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>> No. 36109 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 9:56 am
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Fishermen blocked RNLI boat rescuing migrants, caller tells James O'Brien

Zoe in Hastings said: "On Saturday my boyfriend and I were just on the beach and we heard the lifeboat station opening up and thought 'oh they have a call' and started watching. There was a group of fisherman pulled up, gutting fish on the shore, and as the boat station opened up we heard the fisherman start shouting things like 'don't bring any more of those home, we're full up', 'that's why we stopped our donations', and that kind of really horrible stuff. It was really upsetting, and you could hear the hatred in their voice", she said.

"The lifeboat crew pulled the boat out and were going to go into the water and some of the fishermen deliberately came out with their buckets and stood directly in the line of the boat so the boat couldn't be put in the water."

"Are you sure?" James asked.

"I'm absolutely sure, the police were called," she replied.


https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/fishermen-blocked-rnli-boat-rescuing-migrants/

I was the radio on last week and every BBC news bulletin was led with "WE'VE ALREADY HAD THREE TIMES AS MANY MIGRANTS CROSS THE CHANNEL IN SMALL BOATS THAN WE HAD LAST YEAR" and illegal immigration is now one of the biggest concerns amongst a large swathe of voters. It seems to be in the news almost every day as one of the lead stories.

What is to be done about it? Priti Patel only seems concerned with sabre-rattling and looking tough.
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>> No. 36224 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 12:52 pm
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>>36223
> I wonder if the next logical step of liberal hegemony will be that once we've brought regime change to their countries we'll start prosecuting them for past hate-speech. They won't even be able to run because we could scan their internet history wherever they turn up.

I don't think it would work that way.

Their past hate speech gives them negative oppression points, true, but this is overwhelmed by the positive oppression points they get by being colonised and being ethnic and religious minorities.
>> No. 36225 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 12:55 pm
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>>36223
It'd be funnier to wait for someone like Are Nige or Are Tommeh to start fundraising for a boat so they can start patrolling the Channel popping dinghies or returning them to France.
>> No. 36228 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 2:51 pm
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>>36225
It was done a few years back but mysteriously the ship was blocked from ports by fisherman and (allegedly) the owner not paying docking fees so couldn't replenish - the activists eventually abandoned her.
https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/crew-abandoned-after-right-wing-activists-end-charter

This being while the Libyan coastguard was being trained and funded by Italy, camps were paid for by the EU in Libya and Sudan to detain migrants and NGOs were shut down for (allegedly) working with people smugglers. I assert because society was so divided on the time that states refused to risk any public confrontation on either side, as we'll likely see happen with the RNLI boats where the government must find a means to stop them without being publicly seen to shut down the institution. I think people are a lot harder on the migrant issue these days mind.
>> No. 36233 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 9:54 pm
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>>36223

>Why don't we just chuck the RNLI a couple quid to bring the migrants back to the safety of France?

They're only legally entitled to do so if France is the nearest safe harbour. They could lie to the French, but that lie would be obvious because of the AIS data. Also the RNLI has a backbone - it isn't right on, it's just dedicated to the mission of saving life at sea. Trust is more important to that mission than money.
>> No. 36234 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 12:10 am
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>>36228
The entire situation feels like a smaller scale repeat of what's been going on in the Mediterranean Sea for several years now, with official coast guard type organisations either staying away from migrant vessels or being quite heavy handed while several charities with a rescue focus do the grunt work of fishing people out of the water. Depending on where they drop them off the latter are not exactly beloved and regularly have trouble geting docking permission amongst other kinds of harrassment.

Fingers crossed it doesn't get that way in the channel for RNLI in particular. Maybe I just missed it all these years but the recent news is the first time I heard a bad word about the work they do. It's worrying that they're seemingly fair game now when what they do, not letting people drown, should be utterly uncontroversial.

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>> No. 21124 Anonymous
29th January 2020
Wednesday 6:15 pm
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>ITV News presenter Alastair Stewart is stepping down from his role following what ITN called "errors of judgment in Alastair's use of social media".

>In a statement, the veteran broadcaster, 67, said: "It was a misjudgement which I regret." ITN said he had breached editorial guidelines, but did not elaborate on the reasons for his departure.

