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[Ant]

Just to be clear, I think what Clarkson said is in really bad taste, whether he meant it or not.
I don't know if he was trying to be funny but it simply wasn't.

But it's only an issue because he's a parody of a rich tory buffoon and it's a vehicle for some to vent a bit of angst, like I said if he'd have said it about Truss then I'll bet a pound to a pinch of shit that not a single person on here moaning about it now, would have moaned about it then.

I quite like Megan Markle, she's a show biz person and so vanity and self-promotion come with the deal but from what I've seen she seems like a nice enough person and Harry seems to have found someone that makes him happy, so I don't get the hatred.

I don't know about Tory, it appears he might be more left than right wing?

[Mussels]

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I quite like Megan Markle, she's a show biz person and so vanity and self-promotion come with the deal but from what I've seen she seems like a nice enough person and Harry seems to have found someone that makes him happy, so I don't get the hatred.

The reason I don't like her is because they make such a big deal about press intrusion and their privacy but then sell negative stories about other people, she is the gutter press she pretends to hate.
She gets the flack as she appears to be the driving force behind it.

[Ant]

Well you'll all be pleased to know that Meggy has another documentary out, inspired by Mandella.

[JackyJoll]

I fucking hate racists, misogynists, homophobes and the intolerant.

and the dutch

Show me a Dutchman and I’ll show you…

Spoiler

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cf7dc579-4 ... 0#IXf1Nmhl

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

If you don't like Megan, don't talk about her or watch her, she wants the publicity good and bad, if you ignore her she'll go away (eventually)

[Ant]

Well you'll all be pleased to know that Meggy has another documentary out...

That's her job.
If you're a plumber you don't get moaned at for putting taps in to make money, her job is making TV stuff and creating enough PR to sell it.

They're good at it, they're absolutely minted and it looks like they're successfully getting enough of the public to flip and buy into it, good luck to them.

That's the irony, they're minted, dripping in spunk and money, literally pouring off them - yet they're so hard done by and oh woe is me. All of the racist whiteys who are watching their documentary, on Netflix, the same company who made a drama involving Harry's late mother, with scenes he actively didn't want them to broadcast (and rightly so as it was in bad taste).

Tonight on Netflix I might watch a documentary on WW2.

[DefTrap]

But it's only an issue because he's a parody of a rich tory buffoon and it's a vehicle for some to vent a bit of angst, like I said if he'd have said it about Truss then I'll bet a pound to a pinch of shit that not a single person on here moaning about it now, would have moaned about it then.

He said something derogatory about Gordon Brown, quite a long time ago now, and it became a thing he was criticised for. And, surprise-surprise, he apologised for that one too. He's learned nothing because there's nothing to learn.

The running themes are -
- he picks a victim perfectly poised to provoke mixed reaction to his unkindness (you'd have thought everyone disliked Brown but apparently reminding the world that he's a one-eyed scotch idiot is a step too far)
- he gets lots of publicity
- he apologises
- he does it again

But yeah nobody likes Truss and there's nothing to sympathise with her about.

[ZRX61]

A low lying country full of low lying people

Apparently Dutch genetics produced the tallest people, I assumed it was because all the short ones drowned.

[Horse]

I quite like Megan Markle, she's a show biz person and so vanity and self-promotion come with the deal but from what I've seen she seems like a nice enough person and Harry seems to have found someone that makes him happy

Recently, I spent some time with a group of people, one of whom knew them both.

Getting to know us, and being asked, led to some indiscretions. You can probably tell that I am, deliberately, being very vague.

However, the description was, with an example given, "She's a liar". In that example, what Harry was told by her was not what had been said, but resulted in Harry then having verbals at the person she had spoken to.

[JackyJoll]

I fucking hate racists, misogynists, homophobes and the intolerant.

and the dutch

Show me a Dutchman and I’ll show you…

Spoiler

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cf7dc579-4 ... 0#IXf1Nmhl

My mistake about the link file thing!

