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>> No. 35193 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 7:33 pm
35193 ABBA is back
Not sure what to make of this, at all.
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>> No. 35203 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 12:52 am
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>>35202
It seems the new line-up is Digital Agnetha, Digital Frida, Digital Benny and Tom Hardy from Star Trek: Nemesis.
>> No. 35208 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 12:44 pm
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Why bother de-aging them but still motion capturing the OAP versions? Isn't it going to be kind of strange to see a bunch of 30-odd-year-olds shuffling around like they're eighty? Whatever, fuck this.
>> No. 35211 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 5:40 pm
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Either they need the money, which I doubt because I'm sure Abba royalties still pay out handsomely, or they're crossing off their bucket list.

Never considered myself a fan, although admittedly they had three or four really good songs.
>> No. 35217 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 2:07 am
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>>35211
>Either they need the money, which I doubt because

I'm guessing it's a tax bill.
>> No. 35220 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 6:02 pm
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>>35217

Sweden does tax the fuck out of you.

According to https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/sweden/individual/taxes-on-personal-income , you pay over 50% on employment income over the equivalent of £44,158.

Then again, 30% capital income tax doesn't seem all that disturbing in comparison. I guess being rich in Sweden still has its perks.

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>> No. 34875 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 10:36 pm
34875 Student's design chosen for Queen's Platinum Jubilee emblem
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58062455

A student has said he is "over the moon" after his design was selected as the emblem to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next year.

Edward Roberts's purple and white logo was chosen ahead of a number of entries from young creatives.

Featuring a stylised crown and working in the number 70, the round background appears similar to a royal seal.

The 19-year-old, from Southwell in Nottinghamshire, said: "It's just an amazing feeling to win it."

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee will be marked in June 2022 with a four-day bank holiday weekend, among other celebrations.
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>> No. 34954 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 6:21 pm
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>>34953
Scousers don't like anyone.
>> No. 34955 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 6:29 pm
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>>34954
Why would you?
>> No. 34957 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 8:11 pm
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>>34953

Partly the ridiculous chip on the shoulder that Scousers have about everyone and everything, partly a latent memory of a time before cheap holidays when we always spent a fortnight in a rain-lashed caravan in Rhyl.

There's an element of cameraderie given our mutual hatred of the English, but the sheer Welshness of the Welsh is a bitter reminder that Scousers are inescapably English whether they like it or not.
>> No. 34958 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 8:30 pm
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>>34957
>the sheer Welshness of the Welsh is a bitter reminder that Scousers are inescapably English whether they like it or not

Whether you meant it nor not, I found this phrase very amusing. It is the nutshell of living in England.
>> No. 34959 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 8:43 pm
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The seems to be someone from the ManchesterLiverpool Echo trying to shit this thread up with their parochial gobshitery.

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>> No. 18914 Anonymous
9th April 2019
Tuesday 5:38 pm
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Department store Debenhams has officially gone into administration after the shop rejected plans by Sports Direct's Mike Asheley to save it.

FTI Consulting has now been appointed as administrators for the chain, whose shops will continue trading for now. Debenhams is expected to close 50 of its 165 stores in the future, but no timescale has been announced yet.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/breaking-debenhams-enters-administration-50-14268573

How come it seems like almost every high street shop is either in administration or on the brink of it?
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>> No. 34815 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 10:22 pm
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>>34814
I know a few art spaces in semi-industrial areas that have people living in them for ... I don't know how long but they always seem to be there.
>> No. 34817 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 11:26 pm
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>>34807

You do need planning permission to convert a commercial property into a residential one, but as of next month it'll be a permitted development right under Class MA.

https://www.planninggeek.co.uk/gpdo/changes-of-use/class-ma/
>> No. 34818 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 12:12 am
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>>34817
I'm curious how squatting rights intersect with planning rights, and if that's getting abused. If some interest wanted an industrial area turned into a residential development, could they secretly fund a commune to live in that area and "allow" them to build and develop amenities for a decade and then turn around and "buy them out" and go ham because now it's residential?
>> No. 34821 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 7:14 am
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>>34818

You could in theory, but you wouldn't really need to. The new reforms to the planning system give the presumed right to convert most commercial properties to residential use. Council planning departments have a very short list of grounds to object to such a conversion, otherwise they have to give you permission.

