Can we have a new thread? My ZX Spectrum is having trouble loading this one.

>>23791

Running fine on my C64. Get a real computer.

I'm not a fan of this yank-style clapping for every cunt and occasion. Once for the NHS was alright as a novelty, should've been left at that.

>>23793
You say this like you clapped for the NHS and I know you didn't.

>Can we have a new thread? My ZX Spectrum is having trouble loading this one.

>>23733
Look on the bright side, I've never heard any rumours he is a filthy paedo. Give it time I guess.

Honor is a Goner.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/lee-fierro-dies-aged-91-21819093

>Lee Fierro has died from complications of coronavirus at the age of 91.

>She was an actress that played a memorable role in the iconic shark horror movie Jaws, in 1975.


She was still alive? She looked ancient already in that scene in Jaws.

>>23771
Some people look old before their time. Maggie Smith doesn't appear to have aged much in the past thirty years because she could have passed for being in her seventies when she was in her fifties.

>>23772

Just saying, my nan looked like that when she was 70.

>>23621
Make one, you berk.

>>23621
For what purpose? It'd just be an excuse for people to go around in the same circles even more so.

1 million UK deaths by May if it keeps growing at current rate.

>>23623
I’m not that lad, but if a thread gets too long it becomes almost impossible to load.

I’ll lock this later if someone makes another one, but right now I’m about to venture out to forage for supplies.

>>23625
Have you closed your 200 tabs yet?

>>22989

This isn't America, they'll never let a brown person run the country. Look what they did to Harry and Megan and she isn't really even proper brown at all....

</Letterbocks>

>>22990
Rishi seems like the right kind of brown person.

Brown, but not a religious fundamentalist.
Brown, but won't try and diddle your kids.
Brown, but won't mug you at knife point.
Brown, but not a drug dealer.

Socially acceptable brown. The kind you can have a pint and watch the sports with.

>>22992

But still brown. A colonial. Even if he is upper caste not-even-slightly-oppressed brown like Sadiq Khan, the Tories will never let a colonial rule over the colonisers.

>>22993

When people are worried about keeping the shops open, they want an Asian in charge.

>>22995

In charge of shops (and some restaurants) is one thing, lad. The whole country is quite another.

https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/feb/27/mississippi-mulls-checking-tax-info-welfare-recipi/
Serious (American) story, unserious (American) hair.

>>21555
He reminds me of the preacher boy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kttVCbTrDLw

>>21558

I see years of gay conversion therapy ahead for this poor lad.

The scary thing is, from my experience of spending plenty of time stateside and knowing a few people in the Bible Belt, there are literally MILLIONS of people like that. This is not some sort of satire.

I always say they're like trekkies on acid.

>>21564
I dunno, he seems to have turned out pretty normal.

>>21558
That is very uncomfortable watching.

> got half way up the lamp post and fell off
u wot m8.

>>21512

He got half way up the lamp post, then he fell off. It's not hard mate.

>>21443

I saw something on TV a while ago about a Young Earth Creationist who has devoted his life to offering guided tours through the Grand Canyon where he attempts to convince visitors that evolution and the idea that the Earth is anything more than 8,000 years old are complete bollocks, and that the Grand Canyon itself is proof.

I think his position wasn't so much that astronomy and geology are a hoax, but he incessantly went on about things like, the only reason you find fossils of marine species at the top of mountains is that they are remnants of the biblical Great Flood. And that it was simply impossible that mountains could have formed from seafloor sediment, because the vertical distance of in some cases several miles could not have been overcome in the 8,000 years that the Earth was really actually old. So it was kind of a mish mash by a homeschooled born-again git throwing together scientific fact that he understood nothing about and audacious Bible claims that were drummed into him in the worst kind of way, but he was so adamant that the Grand Canyon's rock formations proved the Young Earth idea, it was kind of just really sad to see.

Gravity warps space, right?
What if, outside of the affect of gravity, space could be thought of as 'flat'? What kind of process would require mapping of reality in such a way? Doesn't gravity affect time, as well?

>>21440

After watching the behind the curve documentary I went and did a bit of research into various things output by various parties in the film.


The motive seems to largely be believing they are smarter than everyone else.

That at some point people believed based on current data (in Renaissance) that the world was round,but as modern technology came along it proved that theory incorrect, specifically that people reached the edge in Antartica. Now they are either too embarrassed to admit they were wrong as it will make science look stupid, or think it would cause mass chaos as people react to the news.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnOzOZ2KW4s


Part of this is based on what until relatively recently wha modern flat eart was. A tool for a theoretical exercise to promte critical thinking and challenge commonly held beliefs, that was co-opted by people who started to believe the arguments being put forward.

>>21450

>A tool for a theoretical exercise to promte critical thinking and challenge commonly held beliefs, that was co-opted by people who started to believe the arguments being put forward.


