping to get away from people.
The use of tents at music festivals is not anything that I would call camping. I was at WOMAD, 2010(?). I got there, pitched my tent, went off to enjoy some sounds, came back a few hours later and had a real problem finding my tent because the whole area had become jam packed full of tents, pitched virtually on top of each other. I suffered a very unpleasant night and left the next day, even though I had a ticket for the whole weekend.
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I’m still trying to see the attraction of going to a music festival. I might manage a Folk festival for a couple of days, but I go camping to get away from people.
Depends on the festival, I guess. I don't like crowded camping areas so I commuted to Womad this year. Previous years the Artist area has been busy and the Crew are pretty quiet (plus most campers are working, so much quieter) but Crew was busy this year. Cornbury was lovely - huge camping areas, and a quieter 'family' camping bit. Sadly, the festival is finished now.
I did do Reading a long time ago, took a tent and took it home. The camping was crowded though, but flagons of vinegar wine and Party 7s made it bearable ;D
I read some of the ways that festival organisers might control this trash camping but didn't think any of them would work. I think that now trash-festival-camping is so engrained that the only way to stop it is to not hold the festival.
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I read some of the ways that festival organisers might control this trash camping but didn't think any of them would work.
What appears to work is being, very clearly, from the outset, Not That Sort Of Festival. At which point you attract the sort of person who - while they might use cheap camping kit or get drunk - prides themselves on being Better Than That. Put enough of those in your camping field and the less conscientious will make an effort to tidy up so as not to look like a prat.
Whether this is compatible with mainstream music festival audiences is unclear, but I don't rate the chances of the notorious festivals changing their culture without a major re-branding (which probably means an alternative location).
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Throw away consumerist society.
Anecdote from my little dear who was at Reading this year. (general festival age demographic: mainly late teens, apparently, or behaving as such)
(He did bring his tent back to sunny Suffolk, it was a pop up one he bought for the event, knowing about potential trashing. It had running water in every room ie single skinned with condensation. )
Discussion on the penultimate day in his group was along the lines of "everything gets trashed on the last night, shall we (not drink and) leave this evening? Conclusion was yes, apart from him and another couple who had pre-booked trains the next day.
That final night the little dear gets woken up by a disturbance so sticks his head out of popup. Nearby are a group of festivo yoof* pounding on a tent and flattening it. "what are you doing?" quoth he. "Don't worry, we aren't going to be doing your tent" they say, and continue. "But what are you doing though?", he persists, mindful of the fact that he might indeed become the next tent on the list, and drops out of site. Festivo yoofs get bored and depart under little dear's hidden watchful eyes. Person emerges from battered tent muttering "wtf?".
Little dear wonders why person didn't protest earlier; we shall never know.
Perhaps, in the same way as campsites have noise curfews which generally** work there ought to be a festival code of conduct which you specifically agree to buy buying your entry including no trashing of other people's stuff and taking your rubbish home with you including damaged items; also supplying a suitable no. of litter receptacles, assuming they don't already do so. Then asking festival goers to help with policing it. And make them feel bad when you randomly ask on the way out whether they've remembered to pack or bin everything.
*not his word and "yoof" on its own may have connotations
** don't always work, as I experienced this summer. Little dear took ear plugs.
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I had to re-read your first sentence there Arabella three times before I got to consumerist and not communist! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We almost went to a festival this year but decided against it. In the past I have packed away abandoned tents. A friend used to do voluntary work and take down unwanted tents for donation to charities working with an ecological group. They would advertise so as to encourage folk to take a label and leave it on the tent for recycling. He says that it was a very successful scheme.
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I read some of the ways that festival organisers might control this trash camping but didn't think any of them would work.
What appears to work is being, very clearly, from the outset, Not That Sort Of Festival. At which point you attract the sort of person who - while they might use cheap camping kit or get drunk - prides themselves on being Better Than That. Put enough of those in your camping field and the less conscientious will make an effort to tidy up so as not to look like a prat.
Whether this is compatible with mainstream music festival audiences is unclear, but I don't rate the chances of the notorious festivals changing their culture without a major re-branding (which probably means an alternative location).
Glastonbury back in the 90s looked like a bomb site when everyone left and that was before you could buy a pop-up tent for a tenner so attendees had some investment. This was in the tail-end of the fence assault years, when the place was deluged by drug dealers and tent-slashing thieves. By the final year I went, I think our tent was mostly duct tape. For better or worse, it doesn't pretend to be anything other than a commercial venture now. Reading looked like Iraq after a USAF tea party.
It's more of an illustration of how we live now. I wouldn't ever had thought just to leave my stuff, all the rubbish and everything else and go home. We find that often now, people have a barbecue and picnic in the park or in the countryside and just up and leave their mess. Surely they enjoyed the venue, how hard to put everything in the carrier bag they'd also left and take it home? Same for drivers, who tidy up after their junk food meal by throwing it out of the window onto the roadside. I picked up some litter earlier at the bus stop, the usual, even though there is a rubbish bin right there, next to the stop. I don't know why but I'd definitely support bringing back the death penalty if it were applied for littering offences.
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You can now buy the ultimate festival tent, made of brown cardboard.
People have tested them, camping in heavy rain. They seem to last well for a few days.
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Rishi Sunak (or RishGPT as John Grace calls him). For committing 100% to net-zero for the UK by 2050, but not having a clue about what to do or how to get there. Just following the same old Tory policy of the last 13 years to make promises to do 'stuff' but later bow to pressure from rich donors to the party, and crackpots in the party, to cancel it and just revert to business as usual.
To quote the late great David MacKay, in the context of the question could the UK live entirely off renewable energy (and if you haven't read 'Sustainability without the hot air' then you really should), "I don't care what plan you have, as long as it is a plan that makes sense".
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Just following the same old Tory policy of the last 13 years
But of course. Party before country (or planet) every single time.
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I’m still trying to see the attraction of going to a music festival. I might manage a Folk festival for a couple of days, but I go camping to get away from people.
Festivals should have quite while they were ahead, like just after Woodstock 1969 or the Isle of Wight 1968-70.
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That'll be my "cheeky chappy" colleague who thinks himself a comedian with his stupid voices, puerile jokes and "cheeky chappy" attitude. We had an email come round this morning from HR. Our landlord (we're on a small industrial estate) complained that someone was seen on CCTV throwing fruit out of a first floor window. Yep, that's the twat sat 5m from me - tho this time I have plausible deniability, I didn't actually see him do it this time. Thing is, it was 07:36 on a Friday as numbers are low - WFH and 9 day fortnight for many. We have access cards. Not hard to see who was in at that time (me, him, ummm 1 other, only the first 2 in the suspect area). I wonder if I'll get a tug from HR when they're nest in on Monday ::-)
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https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sycamore-gap-tree-northumberland-live-27801497#source=breaking-news
Whoever did this >:(
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That is appalling. Oddly, in Rochdale last week, a couple of perfectly sound mature trees were sawn down overnight on an urban street, one crushing a car. Do we have a youtube or tiktok-related pattern on our hands, I wonder.
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16 year-old arrested. You tube/internet looking even likelier?
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Rish! (again) for his reply when asked about HS2 to Manchester - which was along the lines of "everyone here is using cars to get around" (and therefore potholes were the number one issue)
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Lozza Fox (again) for brandishing a copy of The Gulag Archipeligo” on being released on bail.
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16 year-old arrested. You tube/internet looking even likelier?
60 year old apprehended. What does that tell us?
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16 year-old arrested. You tube/internet looking even likelier?
60 year old apprehended. What does that tell us?
I'm guessing Facebook and/or DECT phones were involved.
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The good news is that media irritant Lionel Shriver is leaving BRITAIN for Portugal, which is “culturally coherent”. I imagine she’s in for a shock when she finds out that the among the ranks of ye Portingals may be found a substantial proportion of brown people with ancestors from southern Africa and/or the sub-continent.
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Shhhhh! Don't give her a clue. Let her find out. 😉
She'll discover that Portugal is part of the EU too. I wonder how she will cope?
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The good news is that media irritant Lionel Shriver is leaving BRITAIN for Portugal, which is “culturally coherent”. I imagine she’s in for a shock when she finds out that the among the ranks of ye Portingals may be found a substantial proportion of brown people with ancestors from southern Africa and/or the sub-continent.
Wait until she finds out that public support for transgender discrimination protection, for teens’ access to gender-affirming care and for trans access to facilities matching gender identity is higher in Portugal than in the UK (84% v 77%, 72% v 47% and 54% v 40% respectively).
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She’ll certainly have to wait a long time for the removal men to show up with their lorry full of her goods, chattels and copies of The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound.
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She’ll certainly have to wait a long time for the removal men to show up with their lorry full of her goods, chattels and copies of The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound.
I presume she'll end up in some English-speaking enclave in the Algarve, whinging with the other ex-pats about the locals...
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I like the idea of living in Europe, it my deafness and dyslexia make learning a second language an extreme challenge, and I don’t feel I should try to live in another country without at least a smattering of the local tongue.
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Interestingly, my hearing loss is much less of a problem here in Germany because the language is far more specific and my high frequency hearing loss is not really significant in the way things are structured. In England I had difficulty distinguishing between is and isn’t, did and didn’t, et cetera. Which sometimes mean the main point of the question was not understandable for me. Did you put out the bins? I did. I didn’t. Both sounded the same to me.
In Germany, the negation is a separate word, so it’s actually much clearer for me to understand what is going on. Even in a noisy restaurant and trying to understand a second language I seem to have more general understanding of the conversation then I would in an English restaurant in my mother tongue.
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Former F1 supremo and billionaire Bernie Ecclestone. Settled with HMRC for 625 million!!! The original amount was less but this includes interest and penalties. He has form for tax evasion here and abroad. Decided jail wasn't an option
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A return to the Twatheon for pretend politician Martin Daubney for xitting a photo of protesters waving flegs while standing on the plinth of a statue of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery and complaining bitterly about them having the temerity to be Angry While Palestinian. Problem is:
- The photo was taken in June, and also
- The flegs are Sudanese
The protesters were angry about the behaviour of the Sudanese government, y'see, and nothing to do with Hamas/Israel/Gaza/any other business at the far end of the Med. Natch when apprised of this error the S-T deleted the xit immediately.
