>>20641
Oh shit, I forgot about Poppy day.

Soz, lads.

>>20642
Don't worry, you're allowed to do it tomorrow instead.

A man who disrupted a Remembrance Sunday event with fireworks had to be rushed away from angry veterans by police.

The fireworks exploded in the sky as hundreds of people stood in silence at 11:00 GMT and listened to the Last Post at the cenotaph in Eccles, Salford.

A man had set them off from a window ledge in a disused pub across the road. Angry veterans began shouting, "Get him out!" and trying to break down the pub door before officers took the man away.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-50367340

I don't think anything this year will top last year's paedo-vigilantes.

I've heard/seen so many complaints about poppy burners this year yet I don't think anyone new has actually done it this time around.

People get really angry at the argument that burning something as a symbolic or political gesture is exactly the sort of thing that you're only really allowed to do because of the freedom are lads fought for.

>>20645
There's a video doing the rounds of an Irish woman burning a poppy in London. Probably a Labour voter.

>>20622

That too. Still not "Funny when...".

>>20605
That's how the character Switch got their name. You know, the "Not like this..." one. I doubt the removal was political since nobody knew enough about transexualism back then to object to it. But it would have been one more weird element in a film that execs already worried would be too hard to understand for the general public.

>>20625

That's the one. I tried to find a picture but couldn't remember the character's names. But yeah, I suppose they already got away with a lot in that movie. It's more or less a kitchen sink of philosophy and speculative sci-fi ideas.

>>20627

>It's more or less a kitchen sink of philosophy and speculative sci-fi ideas.

Nearly all of which were pretty much nicked from other sci-fi movies and franchises. In that sense, the Matrix was kind of a pastiche of all the ideas about a high-tech dystopian future that were already out there.

Even the production design wasn't as groundbreaking as everybody said (bullet time aside), and took loads of inspiration from films like Men in Black. Not even the effect of (faux) Japanese characters running down a monochromatic computer screen was new, it could first be seen in Independence Day while they're aboard the alien mother ship.

Ok, so bullet time was the one effect that the Matrix genuinely created. Good for them. Everything else, they copied.

>>20629
>Everything else, they copied.
Duh it's a simulation

>“We feel very honoured that his family supports us

Sounds like his heirs need more money.

>>20620
I'm going to re-watch Hypernormalisation and then go to bed. Here's the IDF doing the Friends intro.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1175855584018673665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The future is fucked.

>>20404
If he did he did it in record time.

>Fast walking master race for life.

I'm fast wanking. Does that count?

>>20406
Does it increase your oxygen intake to give you big brain energy?

>>20414
It's called the Caradine Effect, I believe.

Stroke recovery clue from patient walking speed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50168047

The evidence that the world belongs to the fast walking master race is growing.

>>20073

>No one sucks the life out of conspiracy theories like fucking conspiracy theorists.

That's what THEY want you to think.

He was 100% murdered.

There was a picture floating around of the supposed body with significant differences in the ear compared to known images of the old Ep.

An extremely rich and powerful man with apparent investments in bio-engineering.
I don't suppose it'd be a difficult for such wealth and networks to source a replacement body, using ones own stemcells if need be, for just such an occasion.

He owns an island for fuck sake. E's not dead.

>>20599
>>/boo/

>>20001
Where you following are lad's blog before he deleted it? Do you know why he did it?

>>20549

You really won't let it lie will you. If it wasn't notable to you, you wouldn't never have noted it. But you did, so it was.

Either way, my point hardly hinged on you. Please go away.

>>20552

It's hard to take it when your carefully projected reality is questioned, I understand.

>>20553

Oh I get what's happening now. Never mind.

>>20554

You've come up with a new projection? Well done, only took most of a day.

>>20555

>only took most of a day.

I was on a 12 hour shift mate, didn't have time to check in here.

>>20301

Still nothing wrong with backing up your claim by showing the knife. You're already in for armed robbery anyway, regardless of whether or not you actually have a knife. I think there have been court cases where somebody got done for armed robbery just for poking his index finger through his coat pocket and saying he had a gun.

So why not present your weapon to the poor lad you're robbing so he'll at least know you're not a pretentious cunt.