>The newsreader's Twitter account has now been deactivated.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51300799

What's he done? He's either offended some group or been caught trying to shag a young lass.
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>> No. 35330 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 11:52 pm
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>>35328

Remember Squarials? Murdoch does. He murdered it, with great big barrowloads of newspaper money and a Luxembourgish satellite.
>> No. 35952 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 1:53 pm
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>Andrew Marr is to leave the BBC after 21 years to "get my own voice back", he has announced.

>He joined the broadcaster as political editor in 2000 and has presented a Sunday morning programme since 2005. He will join media company Global, which owns radio stations including LBC, and write for newspapers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59348808

With Andrew Neil gone, Marr going and even lightweights like Kuenssberg stepping down it seems rather thin on the ground at the BBC at the moment.
>> No. 35954 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 3:28 pm
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Yeah, the Beeb’s really gone down hill since Neil stopped hosting that rubbish political show in the afternoon and the rubbish political show in the evening.
>> No. 35955 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 3:42 pm
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They're all hinting that they have some epic vermilion aspirins to drop that the BBC won't allow, but then they largely fade into obscurity as soon as they're out the door. Maybe they should be applauded for sticking up for what they believe in, but in many cases, when someone leaves the BBC, I barely get a chance to find out what they truly believe. Are these reporters all just trying to sound cool as they quit for another reason? Are they just grumpy geriatrics fed up that they can't go full Daily Express on the telly? Is it money? Or, most radically, are there shadowy interests that torpedo the careers of any journalist who threatens to expose the truth?

A French journalist named Romain Molina, who is supposedly hugely respected, is going HAM on Twitter right now, exposing secrets about football sex crimes and corruption. He's not naming many names, but if this isn't what Andrew Marr is quitting to do, then he can do one.
>> No. 35956 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 3:51 pm
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>>35955
Reading through his claims, one of them is that 80% of players smoke shisha. Next to everything else on there, this seems incongruous.

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>> No. 35677 Anonymous
24th October 2021
Sunday 4:54 pm
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What's all this about then

>Women and girls are "terrified" to go out due to "sinister" means being used to try to attack them, an MP has said. Anna McMorrin, Labour's shadow minister for victims and youth justice, spoke out following reports of women being injected and having drinks spiked.

>Home Secretary Priti Patel has asked police forces for an update following a number of cases of women reporting being spiked by needles in nightclubs. A boycott of clubs is being planned in some cities, including Cardiff, on 29 October. Ms McMorrin said her eldest daughter, who is a university student, told her she and friends were taking extra precautions as they were "scared to go out at night". "Dealing with the perpetrators, that is the issue, and that is doing things like making misogyny a hate crime - that begins to change the culture," said the MP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59021005

Am I wrong to see a connection between what has been over a year of vaccination paranoia and the emergence of needle spiking incidents? It seems odd to me why someone would go out and manage to inject people like that without them noticing or the needle breaking.
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>> No. 35947 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 8:11 pm
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Clearly it was Owen Paterson doing it as a second job.
>> No. 35948 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 9:20 pm
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>>35947
Say what you want about the scum man, he gets results.

We should probably have someone look into his wife's "suicide" given this fresh information.
>> No. 35949 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 12:27 am
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Has it? What do you think it was that solved it?
>> No. 35950 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 3:43 am
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There was a bit more to it than "having Ring doorbells outside their house".


>> No. 35951 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 7:24 am
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They're still being reported, just at a local level rather than national.

Four alleged needle spikings in Watford last weekend.

https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/19720944.four-reports-needle-spiking-night-watford/

Two reports in Cheltenham last week.

https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/19726900.reports-spiking-needle-cheltenham-nightclubs/

Seven people in Doncaster last weekend.

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/needle-spiking-seven-women-injected-with-drugs-in-doncaster-on-saturday-night-3457598

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>> No. 35743 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 8:09 pm
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>NASA alert warns huge solar flare will make 'direct hit' with Earth this weekend

>A major solar flare that erupted from the Sun on Thursday, October 28, will batter the Earth over the weekend. The flare, which experts at NASA have dubbed as a "significant solar flare", has fired off the Sun in one of the strongest storms of the current weather cycle.

>Solar flares are divided into categories according to their strength and the one that was fired off yesterday was an X1-class solar flare predicted to enter the atmosphere on Saturday or Sunday, causing widespread power outages and communication failures. It has already caused a temporary, but strong, radio blackout in parts of South America, according to the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).

