Saturday, 6th and Sunday, 7th March 2021

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 9:25 am

Good morfternoon.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 9:45 am

That was our first PTO for a while, which is nice.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 12:11 pm

It was so unexpected I didn't see it.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 12:17 pm

Just watching a load of Manc kids giving their views on the Derby.
I remember the good old days when City fans understood that "the queue for the chip van was longer than the queue to get in to the match".

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 2:07 pm

I know I am very naive, but why is it important to Republicans/Tories that there are people who don't get any chances in the social environment their policies create. Is it something akin to managers who can't cope with having good people on their team. ie: they need to keep everything to themselves and equality challenges their long held perceptions of their place in the world?

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 2:31 pm

They are big believers in the deserving/underserving poor, this explains much.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 2:37 pm

And, essentially, being born poor means that you deserve to be poor. Unless you're the bastard child of a monarch. In which case you're given a peerage.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 5:25 pm

So here's the weekly Sunday Telegraph woke-take.

** Exclusive in this weekend's Sunday Telegraph **

Laurence Fox enters City Hall race to fight Sadiq Khan to be the next Mayor of London

@LozzaFox
tells
@Telegraph
he wants to “offer a voice for those who are being dominated into silence”.

Should be amusing to see him get bugger all and then claim he was silenced...he might also have to think of some policies as I can't see him getting far on the woke stuff.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 5:30 pm

"All my voters have been silenced by not voting for me"?

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 6:02 pm

Steve Analyst
@EmporersNewC
Replying to
@EmporersNewC
Based on the amount of disgusting prejudice I see being shared on the internet, if there are people with views they feel they can't share, it's probably for the best that they feel that way.
6:00 PM · Mar 6, 2021·Twitter Web App

Quite.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 9:12 pm

Evening campers.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 9:17 pm

Farage has apparently announced tonight that he is retiring from politics.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 9:23 pm

Is he going to retire to France? Or Brussels?

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 10:17 pm

Am glad we sorted English out when we did. Wouldn't want to have to deal with a language with 12 ways to spell "the":

https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 06 Mar, 2021 11:19 pm

Ah, democracy...isn't it wonderful?

Reform UK
@reformparty_uk
We're delighted to announce @TiceRichard is the new leader of Reform UK!

Have to admit that this was a very quick election!

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 11:36 am

Good morfternoon.

Why Boris Johnson, the greased piglet, is eluding the grasp of Keir Starmer
Andrew Rawnsley (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... covid-hero

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 12:02 pm

Well, that's something I didn't know...Winston Marshall of fairly tedious folk-rock band Mumford & Son and trending on that Twitter is the son of Sir Paul Marshall, venture capitalist, formerly on the board of the DfE, Orange Booker Liberal, and founder of ARK Schools.

I had the Mumford debut album a decade ago but found it dull and it went to the charity shop a couple of years back when I had a clear-out.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 12:11 pm

Never liked them anyway

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 1:19 pm

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

Why Boris Johnson, the greased piglet, is eluding the grasp of Keir Starmer
Andrew Rawnsley (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... covid-hero

It's not creating a narrative that Labour has a problem with. It's lack of a voice in the national conversation that is completely controlled by a right-leaning, billionaire-owned media that's the problem. Always has been.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 1:30 pm

Though as someone who often criticises the BBC, I am glad to see some pushback against the "maxed out the national credit card" narrative there in the past week.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 2:28 pm

I'm not sure how much I believe this but it did make me laugh.

France is bacon.

https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/stat ... 6182801409

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 2:37 pm

Good afternoon, everyone.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 3:04 pm

UK healthcare workers aren't getting a pay raise, is that correct?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 3:10 pm

I've just checked out Twitter. Yikes.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 3:40 pm

citizenJA wrote:UK healthcare workers aren't getting a pay raise, is that correct?

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, on Friday insisted the decision to recommend such a small increase was due to an assessment of “what’s affordable as a nation” after the economic toll taken by the coronavirus crisis.

...the country could not afford a more than 1% pay rise for health workers... .
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... -nhs-staff" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

insulting lie

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 6:44 pm

Not sure what happened to the weekend. Seems to have gone already.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 6:53 pm

My doggie don't wear glasses.