And besides, why say you've got a knife. If you're bullshitting anyway, why not say you've got a gun in your coat pocket. Would convince me more than the prospect of getting grazed by an imaginary knife across the counter.

>A Russian man has launched a lawsuit against Apple, claiming an iPhone app turned him gay.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49933003

>>20364
> In a suit filed on 20 September, it is claimed a crypto-currency called "GayCoin" was delivered via a smartphone app, rather than the Bitcoin he had ordered.
> According to the complaint, the GayCoin crypto-currency arrived with a note saying: "Don't judge until you try".
> "I thought, in truth, how can I judge something without trying? I decided to try same-sex relationships," the complainant wrote.

>>20365
The truth is, he must have already taken it up the arse many times whilst in prison. Straight blokes s rayona don't receive donations in gay coins.
Once a petooh, always a petooh.

>A man has been fined for being drunk and disorderly in Workington.

>Troy Berwick, of Thwaite Bank, Northside, admitted the offence, which took place on October 6 at Washington Street. West Cumbria Magistrates Court was told that Berwick had been part of a group of males shouting in the street at around 4am. When approached by police, Berwick began flexing his muscles and shouting, "I'm a big lad". He was unsteady on his feet and continued shouting when asked to quieten down. Berwick told police, "you won't arrest me" but was then arrested for being drunk and disorderly.

>He told magistrates: "I've stopped drinking now. I'm getting into bad habits." Berwick was fined £280 and must also pay £85 costs and a £32 surcharge to fund victim services.
https://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/18001080.drunk-man-told-police-im-big-lad/

Sends a shiver down my spine just thinking about all the biglads flexing on our streets.

>>20454
I heard about it on the BBC's Global News Podcast and it seemed that no one was terribly sure what was actually going on.

Apparently the first thing the absolute lad who made a break for it did was go to the pub and sink five pints, so I'm thinking the beer ran out and that was the final straw.

>What the fuck is it with Austrians?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/joseffritzl/1937916/Josef-Fritzl-The-Nazis-were-to-blame-for-my-Austrian-incest-dungeon.html

>In a bizarre attempt to defend his conduct he said Hitler’s Germany had instilled “a high regard for decency and uprightness” in him.


Next thing we'll know, they were all just following orders.

>>20454
They sound a bit complicit in the whole thing.

>The father of a family that spent nearly a decade living in a secret room in a Dutch farmhouse once belonged to the Rev Sun Myung Moon’s controversial Unification church and was trying to found a cult of his own, Dutch media have reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/18/father-family-dutch-farmhouse-cult-moonies

The plot thickens.

>>20461

I've thought about starting my own cult. I'm already a quite narcissistic personality, and the thought of people worshipping me and throwing all their money at me seems more appealing to me than it ever should. Even if the average person will never be so gullible, all it takes is a few dozen people who are willing to blow their life savings on the prospect of eternal salvation, and you're golden.


Or maybe I'll start selling esoteric items on eBay or Amazon. There seem to be huge profit margins if you convince people that quite ordinary items that you can make from £10 worth of raw materials possess healing powers:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clicke-Meditation-Pyramid-Yellow-Healing/dp/B07VYS9ZH2/ref=sr_1_16?dchild=1&keywords=orgone&qid=1571702522&sr=8-16

It's already been delayed twice. It's stuck in some weird slow-motion race of unworkable policies, glaring at Brexit like a match sprinter on the upper banking.

Absolute fucking waste of time and money to begin with. So yeah I guess also like Brexit.

Aaaand it's gone entirely.

Worryingly Diane Abbott is tweeting in support of it. So don't vote Labour if you like easy access to the wank bank lads.

>>20442
Who in their right mind would vote Labour anyway? I mean who hates having money?

I read this thread thinking "didn't I make one just like this months ago?", before checking the date and realising it was this one.

>>20433
There was something on the BBC News website the other day about how the Sex Offender Treatment Programme increases the rate of reoffending because it ends up normalising sexual assault and they all pick up pointers on how to get away with it next time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49973318

>>20434

Prison is the university for criminals.

>>20434

>Another prisoner, who had himself been a victim of sex abuse as a child, told him he had been asked to give details of what had happened to him in front of paedophiles who had became aroused as a result.