Only joking. Of course he didn’t. And trainee Super-Twat Darren “Crafty” Grimes has rexitted it :facepalm:
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The New European • The Shit List 2023 (https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-european-shit-list-2023/)
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The New European • The Shit List 2023 (https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-european-shit-list-2023/)
Excellent! I read it with Alistair Campbell's voice. Can't imagine why that is...
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Just to prove that the coveted Super-Twat badge is sometimes awarded for acts of outstanding Twattery amongst the general public, take a bow and an S-T badge with oak leaf cluster, “Doncaster woman”: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/doncaster-woman-thought-paragliders-were-hamas-attacking-the-city-361061/
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I am at an event collecting signatures for the Friends of the Earth United for Warm Homes campaign.
An ageing "gentleman" dismissed it as a gimmick. His family home was cold and damp when he was a child and he's still here aged 87. Oh, so that's OK then.
I was tempted to ask him if he was the defeated tory candidate for Tamworth ...
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I am at an event collecting signatures for the Friends of the Earth United for Warm Homes campaign.
An ageing "gentleman" dismissed it as a gimmick. His family home was cold and damp when he was a child and he's still here aged 87. Oh, so that's OK then.
I was tempted to ask him if he was the defeated tory candidate for Tamworth ...
How many children did the family have, and how many are still around?
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Jeremy Cunt - going ahead with Kamikwaze's plan to scrap the limit on bankers' bonuses while threatening to break the triple lock on pensions so he can use a lower figure to calculate next year's increase.
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It's heartening to learn that even should Jeremy Rhyming-Slang stand down at the next election we have a ready-made substitute in the form of Ipswich MP Tom Rhyming-Slang, who avers that:
If you walk into your town center, people speaking English is almost a rarity.
In Ipswich, the percentage of people having English as their first language is 92.4. For this reason I concur with Mic “Brokenbottleboy” Wright, who called Hunt “you dogwhistling prick”.
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^^ Suffolk chav might count as a separate language
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It's heartening to learn that even should Jeremy Rhyming-Slang stand down at the next election we have a ready-made substitute in the form of Ipswich MP Tom Rhyming-Slang, who avers that:
If you walk into your town center, people speaking English is almost a rarity.
In Ipswich, the percentage of people having English as their first language is 92.4. For this reason I concur with Mic “Brokenbottleboy” Wright, who called Hunt “you dogwhistling prick”.
And it's "are almost a rarity" to boot.
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Ipswich is a
bit lot of a dump, with many empty shops, but it’s not exactly noted for its proportion of non English speaking folk. Ironically, the chances are they any brown faces will belong to temporary immigrants whom will be on a 6 month rotation at the nearby labs and are probably being paid* more than many of the locally born population and will almost certainly be more highly educated.
*Even taking into account that they will be being paid as off shore employees because it’s cheaper than employing British graduates of computer science.
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^^ Suffolk chav might count as a separate language
again, our lack of applause smiley lets us all down.
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It's heartening to learn that even should Jeremy Rhyming-Slang stand down at the next election we have a ready-made substitute in the form of Ipswich MP Tom Rhyming-Slang, who avers that:
If you walk into your town center, people speaking English is almost a rarity.
In Ipswich, the percentage of people having English as their first language is 92.4. For this reason I concur with Mic “Brokenbottleboy” Wright, who called Hunt “you dogwhistling prick”.
Feeling somewhat let down by the Hon. Member for Ipswich. Surely for full effect he should have prefaced his remarks with the phrase "These days".
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Thérèse "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" Coffey
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Thérèse "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" Coffey
She’s our MP in Suffolk Coastal, a bit further East than Ipswich. If you go any further east yo get wet feet. I’m not entirely sure if she knows where we are though as I understand that she lives in Bristol.
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Thérèse "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" Coffey
No difficulty in putting Thérèse in the "Super_Twat" category, but what she actually said was not unreasonable. She is a qualified scientist in combination with being a Super-Twat.
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According to my landlord whom is also a councillor, she’s actually good company when she’s not being a Tory super twat. But then, he does council for the blues, so he might be a bit biased.
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I expect Strong Drink is required to find Coffey in any way palatable. And lots of it.
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Thérèse "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" Coffey
No difficulty in putting Thérèse in the "Super_Twat" category, but what she actually said was not unreasonable.
A quote of some sort would help to know what you're both talking about.
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According to Coffey homes were flooded because the rain came from the wrong direction, the east. Yes, she did say this. Seriously.
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We have an unfindable leak in our roof which causes a puddle on our kitchen worktop. But only when the wind is from the east or north and it's really pissing down.
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A quote of some sort would help to know what you're both talking about.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-67211366
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We have an unfindable leak in our roof which causes a puddle on our kitchen worktop. But only when the wind is from the east or north and it's really pissing down.
Have you checked your ridge tiles?
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We have an unfindable leak in our roof which causes a puddle on our kitchen worktop. But only when the wind is from the east or north and it's really pissing down.
Have you checked your ridge tiles?
Yup. The kitchen roof is actually a new fibreglass flat one that is completely solid. The water's coming in from a pitched roof a couple of metres distant. We've had roofers round to try and sort the problem but with no success so far.
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We have an unfindable leak in our roof which causes a puddle on our kitchen worktop. But only when the wind is from the east or north and it's really pissing down.
Have you checked your ridge tiles?
Yup. The kitchen roof is actually a new fibreglass flat one that is completely solid. The water's coming in from a pitched roof a couple of metres distant. We've had roofers round to try and sort the problem but with no success so far.
Pour dye on the roof at various points until you find it.
Then rip the whole lot off and replace the now rotten timbers
:o ;D ;D
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According to Coffey homes were flooded because the rain came from the wrong direction, the east. Yes, she did say this. Seriously.
I loath coffey, but that isn't quite what she said, and I understand the issue that she explained (badly).
She said we aren't as good at modelling flooding when the rain comes in from the east.
That's because most of the flooding (that affects derbyshire, yorkshire etc) happens when we get major rainfall in the western/central watersheds. So there is a lot of modelling of that, and flow meters on those rivers.
But this rain fell when the winds blew from the east, so it was first landing on eastern watersheds (which normally just have a short journey to the sea).
Sufficient rain, sodden ground = floods. But not so many models or meters for it.
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I expect Strong Drink is required to find Coffey in any way palatable. And lots of it.
A quadruple espresso?
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A new squirrel has arrived in my trees.🤬
This definitely counts .....
Are squirrels not supposed to be in trees?
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It’s known hereabouts by those that know that when the wind is in the east coincides with a spring tide and the weather rains in a biblical fashion, that floods will be most likely. We have flood barriers for when such coincide as they do often enough for,barriers to,be required to stop the floods.
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Something something 1953 floods mumble…
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53285880906_0a2a314079_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pbG4WA)
Onoz! (https://flic.kr/p/2pbG4WA) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Thérèse "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" Coffey
No difficulty in putting Thérèse in the "Super_Twat" category, but what she actually said was not unreasonable. She is a qualified scientist in combination with being a Super-Twat.
Yes it is. The direction from which rain comes is irrelevant when it comes to flood defences.
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Yes it is. The direction from which rain comes is irrelevant when it comes to flood defences.
The direction of rain here is relevant to flood defences, they do not need to be deployed on north rain as it falls the otherside of the hill and doesn't flood the valley on the high tide
The impacts of which side of a hill rain falls affects relatively few catchments. It's not an issue in large parts of the UK (such as the area I live in).
And if we're talking about proper structural flood defences then it is irrelevant, as any issues should have been taken into account in constructing the defence.
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One of the technical aspects of analysing flooding is 'time of concentration'. Basically, if a drop of rain falls at the furthest point of the catchment, how long does it take to flow to the point you are interested in? Repeat that process at every location within the catchment and work out when the greatest volume of water occurs at the point you are interested in, but it isn't that simple.
You need to consider how rain actually falls. Storms do not drop all their rain everywhere at the same time and at the same intensity throughout the storm. Intensity varies depending on duration. Typically, storms start out with heavy rain which tails off in some way. Short storms can deliver rain faster than long storms; think cloudburst vs. drizzle. You usually do this analysis from records of actual storms.
If the storm moves from the far end of the catchment towards the point you are interested in, the accumulated water arrives in a shorter period than if the storm moved from the point you are interested in towards the far end of the catchment. A shorter period will usually worsen flooding.
You calibrate your catchment model by comparing historical storm events with recorded flood levels, adjusted for changes in runoff and water detention (more concrete/ asphalt, deforestation, etc.) over time.
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One of the technical aspects of analysing flooding is 'time of concentration'. Basically, if a drop of rain falls at the furthest point of the catchment, how long does it take to flow to the point you are interested in? Repeat that process at every location within the catchment and work out when the greatest volume of water occurs at the point you are interested in, but it isn't that simple.
You need to consider how rain actually falls. Storms do not drop all their rain everywhere at the same time and at the same intensity throughout the storm. Intensity varies depending on duration. Typically, storms start out with heavy rain which tails off in some way. Short storms can deliver rain faster than long storms; think cloudburst vs. drizzle. You usually do this analysis from records of actual storms.
If the storm moves from the far end of the catchment towards the point you are interested in, the accumulated water arrives in a shorter period than if the storm moved from the point you are interested towards the far end of the catchment. A shorter period will usually worsen flooding.
You calibrate your catchment model by comparing historical storm events with recorded flood levels, adjusted for changes in runoff and water detention (more concrete/ asphalt, deforestation, etc.) over time.
As you say, it's far more complex than simply the direction the rain is coming from...
The reality is, Coffey is trying to excuse long term chronic underfunding of proper flood defences, in part driven by the climate changing loons in her party. The woman is one of the most callous, negligent and incompetent ministers in history (and don't forget this is the party that made Dorries a minister).
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Some of the most efficient methods of flood defence is controlling land development within the catchment or creating opportunities for localised upstream detention, rather than just building flood walls which reduce the time of concentration and tend to increase flood height and increase flooding downstream. Politicians tend to prefer visually impressive projects (e.g. river dredging) that garner votes though.
