In todays news...

[Pirahna]

I always assumed an ex-pat was someone working in foreign parts and will return home to Blighty. We're immigrants, and proud of it.

From where I'm sitting you look like an emigrant.

Muy bien.

[gremlin]

The SNP, knowing what's important in the world right now, and presumably pushing hard on the manifesto items the good people of Scotland feel strongly about, have produced a document identifying the genders that the government recognises.

Now I realise that some of you dinosaurs are so entrenched in your TERF-centric and gender biased viewpoints that you can't tell the difference between an agender person and an autigender person. But clearly you lot are living in the dark ages. Obviously the number of genders that are currently existing in Scotland is...

Spoiler

24!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... trans.html
Soz - DM link.

[Mr Moofo]

The SNP, knowing what's important in the world right now, and presumably pushing hard on the manifesto items the good people of Scotland feel strongly about, have produced a document identifying the genders that the government recognises.

Now I realise that some of you dinosaurs are so entrenched in your TERF-centric and gender biased viewpoints that you can't tell the difference between an agender person and an autigender person. But clearly you lot are living in the dark ages. Obviously the number of genders that are currently existing in Scotland is...

Spoiler

24!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... trans.html
Soz - DM link.

And you would have thought the SNPs appalling record on social mobility, education , health service and hard drug deaths weren’t important enough.
I guess gender is the sort of thing you discuss on a big motohome

[gremlin]

Firearms officer not guilty of Chris Kaba murder

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17lk592ygdo

A sudden and unexpected outbreak of common sense.

Hmm. Not quite the angel his family would have us believe....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyly5122yeo

[Didge]

Firearms officer not guilty of Chris Kaba murder

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17lk592ygdo

A sudden and unexpected outbreak of common sense.

Hmm. Not quite the angel his family would have us believe....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyly5122yeo

Quelle surprise.

[Yorick]

Firearms officer not guilty of Chris Kaba murder

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17lk592ygdo

A sudden and unexpected outbreak of common sense.

Hmm. Not quite the angel his family would have us believe....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyly5122yeo

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Oh dear, never mind.

[Screwdriver]

Not a good idea to fuck around with the Israelis. In a master stroke right up there with exploding pagers is their latest stunt. While they have been busy bombing the crap out of Hezbollah's banking infrastructure, there was one large vault they couldn't destroy. At least not with bombs.

It's a massive vault built by Hezbollah right underneath a massive hospital in Lebanon because of course they would. The IDF are not going to attack it directly but they have just released their intelligence: the vault contains hundreds of millions in cash and gold and, by the way, here's a map and a plan of the place.

Genius.

[Screwdriver]

Oh well at least we know Sir Kier Stalin can't be bought...

Ok for all those who "can't be bothered" with politics, believe everything is "a conspiracy" and "nothing changes, it won't affect me"

Well now we know what Bill Gates was doing in No.10 Downing Street with Keir Starmer; giving him his instructions.

Vaccine passports, NHS digital passports, digital ID - call it what you want but it all amounts to the same thing - a biometric digital wallet for a 24/7 surveillance state.

There's no way they're sticking a dog tag on me. I would rather die.

[mangocrazy]

Alternatively Israel could simply be using the same tired old tropes they did as a pretext to bombing hospitals in Gaza. Now they're coming for hospitals in Beirut, so that there is nowhere for those injured in Israeli bombardments to get treatment. A particularly callous way of ensuring maximum death rates.

And you call it a stroke of genius.

[Count Steer]

Alternatively Israel could simply be using the same tired old tropes they did as a pretext to bombing hospitals in Gaza. Now they're coming for hospitals in Beirut, so that there is nowhere for those injured in Israeli bombardments to get treatment. A particularly callous way of ensuring maximum death rates.

And you call it a stroke of genius.

A difference between Gaza and Lebanon is that there are observers on the ground from a range of nations and they've been allowed to rummage around in said hospital (unchaperoned and, apparently, with a handy plan). Result nada, nuffink, not a sausage.

It's politics/war by meme again.

[Screwdriver]

Alternatively Israel could simply be using the same tired old tropes they did as a pretext to bombing hospitals in Gaza. Now they're coming for hospitals in Beirut, so that there is nowhere for those injured in Israeli bombardments to get treatment. A particularly callous way of ensuring maximum death rates.

And you call it a stroke of genius.

The more dead terrorists there are, the better. If those terrorists choose to hide behind the citizens in the country they have occupied, that's really too bad for the local populace.

Personally I'd like to live in a world where you don't run the risk of being stabbed to death, have your head cut off or risk being imprisoned for "blasphemy" against some ridiculous made up middle eastern superstition. If there are countries where the nominally "peaceful" populace are prepared to put up with radical Islam then that's too bad for them if they get caught up in a battle to eradicate those murderous barbarian savages.

Anyhow, it's miles away and most of us can only form an opinion from a remote perspective. "Luckily" thanks to a deliberate policy of welcoming in these fucking monsters, we will get to experience first hand what it's like to live among ignorant savages. It will get a lot worse here before it gets any better.

