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- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3368
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Let me tell you a story. A long time ago (back in 2013) an evil goblin called Iain Duncan Smith decided too many sick and disabled people were receiving something called Disability Living Allowance. He claimed people were receiving payments for conditions it was never originally intended to cover an...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3368
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Oh how I love being a Man Utd supporter right now. Never a dull moment. Who doesn't enjoy the spectacle of a bunch of millionaires running around like headless chickens with all the tactical nous of a primary school five a side team. The only way it could be improved would be to make them wear clown...
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3014
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3014
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Question Time tonight came from windswept and wonderful Buxton, a splendid place which presumably inspired the name of Buxton the cat from The Magic Roundabout film 'Dougal and the Blue Cat'. Though it must be said in all my visits to Buxton the cats all seem to be of standard colourations so who kn...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3014
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3014
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Tice vs David TC Davies could prove to be amusing. I guess I better go and get some cheap plonk.
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2427
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2427
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Bloody hell I go away for a few days and come back to find we're on the brink of WWIII again. My cousins brought half my uncle's ashes to scatter. He died eight years ago and my Dad's been asking for them all this time but this was the first occasion where everyone managed to get their shit together...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1655
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Even the faux Jamaican accent and him professing his love of punanni? That was supposed to be a Jamaican accent? I thought he was doing some weird bhangra crossover thing. I even pictured him with little cymbals on his fingers bobbing his head from side to side in a sari. As for professing his love...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1655
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Did anyone see Alan Bates' testimony to the Post Office enquiry today? I only caught a bit of it during which he was asked about a meeting he had with Ed Davey. He looked somewhat perplexed for a few seconds before admitting he couldn't recall anything about it. Which I expect is a fairly common occ...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1655
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
I plugged out R4 before the Rachel Reeves, but expect she was pledging to use imagination to grow the economy? She was on CH4 news this evening talking about cracking down on tax avoiders and the like but I ended up being preoccupied by the fact that her facial expression remained exactly the same ...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 10:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1655
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
I'm not going to lie Refit, I was expecting a musical offering from Steven Seagal to be as bad as his films, but unaccountably it was actually great.
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1655
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Actually mental health issues *can* contribute to bad behaviour online - indeed it is a tell if someone suddenly starts being obnoxious or whatever on the net when they aren't normally. Yes it does look like a bit of an excuse in this instance, though. Indeed they can, but can they turn you racist?...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1655
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
As someone who's struggled with mental health issues his entire adult life and who consequently knows a little bit about the subject I'm struggling to narrow down exactly which condition could possibly turn someone racist and cause them to 'not be aware' of themselves posting multiple racist tweets ...
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1480
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Enjoy a very small hound of the Baskervilles via Germany and Ozzy Osbourne.
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1480
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
It is nice to have taken four points off Liverpool this season, given how crap United are. If it turns out to mean them not getting number 20, even better. Let's not forget putting them out of the FA cup. Ten Hag has to go though. He's entirely incapable of learning from experience, seems to have n...
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1480
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Evening Sky, a week's optimistic i think, I took off a LOT of metal ! A very long day, went to sleep in the chair after a late snack and didn't even have a little of the reliable Moroccan Sidi Brahim red . Will sleep well I reckon . Zzzzz ! Talking of metal grinding, have you ever seen Forged in Fi...
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1480
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Dune: Part Two https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15239678/ Same problems as the first one, the pacing is all over the place, the characters are bland, and the script is atrocious. It looks and sounds nice but that's about it. Vapid, boring, unimaginative garbage. After 2 films and over 5 hours it's fina...
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 10:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1480
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Bah, using a grinder is cheating, I just use the bottom of an old mug to sharpen my kitchen knives (ceramics being harder than steel). Although admittedly with blades that size using my technique would probably take about a week.
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1480
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
I see Hodges has had his arse handed to him again.
- Fri 05 Apr, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1225
- Fri 05 Apr, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1225
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
I am, as you know, not a huge fan of Mr Corbyn but he has my full support in taking on twats like this.
- Fri 05 Apr, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1225
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
So now we have ex Tory ministers in the Lords, former supreme court judges, and 750 other legal experts, all calling for a halt to arms sales to Israel. And what do we hear from Labour? The same pitiful, cowardly garbage we've had from the start of this so called conflict. It makes a sick kind of se...
- Thu 04 Apr, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1225
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
So, the Kipper are just doing Harry Enfield, but seriously? Heh. Seriously though how could any sentient creature claim that young women being politically influenced by a centre left newspaper is worse than young men being radicalised by a chinless misogynist facing multiple charges of rape and sex...
- Thu 04 Apr, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1225
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
Well I tried to have a sober Thursday evening with the absence of QT but Man Utd have driven me to drink.
- Thu 04 Apr, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1225
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
Oh no, The Guardian is radicalising young ladies!! I honestly don't know where to start with this, if it wasn't from the Telegraph I'd genuinely think it was satire. The Left has no problem with radicalisation when they’re the ones doing it - Michael Deacon Instead of vowing to combat the influence ...
