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  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410
    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?

    Gratuitous offense lobbied in the direction of those who want control what we think and say is exactly what is needed now and will keep on being needed until those who try and control what we may think and say slink away, never to return.

    Or - as the Duke of Wellington put it - "Publish and be damned!"

    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    I think your post throughout this week have been outstanding, it was ashame we didn't get a chance to chat at the pb meet.
  • Ishmael_XIshmael_X Posts: 3,664

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    Goals do not lead anywhere. Alleys do not champion things. Stop frothing and attend to your metaphors.

  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,326
    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    Take these good guys where exactly? Because if we do what you suggest and not publish, it's not us taking them anywhere but them getting us in exactly the position the terrorists want i.e. agreeing to abide by Islamic law.

    We'll de facto have been turned into Muslims if we're going to follow Islamic rules.

  • richardDoddrichardDodd Posts: 5,472
    Seems we need another 216 virgins.. asap...tough call..
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,326
    Pulpstar said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?

    Gratuitous offense lobbied in the direction of those who want control what we think and say is exactly what is needed now and will keep on being needed until those who try and control what we may think and say slink away, never to return.

    Or - as the Duke of Wellington put it - "Publish and be damned!"

    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    I think your post throughout this week have been outstanding, it was ashame we didn't get a chance to chat at the pb meet.
    Next time, eh?

    And thank you.

  • volcanopetevolcanopete Posts: 2,078
    Cameron confirms his spinelessness in a snub to young voters.He is denying the public necessary scrutiny by his cowardice.

    http://bitetheballot.co.uk/wewantmore/
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,679

    Mr. Royale, please ensure The Official State Sanctioning Epistle Requirements Service approves your letter prior to sending it.

    "How do you know Vicky?

    > Friend
    > Family
    > I've worked with Vicky
    > I've done business with her
    > She tried to muzzle my freedom of expression"
    LOL
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410
    @isam & @audreyanne,
    @malcolmg and @thewatcher agreeing on stuff today

    Has hell frozen over ?
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,704
    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!

    Of all the posters on pb.com, I think audreyanne is one of the worst. "Her" posts are incoherent, poorly argued, lack wit, insight, betting tips, analysis or - indeed - any contribution of value whatsoever to our discussions.

    Many of her posts are just downright rude and insulting. The tragedy is that "she" seems to think she's a wag and that her insights possess real intellectual rigour. I skip over almost everything she writes.

    Worst poster of the year award.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    Cyclefree said:

    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    Take these good guys where exactly? Because if we do what you suggest and not publish, it's not us taking them anywhere but them getting us in exactly the position the terrorists want i.e. agreeing to abide by Islamic law.

    We'll de facto have been turned into Muslims if we're going to follow Islamic rules.

    Its not following Islamic rules to keep people you need on side, on side

    Moderate muslims, probably even non practicing muslims will be less receptive to integration if we are pissing off their family and friends.I am not saying there should be a law against anything we should just use a bit of common sense.
  • Ishmael_XIshmael_X Posts: 3,664
    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    That "upset" translates into sentences of 1000 lashes for "insulting Islam": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30744693.
    That's not a "tiny minority" of terrorist's, but a mainstream Islamic state. Where you see "good guys" with hurt feelings I see self-important little shits to whom I have no desire to pander.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!

    Of all the posters on pb.com, I think audreyanne is one of the worst. "Her" posts are incoherent, poorly argued, lack wit, insight, betting tips, analysis or - indeed - any contribution of value whatsoever to our discussions.

    Many of her posts are just downright rude and insulting. The tragedy is that "she" seems to think she's a wag and that her insights possess real intellectual rigour. I skip over almost everything she writes.

    Worst poster of the year award.
    Ye but every word she writes out I read back in Mrs Doubtfire's voice. It is comedy gold.

    Mind you, I do that with all the posters here, except the animal ones - I don't imagine cyclefree's posts being barked out... ;p
  • audreyanneaudreyanne Posts: 1,376

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!


    Worst poster of the year award.
    Lol.

    Like the proverbial rogue poll = the poster with whom you least agree award.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,963
    Mr. Isam, self-censorship was precisely what the terrorists wanted.