I guess it then sort of falls into epistemology, which is for the most part just academic self pleasure, but has some interesting approaches to the challenging of beliefs that are held to be entirely true facts.

It's like that whole argument of whether you exist, and how you know you exist. On the one hand, it can be a brilliant philosophical question that requires all the sharpness of your mind. But then some gits start telling you that they think we live in the Matrix.

>>21503

I'd argue epistemology is the most important topic there is. It does result in self torture though as you just constantly spot the bad arguments that people prefer and pick over the truth, mostly when they agree with what they thought anyway.

>>21393
I have the feeling he'll re-emerge once the attention dies down.

Someone I went to school with got quite deep into the Herbalife pyramid scheme. It makes me wonder what he's up to these days.

Nobody beats the market in the long run.

He'll be broke in a few years' time. The same trading strategies that have made him a sizeable fortune are the ones that rid people of their fortune again.

Unless you have millions in capital to start with, £200K can only be earned by taking massive risks. Which can just the same blow up in your face anytime without warning.

>>21399
I think you've missed the point that's he's probably not beating the market by all that much now.

>>21400
It was on Twitter that his company accounts were for about a tenth of what he's saying and the MOT history for the cars he's claiming to own are also bollocks.

>>21401

There are plenty of otherlads making a killing in the market, I am sure.

>>21372
No, there's just no way that's the worst in Britain.

> He said that a number of drug addicts had been living inside the building - letting it fall into a shocking state of disrepair.

>But no room was worse than the toilet - with a vomit-inducing picture appearing to show mounds of faeces bulging from the loo


I guess you really have to be a full-on drug addict to not care that the heaps of unflushed shit in your toilet bowl will only turn into even bigger heaps of unflushed shit by you continuing to shit on top of them.

>>21374
And you'd be wrong.

>>21374>>21375
Indeed. If you're a career for people with severe mental health issues, scenes like the OP are not uncommon. At least they had the decency to shit in the bowl.

>>21376

I sometimes go to a small supermarket that's next door to an NHS care home for the mentally ill. It's not a doors-locked secure unit, the inhabitants are free to leave during the day. One time, I was getting out of my car in the supermarket's car park in the dark, and suddenly I saw a man crouched in the space next to me with his shell suit trousers down, having a poo. Not something that's extremely out of the ordinary around that NHS home, you get far worse unusual behaviour when they go shopping in the supermarket, but what poolad did was that he inadvertently shat down the back of the whole left leg of his track pants, and then just pulled them up and walked off and into the supermarket. And he obviously had diarrhea, so the leg was covered from top to bottom.

Didn't seem to make any difference to him, but he stank up half the supermarket, and then ended up in front of me at the queue. I almost literally threw up. But poolad either didn't seem to notice, or he just didn't care. Amd he really didn't seem drunk or anything like that. While supermarket staff were actually trying to mask the smell by getting air fresheners off the shelves and spraying them liberally up and down the aisles where he had been.

>>21320
>I think there is a fairly new phaenomenon of people feeling depressed after looking at other people's Instagram stories or social media profiles, and not realising that even a person posing at the Grand Canyon usually has a life off-camera that's just as dowdy and boring as fuck as yours.
"Fairly new" being almost as old as Facebook but otherwise correct.

>>21321

I've never really used facebook for much else besides stalking exes.

>>21322

Your own personal behaviour doesn't constitute a "phenomenon".

>>21321

Long before Facebook, we had the Christmas round-robin letter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7785410.stm

>>21324

Some people still send those out, but it seems to be more middle aged people.

>>21270
Do you have evidence to back that statement up?

Come summer farmers will be absolutely screaming for people to help pick this years crops.

>>21268

What an odd straw man. Why on earth would you possibly draw that conclusion and suggest it is the only other option.

Those 2 concepts are not related please don't reply with a false dilemma stating how they are and how one leads to the other. There are other systems that rehabilitate prisoners more effectively. The choices aren't only our currently flawed system or the American industrial prison complex.

>>21269
I thought the bloke from November had been fully taking part in the rehabilitation programme that his victims were running, was quoted saying how great it was and changed his life etc.?

>>21284
He had, but that doesn't suit the narrative.

Why is it considered acceptable to snitch to someone's employer on twitter?

I am disgusted.

>>21176
Attempting to ruin someone's life is seen as an acceptable part of online shaming.

>>21176
I think the kids call it "cancel culture".

>>21178

>Attempting to ruin someone's life is seen as an acceptable part of online shaming

And for the most selfish of reasons. Just because somebody offended your really quite often bigoted and narrow-minded world view by throwing a wry Twitter remark out there that you and a mob of 20 others disagree with, and which may or may not have been ever so mildly in bad taste, doesn't give you the right to put that person out of a job.