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Some of the most efficient methods of flood defence is controlling land development within the catchment
Not helped when politicians from all parties are attacking the green belt... We are facing having huge swathes of our local greenbelt, including a number of flood plains, being concreted over for major infrastructure (railway) and vanity (guided busway) projects - despite in both cases there being less environmentally damaging/cheaper options available.
or creating opportunities for localised upstream detention, rather than just building flood walls which just reduce the time of concentration and tend to increase flood height and increase flooding downstream. Politicians tend to prefer visually impressive projects (e.g. river dredging) that garners votes though.
I say bring back beavers!
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Thérèse "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" Coffey
No difficulty in putting Thérèse in the "Super_Twat" category, but what she actually said was not unreasonable. She is a qualified scientist in combination with being a Super-Twat.
Yes it is. The direction from which rain comes is irrelevant when it comes to flood defences.
Wrong, for the reasons more eloquently explained by LWAB than I.
The direction has a huge impact.
Even in the Cambridge area.
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We also do regularly get rain from the east in the UK, particularly at this time of the year, according to the Met Office.
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Whether or not there is any shred of truth in what she said, it is clear that Coffey is indeed simply trying to deflect attention from the many failings of her government (and previous governments, to be fair) with reckless over-development surely being the primary cause of flooding in areas where there was no flooding before (not just on flood plains - deforestation on higher ground also has an impact), exacerbated by chronic under-investment in infrastructure such as sewers/drainage and flood defences, and further exacerbated by the increasing occurrence of freak weather events due to climate change, which her government are determined to accelerate with their anti-green agenda.
So yeah, she's still a super-twat.
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Wales does a reasonable job of protecting the Midlands from soggy westerlies. The Lincolnshire Wolds, Fens etc don't work so well for easterlies.
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Something something 1953 floods mumble…
I'd heard it was a wind from the westerly sector that was to blame. The tidal gates for the North sea are the Dover Straits in the south and the Pentland Firth in the North. The strong westerlies trapped the flood tide and then when the next flood occurred the water rose further as a result.
In NE Essex we got some exceptional winter tides during the 80s, but the flood defences did their job - mostly.
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Climate change means greater storm frequencies and intensities than seen historically. Flood defences based on historical data are often inadequate in the face of more frequent storms (saturated soil has almost 100% runoff) and more intense rainfall (rainfall volume during storm). Flood defences will inevitably fail more often than designed, even without changes in land management/ development.
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Out of curiosity I was wondering where storm Babet originated and as expected it was from the Atlantic. Now, this of course does not mean that the rain came from the west but it would surely fit in to the majority of data gathering that the Met Office and others will have done over decades monitoring and recording such weather events. There will have been many such events which come in from the west but by the very spiral nature of these the wind and rain will at different times come from different directions.
I don't have the in depth knowledge and would never claim to be an expert but I am sure that the data gathered reflects reality and not Coffey.
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agree about bringing back the beavers and re-opening flood plains. I understand that they have done this in Germany and actually removed sections of barrier to actually generate a flood plain with good results.
In our local village there is still planning permission for houses to be built on a field which has flooded twice a year for the 4 years we have been here and the same for living memory of older residents!
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agree about bringing back the beavers and re-opening flood plains. I understand that they have done this in Germany and actually removed sections of barrier to actually generate a flood plain with good results.
In our local village there is still planning permission for houses to be built on a field which has flooded twice a year for the 4 years we have been here and the same for living memory of older residents!
Our local hospital wishes to build a drive-thru phlebotomy clinic (which patients will only be able to access by car - no walk ins, or access by bicycle/public transport) in the green belt... and on an area that is regularly flooded.
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Soooo. There's been a flood, and the subject of building on flood plains comes up.
*sigh*
Building on flood plains. Is not in and of itself the bad idea.
Building shit buildings on flood planes however, that is a bad idea.
Let's take a Journey to the Dutch City of Maasbommel.
The city has been around in some form or other for at least a millennia. On the edge of the city, outside the protective dijks is a row of homes.
(https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/111/306/701/144/722/888/original/9018db77c5976770.jpeg)
They look like any normal modern home. Sure the architect had some fun. But it's recognisably a home.
But if you look closer.
(https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/111/306/739/847/352/781/original/ddeee3847c2ad139.jpeg)
You notice a pillar.
(https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/111/306/741/042/720/921/original/427ca2bdd71959d9.jpeg)
These homes are built with a big concrete box that floats as their foundation. They are anchored to this pillar which keeps them fixed in x and y, but allows for movement in z.
(https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/111/306/759/952/652/011/original/13ff273e3139f029.jpeg)
Some of them are more obviously floating than others. (and hard to photograph). The idea being that these homes can handle the flooding. Water goes up, so does the house. Water goes down, so does the house. You may wanna keep an eye on the forecast and go park the car elsewhere when the water is gonna rise.
But it's a flood plane, and people can live on it.
Another option of course is to build things on stilts.
(https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/111/306/790/451/156/112/original/e165704f4a3f60c2.jpeg)
This is a hurricane resistant home in Texas. Designed to handle temporary flooding.
Having buildings on flood planes isn't inherently bad. Having the wrong buildings is. We just have to be a bit more open to the idea of new designs, and not the copy pasta shit that the developers tend to favour.
J
(for more on this rant, I put it on mastodon here:
https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/111306710945339290 )
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Ah, but when we criticise the building of homes on flood plains, it is from the perspective of a population that is used to having sufficient land so as not to need specialist building techniques. We also comment with the knowledge that our housing developers are profit driven money grabbing bastards who already employ cost cutting corner cutting building methods. There’s also the issue that in GB the flood plains serve a purpose of protecting other low lying areas where as in NL they employ much more aggressive (and obvious) flood protection schemes such as dykes.
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Ah, but when we criticise the building of homes on flood plains, it is from the perspective of a population that is used to having sufficient land so as not to need specialist building techniques. We also comment with the knowledge that our housing developers are profit driven money grabbing bastards who already employ cost cutting corner cutting building methods. There’s also the issue that in GB the flood plains serve a purpose of protecting other low lying areas where as in NL they employ much more aggressive (and obvious) flood protection schemes such as dykes.
Exactly. Can anybody tell me of any similar buildings already built in the uk?
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Exactly. Can anybody tell me of any similar buildings already built in the uk?
Of course not, they would never get planning permission as they don't match the character of the area...
J
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You notice a pillar.
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Dolphins. They're called dolphins.
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Exactly. Can anybody tell me of any similar buildings already built in the uk?
Of course not, they would never get planning permission as they don't match the character of the area...
J
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/15/baca-architects-amphibious-house-floating-floodwater/
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Exactly. Can anybody tell me of any similar buildings already built in the uk?
Of course not, they would never get planning permission as they don't match the character of the area...
J
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/15/baca-architects-amphibious-house-floating-floodwater/
I've heard of them. They're involved in a scheme in Stratford Upon Avon.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/15/baca-architects-amphibious-house-floating-floodwater/
Excellent, than you. Not sure if that's a cunningham's law type action, but the link is really interesting. Thanks!
J
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There are a couple of houses/holiday homes on the banks of the Thames between stains and Chertsey. There are also lots of vulnerable chalet structures along the same stretch but most have boats to escape in :)
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Elon Musk returns with a cracker. Re X'ing a right wing edited and thus misrepresentative clip claiming that the Scottish FM thinks that Scotland has too many white people and branding him as a racist.
Why do the far right insist upon trying to transfer their own bigotry onto others?
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'You're the enemy': Noel Edmonds' cycleway rant and a meeting of conspiracy theorists (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300993866/youre-the-enemy-noel-edmonds-cycleway-rant-and-a-meeting-of-conspiracy-theorists). Noted loon
Neil Edwards Noel Edmonds upsets honest burghers of New Toyland, outs self as high-order Twat.
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I probably don't want to follow that link do I?
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I did. I didn't die ...
It's a piece written about Edmonds and his opinions but not in any way supporting his opinions.
Why did NZ let him in? Have they lost their marbles?
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Why did NZ let him in?
$$$$$$$$$
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Exactly. Can anybody tell me of any similar buildings already built in the uk?
Of course not, they would never get planning permission as they don't match the character of the area...
J
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/15/baca-architects-amphibious-house-floating-floodwater/
That floating house near Marlow was the subject of a Grand Designs episode.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6icxwj
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Try posting in the right thread, Mr L :facepalm:
Anti-cancel culture activist and occasional teacher Sideshow Birb sees M&S Christmas shitvert; wants it cancelled.
M&S advert ‘puts two fingers up to spirit of Christmas’, says headteacher who can't spell “Ebenezer” (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/03/ms-advert-puts-two-fingers-up-to-spirit-of-christmas-says-headteacher).
Thereby guaranteeing a metric fuckton of publicity for Marks & Sparks which they didn’t even have to pay for.
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Try posting in the right thread, Mr L :facepalm:
Anti-cancel culture activist and occasional teacher Sideshow Birb sees M&S Christmas shitvert; wants it cancelled.
M&S advert ‘puts two fingers up to spirit of Christmas’, says headteacher who can't spell “Ebenezer” (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/03/ms-advert-puts-two-fingers-up-to-spirit-of-christmas-says-headteacher).
Thereby guaranteeing a metric fuckton of publicity for Marks & Sparks which they didn’t even have to pay for.
What I'm struggling to understand of our beloved media is how yesterday on LBC on the Nick Ferrari show (Yes, I know I shouldn't listen) the focus of discussion was on how antisemitic the M&S ad was as it appeared to be promoting the colours of the Palestinian flag. Yet elsewhere the ad was being criticised for appearing to be burning the colours of the Palestinian flag in a fireplace. WTF? ???
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It's easy. Right wingers everywhere determined to be outraged but they simply don't know why.
I am certain that freedom of cancel culture will be part of the Tory party manifesto for the next election.
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Wait until the news that the official flower of Palestine is the poppy gets widely disseminated among the Gammonariat. They'll do their collective nut.
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Bear in mind the ad was saying do what you like, and disposing of symbols of Christmas that people may not be into. The bit in question was the burning of party hats - which were in Christmas colours of red, green and silver. Frankly it's a bit twisted to relate that to Palestine.