    I could otherwise see your argument as valid, but if the cartoons are unpublished now then we're effectively handing over to Al-Qaeda the decision of just where we should set our boundaries for freedom of speech, and of the press.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited January 2015
    Apparently a French news station conducted live phone interviews with a gunman from each of the two sites this afternoon.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,222
    edited January 2015
    On the cartoons I think the newspapers should only have published them if they genuinely believed them to be amusing. I don't think it would be helpful to publish something that clearly would offend someone (and I think people are allowed to be offended just as much as other people have the right to offend), just for the sake of proving a point.

    I love Monty Python's The Life of Brian, but I love it because it makes me smile. Yes I think it's amusing that some in the Church got quite upset about it - particularly as I suspect most their flock couldn't care less or actually found it amusing themselves. But I'd like to think that Python set out to make something that was funny, and that it just happened to be set in a historical/religious context that most of us are familiar with.

    My French is not good and I'm not sure if the translations do the cartoons justice but I'm not sure if they are actually that funny. I have a feeling that if these cartoons had been produced by somebody else (NF/Ukip etc), then the reaction wouldn't have been quite so warm.

    What happened to Charlie Hebdo was appalling. But I don't think it achieves a great deal to publish something for the sake of publishing it.
  • Ishmael_XIshmael_X Posts: 3,664

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!


    Worst poster of the year award.
    Lol.

    Like the proverbial rogue poll = the poster with whom you least agree award.
    Wrong.

  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410
    Ishmael_X said:

    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    That "upset" translates into sentences of 1000 lashes for "insulting Islam": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30744693.
    That's not a "tiny minority" of terrorist's, but a mainstream Islamic state. Where you see "good guys" with hurt feelings I see self-important little shits to whom I have no desire to pander.
    The House of Saud are Backward ass wahabi leaders

    Mark Steel notes it here:

    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/mark-steel/charlie-hebdo-norways-christians-didnt-have-to-apologise-for-anders-breivik-and-its-the-same-for-muslims-now-30893847.html

    "And the rulers of Saudi Arabia, who recently got through 19 executions in one month, are sold billions of pounds worth of weapons. So maybe the gunmen’s strategy was to prove how mental they were, thinking they’d then be invited for biscuits with The Queen, and then be asked to do a deal for a tank."

    No, I don't think muslims have anything to apologise for either btw.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,704

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!


    Worst poster of the year award.
    Lol.

    Like the proverbial rogue poll = the poster with whom you least agree award.
    No. There are posters I disagree with more (EiT, Nick Palmer, BJO, and Roger, to name a few) and I'm on your side of the political spectrum.

    I just think your posts on here are absolutely dreadful, as is the manner in which you engage with others.

    Now, I have other things to do this weekend. Good evening.
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,591

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!

    Of all the posters on pb.com, I think audreyanne is one of the worst. "Her" posts are incoherent, poorly argued, lack wit, insight, betting tips, analysis or - indeed - any contribution of value whatsoever to our discussions.

    Many of her posts are just downright rude and insulting. The tragedy is that "she" seems to think she's a wag and that her insights possess real intellectual rigour. I skip over almost everything she writes.

    Worst poster of the year award.
    +1 - I assume it's a troll account of the yellow box poster.
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 10,904
    0

    The above may or may not be my representation of a god.

    The Buddhists would perhaps applaud if I say it's Buddha.
    The Christians would try to re-interpret it as a cross stretched to infinity if I say it's Christ.
    The Moslems would be out for my blood if I said it was Mohammed.

    They're all daft responses, but some are much more daft than others.
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    And I tend to agree with you. Strange world.
    On the subject of murder I think everyone can agree its wrong no matter what the excuse - and in this case the cartoons were the excuse. If it were not cartoons it would be something else. If everyone had published cartoons it would have been someone else.
    In terms of the subject it seems pretty poor satire to attack someone who has been dead for hundreds of years. If you want to satirise the misrepresentation of Islam then surely you should satirise the terrorists themselves not their supposed prophet.
    All the howling 'print the cartoon' 'we don't want to' arguments are just what terrorists want. And of course from amongst all the millions of European Muslims I am struggling to find any non terrorist incitements to murder over this.
    BTW - having been left with the mess of multiculturalism we do indeed need to sort it out. And hysteria is definitely not the way to do it.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410



    In terms of the subject it seems pretty poor satire to attack someone who has been dead for hundreds of years.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af9EHtQMMc4
  • RogerRoger Posts: 19,972
    edited January 2015
    Casino

    "Many of her posts are just downright rude and insulting. The tragedy is that "she" seems to think she's a wag and that her insights possess real intellectual rigour. I skip over almost everything she writes."