>The one currently headed towards Earth is an X1 flare which despite being the least intense of the X-class flares is likely wreak havoc by interfering with radio and satellite communications.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nasa-alert-warns-huge-solar-25331655

Any of you Northern-lads going to capture the light-show?
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>> No. 35744 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 8:22 pm
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Should we pack are devices [into Farraday cages]?
>> No. 35745 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 8:38 pm
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Are solar flares visible? I thought they just wiped out all technology worldwide and sent us back to the Stone Age. And that's unlikely to happen, or the news would be shouting about it more. So it's just a question of whether I'll see it and whether my telly will go off. It's likely to be cloudy over the weekend, so I assume there will be no exciting armageddons (armagedda?) this Sunday.

I remember seeing a list of "things that can destroy the world that nobody is talking about", probably around 2014, and I remember thinking a pandemic sounded really boring and I hoped we got a solar flare or the Yellowstone volcano instead. I was right about the pandemic; it was dull as shit. So fingers crossed it's the end of technology instead.
>> No. 35746 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 9:00 pm
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>>35744
There's a whole hysterical panic from the usual folk that the Earth's magnetic field is low at the moment but really, the 1989 storm was an X15. This is X1.

>>35745
The aurora borealis is visible. Although since 1989 the threat was obvious and been largely addressed.

>And that's unlikely to happen, or the news would be shouting about it more.

You'd think the BBC would at least have it as their lead story on the science page. That should be a worrying sign in itself.
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29th October 2021
Friday 9:08 pm
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>>35745

>Are solar flares visible?

Not without a solar telescope. The Aurora Borealis are caused by charged particles from solar wind interacting with the ionosphere.

The Mirror are hyping this up out of all proportion. There was a moderately large coronal mass ejection yesterday, but nobody will notice other than seafarers, pilots, astronomers and radio nerds. There might be minor disruption to some niche communications systems for a few hours or days, but it won't affect your mobile phone or anything like that. Anyone who relies on the HF systems that are affected by solar flares is trained to deal with them, because they're a frequent occurrence.

Solar weather operates on an 11 year cycle of activity and we're currently at the quietest part of that cycle. This X1 flare is of interest to those handful of people it does affect because it suggests that solar activity might be picking up, but it's completely irrelevant to 99.999% of people. We had a number of flares 10 to 30 times larger than this one during the peak of the solar cycle between 2000 and 2003.
>> No. 35787 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 4:17 pm
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>I thought they just wiped out all technology worldwide

>>35747
>Anyone who relies on the HF systems that are affected by solar flares is trained to deal with them, because they're a frequent occurrence.

All of this. Those of us who are also secretly radio nerds like solar flares because it enhances propagation - I'll be able to communicate with countries I usually can't reach.

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>> No. 35732 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 6:29 am
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Man goes on trial in Germany accused of castrating men on kitchen table

A man has gone on trial in Germany accused of murdering one man and mutilating several others by performing illegal operations on their genitals.

The 66-year-old electrician told a regional court in Munich that he performed the procedures at the men’s request. The defendant, whose name was not released for privacy reasons, claimed he initially offered sexual services on sadomasochistic websites in order to earn money to pay off debts.

Later, the man allegedly began performing operations on his kitchen table in the town of Markt Schwaben, telling his victims he was a trained medical professional, the German news agency dpa reported. The defendant told the court he castrated or partially amputated the genitals of eight men between July 2018 and March 2020. But he denied responsibility for the death of one man, who died several days after a procedure. The dead man’s body was found in a box by police three weeks later.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/german-trial-accused-castrating-men-kitchen-table

Why is it always the Germans?
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>> No. 35739 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 1:37 pm
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Roughly the same reason the Japs are such raging perverts, they just manifest differently. Whereas Japan's is rooted in the humiliation and trauma of total defeat by nuclear weaponry, Germany's is more or less pure holocaust guilt self-loathing.

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>> No. 35552 Anonymous
14th October 2021
Thursday 2:19 pm
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58906165

>Kongsberg: Five dead in Norway bow and arrow attack

>Four women and a man were killed and two others wounded when a man used a bow and arrow to attack them in Norway.

>Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at 18:12 local time (16:12 GMT).