If you wanted to develop on a large scale you'd need to jump through some hoops with regards to transport impacts, your development needs to have natural light in every habitable room, but otherwise there's really nothing they can do to stop you.

I'm currently looking for a suitable light industrial unit to convert, because I've always wanted a house with three-phase power and a loading dock.
>> No. 34822 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 9:29 am
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>>34821
You're still constrained by building standards, though. If you're planning to build hutches for students, they have to be able to stretch their legs out and express natural behaviours such as shitting in buckets. It's a low bar.

It's going to be fascinating to see some of the horrendous conversions. My local council already (8 years ago?) converted a load of their city centre offices into student hovels in a strange arms-length deal. The conversions done with cardboard, string and piss buckets will be much more fun.
I'm pretty much in favour of it as a plan - have people actually live in city centres again, it's just the implementation that's going to be grim at times.

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>> No. 29789 Anonymous
6th January 2021
Wednesday 9:44 am
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>Four boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading. Oliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday. The five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-55525269

A 13 year old girl paying for her boyfriend to get stabbed to be taught a lesson after he was mad about her sending nudes to other people. I'm pretty sure at that age I was still playing with Pokémon.
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>> No. 34805 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 7:13 pm
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>Two schoolboys who ambushed a 13-year-old and stabbed him to death after a dispute on social media have been found guilty of murder.

>Olly Stephens suffered fatal stab wounds to his chest and back in a field in Reading, Berkshire, on 3 January. He had been lured there by a girl and was then attacked by two boys carrying knives, Reading Crown Court was told.

>The girl, 14, admitted manslaughter. She will be sentenced with the two boys, also both 14, at a later date.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-57901344
>> No. 34806 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 7:35 pm
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>>34805
>He had been lured there by a girl and was then attacked by two boys

I wonder how many men have been caught in such a trap throughout history. There's no defence.
>> No. 34809 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 8:58 pm
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>>29923

I don't follow the footy, and I'm fucking thick.
>> No. 34810 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 9:25 pm
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>>34805 >>34806
This is why I don't hang out with 14-year-old girls.
>> No. 34812 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>34810

That's what I don't get about paedos, you should have learned at school that you can't trust women, even when they're kids.

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>> No. 34746 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 12:03 am
34746 Fingerless Climber Missing
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57898987

A celebrated South Korean climber who lost his fingers to frostbite 30 years ago has gone missing during his descent from a mountain in laplanderstan.

Kim Hong-bin had just scaled the 26,400ft (8047m) high Broad Peak in the Karakoram mountains before he is thought to have fallen into a crevasse.

The climb made the 57-year-old the first disabled person to scale all the world's tallest mountains.

An initial search failed to locate him and a large operation is being planned.

Mr Kim, who had all his fingers amputated after suffering severe frostbite while climbing in Alaska in 1991, reached the summit of Broad Peak on Sunday as part of an expedition organised by a small group, the Korea Herald reported.
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>> No. 34748 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 12:07 am
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There's something about this story but I just can't put my finger on it.
>> No. 34750 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 12:20 am
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>>34748

Neither could he.

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>> No. 33975 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 9:55 pm
33975 South African woman gives birth to 10 babies
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57400074

>A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies in what would be a new world record.

>Gosiame Thamara Sithole's husband says they were astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb.
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>> No. 34456 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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>>34455
How much compo did the victims of Savile get?
>> No. 34457 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 7:27 pm
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>> No. 34458 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 8:12 pm
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>>34456
That was the first thought that popped into my head too, but then wouldn't it come up on google?
>> No. 34459 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 8:33 pm
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>>34455

>a Jimmy Saville impersonator

Those have always been very thin on the ground.

