It was only yesterday that Matt Hancock was saying that home working should become the norm and all good employers should offer flexible working. He also called for a study into the efficacy of it as we don't know how it has effected productivity, but it should continue as it has improved well-being and because of how beneficial flexible working will be for women in particular.

>>26329
I'm ready to go back to work if I'm honest. It'll be good if they go slow at the start with it being voluntary so the office is quiet and I can get all my work done without the inevitable chaos.

Actually, just have it so that you can work from home whenever you want. Book in advance the days you're coming in so there's desk-space and it doesn't breach max occupancy. Everyone's a winner.

I went out yesterday and everyone seems to be hugging each other. Then when I was in the garage getting fags, a man came in and sneezed everywhere, no covering, handkerchief or anything. Are we all just pretending the last four months didn't happen?

I would quite like the gym to open again, but that's about it.

>>23797
Lads it’s flying ant day. We are all fucked.

>>26341
Today is it? I cut the grass yesterday and found I'd cross-sectioned a red ant and black ant nest, including eggs, within two feet of each other. So of course I dug a trowel into each and dropped it on the other to let them duke it out.

>>26292
Isn't what the Chinks are doing to the Uyghurs far, far worse?

>>26294

That's not being downplayed is it? It's being rightly condemned. Nobody is defending the actions of the Chinese government.

(It also does us no good to compare whose suffering is "worse".)

>>26295
>It's being rightly condemned

Has a single prominent world leader condemned it or done anything meaningful about it?

>>26296
Precisely, the focus of coverage on China seems to be limited these days to CV-19, Hong Kong (the laws have been passed) and whenever things flare up in the South China Sea. A couple of letters have gone to the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, for whatever use that really is.
Blind eyes seem to be given largely because of the global supply chain of things and China being the biggest exporter by a mile.

>>26297

Indeed, but the point made in >>26292 is that the abuses endured by Palestinians are more than just "turned a blind eye".

The realpolitik of China's economic position might go a long way to explaining that, and at a guess I'd say it's simply Israel's position as a middle eastern ally giving them the same benefit; but they certainly seem to be more pro-actively shielded from criticism, not simply have criticism brushed off.

Perhaps more to the point, though, nobody's going to try and conflate criticism of the Chinese government over their treatment of Uyghurs with hatred of an entire ethnic group and paranoid conspiracism.

>>26280

Almost as if the one thing that needs to change is the one thing none of them want to confront changing. It's the economy stupid! /smugface

As for defunding the police, i really struggle to understand why people haven't thought more than two minutes into it. I obviously hate the pigs, as a yoof who grew up transporting quantities of drugs around in my car that would have had me banged up. But it has to be acknowledged that reducing police presence, in absence of any other social change mechanism, impacts poor communities disproportionately.

In other words, we can't get rid of the police until we have taken care of poverty. But it is, as usual, my speculation that by the time we've got rid of the poverty we might just find that we never needed to, and we had our priorities confused; almost as if some higher power was deliberately misdirecting us.

>>26287

Defunding the police is really more apt for america, where officers commonly have million dollar pensions, top of the line guns, armour, and vehicles, and tiny rural town police forces end up with ex-military tanks, and overtime pay that encourages actively seeking an arrest, any arrest, ten minutes before your shift ends so you can make four or five hours double time booking the perp.

In the UK our police aren't quite as well funded, so it makes less sense, though I would argue that, in the case of my local police force at least, they probably don't need eight brand new unmarked BMW X7s and the loss of them wouldn't particularly put impoverished areas at any greater risk.

>>26288

Even then, I'd say it's not that they're getting too much funding, just that we're letting them spend it on the wrong things. Maybe they don't need flashy cars, but by the same I don't see how stopping them having flashy cars would meaningfully prevent them abusing their power. They'd just be abusing their power while driving an Astra.

What needs to be done is redirecting their funding into more de-escalation and non-violent conflict resolution training. In the case of American coppers especially, even just sending them on something like the SIA badge course our JobCentre sends people on would probably give them better de-escalation skills.

>>26289
The whole system of US policing trains and selects for sociopathic behaviour, sending them on a de-escalation course won't cut it. The idea is to replace them in the 90% of situations they respond to where they'd be better off acting as a counsellor or social worker with an actual counselor or social worker. See this article https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759

>>26289
Humberside Feds had the best squad cars.

>>25931
China and India don't actively despise each other on the same level as India and laplanderstan do and no nukes have flown there yet, so I doubt this will precipitate a WW3 esque conflict.

The ceasefire will end eventually, but I doubt it will be Chinese troops that break it.

Apparently the Chinese were using sticks with nails in them.

>>25976
These were common in the days of the Sino-Soviet border dispute. Every winter lads from either side would meet on frozen lakes and knock the shit out of each other with crude weapons.

You would think in the decades since they would have specialised kit for the job but I guess you can't improve on perfection.

>>25979

Plausible deniability innit. The 1996 agreement prohibits the use of military force within the border exclusion zone, but the use of crude improvised weapons allows both sides to pretend that the fighting isn't officially sanctioned.

>>25980

Any farmer would have a better crafted array of weapons readily at their disposal if anything this makes it seem more obvious.


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

>>25471
There are more billionaires in China’s legislature than exist in the United Kingdom. You may want to interrogate your definition of a “commie cunt”.

>>25629
This seems quite tongue-in-cheek.

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/18519868.missing-cat-turns-chelmsford-27-miles-home/

>A MISSING cat was reunited with her owners after turning up at a fishing lake in Chelmsford...27 miles from her home in Stanford-le-Hope.