>A Danish man aged 37 has been arrested and questioned for hours overnight.


>daft militant buggery, and that
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>> No. 35659 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 6:34 pm
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>>35644

>We have a socially acceptable narrative of mental illness along the lines of "I was feeling bad, I asked for help and now I'm better" that is totally at odds with the experiences of people with severe and enduring mental illness.

That is kind of true, like if you're going in to have a broken leg fixed or a tooth straightened.

What if that leg just keeps breaking or that tooth keeps getting back out of alignment somehow. Neither is likely, but if we assume that mental illness is a one-time thing like a broken leg or a wonky tooth, then we also ignore just what you're saying, that mental illness isn't like that and can come back. It should really be treated more like recurring cancer. On the other hand, that is then a slippery slope in its own right, because assuming that somebody with a history of mental illness will at some point just slip back into it, a bit like a ticking time bomb, isn't fair to anybody who was able to put that mentall illness behind them for good.

That said, the most ludicrous thing is what happens in America, where at least for a while it seemed that going into sex rehab was more about the ritual than it was about learning to control your urges or channel them in a healthy way. It's like for some time, every B movie actor who got caught getting a blowie from a prostitute in his car in a back alley went to sex rehab. And probably more to save their own career than to better control their sexuality. Because harmful sexual tendencies are a lot more difficult to cure than many types of depression, which probably every paedo can attest to.
>> No. 35660 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 6:48 pm
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According to reports, nobody actually was killed by the Bow & Arrow, but they were all stabbed.
>> No. 35661 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>35658

The only part you're wrong about is it being the CIA, but in terms of the establishment in general, we have definitely developed into an attitude where a mental health problem is a faulty cog that needs only the requisite amount of repair to fulfil its function in the machine.
>> No. 35662 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 7:20 pm
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>>35660

Stabbed by an arrow. The same way you get hole punched by a bullet, I guess.
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18th October 2021
Monday 8:17 pm
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Did they fall madly in love with the first person they saw? Does that make it technically a sexual assault?

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>> No. 25931 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 11:46 am
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India soldiers killed in clash with Chinese forces

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53061476

Apparently they haven't been using guns so they've just been beating each other to death.

Are we going to have World War Three?
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>> No. 33496 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 9:52 am
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>>33495
Fuck off, you screencapping twat.
>> No. 33497 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 11:34 am
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Here you go, sensitivelad.

>A social media post from an account linked to the Chinese Communist Party has sparked controversy for appearing to mock India over its coronavirus crisis. The post on Chinese site Weibo showed an image of a rocket launch in China alongside a photo of the bodies of Covid victims being cremated in India. Text with it read: "Lighting a fire in China VS lighting a fire in India."

>The post, which appeared on Saturday afternoon, has since been deleted. It was reportedly published by an account belonging to an official Chinese law enforcement agency - the Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission - which has millions of followers on Weibo, a popular microblogging site in the country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56963996
>> No. 33500 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 1:38 pm
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>The west lighting a fire and then being asked about said fire


>>33497
This does bring up the broader point for me on the Indo-Pacific tilt that you still get that assumption that India will somehow counter-balance China if we pump it up. In reality the country is a mess more in need of basic developmental assistance and when it does have any strength it uses it to advance causes like Hindu-nationalism rather than supporting international stability.

The whole mode of thinking seems broken, China is a monster because we made it a monster with globalisation and our idea of counter-balancing the USSR made that okay.
>> No. 33657 Anonymous
23rd May 2021
Sunday 6:37 pm
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It is probably practice play fighting, like gang fights. Some people are simply violent.
>> No. 35651 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 9:07 am
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China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile

China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that caught US intelligence by surprise. Five people familiar with the test said the Chinese military launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle which flew through low-orbit space before cruising down towards its target.

The missile missed its target by about two-dozen miles, according to three people briefed on the intelligence. But two said the test showed that China had made astounding progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than US officials realised. The test has raised new questions about why the US often underestimated China’s military modernisation.

The US, Russia and China are all developing hypersonic weapons, including glide vehicles that are launched into space on a rocket but orbit the earth under their own momentum. They fly at five times the speed of sound, slower than a ballistic missile. But they do not follow the fixed parabolic trajectory of a ballistic missile and are manoeuvrable, making them harder to track. Taylor Fravel, an expert on Chinese nuclear weapons policy who was unaware of the test, said a hypersonic glide vehicle armed with a nuclear warhead could help China “negate” US missile defence systems which are designed to destroy incoming ballistic missiles.