I once saw a Gary Glitter tribute act in Benidorm at an all-inclusive hotel with my parents as a younglad, but I can't imagine he gets a lot of work nowadays.
>> No. 34460 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 8:46 pm
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>>34458
Some of the details will have been confidential, and some of the complainers might have thought twice about literally taking money away from charities.

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>> No. 34254 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 3:57 pm
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>Bogus Social Media Outrage Is Making Authors Change Lines in Their Books Now

>The silly idea that a fictional character’s statements reflect an author’s actual beliefs is spreading.

>A few days later a Twitter user posted a passage from Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue, a popular gay romance novel published in 2019, in which a supporting character who is the president of the United States complains, “Well, my UN ambassador fucked up his one job and said something idiotic about Israel, and now I have to call Netanyahu and personally apologize.” This, one user insists, “normalizes the genocide & war crimes done by Israel that will always be backed up & unashamedly supported by America.”

I understand that I am feeding into this right now. However, I think this is still important to discuss as 'twitter user said something' is an incredibly popular story template, and the problem is that these opinions are plausible, if not sincere.

So what if it's only a few random twitter users referred to in this article? The problem is that these twitter users are everywhere, and indistinguishable from 'normal' people with 'normal' talking points. Many of them likely are sincere, fuelled by the belief that they're doing what's best for people.

The media presents these as real opinions, and they become real. As you can see from the Netanyahu quote above, the foundation of this is moral outrage and the insistence that the offended party is moral, and is thus 'correct', as how could that suggestion be bad if it's highlighting the woe of others? Similar to the 'boys and girls' drama in the other thread - the woman in that said that "We're not saying people have to use these terms, but we think people in an educational environment should be challenging their use".

IE, we're not forcing you, we're just saying that there's a moral/intellectual imperative and you're a bad or stupid person if you disagree.
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>> No. 34257 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 4:15 pm
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>>34255
Thanks for trying, I struggle to articulate this concept despite thinking about it a lot. I need to speak to someone very smart and very patient and then come back. Maybe I should have posted a different image!

In summary, I think people are presenting strawmen for whatever reason (moral, intellectual, trolling), then people are arguing with those strawmen, and in doing so they create real opposition with their arguments, so the strawman becomes a real man and everyone gets a little bit more divided. Whether it's sincere or not doesn't matter, the final product is a divisive argument either way.

>On the topic of authors revising their work once they have read criticism of it, well, that's their prerogative isn't it.

Yeah, it is true. One of the things that concerns me is that prospective authors are seeing this and just sacking off writing. Amateur writers are being written off because they never fail enough, comfortably enough, to keep trying and improve. I also don't like the idea that they'd compromise challenging work to appease people, or rather that they may have to for their work to stand any chance of exposure.
>> No. 34258 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 4:21 pm
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>>34257
>One of the things that concerns me is that prospective authors are seeing this and just sacking off writing
Are they?
>> No. 34262 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 5:00 pm
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>>34258
At least 4. Personally I've only spoken to one person who's said that, a student who wanted to write YA trans oriented literature, so slightly different. In the linked thread there are a few people saying it tho.

Granted it may not be as much of a problem as they/I imagine, but it apparently is for some.
>> No. 34263 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 5:06 pm
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>>34262
I wonder what all the posts that were Comment deleted by user after getting downvoted have to say.
>> No. 34274 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 8:51 pm
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>>34257
I read your whole post and I enjoyed doing so. I didn't get angry at any grammatical errors or word choices, which I almost always do with everything else, including many posts here. You're a damn hero and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

But I don't really have much else to add, sadly. Yes, it's annoying. Everything is political now and everything is polarised. It's the culture war. We know. Everyone can see it, but there's nothing anyone can do. And for all these outspoken militants, there are ten times as many people who absolutely do not care. They could have read this person's book, but if it becomes part of The Culture War, they will shy away instinctively and that will be bad.