How was this not an obvious outcome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QOIRuc6sZU

>>20436

>>20435

>>20424
cheers m8 pretty drunk when i typed that and drunker/higher now. But yeah, God speed China and the handful of other countries protesting/rioting against their shite governments that's barely getting any news coverage. It's like a new Arab spring going on right now and hardly anybody knows. Can only hope it continues and spreads.

>>20425
See >>/b/431337
It's not just China.

>>20426
Some pillocks standing around Piccadilly isn't equivalent to people fighting for democracy against a system that operates concentration camps. Don't hijack a thread to bring attention on your pet project.

>>20428
State enforced media blackouts are absolutely equivalent to state enforced media blackouts, don't be such a twat.

>Blizzard bosses reduce gamer's ban and release prize money

>US gaming publisher Activision Blizzard has reversed its decision to withhold prize money from a player who expressed support for the Hong Kong protests. Professional gamer, Ng Wai "Blitzchung" Chung, said in Mandarin, "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age," on a live broadcast after a tournament. He was banned for one year and said was told he would not get any prize money.

>In a new statement, the company said: "In hindsight, our process wasn't adequate, and we reacted too quickly." The hashtag #Blizzardboycott trended on Twitter after the 21-year-old was banned, and some players tried to delete their accounts in solidarity with "Blitzchung". Even some US politicians commented on Blizzard's initial decision.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50026401

It's fun seeing companies flop around in the face of Hong Kong protests after they've spent so long now kowtowing to Beijing. Who knows, maybe someone will question if having China so invested in our nuclear power plants might be a bad idea again.

>>20429
It's not state enforced. Nobody cares. Sky News still has a feature on their front-page and still it's nowhere in the top most read stories.

>>20411

Yeah but how much compo did you get?

>>20413

We did not get compensated at all, beyond the €10 vouchers.

>>20415

You should have -

https://www.flightright.co.uk/your-rights/eu-regulation

>>20417

Well it was 14 or 15 years ago. Maybe it was different then, or maybe I was just never made aware that I was entitled to compensation. Your link does state that the directive was only passed in 2004.

>>20418
The link doesn't call it a directive, because a regulation is distinct from a directive, but they do erroneously suggest it came into force the same year it was passed.

>>20387 There are compulsory dogging breaks, what did we expect?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/409716/staying-legal-HGV.pdf

I only know one lorry driver. He plays truck simulators in his spare time.

They should just build a more shady park and turn a blind eye to all the filth that goes on there. It'll be like the Amsterdam of dogging attracting middle aged perverts from across Europe along with their money.

Maccies will make a fortune.

>>20390
They'll put a sex mod in anything these days.

>>20391
I was wondering how they'd do it in something like OpenTTD, but then remembered that years ago someone changed the "company owner statue" to a glamour shot.

It'll never be like the good old days again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAU7pATH5_M

>>20377

This does sound like me.

Doorman in this context would be more like a host, or maitre'd or even the bloke outside Harvey Nicks wot opens the door for people, rather than a bouncer. I've worked in places like that. I have also worked in a 'gastrobar' that had actual bouncers, but posh ones in suits.

I don't remember being rejected from my own establishment, nor have I ever had my name above the door, at least not in a literal sense, with a big sign or anything. Certainly if you googled my name you would find it linked to certain West Yorkshire establishments. Maybe that's what I meant, or I was just trying to impress everyone here by implying I owned the place.

I was also on a lot of drugs back then though, so it's entirely possible I've either forgotten the doorman story or made it up in a haze of coke after being turned away from a nightclub I had nothing to do with.

It does seem like it was definitely me dropping these clues though, unless there was another Leeds/Yorkshire based chef on here two or three years ago too, but I probably would have noticed that.

>>20378

OH FUCK

I do remember the doorman thing. It was the pretentious posh bar/restaurant place, and the bloke was new. He wouldn't let me in, to go to work, and I kicked off. I think I showed him my knives, which probably didn't help, upon reflection.

I was likely off my tits too, so he was doing a good job by keeping people like me out.

>>20368
>I still have one foot in the business as the consultant work

Also known as putting as many black pudding towers into the Greene King menu range as possible.

>>20379

This genuinely reads like one of those Viz Drunken Baker comics.

>>20368

What sort of consultancy?