“Hypersonic glide vehicles . . . fly at lower trajectories and can manoeuvre in flight, which makes them hard to track and destroy,” said Fravel, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fravel added that it would be “destabilising” if China fully developed and deployed such a weapon, but he cautioned that a test did not necessarily mean that Beijing would deploy the capability.

Mounting concern about China’s nuclear capabilities comes as Beijing continues to build up its conventional military forces and engages in increasingly assertive military activity near Taiwan.


https://www.ft.com/content/ba0a3cde-719b-4040-93cb-a486e1f843fb

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>> No. 35534 Anonymous
7th October 2021
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>A mum has taken to social media platform TikTok to claim she shares her husband with her mum and younger sister. Madi Brooks has revealed the unusual arrangement in a series of videos broadcast to her 90k+ TikTok followers.

>She says her mum, sister and husband are all part of an open relationship which 'keeps her man happy'. 'Me and my mum are both swingers and it's great. You know why? Because when I'm not in the mood, I can just let my husband have her. Yeah, I'm that kind of wife. I let my husband have her a couple of times a week." In another video uploaded by Madi to the social media platform, she said: "You want to know how I keep my man happy? I let him play with my little sister."

>The videos have been liked hundreds of thousands of times. But other users have been left scratching their heads at the admission, with one person commenting: "How did that conversation ever initiate?" Another said: "I don't know how anybody could share but it's your life."

>It is thought around 1.5 million Brits are currently involved in multi-partner relationships. The practice has seen a 50 per cent rise in the past decade and is now finding its way into the mainstream. An open-relationship, also known as non-exclusive relationship, is an intimate relationship that is sexually non-monogamous.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mum-says-shares-husband-mum-21774503

Would you ever consider opening your relationship to family members?
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>> No. 35545 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 2:19 am
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About 15 years ago I was involved in a variety of poly type arrangements, as were many of my social circle, never again. I’m currently in a more conventional relationship where the occasional threesome is an option.
>> No. 35546 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 12:51 pm
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>About 15 years ago I was involved in a variety of poly type arrangements, as were many of my social circle, never again

What happened? Just in case a small group of women offer such a relationship to any of us.
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9th October 2021
Saturday 12:59 pm
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>>35546
Most posts I've seen about poly relationships mention that you spend the majority of the time having incredibly tedious discussions about how everyone is feeling.
>> No. 35548 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 1:12 pm
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>>35547

I can imagine the drama is otherworldly, Lovecraftian extradimensional levels of ballache. Imagine all the stress one relationship causes and multiply it by every person involved.

I can understand people having open relationships with a fuck buddy on the side, or just good old fashioned swinging; but trying to have your cake and eat it like this poly lot is just asking for disaster I reckon.
>> No. 35549 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 4:38 pm
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What worries me is the kind of people in a polycule are exactly the kind of people who would enjoy >>35547. That and the sort of people who must surely keep a chore wheel at home and have become sexually gratified by enforcing it.

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>> No. 35501 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 9:50 pm
35501 Panama Papers Part 2: Pandoran Boogaloo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58780465
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/pandora-papers-offshore-finance
I imagine you're going to want a thread about this so I'm making it first, with a picture of the Pandoran native's feet from Avatar as the header image.
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>> No. 35502 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 10:09 pm
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Nothing much happens after every leak.
>> No. 35504 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 10:36 pm
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>>35502

That's demonstrably false.
https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/member/member/accounting-business/2018/01/insights/panama-papers.html
>> No. 35509 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 1:24 pm
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Imagine I posted that Jeremy Clarkson meme where he goes "Oh no! Anyway." because that's about the extent of what will happen about all of this.
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4th October 2021
Monday 2:20 pm
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>>35509
I read this >>35504 and changed my mind. It appears to have had an impact, with loads of ongoing investigations across the board. I do wonder if our government wouldn't want to do anything else going forward because of Brexit.

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>> No. 34443 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 3:31 pm
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>More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers have fled to neighbouring Tajikistan after clashing with Taliban militants, officials have said. The troops retreated over the border to "save their own lives", according to a statement by Tajikistan's border guard.