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I so wish this was actual badge:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53309667614_bc017657cd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pdMYUf)
Sadly not my own work… (https://flic.kr/p/2pdMYUf) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Bear in mind the ad was saying do what you like, and disposing of symbols of Christmas that people may not be into. The bit in question was the burning of party hats - which were in Christmas colours of red, green and silver. Frankly it's a bit twisted to relate that to Palestine.
Agreed.
There is a class of people determined to be offended by anything even when they don't know why they are offended.
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Bear in mind the ad was saying do what you like, and disposing of symbols of Christmas that people may not be into. The bit in question was the burning of party hats - which were in Christmas colours of red, green and silver. Frankly it's a bit twisted to relate that to Palestine.
Agreed.
There is a class of people determined to be offended by anything even when they don't know why they are offended.
And when that proves inadequate they’ll make something up and then get offended by it.
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Bear in mind the ad was saying do what you like, and disposing of symbols of Christmas that people may not be into. The bit in question was the burning of party hats - which were in Christmas colours of red, green and silver. Frankly it's a bit twisted to relate that to Palestine.
Agreed.
There is a class of people determined to be offended by anything even when they don't know why they are offended.
Do we know who it was that actually made a complaint? [Edit for clarity: the complaint about the burning party hats being the colours of the Palestinian flag] I suspect it might a false flag kind of thing.
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Bear in mind the ad was saying do what you like, and disposing of symbols of Christmas that people may not be into. The bit in question was the burning of party hats - which were in Christmas colours of red, green and silver. Frankly it's a bit twisted to relate that to Palestine.
My bold.
My point exactly.
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Wait until the news that the official flower of Palestine is the poppy gets widely disseminated among the Gammonariat. They'll do their collective nut.
And the Christian population are very fond of St George.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27048219
There seems to be a bit of a dispute as to whether the poppy is a national flower or the Iris. https://thisweekinpalestine.com/faqqua-iris/
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The Home Secretary, who shall not be named because she's not human enough to be worth naming, for suggesting that living in a tent is a, "lifestyle choice" by the homeless.
There is a, "tearing the wings off flies" level of cruelty that she revels in, coupled with a seeming complete lack of empathy that makes me think that a psychiatric ward is the right & proper place for her.
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It's only up there with Spaffer's "Let them die" levels of humanity.
Tories: stooping lower every day.
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Banning homeless tents may be intended to soak up headline space, diverting attention from the current enquiry. Ramping up gammon hate might be just a bonus for them.
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Perhaps somebody needs to do some guerilla shed towning in central London and in Cruella's constituency.
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You have to wonder who Braverman thinks her constituency is.
I'm going to have a guess that she thinks it will be whatever is left of Conservative Party Members in 12 months time. Or sooner.
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The Home Secretary, who shall not be named because she's not human enough to be worth naming, for suggesting that living in a tent is a, "lifestyle choice" by the homeless.
There is a, "tearing the wings off flies" level of cruelty that she revels in, coupled with a seeming complete lack of empathy that makes me think that a psychiatric ward is the right & proper place for her.
A more charitable view is that, like Truss, she's as thick as pigshit and therefore a convenient puppet for 55 Tufton St.
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You have to wonder who Braverman thinks her constituency is.
I'm going to have a guess that she thinks it will be whatever is left of Conservative Party Members in 12 months time. Or sooner.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. Surely she must be aware that even most conservatives don’t support this nonsense. Or maybe she really is that stupid. And/or a genuine psychopath.
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The Home Secretary, who shall not be named because she's not human enough to be worth naming, for suggesting that living in a tent is a, "lifestyle choice" by the homeless.
There is a, "tearing the wings off flies" level of cruelty that she revels in, coupled with a seeming complete lack of empathy that makes me think that a psychiatric ward is the right & proper place for her.
A more charitable view is that, like Truss, she's as thick as pigshit and therefore a convenient puppet for 55 Tufton St.
Braverman's not thick. She's a spiteful, vindictive, fascist.
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Chinchilla the Hun has achieved the extraordinary feat — which many considered impossible — of making disgraced former International Development Secretary and Super-Twat Piggi Patel look:
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Chinchilla the Hun has achieved the extraordinary feat — which many considered impossible — of making disgraced former International Development Secretary and Super-Twat Piggi Patel look:
Braverman's also married to an avid Zionist*, which may in part explain some of her recent pronouncements...
*Before anyone whinges, he describes himself as such.
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Banning homeless tents may be intended to soak up headline space, diverting attention from the current enquiry. Ramping up gammon hate might be just a bonus for them.
This. Of note also, are the attacks being made on SNP ref Covid phone calls.
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The Cosplay Cleric, Calvin Robinson, has gone sect shopping again, and got himself 'ordained' by the Titular Archbishop of Selsey, Jerome, of the Old Roman Church*. He's had to have a haircut to get the biretta on though.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-LU1uOXEAAsNhL?format=jpg&name=small)
*Jerome's Old Roman Church doesn't actually seem to have any connections with the other Old Roman Churches, in communion with the Church of Utrecht, such as the Old Roman Catholic Church in the UK (https://www.oldromancatholic.org.uk/), although he did at one time have a link with the Oratory of St John Vianney. Jerome apparently doesn't receive a salary but "lives by faith", i.e. on charity - or 'grifting' as some might call it...
As we know, all great churches have a WordPress site. The Titular Archbishop's site is certainly a work of great fantasy. (https://selsey.org/)
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I love the pipe - that's a great touch. A sign that he's really taking the affectation seriously.
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53314255403_4e229d9411_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pecuG4)
…and the sermon was so stultifyingly dull that one of the congregation actually died! (https://flic.kr/p/2pecuG4) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Esther McVey, purely for averring that this
(https://www.historyhit.com/app/uploads/2022/04/Rokeby-Venus.jpeg)
depicts a suffragette.
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Oh look, unelected bureaucrat Lord Frost is on the telly again!
TV's Sophy Ridge: | Are you worried about the direction of the Tory Party? |
Frosty The Wasteman: | I do think we're tilting a bit to the left… |
:facepalm:
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Esther McVey, purely for averring that this
(https://www.historyhit.com/app/uploads/2022/04/Rokeby-Venus.jpeg)
depicts a suffragette.
Time to remember that she is now the 'minister for common sense'.
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This appears to be the right thread for this:
https://youtu.be/kHTj4ASfLjE
May be triggering to those who loathe American spelling.
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Whichever civil servant came up with the new Provider Selection Regime and the draft Regulations...
I understand it - but I can guarantee that this is going to create spectacular cock-ups in ICB land. :facepalm:
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I nominate that ridiculous Tory candidate for Mayor of London who claimed that she had been pickpocketed on the Tube and it transpires that her property was found and returned completely intact.
Her ridiculous attempt to turn her own misfortune and the behaviour of a decent person who found it and handed it in intact into an attack on crime in London rather backfires.
Susan Hall is it? I really despise cheap stunts.
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I nominate that ridiculous Tory candidate for Mayor of London who claimed that she had been pickpocketed on the Tube and it transpires that her property was found and returned completely intact.
Her ridiculous attempt to turn her own misfortune and the behaviour of a decent person who found it and handed it in intact into an attack on crime in London rather backfires.
Susan Hall is it? I really despise cheap stunts.
Comedy gold
If you need something to make you chuckle, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REI9pl3T6aI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REI9pl3T6aI)
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She gives swivel-eyed loons a bad name.
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Not all swivel eyed loons are Tories, but all Tories are swivel eyed loons.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67640833
Jenrick
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67640833
Jenrick
Definitely.
The stupid bloody rwanda scheme never stood a chance of working. Australia tried doing something similar, it cost an immense amount of money, caused loads of suffering and didn't make any difference.
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Pray give a warm yacf welcome to the Twatheon for “Matt23Afc” who, in response to an article headlined “Illegal migration to Germany drops dramatically since introduction of border controls”, Xitted:
Nice try but Germany is a landlocked country
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
Plus the bit that is, geopolitically speaking, an island.
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
More than that if one uses the criteria I read many years ago, which included the definition that anything large enough to to grow enough grass to sustain one sheep should be classified as an island.
Sorry, I have been no idea where I read that.
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In the Thousand Islands region of USAnia and Canuckistan an island must have an area of at least one square foot all year round and support two living trees.
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
More than that if one uses the criteria I read many years ago, which included the definition that anything large enough to to grow enough grass to sustain one sheep should be classified as an island.
Sorry, I have been no idea where I read that.
I've used a minimum one square kilometer in surface area, as otherwise you really don't get consensus - and I've seen figure of 6,000 - 7,000 islands mentioned (although I think sometimes people conflate the British Isles with the UK).
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I just looked up how much grass you need to sustain a sheep, and it rapidly deteriorated into horrendous mathematics. Perhaps a better definition would be whether the island is big enough that the sheep won't fall off and drown (not that they won't try anyway, on general principle)?
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
More than that if one uses the criteria I read many years ago, which included the definition that anything large enough to to grow enough grass to sustain one sheep should be classified as an island.
Sorry, I have been no idea where I read that.
I've used a minimum one square kilometer in surface area, as otherwise you really don't get consensus - and I've seen figure of 6,000 - 7,000 islands mentioned (although I think sometimes people conflate the British Isles with the UK).
Mr S-T Matt23Afc appears to have been conflating the UK with Great BRITAIN, a mistake often made by Twats.
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Regardless of the technicalities of how you define an island, you could describe the UK as "an island nation", ie a nation made up of one or more islands.
Except that we have a land border with Ireland - but then Indonesia also has land borders with other countries, eg Papua New Guinea, and is regarded as an island nation so maybe that's not such a sticking point.
Anyway, Germany... famous for its landlocked ports such as Hamburg. :facepalm:
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
More than that if one uses the criteria I read many years ago, which included the definition that anything large enough to to grow enough grass to sustain one sheep should be classified as an island.
Sorry, I have been no idea where I read that.
I've used a minimum one square kilometer in surface area, as otherwise you really don't get consensus - and I've seen figure of 6,000 - 7,000 islands mentioned (although I think sometimes people conflate the British Isles with the UK).
Mr S-T Matt23Afc appears to have been conflating the UK with Great BRITAIN, a mistake often made by Twats.
If you peruse the Xitter thread, you will see I gave Mr S-T Matt23Afc my view of his opinions... ;)
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In the Thousand Islands region of USAnia and Canuckistan an island must have an area of at least one square foot all year round and support two living trees.