[Yorick]

Hey lads, get yer Speedos out

https://www.bbc.com/sport/swimming/64065384

[Count Steer]

and the dutch

Show me a Dutchman and I’ll show you…

Spoiler

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cf7dc579-4 ... 0#IXf1Nmhl

My mistake about the link file thing!

Thanks

[Horse]

Hey lads, get yer Speedos out

https://www.bbc.com/sport/swimming/64065384

'Slow-os', in my case

[Treadeager]

The right calibre......

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... r-removed/

Hospital evacuated as man, 88, has WWI shell removed from inside his body
The octogenarian assured staff the shell, which was stuck inside his rear, was a collector’s item which had been deactivated

By
Vivian Song
21 December 2022 • 5:32pm
Sainte Musse Hospital in Toulon scrambled to evacuate some of its patients and called in the bomb squad
Sainte Musse Hospital in Toulon scrambled to evacuate some of its patients and called in the bomb squad
A French hospital had to be evacuated after a man in his 80s presented to doctors with a First World War shell stuck inside his rear.

Though the 88-year-old assured staff the shell was a collector’s item that had been deactivated, staff at the Sainte Musse Hospital in Toulon scrambled to evacuate some of its patients, redirect others, and call in the bomb squad.

“An apple, a mango, or even shaving foam…we’re used to finding unusual objects inserted where they shouldn’t be,” an unnamed ER staffer told the local paper Nice-Matin, which broke the story.

“But a shell? Never.”

The man’s appearance at the hospital required a major reshuffling and partial evacuation of patients, most notably the paediatric unit, to the main hall. For a few hours on that Saturday evening, new patients were also redirected to other hospitals.

The gynaecology and maternity wards were the only units that operated mostly undisturbed.

As an added precautionary measure, a make-shift tent was also set up outside the hospital to treat the octogenarian in isolation.

Doctors performed abdominal surgery
Once the bomb technicians confirmed that the shell was indeed inactive and ruled out the possibility of an explosion, doctors proceeded with the removal of the war relic. But as told to the Nice-Matin, “it rarely comes out from where it comes in”.

To extract the shell, which measured around six centimetres in diameter and 20 centimetres in length, doctors had to perform abdominal surgery and remove it from the other end.

The man had reportedly found the shell at his brother’s home. The surgery went smoothly and the patient is recovering.

Hospital management confirmed to Nice-Matin that the unusual incident occurred between 9pm and 11.30pm on Saturday “requiring the intervention of bomb defusers, the evacuation of adult and paediatric emergencies as well as the redirection of emergency flow”.

Along with an internal memo from hospital management thanking staff for their mobilisation that night, a photo of the extracted shell also made the rounds among workers and eventually on the internet after being posted online.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

He shoved a 6 pounder shell up his arse?

[Yambo]

He's 88, it may well have been there a while . . .

[Skub]

To extract the shell, which measured around six centimetres in diameter and 20 centimetres in length, doctors had to perform abdominal surgery and remove it from the other end.

[cheb]

My first thought when I read that story was how cold was the shell, did he warm it first?

[Felix]

I see its catching

https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/05/bomb-squ ... -15710207/

[Horse]

A year ago:

https://www.insider.com/uk-man-wwii-she ... ed-2021-12

Bomb disposal experts were called to a hospital in Gloucester, England, after a man told doctors that there was a World War II anti-tank shell lodged inside of him, authorities said.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team (EOD) arrived at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Wednesday morning after hearing that "a patient had presented with a munition in his rectum," a spokesperson for Gloucestershire Constabulary told Insider.

Doctors had already removed the item by the time the bomb squad arrived, the spokesperson added, and the EOD confirmed that the shell was "not live" and "therefore not a danger to the public."

The Sun was first to report that the unnamed patient told doctors at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital that he "slipped and fell" on the two-inch-wide artillery shell.

Dang! Beaten!