Things that don't deserve their own thread

[Sandstorm]

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-ban ... f5b23aee7d

Finally someone has taken action against gay watches!

Backward religious wankers

[Uncle fester]

I completely agree but....

Oops

[sturginho]

Rugby fans

[Uncle fester]

I completely agree but....

Oops

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/ ... servatives

African Americans would be so much better off if MLK hadn't kicked up such a fuss hmm?

[Uncle fester]

Oh fuvk off

Or only black south Africans should have opposed apartheid because it might upset the regime and "force" them to employ even more repressive measures?

In fairness, this was more or less the approach taken by Thatcher and Reagan.

[Uncle fester]

Its not the same and you are not a stupid man. You are trolling me but not using your David Gwent handle

This is possibly the nicest thing you have ever said to me.

[MungoMan]

Meeting the definition of not worth its own etc but still mildly diverting: the Victorian mushroom deaths.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/ ... /102725876

[Sandstorm]

Meeting the definition of not worth its own etc but still mildly diverting: the Victorian mushroom deaths.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/ ... /102725876

Tragedy.

[David in Gwent]

Viral song doing the rounds. Pretty good actually.



Rich Men North of Richmond.

[Slick]

Viral song doing the rounds. Pretty good actually.



Rich Men North of Richmond.

That's great

[sockwithaticket]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

[TB63]

Wonder where DAC stumbled on that song..

Oh! Wait....no alterior motive here, no siree...

[David in Gwent]

Wonder where DAC stumbled on that song..

Oh! Wait....no alterior motive here, no siree...

Stumbled? The bloke has gone viral.

Decent song that touches most working class people, regardless of location, age, skin colour, political persuasion etc, etc.

I have no idea who that woman on Twitter is.

[David in Gwent]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

[sockwithaticket]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Very much no. No neo-liberals really stand for the working class, but the Republicans actively enact legislation at state level that undermines worker protections and social safety net programs that benefit those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder most.

[David in Gwent]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Very much no. No neo-liberals really stand for the working class, but the Republicans actively enact legislation at state level that undermines worker protections and social safety net programs that benefit those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder most.

Working class people aren't those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. We're the people who keep everything working, everything running - and it's these people the song is aimed at.

You don't even know who the working class are.

[sockwithaticket]

By republican do you mean working class?

Very much no. No neo-liberals really stand for the working class, but the Republicans actively enact legislation at state level that undermines worker protections and social safety net programs that benefit those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder most.

Working class people aren't those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. We're the people who keep everything working, everything running - and it's these people the song is aimed at.

You don't even know who the working class are

So retail and food service workers aren't working class? How about gardners or warehouse workers? Drivers and field pickers? If not then it's you who doesn't know who they are.

Working class obviously includes higher paid members like linemen or plumbers, but there are huge numbers who don't get to earn anywhere near that much thanks to the greed of employers, enabled by deregulation that disproportionately springs from right wing governance, and so need the assistance of social programs that the right wing consistently attempt to defund and destroy.

If you actually are working class rather than online larping as one, you sound like a class traitor.

[David in Gwent]

If you actually are working class rather than online larping as one, you sound like a class traitor.

Tell me you're a white middle class wanker without telling me you're a white middle class wanker.

[David in Gwent]

I find it fascinating that Left leaning political parties actually think they stand for working class people.

Such is the disgust at the Labour Party in the UK that even after a decade of the Tory Party fucking things up, massively, the Labour party won't be voted into Government with a majority at the next election.

[Slick]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Like Donald Trump? Salt of the earth that bloke

[David in Gwent]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Like Donald Trump? Salt of the earth that bloke

Like Starmer or Biden are working class?

[David in Gwent]

Is there any update on when Epstein's client list will be published? or have they gotten away with that entirely?

[Sandstorm]

Is there any update on when Epstein's client list will be published? or have they gotten away with that entirely?

Please take this line of inane questioning to loons-R-us.microbrain.net

[David in Gwent]

I got redirected back here.

[SaintK]

I got redirected back here.

.....unfortunately for the rest of us!

[David in Gwent]

I got redirected back here.

.....unfortunately for the rest of us!

[sockwithaticket]

By republican do you mean working class?

Like Donald Trump? Salt of the earth that bloke

Like Starmer or Biden are working class?

You mean Keir "son of a nurse and toolmaker" Starmer? He's obviously done fairly well for himself, but rather than piss off into corporate law and earn shedloads helping corporations screw working people his career has been in the considerably less high earning fields of human rights law and public service.

[David in Gwent]

Like Donald Trump? Salt of the earth that bloke

Like Starmer or Biden are working class?

You mean Keir "son of a nurse and toolmaker" Starmer? He's obviously done fairly well for himself, but rather than piss off into corporate law and earn shedloads helping corporations screw working people his career has been in the considerably less high earning fields of human rights law and public service.

"Gaslighting Alert"

His dad owned the fucking Toolmaking firm.

He charged £2000 an hour as a barrister

[sockwithaticket]

Like Starmer or Biden are working class?

You mean Keir "son of a nurse and toolmaker" Starmer? He's obviously done fairly well for himself, but rather than piss off into corporate law and earn shedloads helping corporations screw working people his career has been in the considerably less high earning fields of human rights law and public service.

"Gaslighting Alert"

His dad owned the fucking Toolmaking firm.

He charged £2000 an hour as a barrister

He's still considerably closer to the average working person than Trump who seemed to be the trigger for your whataboutism or Johnson and Sunak if we're looking closer to home.

[David in Gwent]

You mean Keir "son of a nurse and toolmaker" Starmer? He's obviously done fairly well for himself, but rather than piss off into corporate law and earn shedloads helping corporations screw working people his career has been in the considerably less high earning fields of human rights law and public service.

