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[Yorick]

A few years ago we had 2" in 2 hours. That caused carnage.

They had 8 times that much. Hard to comprehend.

[ZRX61]

A bit more about the storm from the Guardian

"In the worst affected areas more than 400 litres of rain per square metre fell on Tuesday. Rubén del Campo, a spokesman for Spain’s meteorological agency, told El País: “A relatively strong storm, a powerful downpour, like those we see falling in spring or summer, can be 40 or 50 litres per square metre. This practically multiplies it by 10.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... sual-guide

It's raining again in Valencia now with a yellow storm warning for tomorrow. Thankfully Tuesdays storms went north and south of me, all I got was a couple of wet days, the lightning show on the horizon was spectacular.

MSM over here immediately jumped on the climate change bandwagon. Turns out that after the floods in '57 they changed the route of the river to prevent it happening again.. which would have worked if they hadn't allowed unrestricted building in the flood plain, including walls to stop the water actually going onto the flood plain, which then did the fat end of fuck all to prevent the water reaching the flood plain... which is where all the building was done.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Yeah it's MSM hyperbole, they didn't have a years worth of rain in a day.

[JackyJoll]

A few years ago we had 2" in 2 hours. That caused carnage.

They had 8 times that much. Hard to comprehend.

I can comprehend it. It’s 16 inches. 1’ 4”.

[Screwdriver]

So: thought crime and Islamophobia.

Ignore the proposition that the horrific and savage murder of innocent children was either terrorism, radical Islamism or racially motivated. We do not know and most likely will never know. There is, as I have suggested, a valid argument to be made that such inflammatory factual information should be withheld from public view. I do not subscribe to that argument but we digress.

The Labour party are currently proposing that Islamophobia is a form of racism. An idiotic premise since neither islamism nor "Muslimism" is a racial type. However, such a definition does make "Islamophobia" a crime if conflated with existing laws against espousing racist ideologies.

Not only that but they have also accepted the Muslim council of Britain (!) definition of islamophobia. That forbids for example criticising the absurd dress code that this religion imposes on women. Forbids criticism of misogynistic behaviour (does that include wife beating??).

TBH you can see this shit for yourself. I don't know how it affects our current laws on child mutilation or how far our Labour leaders will bend the knee to Sharia law but it is a slippery slope to the Uk becoming an Islamic state. Once an area becomes controlled by a Muslim council, we don't ever get it back. It is a one way ticket back into the dark ages if you ask me.

Dragging this back up with some extraordinary commentary, one for the conspiracy theorists to get their teeth into.

This young "schoolboy Welsh Christian" who it turns out was studying the ISIS terrorist cookbook and knocking up ricin - why did his parents flee Rwanda?

Might be something to do with this:



If true is does beg the question as to why the government were so keen to censor any criticism, empty the jails of known criminals just so they can shut up anyone who dared to speak out about these horrific child murders.

Import the third world, become the third world.

[Saga Lout]

The right wing, racist, misogynistic Tory party have just elected their fourth woman and second non white leader. It's a funny old world.

[JackyJoll]

The right wing, racist, misogynistic Tory party have just elected their fourth woman and second non white leader. It's a funny old world.

I might temper your sarcasm by saying the Conservative Party should be reasonably right wing.

Mrs Badenoch (but pronounced properly Scotchly) is a good choice and I’ll be interested to see how she gets on.

[westers151]

Yeah it's MSM hyperbole, they didn't have a years worth of rain in a day.

Where, in any of the comments, was it mentioned that they didn't have a years worth of rain?

[Horse]

Yeah it's MSM hyperbole, they didn't have a years worth of rain in a day.

Where, in any of the comments, was it mentioned that they didn't have a years worth of rain?

If you mean 1957, they had 500mm over two days.

[Count Steer]

Yeah it's MSM hyperbole, they didn't have a years worth of rain in a day.

Where, in any of the comments, was it mentioned that they didn't have a years worth of rain?

If you mean 1957, they had 500mm over two days.

...and if referring to Feb 2024 Los Angeles got 179mm in 2 days (compared with the annual average of 364mm). I guess that's a year's rain in 2 days. But, of course it can't possibly be due to global warming because they had more rain in 1957.

[Felix]

This is in a town near me

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9551985 ... FQAw%3D%3D

That mark is probably over 7" and the water has never been that high since. I dont think it has ever been close since as the river is a good few 100 meters south. Global warming aye

[wheelnut]

Police have asked people to stop sharing graphic images of a pensioner who was decapitated when he was hit by a bus in Edinburgh city centre.

Social media has been flooded with photographs and videos of the 74-year-old’s remains after the collision at the heart of the capital’s nightlife district on Saturday evening.