Even if somebody tweets something really quite bad like Fuck all darkie poofs, burn eskimos at the stake and put women back in the kitchen where they belong, at the end of the day, somebody who tweets that may be a horribly failed person, let alone the fact that he'll break half a dozen anti-discrimination laws, but he still has a right to be in gainful employment somewhere. Probably not in any kind of capacity where he will reflect badly on his employer and have much to do with customers.

But if you believe that somebody who's said something that's either admittedly horribly wrong on many levels, or something that just plain offends your own temperamental sensibilities forfeits his right to eke out a living, then that person isn't the only one who needs their head examined.

>>21079

>"Allegedly" coppers are given targets for arresting a certain number of people to arrest per week

I've never bought that one, it doesn't seem to make much sense, since arresting loads of people is expensive.

>>21080

Every copper I've spoken to says that being stuck at a custody suite is the least favourite part of their job. Beat coppers have no lack of ways to skive off, most of which are far more interesting than babysitting an arsehole and filling out forms.

>>21081

The targets were brought in under Labour and scrapped under Cameron but the senior police officers loyal to Labour kept them in place anyway. I'm a Labout voter.

To clear up the issue of legality the police can do what they want internally unless instructed to the contrary. If targets are X then under labour they were instructed to have X, under Cameron they were instructed they no longer need to have X but they decided to keep it under a different name anyway.

This was big years ago, I don't know if the senior management of the popo was purged by May or Johnson and they've fixed the targets issue but I haven't heard of the targets being scrapped so I assume they're still there.

pigs

I thought it was just the Japanese doing all the crazy shit in Asia.

>>21020

>And yet you've still got to use 'real', not real, when saying this because you're aware there's a difference

It's not the fact that there is a difference that matters, but what you are going to do with that realisation. Many transpeople nowadays are relatively open about their condition, if 'condition' is the right word, and will tell you freely that they are trans, and not a biological woman or man. Back in the 80s and maybe even the 70s, when transsexuality was still poorly understood not by medical and psychiatric science as such but mainly in popular culture, there was a great deal of stigma involved, which led to people like Amanda Lear adamantly - and to this day - denying that they were 'born as a boy'. Some transwomen or -men still decide to go deep stealth, especially the ones who are very passable, but in today's world, I don't think it matters much anymore. You can live the life of a completely average person today even with everybody knowing that you're transgendered. There will always be people who will think that you are a freak, but that is also still true for gays and lesbians, and look at the way they are widely accepted nowadays.

>>21020

>as your argument at face value explicates that a biological father is 'less' of a father than an adoptive one

That's not even close. What I meant is that it can be supposed that someone who actively chooses fatherhood despite many hurdles is likely to end up more dedicated than a great many people who end up fathers by circumstance. I thought you'd have figured that out from it being used in the context of a point about being trans.

>And yet you've still got to use 'real', not real, when saying this because you're aware there's a difference.

Actually what I was doing there was highlighting the fact that many people have an idea of what a 'real' man or woman is, and that is almost entirely based on their own perceptions of gender. "real men do x" and so on. I use the word "real" in quotes to acknowledge how loaded and controversial even that definition is.

>>21022

> I use the word "real" in quotes to acknowledge how loaded and controversial even that definition is.

As you said, everyone has their own definition of "real", just as everybody has their own subjective perception of reality itself.

Just take crying. Traditionally, "real" me were expected not to cry. I'd say today it's more like, real men aren't afraid to cry. Then again, only when the situation makes it seem adequate. You're allowed to cry if your football team gets a hammering on the pitch, or when your children are born, but spontaneously bursting into tears because you encounter a stressful situation or somebody in everyday life is being a jerk to you is still largely the preserve of women with a tendency for drama. and maybe a few poofs

>>21023

It's not often I agree with the Fisher brigade but when it comes to crying, I think it is a double standard that goes both ways. Like you say a woman bursting into tears is still largely seen as a drama queen and as if she's looking for attention.

Mind you, being based in truth doesn't stop it being sexism I suppose. Then again that's the rub for a lot of the gender wars bullshit if you think about it.

>>21024

> Like you say a woman bursting into tears is still largely seen as a drama queen and as if she's looking for attention.

Not wanting to sweepingly generalise again, but my brother was with a lass of that description for over five years. She was famous for her crying fits whenever my brother wanted to go off and do something with his mates and without her, or really anything where she wasn't the centre of attention. Even when my brother was in hospital with a very serious case of pneumonia, she called him on the phone at the hospital and started yammering about the fact that she couldn't study for her uni exams properly because he wasn't there to help her. He was studying to become an engineer and she was in medical school, so any help he would have been able to give her would have been marginal, which made it all the more obvious that she was just jealous because for once, all the attention was on my brother, and rightly so, because he was in quite critical condition when he was admitted.

She also had no real friends. Very probably because she was just an all around selfish person that way. My brother's friends more or less tolerated her, but she herself really didn't have anything you could have called a circle of friends that was separate from my brother's.