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>> No. 34246 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 9:09 pm
34246 Goodnight Sweet Prince
You mad fucking bastard.
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>> No. 34252 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 11:26 am
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I don't understand why anyone would want to do him in?
>> No. 34253 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 3:08 pm
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>>34252
They didn't - that stuff was all in his head, and a cover for his mad tax-dodging crypto-ramping lifestyle of recent years. He topped himself because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in jail.
>> No. 34269 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 7:42 pm
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Somewhat satirical interview with John McAfee and Jena Friedman, 2019.


>> No. 34270 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 7:59 pm
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>>34269

OMG Jena Friedman is tremendous.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 34280 Anonymous
25th June 2021
Friday 12:45 am
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>>34253

Given his track record of literally getting away with murder, I would be only mildly surprised if he turns up in Uzbekistan and the Spanish police exhume the remains of a tramp who bore a striking resemblance to McAfee.

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>> No. 33896 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 8:32 pm
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Stop letting Meghan name the babies! Goddamn it! Argh! What if this child winds up as an actual royal through a sequence of only moderately implausible coincidences?

"Lilibet" was a nickname for the Queen Mother, because someone, possibly the Queen or maybe Prince Charles, could not pronounce "Elizabeth". It is not, nor has it ever been, a real name that you should give to a baby. And Meghan has previous form for this. If you want a child called Archie, put the full name on the birth certificate then shorten little Archibald's name. Don't actually christen the child by a shortened name. You'll sound like an imbecile. Surely Harry understands the importance of children having REAL names? Why doesn't he speak up?
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>> No. 33900 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 8:52 pm
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Can we marry off a royal to a Japanese prince and then quietly just nick their royal family?
We could go back to having a quiet, dignified, distant sort of royalty actually capable of generating faint interest on the rare occasions they come up. No more boring gossip about people who you don't really know who they are because they're not the Queen, the queen's husband, or the heir apparent. (if only because we would no longer speak the language that all of that gossip is happening in.)
>> No. 33901 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 8:59 pm
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Stop being racist, it's part of their culture as Americans to give their children utterly daft names.
>> No. 33902 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 9:04 pm
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>>33899
A bit
>> No. 33903 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 9:19 pm
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Couple decide to name baby after great-grandmother's nickname? Outrageous!

Get a life.
>> No. 33904 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 12:12 am
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>>33896
Here's a solution: we exterminate every single member of the aristocracy and anyone related to them by marriage.

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>> No. 33826 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 2:30 pm
33826 Monsieur Moaty
A manhunt is under way in south-west France for a heavily armed former soldier who opened fire on police.

Helicopters, dog teams and more than 200 officers are searching for the man around the town of Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare in the Dordogne region.

Reports say the unnamed man is around 30 years old, has a history of domestic violence, and is armed with a high-calibre weapon.

The local government has urged residents to stay indoors.

"The man went overnight to his ex-partner's home. A dispute took place there, which led to the intervention of gendarmes and that is when the suspect shot at them. He then fled to woods nearby," prefect of Dordogne Frédéric Périssat told BFM television.

Mr Périssat added that the man is within a four sq km (1.5 sq mile) "hilly, wooded area" cordoned off by police.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57299850
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>> No. 33827 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 3:04 pm
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Nos douves?
>> No. 33831 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 5:17 pm
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There was a guy in Belgium doing this recently too. He got a gun, said he was going to kill the head of coronavirus research or something like that, and set off to find and kill him. The guy was taken to a secret location and is now being guarded by police, I think.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/19/belgian-manhunt-armed-soldier-jurgen-c-threatened-virologist
>> No. 33832 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 5:52 pm
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>>33826

>the man is within a four sq km (1.5 sq mile) "hilly, wooded area"

That seems to me a small enough area that a chopper's FLIR would find him in minutes?
>> No. 33833 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 6:45 pm
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>>33832

Happened after lunch so the chopper pilot's already had a glass of red wine.
>> No. 33835 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 8:06 pm
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I am on le way. I 'ave un bouteille du vin and un canne à pêche.

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>> No. 27266 Anonymous
28th August 2020
Friday 5:21 pm
27266 Corona thread #3 Locked
Right, now that the last corona thread is over 1,700 posts long, maybe it's time for a new one.