If I said that in public I'd be thrown in jail.

[JamJar]

Alternatively Israel could simply be using the same tired old tropes they did as a pretext to bombing hospitals in Gaza. Now they're coming for hospitals in Beirut, so that there is nowhere for those injured in Israeli bombardments to get treatment. A particularly callous way of ensuring maximum death rates.

And you call it a stroke of genius.

The more dead terrorists there are, the better. If those terrorists choose to hide behind the citizens in the country they have occupied, that's really too bad for the local populace.

Personally I'd like to live in a world where you don't run the risk of being stabbed to death, have your head cut off or risk being imprisoned for "blasphemy" against some ridiculous made up middle eastern superstition. If there are countries where the nominally "peaceful" populace are prepared to put up with radical Islam then that's too bad for them if they get caught up in a battle to eradicate those murderous barbarian savages.

Anyhow, it's miles away and most of us can only form an opinion from a remote perspective. "Luckily" thanks to a deliberate policy of welcoming in these fucking monsters, we will get to experience first hand what it's like to live among ignorant savages. It will get a lot worse here before it gets any better.

If I said that in public I'd be thrown in jail.

No you wouldn't

[mangocrazy]

From where I'm standing the biggest terrorist organisation on the planet is Zionist Israel. The scale of death and destruction they've unleashed in the last year has been staggering. But it's all OK, 'cos the USA (and the UK) has got their back.

[KungFooBob]

From where I'm standing the biggest terrorist organisation on the planet is Zionist Israel. The scale of death and destruction they've unleashed in the last year has been staggering. But it's all OK, 'cos they mostly look like us.

Fixed it for you.

[mangocrazy]

Either version will do.

[gremlin]

I've been following this story with interest. Bizarre and sickening.

Gisèle Pelicot takes stand in French mass rape trial

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr2yym0nko

The story itself is beyond horrific, but what I will say is that she has more bravery and dignity than can be imagined.

[gremlin]

No more Chav Chimneys after June next year....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7n3zyp114o

How I shall miss the sickly-sweet smell of raspberry sorbet flavour or choc-ice and beef gravy flavour as I am enveloped in a cloud of steam, reminiscent of a passing steam engine as I'm sat enjoying a quiet pint in a pub garden. Not to mention the joy of negotiating a path through the thoughtfully disposed of lumps of plastic and battery that have been dropped when finished.
Tis truly the passing of a wonderful age.

[Saga Lout]

No more Chav Chimneys after June next year....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7n3zyp114o

How I shall miss the sickly-sweet smell of raspberry sorbet flavour or choc-ice and beef gravy flavour as I am enveloped in a cloud of steam, reminiscent of a passing steam engine as I'm sat enjoying a quiet pint in a pub garden. Not to mention the joy of negotiating a path through the thoughtfully disposed of lumps of plastic and battery that have been dropped when finished.
Tis truly the passing of a wonderful age.

...the move ... is intended to protect children's health...

Public Health England have repeatedly said that vaping is 95% safer than smoking cigarettes. Vaping is a substitute for smoking. The move might be intended to protect children's health but it will almost certainly increase children's smoking rates and damage children's health.

[MrLongbeard]

No more Chav Chimneys after June next year....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7n3zyp114o

How I shall miss the sickly-sweet smell of raspberry sorbet flavour or choc-ice and beef gravy flavour as I am enveloped in a cloud of steam, reminiscent of a passing steam engine as I'm sat enjoying a quiet pint in a pub garden. Not to mention the joy of negotiating a path through the thoughtfully disposed of lumps of plastic and battery that have been dropped when finished.
Tis truly the passing of a wonderful age.

Silly old person, chuck a USB C charging port on 'em, put the price up 50 pence, rinse and repeat carry on as before.

[Yorick]

Common sense at last...

'London is safer' without 'bad' Chris Kaba - Jenrick
Robert Jenrick, one of the final two candidates to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, is speaking to Sky News this morning.

There is just over a week left in the contest to be the next Tory top dog.

The former Home Office minister was asked for his opinion on Chris Kaba and the related trial of the police officer who shot him.

This comes in the wake of Kaba's criminal history being made public and the officer being cleared of murder.

Mr Jenrick branded comments from wrapper Wretch 32 that Kaba was assassinated a "conspiracy theory".

He went on: "Chris Kaba was on a one man crime spree.

"He was stabbing. He was shooting. He was committing criminality on our streets.

"London is a safer place without this man."


Asked about concerns with how police deal with different communities, Mr Jenrick said he doesn't want there to be "different communities in our country" - instead saying the law should be enforced without fear or favour.

He criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan for "mourning" Kaba - saying no one should mourn the death of the 23-year-old.

Asked if he had sympathy for Kaba's mother, Mr Jenrick said: "We all feel sympathy for mums, for dads, for family members when somebody dies.

"But this is an individual who was a bad person. He was committing serious crimes. He was a gangster.

"London is a better place without him."