Would that be two living bonsai trees?
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Excellent piece about Joey Barton, who recently restated his longstanding claims to be a member of the S-T pantheon...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/dec/12/joey-bartons-far-right-rebrand-points-to-sad-malaise-among-footballs-lost-boys
(Particularly like the line about "that Tory MP with the Rick Parfitt wig")
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Excellent piece about Joey Barton, who recently restated his longstanding claims to be a member of the S-T pantheon...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/dec/12/joey-bartons-far-right-rebrand-points-to-sad-malaise-among-footballs-lost-boys
(Particularly like the line about "that Tory MP with the Rick Parfitt wig")
Yes, I read that earlier. Some great invective in there, almost worthy of Marina Hyde :-)
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Barton has been seen hanging around next to the tills in Tesco trying to stop women from buying man-sized tissues or Yorkie bars.
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Anxious to grab some of the headlines currently being hogged by the likes of Jonathan Gullis and Lee Anderthal, MP for Don Valley Nick Fletcher weighs in with:
It’s happening in Doncaster and it’s happening in places throughout this country, and we are turning parts of our community into a ghetto, and this is what is happening […] Your little child falls over in the street, you have to go to A&E and you get a 12-hour waiting list, and the reason why the waiting list is so long is because people don’t speak English in these places anymore.
Byline Times' Adam Bienkov retorts:
- Just 0.1% of Don Valley residents can't speak English
- Only 0.8% have lived in the UK less than five years
- Less than 6% are non-white
If Fletcher was any thicker he’d set.
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
More than that if one uses the criteria I read many years ago, which included the definition that anything large enough to to grow enough grass to sustain one sheep should be classified as an island.
Sorry, I have been no idea where I read that.
Has anyone told Desert Island Discs about the need for grass in their desert?
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Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/badenoch-condemns-london-plague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology)
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And now the freshly-elevated S-T is insisting the UK is a island :facepalm: Even Dominic Raabid's atlas isn’t that inaccurate.
The UK is 125 islands (if you take a minimum count and square area of 1km, and don't include every little sticking up bit as an island in its own right).
More than that if one uses the criteria I read many years ago, which included the definition that anything large enough to to grow enough grass to sustain one sheep should be classified as an island.
Sorry, I have been no idea where I read that.
Has anyone told Desert Island Discs about the need for grass in their desert?
In terms of immigration (the ST reference point) no-one is going to be able to survive on a 1 sheep island.
Edit to remove superfluous words.
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Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/badenoch-condemns-london-plague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology)
What, and I do mean WHAT, the actual fuck?
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Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/badenoch-condemns-london-plague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology)
What, and I do mean WHAT, the actual fuck?
From the article in Teh Grauniad
A spokesperson for the museum said: “I can confirm that the museum received a letter from the minister regarding the research and we have responded to her directly.”
In my head that sentence continues "by referring the minister to Arkell v Pressdram."
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Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/badenoch-condemns-london-plague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology)
What, and I do mean WHAT, the actual fuck?
Badenoch is peak ST material. What you get if you distill years of the ERG with Tory policy.
It is really quite fascist, this move to telling academic institutions what they can and can't research.
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More cancel culture from those who claim that they are the victims of cancel culture.
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Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/badenoch-condemns-london-plague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology)
What, and I do mean WHAT, the actual fuck?
Badenoch is peak ST material. What you get if you distill years of the ERG with Tory policy.
It is really quite fascist, this move to telling academic institutions what they can and can't research.
Misrepresenting scientific study of skull shapes as phrenology is either beyond stupid or deliberate. Hard to tell which with Badenoch - she comes across as remarkably dense.
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Can anyone post a link to the results of the ERG's “research”?
[“If there is one it'll be paywalled!” – Ed.]
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Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/badenoch-condemns-london-plague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology)
What, and I do mean WHAT, the actual fuck?
Badenoch is peak ST material. What you get if you distill years of the ERG with Tory policy.
It is really quite fascist, this move to telling academic institutions what they can and can't research.
Misrepresenting scientific study of skull shapes as phrenology is either beyond stupid or deliberate. Hard to tell which with Badenoch - she comes across as remarkably dense.
Thick as mince.
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Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/badenoch-condemns-london-plague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology)
What, and I do mean WHAT, the actual fuck?
Badenoch is peak ST material. What you get if you distill years of the ERG with Tory policy.
It is really quite fascist, this move to telling academic institutions what they can and can't research.
Misrepresenting scientific study of skull shapes as phrenology is either beyond stupid or deliberate. Hard to tell which with Badenoch - she comes across as remarkably dense.
Thick as mince.
She's not thick though... she's just an evil shit.
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Prince Harry says Piers “Morgan” Moron, the colossal bellend, ‘clearly knew’ about phone hacking after court win (https://inews.co.uk/news/prince-harry-piers-morgan-phone-hacking-court-2810735).
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The Complete Bell End is back in the spotlight and showing his usual levels of super twattishness.
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So if Piers ‘Morgan’ Moron CBE is denying knowledge of phone hacking by The Mirror reports while he was in charge, is he by default admitting incompetence as an editor because he didn’t know what his reporters were doing?
I’m asking for a friend.
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Funny your friend wants to know that, a chap on the BBC News was making that very point this afternoon. The chap being interviewed also noted that the CBE wasn't offered as a witness by MGN, because he'd have had to give evidence under oath and Leveson has already drawn attention to the CBE's limited understanding of the difference between truth and lies.
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So if Piers ‘Morgan’ Moron CBE is denying knowledge of phone hacking by The Mirror reports while he was in charge, is he by default admitting incompetence as an editor because he didn’t know what his reporters were doing?
I’m asking for a friend.
Rebekah Brooks used a similar defence when the Murdoch tabloids were in the firing line. She got promoted.
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New to the ranks of Super-Twattery is Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria (Tw)Atkins for her abject failure to do anything even remotely resembling research before slagging off a substantial proportion of the medical profession on live television: Health Secretary Leaves People In Disbelief After Bizarre Description Of Junior Doctors (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nhs-victoria-atkins-nhs-strikes-junior-doctors_uk_65840bc3e4b04da98425d50e). For reference:
| Starting salary | Required qualifications |
Junior doctor | ~£28,000* | Medical degree requiring at least five years at university |
Minister of State | £118,264 | None |
Also, she appears to employ a hairdresser in training :demon:
* according to @implausibleblog on that Xitter, that they have now
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That is quite amazingly insulting. I can only assume it was deliberate to stoke the fires and push the junior doctors into further action.
I work with incredibly clever junior doctors, most of whom have higher degrees in addition to college membership by examination.
When she arrives in her diabetic coma it will be on of those doctors in training who will resuscitate her.
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That is quite amazingly insulting. I can only assume it was deliberate...
Almost certainly. Scorched earth policy. Wreck as much as possible before the next administration is in place in an effort to make it look bad when it tries to piece Humpty back together again.
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To be honest, she seems entirely clueless beyond any purposeful action, which shouldn't be surprising at this point.
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Not very clever James. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/23/james-cleverly-apologises-for-appalling-date-drug-joke-at-no-10-event
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I cannot imagine any circumstance in which any sane man would make such joke about their wife nor can I think of any woman I know who would not walk away from a man who made such comments.
We have awful rape statistics and this man thinks that a date rape drug is appropriate? Words literally are failing me to express my horror. I hope that every bill board in his constituency has a poster stating that he approves of date raping your wife and see if he survives!
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Crikey, that is spectacularly ill-judged.
The good old “it was a joke made in private” defence.
What a moron.
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He appears to be at least seven of the BRITISH Army's eleven officially-recognised types of fucking idiot and appears hell-bent on gnawing off everything below the knee.
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"i need to keep my wife a.bit tipsy so she doesn't realise she has better options than me"
Joke.
"I need to keep my wife spiked on rohypnol..." Not so much.
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"i need to keep my wife a.bit tipsy so she doesn't realise she has better options than me"
Joke.
"I need to keep my wife spiked on rohypnol..." Not so much.
I suppose the former is self mockery. The Cleverly utterance is just unacceptable.
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TBH I don't think either bit-tipsy or the rohypnol are acceptable, especially from a public figure. It's all part of degrading women, and the idea it's OK to trick them into sexualised contact with you, theoretical, joking or otherwise.
The most common spiking agent IS alcohol. Either alcohol in an ostensibly non-alcoholic drink, or more alcohol than the recipient realises. I've had that done to me more than once.
In the bin with not-so-Cleverly and everyone like him.
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Like the saying goes, when someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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Like the saying goes, when someone tells you who they are, believe them.
If he knows it’s not acceptable to say these things in public but thinks it’s ok say them in private then he is not only an appalling human being but monumentally stupid as well.
It was supposed to be “off the record” but the Mirror have a strong public interest defence in breaking the embargo.
This should be a sacking offence really. But considering they were already scraping the barrel when they gave Cleverly the job, the alternatives aren’t going to be an improvement.
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Now, now, I think "a tub of lard" has proven political history and would be the right Tory for the job.
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Actually I think the cons should find the worst la our or lib dem MPs and give them ministerial roles.
They could pretend they are being all cross-party unity and best for the country, while actually trying to find someone worse/nearly as bad as them.
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Also, getting a spokesdroid to deliver the “apology” is the act of a Hyper-Twat.
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Well, maybe not in the super category, but my neighbour who, despite having lived in the same house for over 25 years, still manages to set off his burglar alarm (which he’s had all that time) with depressing regulatory and then faff about resetting it. He’s just done it again.
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Also, getting a spokesdroid to deliver the “apology” is the act of a Hyper-Twat.
I do wonder if these ‘people’ even know (or care) that an apology is being made on their behalf when I read that a spokesdroid for ST has made such.