>Violence has risen in Afghanistan, with the Taliban launching attacks and taking more territory in recent weeks. The surge coincides with the end of Nato's 20-year military mission in the country. The vast majority of remaining foreign forces in Afghanistan have been withdrawn ahead of a September deadline, and there are concerns that the Afghan military will collapse.

>Under a deal with the Taliban, the US and its Nato allies agreed to withdraw all troops in return for a commitment by the militants not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in the areas they control. But the Taliban did not agree to stop fighting Afghan forces, and now reportedly control about a third of the country.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57720103

How long do you reckon it'll be until we're back in Afghanistan? Will China and Iran give it a go?
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>> No. 35256 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 7:25 pm
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>>35255
I am also implying that you're furious right now despite there being no particular reason to believe it.
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9th September 2021
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>35256
Come lad. Have some warm gin.
>> No. 35258 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 7:36 pm
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>>35257
Calm down now.
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9th September 2021
Thursday 11:41 pm
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>>35258
I am also implying that you're furious right now despite there being no particular reason to believe it.
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28th September 2021
Tuesday 10:43 pm
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>>35260

The two of you need to become much less vexed immediately.

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>> No. 35344 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 3:13 pm
35344 Russia election: Putin's party wins election marred by fraud claims
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58614227

With almost all of the votes counted, the United Russia party had won nearly 50% of the vote, marking a slight drop in support from the previous election.

Mr Putin's biggest critics were barred from running, and there were reports of ballot stuffing and forced voting.

Russia's electoral commission rejected claims of widespread irregularities.

With more than 99% of votes counted, United Russia's closest rival, the Communist Party, had about 19% of the vote, according to the election commission.
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>> No. 35345 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 3:30 pm
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What did all the supporters of banned opposition do? Did they vote for other parties, or boycott the election completely? Because 50% of the vote is either acceptably decent or a guaranteed failure if elections were fair, depending on whether it's 50% of everyone or 50% of just the people who were allowed in.
>> No. 35346 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 3:58 pm
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Putin's own party got 50%, but at least another 30% went to controlled opposition. Turnout was significantly lower than previous elections so the assumption is that the real opposition simply stayed home.

Also, the fraud this time was hilarious. They didn't even bother with the balloons. There are videos of people quite literally stuffing ballot boxes while polling staff just sit there and watch them do it.
>> No. 35347 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 8:31 pm
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>Also, the fraud this time was hilarious.


Not much point giving them the benefit of doubt.

And those voting machines really are a marvel of technology.


Source: https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/1440219181979295744

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>> No. 34765 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 9:34 pm
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Priest at criminal’s funeral: The most disturbing liturgy I’ve attended

A parish priest has described the funeral for Dean Maguire, one of the three men killed in a road crash last week, as the ‘most disturbing liturgy I was ever at’.

Chaotic scenes, in which a small number of mourners for Dean Maguire, 29, blocked off roads and intimidated members of the public on the way to St Mary’s Priory church in Tallaght on Friday, have sparked widespread outrage.

Mr Maguire was killed, alongside his friends Graham Taylor, 31, and Carl Freeman, 26, when the car they were travelling in crashed into a truck on the N7. The men, who had over 200 convictions between them and were part of a notorious criminal gang, had been travelling purposely on the wrong side of the road to avoid being captured by gardaí.

During the funeral service for the father-of-two, friends of the ‘career criminal’ placed a torch and screwdriver as remembrance gifts beside his coffin. A professionally printed banner featuring his face on the altar also read: ‘You know the score, get on the floor, don’t be funny, show me the money.’


https://extra.ie/2021/07/20/news/irish-news/dean-maguire-funeral-priest

Mourners who made eulogies said Maguire would not be forgotten. “Sorry for the language, Father – rest in peace, you fucking legend,” said one woman.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/disturbing-liturgy-irish-burglar-dean-maguire-funeral
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>> No. 34776 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 1:20 am
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We had a similar thing last year near my work; a full procession of cars honking their horns, and teenagers on quadbikes, for nearly an hour, all driving past to mourn the passing of some similarly lovable rogues, and those weren't even gypsies as far as I know.
>> No. 35331 Anonymous
17th September 2021
Friday 2:54 pm
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A significant decrease in burglaries in most Leinster counties is being attributed by senior gardaí to the deaths of three prolific criminals as well as a number of arrest operations.