How long do you think it will be until we're fully back to normal?
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>> No. 33819 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 8:57 pm
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I feel ripped off that we didn't get to see that. Ordinarily that might be a nasty thing to wish on someone, but he went and got covid anyway so it's not even like wishing him harm - it's just wishing that harm he was going to bring on himself anyway had happened in the most absurd way possible.
>> No. 33820 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 9:44 pm
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>>33818

>I'm still trying to get over Cummings claim that the PM wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television.

>>33816

>boasting about how many COVID patient hands he had shaken

It's all starting to make (slightly more) sense.
>> No. 33821 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 11:43 pm
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>>33818

I hear he has at least 6
>> No. 33822 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 12:43 am
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> If we're to compare to to the Blitz
You can have a lot of fun with such comparisons; thank you for suggesting this. In my head, thousands of people would go and stand on the beach with pitchforks every weekend in 1940, to show the brave British spirit, and get shot to pieces by Messerschmitts every single time. The Daily Mail would write an article entitled, "WE WELCOME THE GREAT EXCELLENT VIRUS", and complaining about this would get you denounced as a nit-picking fusspot. We would all have big bonfires every night, and our cities would get bombed to shit in a gallant act of defiance. In the end, among the smouldering ruins of the heart of the British Empire, Alan Turing would invent the atom bomb all on his own, it would be named "the Great British Boris Banger", and we'd win the war anyway.

>>33815
>cyberbullying about poo
They still gang-rape women and throw acid on their daughters, though. It'll be a while before I consider India to be a nice place.
>> No. 33830 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 4:29 pm
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>> No. 33809 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 6:31 pm
33809 Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-57280115


Detectives said they were tipped off about lots of people visiting the unit throughout the day and a police drone picked up a lot of heat coming from the building.

Sgt Jennifer Griffin said, given the signs, they had expected to find a cannabis farm.

"It had all the hallmarks of a cannabis cultivation set-up and I believe it is only the second such crypto mine we have encountered in the West Midlands," she said.
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>> No. 33812 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 6:47 pm
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Do you read any of the threads on /*/ or is this a write-only forum for you?
>> No. 33813 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 6:50 pm
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Yeah dad you told us.

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>> No. 33442 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 4:56 pm
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ITV has cancelled plans to show the final episode of Noel Clarke’s primetime drama Viewpoint after the Guardian published detailed allegations of sexual harassment against the show’s star.

The five-part big budget thriller has been running every night this week at 9pm on ITV, but the conclusion of the story will no longer be shown on the broadcaster’s main channel on Friday night due to the “very serious nature” of the allegations raised by women who have worked with the actor and director.

The decision to pull the finale of a drama series from a mainstream television channel for off-screen reasons at the last minute is highly unusual. The broadcaster said the final episode would be made briefly available on its ITV Hub streaming service for viewers who wanted to see how the story concluded.


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/apr/30/noel-clarke-dropped-by-broadcasters-over-sexual-harassment-claims

Taking it off the air but still letting you stream it is a bit of a head scratcher.
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>> No. 33445 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 7:19 pm
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>sexual harassment
I know they say the allegations are very serious, but they were always going to say that. Sexual harassment can be a lot of things. The fact that he has been completely #cancelled overnight, and a TV programme he's in has now been thrown into the Well of Problematicity, certainly unsettles me. If he's a mad serial rapist, I guess it's up to ITV, although I'd at least let the series end before banishing him forever. If he just made some banter about boobies to a Vorderman-shaped colleague, then I would definitely, definitely let the series end before shitcanning him.
>> No. 33446 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 7:32 pm
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>>33445
He, allegedly, has a thing for getting young women who are trying to break into the industry to have 'naked auditions' whilst secretly filming it.
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30th April 2021
Friday 7:56 pm
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>>33445
There are twenty women alleging he's done shit so horrible he'd have been sacked years ago for any one of these incidents in any other line of work. Auditioning someone in the nude and secretly filming it is obviously something that's quite hard to bring about in most other jobs, but I don't think it's actually that shocking that he's lost work and his reputation is in the pits. This piece has all the alegations and they are damning and frequently corroborated: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/apr/29/actor-noel-clarke-accused-of-groping-harassment-and-bullying-by-20-women