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Seems some naughty types on the Internets, that they have now, are vandalising noted Super-Twat and alleged MP Johnny Mercer's Wikinaccurate bio, changing all occurrences of “Mercer” to “Minge”. This is what happens when you have a tantrum after getting involved in a Xitter spat with Carol Vorderman. La Vorders merely asked why homelessness among ex-Services had reason by 14% when
Minge Mercer had promised to eradicate it.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCdGFx2WYAA72Jh?format=png&name=900x900)
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On 27 December 2023 Mercer was accused, by his constituency Labour opponent Fred Thomas, of failing to meet his pledge of ending involuntary veterans' homelessness, when the number was actually rising by 14%. When Carol Vorderman retweeted this Mercer responded by tweeting "You are both deliberately misleading people. For clicks. Because that makes your shit lonely life feel better. No-one normal really cares about your view. They think you’re mad.
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On 27 December 2023 Mercer was accused, by his constituency Labour opponent Fred Thomas, of failing to meet his pledge of ending involuntary veterans' homelessness, when the number was actually rising by 14%. When Carol Vorderman retweeted this Mercer responded by tweeting "You are both deliberately misleading people. For clicks. Because that makes your shit lonely life feel better. No-one normal really cares about your view. They think you’re mad.
He seems nice.
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We'll, he is a conservative mp
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His wife has deleted her account, and he’s taking time away from soshul meeja ostensibly because his hard working staff are being abused. That being his wife perhaps?
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Have we had James Daley yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/tory-mp-james-daly-struggling-children-bury-north-crap-parents (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/tory-mp-james-daly-struggling-children-bury-north-crap-parents)
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Have we had James Daley yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/tory-mp-james-daly-struggling-children-bury-north-crap-parents (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/tory-mp-james-daly-struggling-children-bury-north-crap-parents)
They really are a prime crop, aren’t they.
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Have we had James Daley yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/tory-mp-james-daly-struggling-children-bury-north-crap-parents (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/tory-mp-james-daly-struggling-children-bury-north-crap-parents)
I wonder what his parents think of him?
Anyway,
In December 2023 he attracted criticism when he claimed that most struggling children in his constituency are the "products of crap parents".[11]
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Nice one, Favonian
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Liz Truss.
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Ninja'd by TheLurker :(
Edit: also the Downing Street spokesdroid who claimed Mister Tony Blair had a resignation honours list. He drew one up but it was never submitted.
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Liz Truss.
The lack of self awareness is astonishing.
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Difficult to credit that it’s been more than two years since “New Conservative” MP and shoeless pregnant cookery fangrrl Miriam Cates was last nominated, but she earns the first one of the New Year with this:
What is the end goal of the childcare arms race?
“Instead of competing to offer more state-funded childcare as a sticking plaster on cost-of-living challenges, we should address structural reasons why family budgets are now so stretched.”
Unfortunately she’s turned off drive-by comments on her Xitter account so angry proles can’t tell her where to look for those “structural reasons”.
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Failed London mayoral candidate inexplicably given a life peerage for partying during lockdown Shaun Bailey, come on down!
Carol Vorderman tries to be a serious political commentator. But if you look at her on instagram it’s all pictures of her bum and her boobs. She can’t be both.
Natch he was on GBeebies when he voiced this industrial-strength arse gravy.
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Failed London mayoral candidate inexplicably given a life peerage for partying during lockdown Shaun Bailey, come on down!
Carol Vorderman tries to be a serious political commentator. But if you look at her on instagram it’s all pictures of her bum and her boobs. She can’t be both.
Natch he was on GBeebies when he voiced this industrial-strength arse gravy.
Supertanskii has a good take on all this twattishness.
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Sunak
Cut disability benefits so he can buy votes with an income tax cut.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67912483
There's good money to be made by profiting from people's addictions and ruining live sport with wall-to-wall advertising for your parasitic activities.
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Sunak
Cut disability benefits so he can buy votes with an income tax cut.
BONG! (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=67699.0)
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67912483
There's good money to be made by profiting from people's addictions and ruining live sport with wall-to-wall advertising for your parasitic activities.
Parasitic even on the company
The boss of Bet365 was paid around £221m during its last financial year, despite the gambling giant reporting a significant loss.
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Amateur thug and professional misogynist Joey Barton is still at it. His great-grandfather got a medal in WW1 which means Barton is entitled to slag off women who have the temerity to comment on men’s foopball.
My great-uncle Fred was killed utterly to DETH in WW1 which in my book trumps a poxy medal. I say Alex Scott and her colleagues can comment on whatever the fuck they like and Barton can get in the sea with the other turds.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67912483
There's good money to be made by profiting from people's addictions and ruining live sport with wall-to-wall advertising for your parasitic activities.
You would hope there is a special hell reserved for people like this.
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Amateur thug and professional misogynist Joey Barton is still at it. His great-grandfather got a medal in WW1 which means Barton is entitled to slag off women who have the temerity to comment on men’s foopball.
My great-uncle Fred was killed utterly to DETH in WW1 which in my book trumps a poxy medal. I say Alex Scott and her colleagues can comment on whatever the fuck they like and Barton can get in the sea with the other turds.
Agreed. My grandfather rose from underage bike courier in WW1 to motorbike to RFC sergeant (not officer material), gassed twice, crashed twice, one off an ace and 2 medals. Barton can get stuffed.
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My grandfathers were both in reserved occupations (factory and docks) but Joey Barton can still FOAD ;)
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I think the good Lord spoiled a good arsehole when he put teeth in that, just a shame he forgot to put a brain in at the same time
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67932569
Whoever runs Brewdog, a company that already has "issues" with the way it treats people. It's put me off buying any of their products, even if most of them didn't taste like Zoflora.
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My grandfathers were both in reserved occupations (factory and docks) but Joey Barton can still FOAD ;)
Mine were miners, so escaped the nasty tussling side of the war. That said, the pit roof fell on my paternal grandfather's head with all the Brit-despatching fervour of the finest Luftwaffe bomb and squashed him flat as a dirty pancake. They had to reconstruct him like a 40s version of the Six Million Dollar Man, done the British way, and all for under a shilling. Involved a large metal disk and a think scrap iron railings that somehow escaped being melted down. Spent the rest of his life magnetic. Also, as he was too crippled to be a miner, he had to become a bin man, and every time he threw a mental bin on his shoulder the metal plate would bong like a Sunday bell.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67932569
Whoever runs Brewdog, a company that already has "issues" with the way it treats people. It's put me off buying any of their products, even if most of them didn't taste like Zoflora.
James Watt is an utter tool and grifter.
The beer tastes like dogs piss mixed with perfume as well.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67932569
Whoever runs Brewdog, a company that already has "issues" with the way it treats people. It's put me off buying any of their products, even if most of them didn't taste like Zoflora.
James Watt is an utter tool and grifter.
The beer tastes like dogs piss mixed with perfume as well.
I won't touch their stuff as:
(a) they're shits to their staff, including fostering a 'laddish' culture that has led to sexual harassment and assaults on staff;
(b) their beer is shit.
EDIT: We're relatively lucky in that we have some good breweries locally.
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I like a pint of IPA and sometimes their offering has been the only option.
Reg makes a very good point about their attitude to their staff and I wish that I had chosen to go without more in the past year or two.
It's quite a big red flag for the company though. I feel for the workers who of course are the ones holding the brown, sticky end of the stick.
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Punk IPA was quite drinkable in the early days but I guess they had to change the recipe as they scaled up and it is now shit. It's no more a genuine IPA than Greene King IPA, which is also shit.
Their success has always been down to their marketing skills rather than their brewing skills anyway.
I had the opportunity to invest in them in the very early days - the pair of them used to visit our office regularly (touting for media coverage) so came in when they were first launching the "equity for punks" thing. Even though they were obviously a right pair of twats even back then, I would have gone for it if I'd had £1,000 to spare at the time. Would have got a very decent return on that investment too.
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“Times are hard” claimed Super-Twat James Watt as he returned from a holiday in the fucking Maldives.
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They are shits to their general supporters as well.
A few years back they did a variety of crowdfunding, alleging that the crowd was buying into being stakeholders and would get their money back plus extra in the future (conditional on profits). Big fuss made about how they weren't like other companies, they were all about the 'brewdog community' and would never sell out to Big Corp. that was the 'equity for punks'.
Finances weren't going so well, so brewdog approached venture capital. Who gladly provided funding, provided they had first claim on profits from that time forward.
So the consequence was that, legally, brewdog would never ever pay back to the supporters. They are still claiming that these are worth money, however, this is only be private agreement. These aren't publically tradable shares, so have none of the protections of trading on the stock market (no regulation).
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All true and good points.
One of my then colleagues took up the offer and I had the idea that he made a decent profit on his grand when he cashed in but I may be mistaken. I’d ask him as a fact-checking exercise but he died a few years ago.
I certainly wouldn’t invest in them now - not just because they are twats but because it no longer looks like a good investment. I wonder if terms were different for those early investors.
In fact, the only benefits of investment now appear to be discounts on their products. It’s really just an expensive club membership.
You’d have to drink an awful lot of shit beer to make it worthwhile.
The whole business is increasingly looking like a massive scam.
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We had some shares, sold them a while back, because yeah, it's a subscription/membership scheme. While I don't blame them for taking the VC shilling, continuing to pretend they were some kind of independent business was a bit rich (I'm no purist, if someone wants to sell up, good on them for building a decent business – and yeah, it'll get trashed but I don't believe there any moral purity in not taking the money and running). Some of their beer is OK but their range is pretty generic these days, though I'd rather drink a pint of Punk IPA than Greene King IPA on account of the fact that the latter in 99% stale monkey piss.
That said the various news stories were often a bit of a millennial whine by kids who seemed surprised by the fact that they had a job not a hobby. At least they paid living wage for a bit, unlike those that never pay it. The owners were a bit twatty, but when you build your brand around publicity you have to expect it'll come back and bite at some point. I do think there's an element of knocking down a successful business though, which is a very typical British trait, unfortunately. Ultimately though, there's plenty of better beer around, and their business is now mostly focused on being the least worst option. Crowdfunding is usually shit, stay away from it, you're basically just making a donation.
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I'll nominate the board of Avanti the rail company who delight in 'free money' (who wouldnt) and boast about it in a PP presentation
https://novaramedia.com/2024/01/15/free-money-executives-at-failing-train-company-joke-about-making-money-at-the-taxpayers-expense/
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I've been catching up on events from the past week or so and I now nominate one Joey Barton.
Barton makes being a super twat look easy. CBE levels of narcissistic hate in there too.