The city’s police commander said that the images — including one in which a reveller appears to mistake his severed head for a Halloween decoration — were upsetting the victim’s family.

Public urged not to share graphic images of Edinburgh bus death

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1e8119 ... 22169c61a0

[MyLittleStudPony]

Global warming was made up by the wokery remoaners because they don't have a ticket.

[Noggin]

Police have asked people to stop sharing graphic images of a pensioner who was decapitated when he was hit by a bus in Edinburgh city centre.

Social media has been flooded with photographs and videos of the 74-year-old’s remains after the collision at the heart of the capital’s nightlife district on Saturday evening.

The city’s police commander said that the images — including one in which a reveller appears to mistake his severed head for a Halloween decoration — were upsetting the victim’s family.

Public urged not to share graphic images of Edinburgh bus death

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1e8119 ... 22169c61a0

FFS what is WRONG with people nowadays

[JamJar]

Police have asked people to stop sharing graphic images of a pensioner who was decapitated when he was hit by a bus in Edinburgh city centre.

Social media has been flooded with photographs and videos of the 74-year-old’s remains after the collision at the heart of the capital’s nightlife district on Saturday evening.

The city’s police commander said that the images — including one in which a reveller appears to mistake his severed head for a Halloween decoration — were upsetting the victim’s family.

Public urged not to share graphic images of Edinburgh bus death

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1e8119 ... 22169c61a0

FFS what is WRONG with people nowadays

It gets worse, loads of scum spinning the story on X to imply he was decapitated by a Muslim.

[cheb]

Police have asked people to stop sharing graphic images of a pensioner who was decapitated when he was hit by a bus in Edinburgh city centre.

Social media has been flooded with photographs and videos of the 74-year-old’s remains after the collision at the heart of the capital’s nightlife district on Saturday evening.

The city’s police commander said that the images — including one in which a reveller appears to mistake his severed head for a Halloween decoration — were upsetting the victim’s family.

Public urged not to share graphic images of Edinburgh bus death

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1e8119 ... 22169c61a0

FFS what is WRONG with people nowadays

The same that has always been wrong with people. Look back to the days of public capital punishment, it was seen as a grand day out.

We glorify violence on screen too, was it Tarantino who wanted to cause people to vomit because of the graphic realism of his films?

[Noggin]

Public urged not to share graphic images of Edinburgh bus death

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1e8119 ... 22169c61a0

FFS what is WRONG with people nowadays

It gets worse, loads of scum spinning the story on X to imply he was decapitated by a Muslim.

OMG. I despair of humans sometimes

Public urged not to share graphic images of Edinburgh bus death

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1e8119 ... 22169c61a0

FFS what is WRONG with people nowadays

The same that has always been wrong with people. Look back to the days of public capital punishment, it was seen as a grand day out.

We glorify violence on screen too, was it Tarantino who wanted to cause people to vomit because of the graphic realism of his films?

I guess so. But I suppose I can differentiate between screen violence and real life, and I definitely think we should have moved on from Medeivel days or capital punishment days.

AND, these fukkers know that the family can or might see their posts online - surely that should stop people?

I just don't get it. People say that humans are evolved and do evolve. I'm not sure that as a species we do. Some people do. But too many don't

[Buckaroo]

Because in truth we're basal animals. Intellectually we have evolved but when it comes to such matters many revert to getting a buzz out of such visceral things. Think of all the terrible genocidal acts that have occurred and continue to occur.
Personally I avoid this kind of stuff like the plague. I'm a sensitive Pisces sort of bloke don't you know.

[Noggin]

Because in truth we're basal animals. Intellectually we have evolved but when it comes to such matters many revert to getting a buzz out of such visceral things. Think of all the terrible genocidal acts that have occurred and continue to occur.
Personally I avoid this kind of stuff like the plague. I'm a sensitive Pisces sort of bloke don't you know.

I'm not particularly sensitive normally (ok, I can be, but generally ignore stuff! Is that Sagittarius style??!!) - this sort of thing makes me want to find the people posting the photos and make them realise their error - no photos or videos of course!!! But I guess that makes me no better? (Although TBF, I don't think I could do violence, so they wouldn't take any notice)

I do get what you say, but it does still surprise me just how awful humans can be. Individually and in groups or as nations. Another plus for living up a mountain away from most of the hassle. I really don't like being down from the mountain too long, and I do try and steer clear of most news stuff.

Probably why the bad stuff like this really makes me angry (and upset)

[Mr. Dazzle]

AND, these fukkers know that the family can or might see their posts online - surely that should stop people?

As school teachers* are so fond of saying "you didn't think".

I don't suspect the posters gave even a moment's thought to how it would effect other people.

*the good ones at least. The ones who kept a class under control seemingly without effort