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1083
Re: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Oh god, it's pathetic.
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1083
Re: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Ah so this is how the Israelis have managed to murder civilians with such speed and in such numbers that since WWII the only conflict to exceed their bloodthirsty efficiency is the Rwandan genocide. What a truly sickening and terrifying read. How anyone could defend this inhuman barbarity is complet...
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1083
Re: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Reform supporters are going mental over this. https://twitter.com/Bennyjj81/status/1775561561232314842 Here are the openly racist candidates these people are furious about not being able to vote for. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/04/03/more-hateful-reform-candidates-exposed/ As the Tories have fou...
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 2:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
I recall chilly weather in August being called 'backend-ish', hadn't noticed it had fallen out of use until you mentioned it. It's been completely eradicated according to the same bit of research that gave us the scone map. I can't remember ever hearing it so it must have already been on its way ou...
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
The correct answer. Indeed. However I was quite surprised by the Cambridge scone map placing the epicentre of saying scone wrong in the South and East of Yorkshire along with Derbyshire. I'd expect a expect a 'scown' in Pateley Bridge or Richmond rather than Sheffield or Hull. [Edited to say...] Ah...
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
I found a scone map from Cambridge University (the redder the area the more correctly it's pronounced). https://i.postimg.cc/pL0P89NW/scone-rhyme-with-gone.png https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-app-maps-decline-in-regional-diversity-of-english-dialects There's a few other interesting bit...
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
That's all very well, but more importantly how do you pronounce scone? Because there's only one proper way.
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Evening Sky i thought yours was the 31st ? Teacher daughter shares with Refit's Dad, 45 yesterday ! I had a splendid present for her thirtieth birthday --A stroke which left me speechless and half-paralysed in Avranches hospital . Her Easter hols had just begun and she spent all of it working on my...
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Emmerdale's gone woke! I don't watch it myself, but my mate's ex was a scriptwriter and story editor on Emmerdale and if she's anything to go by 'woke' is a term insufficiently weighty to describe how left wing the writing staff are. I mean she's a bit too 'right on' even for me. I got a stern tell...
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1367
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
We seem to have a bit of a birthday bonanza going on. To be honest being born on April fools day does help somewhat when viewing life as one big cosmic joke. An outlook shared by Sunak apparently given the bizarre jollity he expressed today. Can anyone remember when Gordon Brown became Prime Ministe...
- Mon 01 Apr, 2024 2:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1746
- Mon 01 Apr, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1746
- Mon 01 Apr, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1746
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
So I have now been on this planet 53 times as it has hurtled round that big fiery thing in the sky.
A lot of people feel miserable about reaching such an age.
I however feel fucking amazed that I've made it this far.
A lot of people feel miserable about reaching such an age.
I however feel fucking amazed that I've made it this far.
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1746
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Spent much of the day in Harewood, one of the few areas of Leeds that votes Tory. After a wander round the grounds of the country house my friend and I sought refreshment in the local tavern. And that's when things turned weird. People were literally staring at us and when either of us went to the b...
- Sat 30 Mar, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1746
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Well this is a shock.
- Sat 30 Mar, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1746
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Not my finest work but they'll have to do, eggs are too bloody expensive to have another go. Hope everyone is enjoying their Easter.
- Sat 30 Mar, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1746
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Matthew Parris is at it again I see. Nothing does more for the cause of assisted dying like saying euthanising the old and infirm is a 'good thing' because we can't afford to care for them.
- Thu 28 Mar, 2024 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2054
Re: Thursday 28th March 2024
Ok so I've just watched a clip from last weeks QT where Rod Liddle gets schooled by a school counsellor when he tries to claim mental health problems aren't caused by poverty because poor people in poorer countries are much happier than we are. I read the same study he was referring to and he's fact...
- Thu 28 Mar, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2054
Re: Thursday 28th March 2024
The controversy of the evening was of course around Ben Houchen. The woman in pink is the wife of the Airport Director, who's also there. The woman sitting next to her, shaking her head, was more in tune with the general feeling of the audience. Another man was allowed to speak the truth, ie Houche...
- Thu 28 Mar, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2054
Re: Thursday 28th March 2024
The Zone of Interest https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7160372/ You've probably heard more about Jonathan Glazer's speech at the Oscars than the film he was accepting the Oscars for. Controversially I'm going to say that's for a good reason, the speech was better than the film. It'll be difficult to giv...
- Thu 28 Mar, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2054
Re: Thursday 28th March 2024
Even more hahahaha. He's having a really bad day.
- Thu 28 Mar, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2054
Re: Thursday 28th March 2024
Went to check out the QT panel for this evening and of course it's not on because of the Easter recess. It's not back until the 18'th of April apparently. Did anyone watch it last week? I see the absolute shambles that is the life of Lawrence Fox continues to provide amusement. Laurence Fox’s London...
- Wed 27 Mar, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th March 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4897
Re: Tuesday 26th March 2024
‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/ ... rock-noise
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/ ... rock-noise