(PS. I don't have a doggie)

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 7:08 pm

My eyes used to be ace. Now I'm an old git they are not what they were.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 7:09 pm

Sitting behind a laptop for 48 hours a day probably doesn't help.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 7:09 pm

(110%)

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 8:02 pm

All things must come to an end. And that would include Man City's winning run, it appears

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 8:18 pm

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 8:19 pm

the baby-faced assassin will be chuffed

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 8:26 pm

Simon Price
@simon_price01
Replying to
@simon_price01
Still, at least Laurence Fox has a banjo player for his next album.
9:44 AM · Mar 7, 2021·Twitter Web App

Looks like the original Tweet praising Andy Ngo's work of fiction has been deleted.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 8:28 pm

Saw somebody (can't remember who unfortunately) tweet earlier today that maybe no person on earth screams "DIVORCEE" as much as Fox

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 9:02 pm

If Fox has attracted anyone of any note to his party, then I've yet to see it.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 9:12 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:the baby-faced assassin will be chuffed

And me.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 9:52 pm

Ok so this will be my last Nicolas Cage review for a while. I know you'll all be upset because they've been so popular but for the sake of my own sanity I need to take a break.

Between Worlds.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7295450/

Nicolas Cage helps a woman save her daughter from a coma by strangling her so she can enter the astral plane and persuade her daughter's spirit to return. This goes a bit wrong when the spirit of Nicolas Cage's dead wife enters the daughter's body instead. As you can imagine this puts Nicolas Cage in the unenviable position of having to have sex with both the mother and daughter/dead wife which ultimately does not go well for him. In one bizarre scene Nicolas Cage is energetically fornicating with the daughter/dead wife while reading aloud from what appears to be his own real life journal.

Everything about Between Worlds is terrible. The acting is atrocious. The dialogue is laughable. The soundtrack is godawful. If it were up to me every single copy of this abomination of a film would be burned in a fire. It has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever apart from maybe that his beard still looks vaguely natural.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 10:07 pm

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 10:12 pm

Between worlds:

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 10:22 pm

Oh great so according to Wikipedia that dickhead banjo player from Mumford and Sons is a Man Utd supporter.

He can fuck right off.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 10:25 pm

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/between-worlds-2018" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Enter "Between Worlds," a supernatural thriller that begins with an uncomfortably extreme close-up of a fat guy's butt crack, but only after a Lynch-ian credits sequence involving an unconscious girl floating under a substantial-looking ice floe.

Grammatically challenging critique - over to you PF...

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 10:44 pm

Arizona Republican wonders why no masks were required in the 80's when HIV (and I quote) 'was going to wipe our global destruction of human bodies with AIDS'.

https://twitter.com/AnaliseOrtiz_AZ/sta ... 8523484164

His bill passed, giving businesses the choice on whether or not to enforce mask mandates.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 10:45 pm

All going well then?

Peter Walker
@peterwalker99
I’ve belatedly watched the Laurence Fox campaign video for his London mayoral bid. He only mentions two sort-of policies - an end to all lockdowns and a change to the school curriculum to banish historical revisionism.

Neither is under the control of the mayoralty.
10:03 PM · Mar 7, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 10:47 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/between-worlds-2018" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Enter "Between Worlds," a supernatural thriller that begins with an uncomfortably extreme close-up of a fat guy's butt crack, but only after a Lynch-ian credits sequence involving an unconscious girl floating under a substantial-looking ice floe.
Grammatically challenging critique - over to you PF...

I think the critic should be cut some slack. He must have been suffering unimaginable mental trauma after watching that film. He may well have been reduced to a gibbering wreck, and deserves our sympathy and possibly a medal.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 11:01 pm

A generous and noble sentiment PF.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 11:13 pm

That's a good review and I agree with it entirely. It's a repulsive film. I missed the Twin Peaks stuff as I was never a fan but in hindsight the stilted dialogue and bizarre music choices did give it a poundshop (I'm being generous) Lynchian quality. Good to see it confirmed that I wasn't imagining things and he really was reading from his own memoirs during sexual congress.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 11:24 pm

It's possible that Mr Cage peaked in the Rock, which I've just realised is quarter of a century old.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 11:25 pm

SGO - remember you have the handy

emoticon (courtesy of Refitman) should you need it for banjo players and the like.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 07 Mar, 2021 11:26 pm

I gave in and watched Twin Peaks because that was all people at work were talking about. Even the people I liked. I do recall that there was one character (Albert Someone, played by Miguel Ferrer if I remember correctly) who I thought lifted the proceedings considerably. I was always pleased when he made an appearance.