How do they teach kids not to get run over these days? I can't imagine that the tufty club gets a lot of traction, was shit even in the 70s.

>>29083

Not a problem now - they're not allowed out on their own. It's all lessons on how not to get carpet-baggerd online these days.

>>29083

When I were a lad it were them hedgehogs what sang King of the Road.

>>29085
I distinctly remember them having a mostly white background.

>>29076
As a member of the downwardly mobile middle class with a passing interest in economic history, that all sounds like another day at the office.

>>29076

My business has taken a huge blow and I'm very angry with the government, but that has little to do with believing the virus doesn't exist or that 5G causes it.

>>29076
I don't think I've ever been so angry that I disbelieved basic science.

>>29080

It's worth remembering, though, that science changes as our understanding changes.

You can easily be embarrassed if you trust the science too vociferously and then new findings prove otherwise. I'm not standing up for the 5G conspiracies or anything here, but I'm saying covid is one of those things our understanding will probably still go on developing a long way after all of this is history, and a lot of what we currently believe and hold up as the truth could turn out to have been bollocks. I mean we still don't know how long antibodies last or if reinfection is possible.

For context, I'm the covid testing lab lad, and I made a right tit of myself back in January/February going around telling people "don't worry, covid will be fine, even if it does make it over here it'll be easy to handle, and even if it isn't the death rate will be tiny, nothing to worry about" because that's what the science bods much more highly qualified than me were saying. Arguably some of that is still true, even, but you'd laugh in my face if I was to stand by it today and say we weren't wrong.

>>29079
It's quite possible to oppose lockdown and not believe in lizard men and the like.

>>28362
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16614209

>A majority of people believe Black Lives Matter, the anti-racism movement that spread across the UK this summer, has increased racial tension, according to a poll.

>Just over half (55%) of UK adults believe the BLM protests that took place in big cities but also in the Shetland Islands and the Isle of Wight, increased racial tensions, according to a survey of more than 2,000 people by pollsters Opinium. Only 17% of the people polled in October disagreed. The polling also showed 44% of ethnic minorities felt BLM increased racial tensions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/black-lives-matter-has-increased-racial-tension-55-say-in-uk-poll

>>29064
But that doesn't really tell us what people think about BLM itself, just what they think the outcomes of BLM's protests have been.

>>29065
The general consensus seems to be that people agree with the notion that black lives matter but have a much less favourable view on the clusterfuck that is BLM UK as an organisation.

>>29065

Given that the same research shows that Asian people have had a similar rise in racist experiences to black people, they may have a point about the rise not being entirely due to BLM's actions.
Black and Asian Lives Matter would be so much easier to pronounce though, just BALM. Then you'd get some interesting confused mythology referencing Poe; "There is no BALM in Gilead" as in, there should be no minorities in the promised land, only that gets tied up with how Atwood used Gilead in her books.

>>29052

>>29028
The BBC used to have quality scientific programmes on its mainstream channels. They dumbed things down horrendously.

>>29030
>They dumbed things down horrendously.

And apparently it's still too smart.

>>28996
>Is the BBC fucked? I can't even remember the last time I actually watched it on the telly.
I hope not. Everyone else has said it already, but compare Classic FM and Radio 3.

>>29045
What's Scala like?

>>29045
Classical programming, radio or otherwise, is still sadly largely dominated by drawing a broader audience in with more popular pieces. Not that they're bad pieces by any means, just that total overexposure makes them banal and washes away any contextual significance, take The Ride of the Valkyries which has taken on a different flavour than setting the scene for deceiving and defying a vengeful god.

That said, your point does stand. Radio 3 really does go out of its way to introduce the listeners to something "unusual" or not as well known.

The BBC's main charm is in local radio, Radios 3, 4 and 6, BBC Four and the occasional televised sport.

>>28982

I... No, that's not how this is meant to work. Can you at least call me a cunt?

>>29012
Fair enough, you cunt.

Why does this thread bump up the board every time I use gay porn, for fuck sake? I want to forget that depravity.

>>29021
It's YMCA-lad messing with you.

>>29021

Barbara Webster, prosecuting, said: “He did not like performing the act and said sorry to the chickens after.”

The court heard a total of 15 chickens died as a result of Waters’ abuse.

He also admitted having intercourse with his pet dog over a four month period, but said the dog "did not like it and growled and bit him".


https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/farmyard-attacker-jailed-after-having-19316783

Some choice quotes in this story. I tried not to laugh but.

>A police officer who scanned a seven pence barcode for carrots instead of the £9.95 barcode for Krispy Kreme donuts that he was buying for colleagues has said it was an honest mistake.

>Pc Simon Read told a misconduct hearing that he did not realise he scanned the carrot barcode twice at the self-service tills at a Tesco Extra in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on February 10 this year. He accepted that he failed to scan the barcode for the box of 12 donuts while purchasing four items at around 11.30am – the donuts, carrots, a sandwich and a drink – but said this was not done on purpose.