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I've been catching up on events from the past week or so and I now nominate one Joey Barton.
Barton makes being a super twat look easy. CBE levels of narcissistic hate in there too.
Stupidity/ Ego/ Greed
Pick two.
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Why not all 3.
I hope he continues to be 'cancelled' by TV channels and the two women he denigrated are given extra opportunities to do their thing and supported 200% by those in power.
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Also jealousy. Alex Scott played 140 games for England; Barton's sole appearance was as a sub; he came on twelve minutes before the end of a 0-1 defeat against Spain.
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Eni Aluko has now left the UK as she wasn't feeling safe after Joey Barton initiated a pile on...
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Hopefully Jeremy Vine sues him to pieces. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/jeremy-vine-threatens-to-sue-joey-barton-for-defamation-and-harassment/ar-AA1mPnry
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What planet is Andrea Loathsome on ???
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One far removed from reality. To be fair, she does share it with a number of the government front benchers.
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Planet Andrea.
She's really very very dim. Shocking to think that people seriously considered her as a PM candidate.
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Also Andrea Jenkins.
Joey Barton seems to be positioning himself as another Tommy Robinson. That's my perspective on the loathsome scum anyway.
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Jenkyns is thicker than the front door on a nuclear submarine.
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Simon Jenkins, for gaslighting the entire medical profession.
Recent article included such gems as
Medical training is still medieval. The collapse of British dentistry results from the profession requiring five years of mostly irrelevant study followed by two of “supervision”.
No, Simon, dentistry has collapsed because:
- NHS Dentists only get paid to fix problems, not for preventative work.
- The amounts paid are tiny and barely cover costs.
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Simon Jenkins, for gaslighting the entire medical profession.
Recent article included such gems as
Medical training is still medieval. The collapse of British dentistry results from the profession requiring five years of mostly irrelevant study followed by two of “supervision”.
No, Simon, dentistry has collapsed because:
- NHS Dentists only get paid to fix problems, not for preventative work.
- The amounts paid are tiny and barely cover costs.
Simon Jenkins is a nasty, right wing little shit - and the fact teh Grauniad continues to publish him speak volumes about the direction that once august publication has taken since 2010.
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The insistence on six-monthly checkups also clogs the system. Unless your teeth are terrible, annual is fine.
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Our dentist has moved us onto annual check-ups as we're allegedly low risk patients. He claims it's Scottish gubbinsment requirement.
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Our dentist has moved us onto annual check-ups as we're allegedly low risk patients. He claims it's Scottish gubbinsment requirement.
Most adults do only need an annual check up (unless they have particular long term conditions). It's children who need them more frequently.
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Our dentist has moved us onto annual check-ups as we're allegedly low risk patients. He claims it's Scottish gubbinsment requirement.
The guidance changed in 2004. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg19/chapter/Recommendations (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg19/chapter/Recommendations) It meant dentists could agree with the patient a variance from 6/12 examinations as appropriate, and it was supposed to depend on need.
Any changes to the recommendations inevitably have unintended consequences. A practitioner local to me put everyone on annual exams regardless of how much decay they customarily devoloped and this lead to cavities being detected much later than they otherwise might have been. Another continued to recommend 3/12 checks with the hygienist, regardless of the health of their gums, leading to even greater profits.
Me, I judged it just right, of course ;D
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Our dentist has moved us onto annual check-ups as we're allegedly low risk patients. He claims it's Scottish gubbinsment requirement.
The guidance changed in 2004. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg19/chapter/Recommendations (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg19/chapter/Recommendations) It meant dentists could agree with the patient a variance from 6/12 examinations as appropriate, and it was supposed to depend on need.
Any changes to the recommendations inevitably have unintended consequences. A practitioner local to me put everyone on annual exams regardless of how much decay they customarily devoloped and this lead to cavities being detected much later than they otherwise might have been. Another continued to recommend 3/12 checks with the hygienist, regardless of the health of their gums, leading to even greater profits.
Me, I judged it just right, of course ;D
That's England. It seems ours changed in November.
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Sunak, for making an anti-Trans joke and then saying that it's "sad and wrong" that Starmer would object
* to an anti trans joke
* when Brianna Ghey's mom is in the HoC
Because, obviously it's Labour's fault.
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Everything is the fault of The Labour Party because they were in power once
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Colossal bellend Piers “Morgan” Moron to abandon broadcast TV, join other bellends like multi-purpose emanator of Wrong Ben Shapiro on YouTube. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68247739)
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What was the result of the CBE v MBE* Super Twat contest?
* suggestions, please, for a word indicating smallness (of whatever qualities are appropriate.
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Sharron Davies
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Lord Sugar (https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1757877740391326115) (again)
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Lord Sugar (https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1757877740391326115) (again)
He’s not half the super twat as some of the responders to his post are. I sometimes amazes me that some people actually know how to breath.
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The tangerine shitgibbon (again) for trying to make political capital from Navalny's death.
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Ray Winstone, on voting for Brexit; “I didn’t want the French telling me how to eat pork chops”.
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Ray Winstone, on voting for Brexit; “I didn’t want the French telling me how to eat pork chops”.
Now I don't feel so bad for Ray giving up several hours to an interviewer, and the interviewer deciding to start the piece with this...
(https://i.ibb.co/H7yWwwP/Screenshot-20240225-145642-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/b1VSwwv)
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Kay Burley: "the PM's ethnicity proves the government isn't Islamophobic".
Sunak isn't Muslim - he's Hindu. And if Kay Burley doesn't understand what that means in history, then she really shouldn't be fronting a prime time news show.
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Kay Burley: "the PM's ethnicity proves the government isn't Islamophobic".
Sunak isn't Muslim - he's Hindu. And if Kay Burley doesn't understand what that means in history, then she really shouldn't be fronting a prime time news show.
She really said that? FFS
I used to have some respect for Kay, have lost it all now.
She might as well have said "See, the Tories have a brown person as a leader, therefore they can't be racist".
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And not forgetting that Cruella is one of the biggest racists in the party.
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Kay Burley: "the PM's ethnicity proves the government isn't Islamophobic".
Sunak isn't Muslim - he's Hindu. And if Kay Burley doesn't understand what that means in history, then she really shouldn't be fronting a prime time news show.
:slow_clap
:facepalm:
I can't be sexist because my wife is a woman.
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Ex Boys one member and born again Christian, Shane Lynch.
Apparently Taylor Swift is "a bit of a Satanist". 🤣🤣🤣
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This entitled knob, purely for his self-description
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chelsea-art-collectors-son-accused-of-attempted-murder-of-live-in-maid/ar-BB1j1UHS
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Christopher 'Upskirting' Chope
The government is pulling a vote on banning MPs accused of violent and sexual offences from Parliament. It was due on Monday but Tory backbenchers including Christopher Chope and Philip Davies are threatening it.
That's the same Christopher Chope who had repeatedly used Parliamentary processes to block action that would protect women. And he sits in one of the safest seats in the country.
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This entitled knob, purely for his self-description
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chelsea-art-collectors-son-accused-of-attempted-murder-of-live-in-maid/ar-BB1j1UHS
Best not to advertise how good-looking you are just before you go to prison.
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Chope otherwise known as Chode... Revolting man.
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I don’t know who or what Philip Proudfoot is, but with a single Xit:
With @georgegalloway Gaza just gained its first MP in the BRITISH Parliament
Mr Proudfoot has shown that whatever else he might be he is indubitably a Super-Twat.
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An anthropologist from teh north working at the University of Sussex, living in Brighton but founder of NIP, the Northern Independence Party. He espouses the view that the north is now effectively an independent country called Northumbria.
Or something along those lines.
Surprised to see that somebody so passionate about the north lives and works in the south.
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Sunak. For whining about the vile, poisonous political atmosphere we now "enjoy". The atmosphere that he and his cronies in parliament & the press have spent the last decade or so actively creating, and encouraging, and which he's been happy to play along with. Sunak, the (un)Thinking Right Wing Nutjob's favourite sock-puppet.
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Frank Hester. Seems like just the sort of person you want to fund your political party ::-)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/11/biggest-tory-donor-looking-diane-abbott-hate-all-black-women (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/11/biggest-tory-donor-looking-diane-abbott-hate-all-black-women)
'The Conservative party’s biggest donor told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and said the MP “should be shot”'.
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Just reading this on the rules at his company
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/11/strict-rules-at-tory-donor-frank-hester-firm-tpp
And they have reminded me of the locally infamous (in my career community) lab with the 'no laughing, no farting, no burping' policy.
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Aka “Hank Fester”. Well, he is now.
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I am unsure about this.
If I have a private conversation with someone and exaggerate for comedic effect, I don't see why taking that out of context is rage worthy.
I think all Tories are terrible and should be shot.
I hate all biologists and death is too good for them.
Etc.
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I am unsure about this.
If I have a private conversation with someone and exaggerate for comedic effect, I don't see why taking that out of context is rage worthy.
I think all Tories are terrible and should be shot.
I hate all biologists and death is too good for them.
Etc.
Given his record I wouldn't necessarily assume he was exaggerating for comedic effect...
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It's racism. Doesn't matter whether it is private or not. And he's a massive Tory donor which suggests he's trying to buy influence.
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It's racism. Doesn't matter whether it is private or not. And he's a massive Tory donor which suggests he's trying to buy influence.
Trying (and succeeding) to buy NHS contracts.
It makes you wonder how much NHS money is squandered by giving contracts to Tory mates like this.
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Speaking of Super Twats.... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/12/andrew-tate-brother-tristan-arrested-romania-uk-warrant
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It's racism. Doesn't matter whether it is private or not. And he's a massive Tory donor which suggests he's trying to buy influence.
Trying (and succeeding) to buy NHS contracts.
It makes you wonder how much NHS money is squandered by giving contracts to Tory mates like this.
£billions...
It's not the contracts for clinical care that are the issue (IS providers get paid the same the NHS would for the activity) but the support services, like 'consultancy', patients records, federated data platforms, PFI new builds, etc. where the real money is to be made by those who grease political palms.
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Mel Stride, Cabinet Minister, on Frank Hester's comments about Diane Abbott:
“It’s clear that what he said was inappropriate. He has, as I understand it, apologised for those remarks. I think the critical point here is I don’t think what he was saying was a gender-based or a race-based comment, but it was clearly inappropriate. He has apologised and I think we need to move on from that.”