"Gaslighting Alert"

His dad owned the fucking Toolmaking firm.

He charged £2000 an hour as a barrister

He's still considerably closer to the average working person than Trump who seemed to be the trigger for your whataboutism or Johnson and Sunak if we're looking closer to home.

More gaslighting, he's about as close to working class as I am close to the Danish Royal Family.

None, and I mean none of these politicians give one single actual fuck about any of us. To pretend they do is dishonest.

[sockwithaticket]

All sides are not the same and believing they are is a solid indicator of a moron. Not being able to distinguish between good constituency MPs who we basically never see in the press/media and the kind of craven non-entities stinking up the current cabinet makes also not a great sign for someone's mental acuity.

[David in Gwent]

All sides are not the same and believing they are is a solid indicator of a moron. Not being able to distinguish between good constituency MPs who we basically never see in the press/media and the kind of craven non-entities stinking up the current cabinet makes also not a great sign for someone's mental acuity.

Do you think there's a reason that no one wants to vote for Labour or is it just because people are thick?

[sockwithaticket]

All sides are not the same and believing they are is a solid indicator of a moron. Not being able to distinguish between good constituency MPs who we basically never see in the press/media and the kind of craven non-entities stinking up the current cabinet makes also not a great sign for someone's mental acuity.

Do you think there's a reason that no one wants to vote for Labour or is it just because people are thick?

Probably a better question to ask when polling hasn't consistently been indicative of a Labour landslide.

[David in Gwent]

All sides are not the same and believing they are is a solid indicator of a moron. Not being able to distinguish between good constituency MPs who we basically never see in the press/media and the kind of craven non-entities stinking up the current cabinet makes also not a great sign for someone's mental acuity.

Do you think there's a reason that no one wants to vote for Labour or is it just because people are thick?

Probably a better question to ask when polling hasn't consistently been indicative of a Labour landslide.

Or probably a better question to ask why the LP don't seem to stand for the working class anymore and would appear to actually hate their own country.

[SaintK]

Getting murkier and murkier for this entitled so and so

The Captain Tom Foundation is under renewed scrutiny after reports its co-founder Hannah Ingram-Moore was paid thousands of pounds via a family company for appearances linked to the charity that bears her father’s name.

According to the BBC, Ingram-Moore helped judge Virgin Media O2 awards ceremonies featuring the Captain Tom Foundation. Although she was at the time the £85,000-a-year interim chief executive of the foundation, her appearance fee was paid via a private company owned by her and her husband, Colin.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ ... -daughter

[Blackmac]

Getting murkier and murkier for this entitled so and so

The Captain Tom Foundation is under renewed scrutiny after reports its co-founder Hannah Ingram-Moore was paid thousands of pounds via a family company for appearances linked to the charity that bears her father’s name.

According to the BBC, Ingram-Moore helped judge Virgin Media O2 awards ceremonies featuring the Captain Tom Foundation. Although she was at the time the £85,000-a-year interim chief executive of the foundation, her appearance fee was paid via a private company owned by her and her husband, Colin.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ ... -daughter

I think that looks as if it could get criminal, easy to prove a fraud case if any of those organisations make a genuine claim that they expected the money to go to the charity. The poor old bugger will be turning in his grave at the grifters he left behind.

[fishfoodie]

Now I'm very confused !!

So people are probably aware of the numerous FOI fuckups by different Police forces around the UK, & their various levels of severity.

The latest development in the case in NI, is that the PSNI has arrested someone for; "suspicion of collecting information likely to be useful to terrorists."

Given the information was published on a Government hosted website, & was available to anyone, how the fuck do you justify arresting someone for downloading it ? It's tantamount to entrapment, & looks like a desperate attempt to save face after a series of howlers & shit processes allowed someone to endanger the lives of thousands of PSNI officers.

A 39-year-old man has been arrested by PSNI detectives investigating criminality linked to last week's data breach.

The man was arrested on suspicion of collecting information likely to be useful to terrorists.

He was detained after a search was carried out in Lurgan, Co Armagh and is being questioned at Musgrave Serious Crime Suite.

Last week, the PSNI revealed a document had mistakenly been shared online, which included the names of about 10,000 officers and staff.

Details released included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/08 ... ta-breach/

[PornDog]

[Blackmac]

Now I'm very confused !!

So people are probably aware of the numerous FOI fuckups by different Police forces around the UK, & their various levels of severity.

The latest development in the case in NI, is that the PSNI has arrested someone for; "suspicion of collecting information likely to be useful to terrorists."

Given the information was published on a Government hosted website, & was available to anyone, how the fuck do you justify arresting someone for downloading it ? It's tantamount to entrapment, & looks like a desperate attempt to save face after a series of howlers & shit processes allowed someone to endanger the lives of thousands of PSNI officers.

A 39-year-old man has been arrested by PSNI detectives investigating criminality linked to last week's data breach.

The man was arrested on suspicion of collecting information likely to be useful to terrorists.

He was detained after a search was carried out in Lurgan, Co Armagh and is being questioned at Musgrave Serious Crime Suite.

Last week, the PSNI revealed a document had mistakenly been shared online, which included the names of about 10,000 officers and staff.

Details released included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/08 ... ta-breach/

I can only presume that it is linked in some way to the list being plastered over the Sinn Fein offices in Belfast, which is some way seemed to be linked to threats against the Sinn Fein MP who is their police spokesman. All seemed a bit bizarre.
Other than that it seems ludicrous.

[And 1 guest]

Was watching the women's football yesterday and deep into injury with a couple of mins to go my phone beeped with a notification that the dagon dykes had won it! Will lock my phone in the car for any tight RWC games