The deaths of Tallaght criminals Graham Taylor (31), Karl Freeman (26) and Dean Maguire (29) made international headlines after the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a lorry as it drove the wrong way down the N7 near Rathcoole on the night of July 7. The three criminals who had over 200 previous convictions between them were main players in a gang who used the motorway network to carry out burglaries in rural areas.

Figures obtained by the Herald suggest there has been a major drop in this type of crime over recent weeks in most of the garda divisions where they were most active.


https://sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/decrease-in-leinster-burglaries-attributed-by-gardai-to-deaths-of-three-criminals-in-n7-crash-40858796.html

Proof, if it was needed, that society is so much better off when you remove the small number of habitual criminals.
>> No. 35332 Anonymous
17th September 2021
Friday 3:07 pm
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Yes but how do you remove them when the police are working for them?
>> No. 35342 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:29 pm
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>a gang who used the motorway network to carry out burglaries in rural areas
Not to be confused with the notorious B-Road Gang who terrorised rural homes in Wiltshire during the early 1980s.
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20th September 2021
Monday 12:14 pm
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>> No. 35031 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 5:34 pm
35031 Greensill: David Cameron 'made $10m' before company’s collapse
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58149765

David Cameron made about $10m (£7m) from Greensill Capital before the finance company collapsed, documents obtained by BBC Panorama suggest.

The documents indicate the former prime minister received $4.5m after cashing in Greensill shares in 2019.

Greensill, which made its money by lending to businesses, went into administration in March, leaving investors facing billions in losses.

Mr Cameron's spokesman said his remuneration was a private matter.

Greensill collapsed after its insurer refused to renew cover for the loans it was making.

Before its collapse, Mr Cameron unsuccessfully tried to persuade ministers to invest taxpayers' money in Greensill loans.

He has since been cleared of breaking any lobbying rules, but MPs said the former prime minister showed a "significant lack of judgement".
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>> No. 35032 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 5:40 pm
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If people burned down Tory's properties enough times, insurance companies would start to raise their rates or refuse to cover them.
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12th September 2021
Sunday 8:37 pm
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>> No. 35224 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 12:08 am
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>Snippets have trickled out over the years, from suggestions that the prime minister will be alerted by a phone call from a civil servant telling him or her “London Bridge is down,” to reports the death will be announced via a newsflash on the Press Association wire.

>Now the full extent of the preparations undertaken by the royal family and the Cabinet Office’s BRIDGES Secretariat can be revealed for the first time after POLITICO obtained a series of documents laying out in granular detail how Britain will respond when the day comes.
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>> No. 35225 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 12:12 am
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I don't know why this story has reappeared - the whole thing has been well known about for many years.
>> No. 35226 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 7:28 am
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"In a striking assessment of the scenes that could unfold, one memo warns of a worst-case scenario in which London literally becomes “full” for the first time ever as potentially hundreds of thousands of people try to make their way there "

Really? I guess it's good to plan for unlikely cases, but I'd bet pretty hard against this one.
Yeah, Queen's dead, can radio get back to normal programming, please. She's still dead, and I only really need to know if that changes, thanks.
>> No. 35227 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 8:07 am
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I'm really dreading a new coronation ceremony and all the nonsense around it. I'm not some deeply serious monarchist type who knows or cares deeply for convention, but I just know they're going to do some deeply embarrassing nonsense to "modernise" the whole thing.
Not in a vaguely racist "oh no black people are attending and they're not even there as a token gesture to the crown colony of literally just a giant square drawn on the map by some opium addict in the 1800s" kind of way. More in a "fuck off, does there really need to be an iPad and a shoehorned in statement about ""British Values"" which are neither uniquely British nor best embodied by the British shoehorned in here?" way. Doubly so because each little "modernisation" will no doubt be teased in advance and then subject to a mutual masturbation session in the media indefinitely.

At least it's not happening under Blair I suppose. Small mercies.
>> No. 35228 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 9:29 am
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Royalty is a good distraction from things going to shit with coronavirus, Afghanistan or whatever.
>> No. 35229 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 11:11 am
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You probably won't hear the most obvious song for quite some time on the radio after her passing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE

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