These are the shits who are governing our country...
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Let's not forget the Tate brothers...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/12/andrew-tate-brother-tristan-arrested-romania-uk-warrant
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How can Fester's comment about shooting black people be interpreted as anything other than racist, Stride? That alone qualifies you for the coveted accolade of Super-Twat.
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That's one Stride for the Tories and a giant turd for mankind.
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That's one Stride for the Tories and a giant turd for mankind.
I have a coffee-sprayed tablet now you git ! 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
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Heard a new portmanteau word describing this behaviour:
Misogynoir.
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That's one Stride for the Tories and a giant turd for mankind.
I have a coffee-sprayed tablet now you git ! 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Happy to help, M!
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Kemi BadEnoch makes excuses for the racist Hester, suggesting he's shown contrition...
https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1767586271432421461?s=20
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I am pretty certain that any ordinary person posting similar but replacing Diane Abbott'name with oh, let's say Kemi Badenoch's name would find a knock on their door pretty damned soon.
But if that person belatedly expressed regret, would that be alright?
As it is these words may well incite yet another tragic and unnecessary incident fuelled by the hate wars of the right but against a random black woman this time. I suppose Badenoch thinks this is acceptable too, eh?
Congratulations Badenoch, you have unlocked the highest elite level of super twattishness.
My blood boils ...
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They dug out old Kwasi to comment too. He is very much "If the comments happened" "we don't know the comments happened" "I don't have a source" while admitting it's racist and sexist AF. I also note Kwasi didn't comment on the violent nature of those comments.
Really is one rule for them and their mates and a different rule for everyone else.
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They didn't like being called 'scum' by Angela Raynor but it's alright if you're made of enough money.
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Calling someone scum is not intrinsically violent or bigoted either.
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Indeed.
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And pretty much spot on too.
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Diane Abbott has reporting the racist fucker to the police.
Seems like his ex employees don't think much of him. Lots of reports of constant racism, sexism and general nastiness in work meetings.
Not quite sure how the Tories are managing to be SO bad at PR, but then again I don't know what people outside of my liberal bubble and Internet trolls think. A gallup or YouGov poll would be interesting.
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I was approached about a job at TPP. I didn’t even bother having an initial meeting, as I knew the reputation of senior staff. It was a firm no.
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Kemi BadEnoch makes excuses for the racist Hester, suggesting he's shown contrition...
OK, yes, we admit he is a racist but he's vewy vewy sowwy... so pleeeeeeease can we keep the £10m?
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Calling someone scum is not intrinsically violent or bigoted either.
Didn't a UK court rule that it's ok to call Tory Scum Tory Scum?
J
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The Squeaker of the house, for not letting Diane Abbot ask a question today.
"Diana Abbott was trying to “catch the speaker’s eye” during PMQs. She was not on the list to ask a question, but the speaker, Sir Lindsay Houle, routinely takes questions from MPs who aren’t on the list, and a lot of commentators on X are criticising him for this."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/mar/13/tory-donation-frank-hester-pmqs-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-65f19f748f0878b50b276ab5#block-65f19f748f0878b50b276ab5
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In no particular order.
Chris Evans, the DJ, not the actor.
Nicky Campbell
Kevin Pietersen
Alison Hammond
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On a busy day I nominate Lindsay Hoyle.
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Micheal Gove, mainly for being Micheal Gove, but today for trying to label groups extremist based on his own prejudices.
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Joey Barton , with Laurence Fox coming in a close second in today's heat.
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Over at Rage Against The Gammon we’re wondering who taught him the phrase “coup d'etat”.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53604294458_6cc761b783_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/2pEQ2cq)
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Galloway. FFS. :facepalm: https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1771250046605856856
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Oi, that's my MP you're talking about! :'(
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If Galloway is found to have two braincells to rub together ...
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Galloway. FFS. :facepalm: https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1771250046605856856
He was digging for stupid and struck oil. :facepalm:
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Dear me, the fruitloops are out in force on that thread.
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He has out-Piers'd Piers in utter offensive stupidity.
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We have to give credit to the thousands of super twats who have given Galloway a platform once again.
Will humans never learn?
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Galloway. FFS. :facepalm: https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1771250046605856856
What did he say?
He's blocked me.
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Galloway. FFS. :facepalm: https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1771250046605856856
What did he say?
He's blocked me.
"If the #Biden regime is found to be involved in the terrorist mass murder underway in Moscow a virtual state of war between the super-powers will exist #Russia #USA #Moscow"
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Oh FFS! Putin's more likely to be involved in the attack than Biden...
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In an astonishing U-turn from his usual behaviour* Niggles Fartrage, the Twatscendentalist, reveals that he’s refusing to go to church any more because the CofE has gone all wokey-cokey: https://essex-tv.co.uk/farage-i-wont-go-to-church-anymore/
I expect that pesky Archbish has been virtue-signalling again, or some right-on hippie vicar has been claiming that Jesus didn’t like The Man.
Niggle Fartrage: Super-Twat
* Lie
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In an astonishing U-turn from his usual behaviour* Niggles Fartrage, the Twatscendentalist, reveals that he’s refusing to go to church any more because the CofE has gone all wokey-cokey: https://essex-tv.co.uk/farage-i-wont-go-to-church-anymore/
I expect that pesky Archbish has been virtue-signalling again, or some right-on hippie vicar has been claiming that Jesus didn’t like The Man.
Niggle Fartrage: Super-Twat
Is this one of those standard culture war things where somebody who never did something anyway says they aren't going to do it.
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It is really difficult. Vikings and Barbary coast took slaves from England. Ottomans traded slaves all over the world. We were perhaps the most efficient and brutal. Who pays who reparations?
At least talking about it is good. A bit like keeping memory of holocaust alive. Perhaps rather than reparations we should be paying fair wages for food and minerals?
In the CoE I would suggest paying the clergy more. Many vicarages are so old and large that vicars are living in one room in a 6-7 bedroom house due to fuel poverty. I would rather they set their own house in order first.
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Were I his parish priest I'd be be as happy as larry about it. Only goes to show the power of prayer; "Please, God, don't let that obnoxious little
man hypocrite turn up at Church again. Please" :)
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The real reason the frog-faced fascist doesn't got to church is the risk he'll spontaneously combust if he put a foot over the threshold...
...that - and he's a c*nt.
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Fishmonger to the Moneyed Gammonati Lance Forman ST has doned a Thinks:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53614377367_138fb2d855_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pFHGuF)
What’s he been smoking… (https://flic.kr/p/2pFHGuF) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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I think that calls for the recycling of that, stupid, Sun headline, "Will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights."
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The real reason the frog-faced fascist doesn't got to church is the risk he'll spontaneously combust if he put a foot over the threshold...
...that - and he's a c*nt.
If that was part of the show, even I'd go to church that day
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The real reason the frog-faced fascist doesn't got to church is the risk he'll spontaneously combust if he put a foot over the threshold...
...that - and he's a c*nt.
Like his idol Trump. Bit of Bible waving and invoking God to make us believe that they believe.
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Fishmonger to the Moneyed Gammonati Lance Forman ST has doned a Thinks:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53614377367_138fb2d855_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pFHGuF)
What’s he been smoking… (https://flic.kr/p/2pFHGuF) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Funniest thing I've seen all day.
That's a lineup of incompetence.
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The second funniest thing is Laurence Fox fuming that his application for Mayor of London candidacy has been rejected. He's claiming its a conspiracy by Sadiq Khan, who he labels as "crooked".
Last time, Fox gained 1.8% of the vote share, so a real threat to Khan.
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The second funniest thing is Laurence Fox fuming that his application for Mayor of London candidacy has been rejected. He's claiming its a conspiracy by Sadiq Khan, who he labels as "crooked".
Last time, Fox gained 1.8% of the vote share, so a real threat to Khan.
He submitted his paperwork at the last minute and without properly checking that those who were nominating him were eligible to do so (something which every candidate is repeatedly reminded to do).
I do wonder if it was deliberate. He gets to whinge to his racist pals about being "blocked" without actually having to undergo the repeated humiliation of losing his deposit...
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I do wonder if it was deliberate. He gets to whinge to his racist pals about being "blocked" without actually having to undergo the repeated humiliation of losing his deposit...
That sounds awfully like a coherent plan, something I’d not expect from Fox.
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I do wonder if it was deliberate. He gets to whinge to his racist pals about being "blocked" without actually having to undergo the repeated humiliation of losing his deposit...
That sounds awfully like a coherent plan, something I’d not expect from Fox.
I expect he got a grownup to help with the details, including all of it.
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Jeremy Hunt.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/jeremy-hunt-1711530113423 (https://www.justgiving.com/page/jeremy-hunt-1711530113423)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-donation-conservative-party-losses-b2506503.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-donation-conservative-party-losses-b2506503.html)
If you really cared about the new cancer unit, just donate from your own millions to make it happen.
If you really really cared about the new cancer unit, just fund the NHS properly.
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Low-echelon Gammon windbag Darren “Crafty” Grimes is up in arms about these:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53616964410_4f101115fa_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pFWXwS)
…even though they’re not sold in the UK.
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Kit-kat are really good at doing specials. We get them from Brazil where there are at least 2 different "brazilian" collections and a specific collection of flavours for Sao paulo. The acai one is very purple and much nicer than the real fruit which is disgusting!
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A colleague once brought back wasabi kitkats from Japan. They were disappointing - not enough wasabi to be interesting.
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There are something like 300 different flavours of Kit-Kat marketed in Japan.
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Faux will be in a double bad mood today. He's* had to pay Mukhtar's legal costs. * or his sugar daddy has.
https://x.com/I_amMukhtar/status/1773396220439871803?s=20
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This both baffles and horrifies me in equal measure. How could the photographer in any sense consider this a good idea?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce5epgp2zdno (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce5epgp2zdno)
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That is awful.
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Further reporting shows the photographer in that school took pics before the disabled children arrived, which suggests the school is partially culpable as well as the photographer.
Sadly various disabled people and parents of disabled people are saying they suspect some parents have asked for disabled-children free shots...
This is almost certainly not the first time this has happened.