I think we'll know when Labour are serious about wanting to win an election by the speed with which she's sidelined.

>>62478
Mostly the latter, but the occasional former allows her and her party to bat away criticism and turn the tables on the accusers.

Diane Abbott has genuinely challenged my lefty-liberal prejudices. I'd honestly never seen someone play the race card before. I thought it was one of those Daily Mail myths, like asylum seekers getting free cars or Birmingham adopting Sharia law. She clearly gets a lot of racist abuse online, but she has conflated "people being racist against me" and "people pointing out that I'm a fucking idiot" to an extraordinary degree.

>>62480
Boy who cried wolf, innit. If you constantly accuse people of being racist when they're merely pointing out you're fucking clueless then people are less likely to believe you when people attack you because they're actually being racist.

iN A FEW YEARS, WHEN WE CAN deepfake-substitute in real time, it'll be fun to test these things out.
I do think that politicians should carry their baggage, though - rather than each sentence or interview standing on its own.

He's at it again.

https://twitter.com/andyserkis/status/1085447426616541186

>>62473
It's been quite the week for going over old material.

>>62474
Do you think he knows he is famous?

>>62475

He does. He's tried to sue various media outlets for calling him marple, which is probably fair enough.

>>62475
I reckon he's counting on it. Who at this point would dare to resist his muscle measurement advances, the more you'd struggle the marpler he'd get.

>>62458

If these famous weight lifters all seem to have serious life changing injuries related to their hobby as this site has lead me to believe it hardly seems worth it.

>>62461

Many of the lads I work out with are beasts and look great, but have not spent a single second working on their flexibility. I have no idea how they even shower properly, and you see some lads who can't even stand up straight because they've over-worked either their shoulders or back, and so are sort of permanently curled in on themselves. Knowledge on what to do and how to build muscle seems better than ever now, but some lads are still wandering around with serious issues because they've never bothered to listen or think about what they're doing.

>>62459
Well, I'm no the OP. I actually hate when people post a video without any comment, even on /iq/ it's annoying. People at the extreme end of powerlifting are, I agree, pretty daft. But they've settled on a passion in life and are happy to pursue it with the sort of dedication i struggle to muster so I have some respect for them.

Major injuries are somewhat rare, but the nature of moving around several hundred kilograms of muscle mean they're pretty dramatic when they happen. I think most of us weightlifters view these people at the extreme end of powerlifting like ordinary mountaineering folk view free-climbers. It's a devotion with such a small margin of error that you have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to even consider trying what you do. But it's a more exciting world to have them around.

>>62470

>like ordinary mountaineering folk view free-climbers.

Rock climbing and mountaineering are very different beasts I realise from the outside they look like the same cultures, I assure you they are not. Your stereotypical free climber a 20 something bum with lots of spare time to fuck up their hands at the boldering wall, where as your stereotypical mountaineer looks middle aged and has a professional qualification.

High end Mountaineering is all about the will to just carry on going and money, you could climb Everest tomorrow if you have the will to just walk nonstop for over 24 hours, you don't mind the cold and being constantly short of breath and getting up half an hour before you went to bed and the tens of thousands for a permit. It is a lot of the time not 'exciting' just many many hours walking. Your adrenaline junkie rock climber sort would hate it, I mean it is basically rambling. And Rock climbing is just a means to an end with a mountaineer under a large range of other skills.

>>62471

Powerlifting, weightlifting, and bodybuilding are all similarly different.

Then what?

What a bunch of twats. This is what they're arguing about? Do they have any fucking clue what's happening?

>>62467
Nobody does.

I preferred it when BREXIT was about comparing Theresa May's and Nicola sturgeon's legs.

>>62467
This is from a month ago.

>>62457
fucking hell

>>62446
Every company, no matter how small, is required by law to prominently display such a statement on its website.

>>62449

Only businesses with an annual turnover of more than £36m are required to comply with Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act.

>>62449

I'm a different poster but...

>>62449
3.1 Any organisation in any part of a group structure will be required to comply with the provision and
produce a statement if they:
• are a body corporate or a partnership (described as an “organisation” in this document), wherever
incorporated;
• carry on a business, or part of a business, in the UK;
• supply goods or services; and
• have an annual turnover of £36m or more.

>>62452
that last bit's important

>>62367

I think what drives a stalker is typically their belief that they could have, or already do have, a personal or intimate relationship with the person they're stalking, so them actively deciding to pretend to be a pap would be like them admitting that the celeb isn't actually going to be their girlfriend.

Having said that I'm sure I read of some stalker pretending to be the celeb victims maid or housekeeper or whatever to get inside the house, so maybe more stalkers should be considering devious plans.