The street cat named Bob is dead, lol.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/17/street-cat-bob-dies-story-behind-film-what-author-james-rowen-now-12863221/

Wait until the media gets wind of his scene with Kara Price, they'll lock him up and throw away the key.

>>25327

I imagine that when fucking a variety of stunningly beautiful men and women all day long is your 9-5, you have to push the boat out a bit compared to the average person in your leisure time.

>>25331

Perhaps, but 5-MeO-DMT is a notoriously un-fun drug. Something more akin to a near death experience, but without any of the enjoyable bits.

>>25330

I was never that impressed with that scene. It was decent, but certainly did not live up to the hype. It felt far too controlled to be truly exciting, there was certainly a lot more convincingly dark scenes coming out of sites like meatholes.

>>25335

Meatholes was a bit different to anything that's come before or since and a lot of people in the industry consider Khan Tusion to be a total psychopath. He did make fantastic porn, though.

>>25177

Right can I see this one in the sky and where do I look?

>>25186
Probably not. Too bright on the first pass at around 20:40, and it'll be very low on the horizon for the second pass at around 22:15. Look southwest from an elevated position in dark surroundings at the second pass for your best chance.

>>25187
Thank you - are they docking or are they just spinning round for a bit and coming back?

Sage because there's UFO's and Elon Musk doesn't do pan dimensional gravity/time manipulation engines.

>>24875
>this country's very future rests on removing the influence of Rupert Murdoch
I can get behind that.

>>24875

>Any collateral damage is acceptable.

What's happening now will only enhance the powers of figures like Murdoch. News Corporation is a loss-making venture, but Murdoch doesn't need to turn a profit on news - he doesn't really mind the fact that it has lost around a billion dollars a year over the past few years, because it's cross-subsidised by the rest of his media empire. It's effectively a strategic investment in buying influence.

That's the reality of an unprofitable news industry. Comment is cheaper than reporting and there's always someone willing to bankroll propaganda.

>>24875
>>24876
>>24877

Murdoch is a capitalist, he doesn't control what his papers do or say.

>>24878

He says otherwise.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/murdoch-admits-editorial-control-760297.html

>>24878
He's not selling Kitskats and beholden to a market that won't eat shit-flavoured ones mate, he's influencing public opinion and there's more money to be made in that than just by telling people what they want to hear.

>>24082
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world

Really great article on him.

Sam Lloyd passed. Always loved his stuff.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/08/us/roy-horn-of-siegfried-and-roy-dies/index.html

>Roy Horn, one-half of the popular Las Vegas animal and magic act Siegfried and Roy, died Friday of complications from the coronavirus, according to his publicist. He was 75.

>>24739

If it was one of Penn and Teller I might care.

If Teller got it, how would he tell us?

>>24740


He would let his partner pen(n) a press release.






Self sage for less than mildly funny pun.

Probably just a misunderstanding after seeing how they made soap from women's fat in Fight Club and spotting your mum near a zoo.

Its made from their fat.
After it's been processed it'll be completely identical to soap made from beef tallow, but given the niche nature of farming buffalo in this country, there's probably a lot more money to be made from selling value added products like soaps and leather and horns, than there is in just selling the meat alone.

>>24524
I don't think I've ever seen anyone with a more punchable face than Sean Penn.

Shut the fuck up, you babies, Jesus.

Who the fuck gives a shit about some daft opinion piece from five fucking years ago? Imagine reading the fucking opinion section of a newspaper, let alone the stuff from half a decade ago? Imagine being that fucking retarded. Enough time has elapsed since it was published for the entire Second World War in Europe to have taken place. Why are you posting this shit?

>>24528
Calm down, lad. Go for a wank.

>>24524
>regardless of their pre-existing schedules
So Gordon was always so miserable because the Fat Controller kept giving him jobs when he had planned to go pick up the kids from his ex who has moved in with a big black engine on the mainland?

I'm sad enough to have watched this week's PMQs and it was indeed unsettling. This wasn't exclusive to Starmer though, everyone was being nice and completely uninteresting like I was watching a Lord's debate about some minor B road construction. The issue is that there's no public interest in soundbites at the moment and you don't mudsling during a national crisis.

Only interesting thing was getting another look at Ian Blackford's football memorabilia.

>As you would expect when a top QC finds himself up against a rather out-of-his-depth country conveyancing solicitor.

Awfully elitist for the Guardian.

>>24447

If you say so mate. I don't see it, she looks okay to me. Different strokes innit.

Would. She reminds me of the Borg Queen.

would slam

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>24447
>>24453
I had a mate tell me she was a beauty just the other day. I have no standards to speak of and often pick the weird-looking ones but on this occasion I really can't see it at all - she's not ugly by any means, just thoroughly plain.

>>24508

She looks like she'd be dirty.

Probably a Mohammedan who saw the crusader outfit and got flustered, as they're prone to do. I doubt the person who did this has any real idea about St. George's Day.

Or it was just an arts/music student of course, never the brightest bunch.

Aren’t these things always BS? Whenever someone is uniquely victimised in a conveniently untraceable manner it’s just guaranteed make ‘em ups. And before you say “who’d be barmy enough to throw dog filth over their own garden?” Well I’ll just point to the scarecrow Saint George they erected and rest my case there.

>>24440 I'd very much like to see the CCTV footage they've got, and the surrounding couple of hours.

YOU CAN'T EVEN SAY YOU'RE INGLISH ANY MORE OR YOU'LL GET ARRESTED BY THE PC POLICE.

>>24421
Diane Abbott?