However, it's not until the end of that piece that something very telling happens. The writers explain Clarke had his mate call some of these women, telling one “If you want that sit down at any point with Noel, whether it’s with lawyers there or me there, whatever you want, for him to apologise, I know he will, he will do that.”. That's from Clarke's business partner Jason Maza who also told the woman Clarke had spent an "insane" amount on private eyes, and you don't do these things if you're confident you can hold your hands up and say wasn't me, guv in complete honesty. This seems like some really in depth journalism and The Guardian would be out of in court and out of print by next week if it was baseless.

He's a petite Weinstein, seemingly. Leveraging power for sexual sexual favours and shutting down dissent by the same means. Fuck him, I hope he spills hot tea all down his best shirt and it burns his nipples off.
>> No. 33449 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 9:07 pm
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I hate how they say "harrassment" to rhythm with "embarrassment". I can't be the only one.

It's started to sound that way when I read it now. Fuck you BBC Radio 4.
>> No. 33776 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 10:10 pm
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>>33449

embar-ass-ment

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>> No. 32614 Anonymous
24th March 2021
Wednesday 1:06 am
32614 Media bias - is there any?
Do you believe the UK media is politically biased?

I get nearly all my news from the BBC. And the BBC is, officially, legally required to be politically impartial. And yet the new head of the BBC since last year, Tim Davie, is a full-blown Conservative politician who has taken several steps to stop the BBC being so critical of the government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Davie
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/31/exclusive-bbcs-new-boss-threatens-axe-left-wing-comedy-shows/

I'm no fan of sanctimonious wokeness, but I do believe the media has an obligation to challenge the government, which effectively makes it the voice of the opposition. So for as long as we regularly get 15+-year periods of uninterrupted Conservative government, yes, I do want the BBC to criticise the Conservatives, simply because they're the ones in power. If Jeremy Corbyn was Prime Minister, I would expect them to turn on him immediately, but it's hardly the BBC's fault nobody voted for him.

Lately, I've noticed that the BBC tends to get Conservative politicians on to interview them extremely frequently. If you watch the news at precisely 07:30 on a Friday, there's a different blue-ribbon bootlicker every week. And they do the rounds of every news organisation, also having Zoom conversations with ITV News and Sky News, while opposition politicians never get a look in. Is this deliberate? Are Labour MPs just refusing to get up that early, because they are lazy and poor and hungover from smoking crack all night? I know the TV presenters try to take Our Glorious Overlords to task during the weekly brown-nosing, but they never succeed. The Conservatives are just getting free advertising in the end. But for all I know, maybe that's because newsreaders are incompetent rather than some gigantic overarching national conspiracy to fellate God Emperor Boris at every opportunity.

I think we can all accept that tabloid newspapers are openly right-wing, but at the same time, social media is predominantly left-wing, and pretty unabashedly so. Does this cancel out? Is the media all right on the whole? I sometimes watch Russia Today, universally acknowledged as propaganda, just to see what propaganda looks like. They never lie, but every single story is just, "You can't trust the mainstream media, so watch RT instead for your brave daily dose of red pills." The fact that none of the news is actually completely fabricated, not even when it's made by literal foreign agents trying to undermine the fabric of Her Majesty's Great British Society, makes me feel confident that TV news reporting must be pretty tightly regulated. Newspapers, of course, are bollocks and must be ignored.

What do YOU think?
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>> No. 33643 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 9:04 pm
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>>33638
Sponge Bob?
>> No. 33644 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 9:17 pm
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He's clearly going to silence bumb them. It's the most insidious form of bumming.
>> No. 33656 Anonymous
23rd May 2021
Sunday 5:48 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkQEq75y18
>> No. 33660 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 7:51 am
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If history teaches us anything is that history teaches us nothing.
>> No. 33665 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 2:34 pm
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>>33660

Never cared much for Hegel.

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