There's only one Kevin Spacey
Only one Kevin Spacey
He'll mosey along
Have a tug on your dong
Which really isn't something that should be trivialised via the medium of a football chant.

Is the one sat down the person alleging Spacey touched him? I'm not buying it.

>>62426

The perfect crime.

>The actor states in a motion obtained by DailyMail.com that the teenager 'claimed he was a 23-year-old student studying business at Wake Forest University' after he 'sought out a friend for the specific purpose of introducing him to [Spacey].'

>It goes on to state that the teen 'welcomed drinks from [Spacey], let [Spacey] put his arm around him near the piano while they did sing-a-longs and even left the bar to smoke with [Spacey].' That behavior, combined with the fact that the teen gave Spacey his number, suggests 'mutual and consensual flirting' states the motion.

>At no point does Spacey deny groping the young man.

>The motion states that once Spacey began to grope his accuser the teen 'did not object to the alleged touching, he did not ask [Spacey] to stop and he did not remove himself from the situation.' In the initial filing the accuser said that this was because he froze, and suggested his lack of an erection as proof he was not enjoying the sex act.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6569637/Kevin-Spacey-says-accuser-flirted-gave-actor-number-lying-age.html

Is an erection proof one way or another whether an assault occurred?

>>62389
>>62417
THE PUSHER IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER INVENTED BY BIG CANAL.

>>62419
YOU WOULD SAY THAT LAD

>>62419
You can understand though. They're getting tired of fishing cans, bikes and kitchen sinks out of canals so want to discourage people from walking along them. It wouldn't be so bad if they found at least some decent gear but it's mostly soap bar and antacids disguised as E.

>>62419
>BIG CANAL

>>62422
I always thought there was something well sus about a bearded bloke hanging around on a boat with two ragdolls.

>>62380
>NEARLY ALL OF THE RYANAIR FLEET IS OWNED

RYANAIR own a lot of them - you're quite right on that point. They have recently started to lease/rent them though. Their model is slightly different in that they buy hundreds of exactly the same plane type at a big discount and then kit out their maintenance and hangars to support only that type (Boeing 737/Airbus A320). Most airlines don't do this and the lease/rent market is growing rapidly - over 60% of the planes run by airlines are leased/rented.

Shipping is a different market - hardly anyone owns their own ships. The Baltic Dry Index is really the leading indicator of shipping costs and is a fascinating place to start a late-night wikiwalk. Everyone rents.

I don't doubt that Seaborne Freight are utter cunts, given their piss-poor attempt at putting together a basic website and the background of the principals and company; but lets crucify them on that, or the government handing them the contract - not on basic semantics of the market they work in and the finance models of the assets they use. It's actually a good thing that they don't own any ships, when you think about it.

>>62381
>Shipping is a different market - hardly anyone owns their own ships.
No, you misunderstand. A tenant might not own their home, but they do undoubtedly have a home. Seaborne does not own any ships. They do not control any ships. They do not have any ships on lease. They do not have rights to any ships. They do not have options on any ships. They do not have access to any ships. They do not possess anything remotely resembling the capability to move anything across water.

>>62382

>They do not possess anything remotely resembling the capability to move anything across water.

Nah m8, they've got it covered.

I think the thing that gets me is this this will all just be completely ignored and allowed to go on. I just cannot fathom this - cock up after cock up, and nothing is ever done about it. We just allow shit like this to happen. There's a media storm for 24 hours and then that's it.

>>62411

welcome to Britain

>>62327

And the Guardian one was pretty true, other than the weeks wages bit. My Grandad got a mortgage on a house now worth 1.3 million because he walked into the bank, told them what his job was, and they gave him a list of houses he could afford and he picked one.

>>62316
Absolutely bangin' intro

The mail are just taking the piss now.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-6542599/Facebook-Celebrations-post-goes-viral-woman-points-logo-features-chocolate-brand.html

>>62354
Didn't you know? That's how news works now. No need for investigative work or analysis when you can just literally read out a Facebook conversation.

>>62354
Look at all those repeating logos because they don't want to do 12 kinds of chocolate in the tub. When is the government going to stop messing about and crack down on the real criminals?

1995 mate. 23 years ago.

I don't get your point, but if it's that Stewart Lee doesn't say offensive things, I don't really know what to say to you other than I hope that you and your children go blind, not one of them, in one of their eyes - all of them, in all of their eyes

>>62154

You can't get into a cunt off with her because she doesn't answer questions.

>>62165
She'd fit right in, then.

>>62166
Isn't she a woman though? I thought we agreed no more women.

>>62167

It's a one in, one out sort of deal, and I think the last one left after the insidious actual maritime issues, so we'll be alright.

>>62168
I think the problem is that we've got too many philosophers. According to the ancient Greeks the gods created woman as a punishment for man.