>The Cambridgeshire Police officer, who joined the force in January of this year, said he was buying the sweet treats for colleagues as a “cake fine”. Pc Read said he was buying the carrots for his sergeant who was on a diet, and he thought it “would be funny” for them to be in a Krispy Kreme paper bag. He said he stuck the carrots barcode onto the donut tray, as it would have spoiled the joke if he stuck it on the paper bag.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/11/25/police-officer-says-scanning-carrot-barcode-instead-of-donuts-honest-mistake/

>>28940

Broken Britain.

>>28940

Throw the fucking book at him. The little laminated one they have by the till for scanning bakery items.

>>28940

I feel police behaving badly warrants a higher level of deserved attention than the usual local news bollocks, this story is too good for this thread.

>>28936

>There's no such thing as "routine brain surgery"

"Routine" from the perspective of doctors, obviously. If brain surgery is all you do, then fiddling around inside a person's brain is presumably just another day's work.

>>28935
How do you find obscure-as-fuck stuff like this? It has 30 views.

>>28942
He uploaded it.

>>28942

Sort by upload date or filter by date. Also:

https://millionshort.com/

>>28944
I searched for "britfa.gs" on that site and this was the second result:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50545658

Doesn't seem very accurate

>>28876
No, that was caused by a haunted cowboy boot.

>>28876

Havana Syndrome couldn't have been caused by microwaves, because microwave frequencies are strongly attenuated by walls. To cause a noticeable effect from outside the building, you'd need hundreds of kilowatts of RF. That amount of energy is not subtle - anything conductive in the area would be fizzing and crackling with arcs.

>>28879
How do we know they don't have something that works around this? These weapons are at least 10 years old now, the US definitely has something more advanced especially considering they have something to deploy to protect against directed energy weapons.

>>28880
We don't, but how does that confirm that one event with one set of symptoms was done by the same thing as caused a completely different set of symptoms?

>>28880

We don't, but at the same time, you can't really just work around the fundamental way waves interact with matter.

>>28833

The police are quite happy to infiltrate the far-right in their free time.

I assume the argument is that violent groups are usually grown out of non violent groups (like the way alf is the militant wing of peta to anyone in the know even though officially they aren't they just happen to spring spontaneity) so they need to infiltrate the non violent groups to be in a position to join the violent groups when they start which means being a known violent to begin with.

It is all ends justify the means crap, but I see the slip.

>>28830

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ21d_eSUkE

>>28828

Do you have any evidence far right groups in the UK receive establishment funding?

>>28854
He's talking bollocks. When you can get your message across by throwing money at professional twats like Are Nige or Laurence Fox and by actually owning media organisations there's no need to give money to a bunch of racist skinheads.

>>28823

>The danger is the entire thrill.

Curiously, the world's best free solo climber seems to have some kind of neurological immunity to the effects of fear.

https://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber

>>28823

>The adrenaline rush of knowing one slip could end your life is 100% of the reason these mad lads are doing it instead of the hard wall at their local gym.

If you get a kick out of the possibility of absolutely life ending mistakes that could happen at any time within split seconds, and so much so that you become addicted to the experience, then I am sorry but you're just a bit too fucked in the head to be allowed to be out in the world where you are obviously a danger to yourself, and possibly others.

>>28812

>You can say this about almost anything, including equally dangerous things like driving a car.

Yeah good point, I wonder how dangerous it is to go cycling. I'm a bike rider myself.

>>28837

>I wonder how dangerous it is to go cycling.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzhlDnTv0pc

>>28839

If you don't jump a ravine is it even worth bothering?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76VEPXYaI0

I thought councils were not allowed to lose money? Did I make that up entirely or is there some manner of law or prevision like that?

Anyway, one of the reasons I like more decentralisation in this country is so someone's keeping an eye on scoundrel laden councils like these. Maybe Croydon really did think they had a brilliant plan and they'd be millionaires by this time next year and never again have to rely on a drip feed of cold piss from central government, but Manchester are a complete load of bastards who've let the city centre go to pot in various ways.

Is this anything to do with how the Tories encouraged councils to be more like businesses and raise money that way? You know instead of funding from central government?

>>28777
No, councils aren't allowed to set unbalanced budgets. They can't stop themselves from losing money if it all goes tits up, though.

>>28779

It's a long story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-capping_rebellion

>Bexley Council has approved its latest strategy for a raft of money-saving measures including cutting up to 150 full-time posts from its budget in an effort to plug a large financial black hole.

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18881467.bexley-council-backs-job-cutting-strategy-balance-books/

Looks like Bexley's next. There are rumours, not yet published, that they will be begging the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for money this week.

Thanks for making the third thread about it.

>>28624
Was it covid wot done it, or just old age?

>>28625
Yes.

The only Bond ever worthy of that name.


RIP.