    Just because it's now de rigueur to be offensive doesn't mean it's obligatory
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Nicolas Sarkozy:

    "War has been declared on France, on her institutions, on the Republic, by savages who negate the very existence of civilization and the universal values of humanism."

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/09/charlie-hebdo-manhunt-kouachi-terrorist-links-live-updates
  • FenmanFenman Posts: 1,047
    Surely UKIPs poorer rating is due to the endless scandals. They seem to have had plenty of media attention - just not the sort they want..
  • SocratesSocrates Posts: 10,322
    Will Self speaking unbelievable crap on Channel 4.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Socrates said:

    Will Self speaking unbelievable crap on Channel 4.

    Let me guess: all the West's fault?
  • Socrates said:

    Will Self speaking unbelievable crap on Channel 4.

    Nothing new.
    Part of the Tony Barber school.
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    Pulpstar said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne

    ....

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?

    Big events Rog, the PC cobwebs have been blown away - everyone's changed their views to be in favour of free speech now.
    With freedoms comes responsibilities. I do not see how you can avoid that. Freedom of speech is just one side of the coin. Leaving aside the responsibility not to cause spurious offence, you should also think that one of those responsibilities is to those whose duty it is to defend us. In this case 3 or 4 French police are dead at the moment.

    Just because someone produces a vulgar cartoon... quite possibly bad satire aimed at the wrong target... am I supposed to even understand it, never mind like it, or be dragooned into publishing it in sympathy?
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    "In terms of the subject it seems pretty poor satire to attack someone who has been dead for hundreds of years."

    So no satire involving Jesus? You'd better inform the average British comedian of that.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    edited January 2015
    Will Self did say "With freedom comes responsibility."

  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    AndyJS said:

    Nicolas Sarkozy:

    "War has been declared on France, on her institutions, on the Republic, by savages who negate the very existence of civilization and the universal values of humanism."

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/09/charlie-hebdo-manhunt-kouachi-terrorist-links-live-updates

    That is more extreme rhetoric than the one even Le Pen used.
  • SocratesSocrates Posts: 10,322
    isam said:

    Cyclefree said:

    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    Take these good guys where exactly? Because if we do what you suggest and not publish, it's not us taking them anywhere but them getting us in exactly the position the terrorists want i.e. agreeing to abide by Islamic law.

    We'll de facto have been turned into Muslims if we're going to follow Islamic rules.

    Its not following Islamic rules to keep people you need on side, on side

    Moderate muslims, probably even non practicing muslims will be less receptive to integration if we are pissing off their family and friends.I am not saying there should be a law against anything we should just use a bit of common sense.
    If the large mass of non-terrorist Muslims you're talking about would side with the terrorists because of a cartoon, then they are certainly not "good guys". We all need to accept in a free society that we will see things that mock and criticise our dearest beliefs. We shouldn't appease a group who want to opt out of that, under the implicit threat they might not integrate with society as a result.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,736
    Care and Quality Commission report on Hinchinbrooke is published

    Not very good no wonder they have cut and run

    http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/RQQ31/inspection-summary#overall
  • TCPoliticalBettingTCPoliticalBetting Posts: 10,819
    edited January 2015
    Chap I can barely stomach, Martin Rowson, also on C4 News. Apparantly he wanted to do a cartoon of Muhammad stroking a cat with a t shirt saying "not in my name". But no newspaper would publish it.
    Shame on the newspapers. It would for once have been a cartoon from Rowson that I would have welcomed.
  • SocratesSocrates Posts: 10,322
    Will Self described the terrorist brothers as "also being murdered". Murder is unlawful killing, you imbecile.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,578
    Pulpstar said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!

    Of all the posters on pb.com, I think audreyanne is one of the worst. "Her" posts are incoherent, poorly argued, lack wit, insight, betting tips, analysis or - indeed - any contribution of value whatsoever to our discussions.

    Many of her posts are just downright rude and insulting. The tragedy is that "she" seems to think she's a wag and that her insights possess real intellectual rigour. I skip over almost everything she writes.

    Worst poster of the year award.
    Ye but every word she writes out I read back in Mrs Doubtfire's voice. It is comedy gold.

    Mind you, I do that with all the posters here
    Works for me.
  • TCPoliticalBettingTCPoliticalBetting Posts: 10,819
    edited January 2015
    dr_spyn said:

    Will Self did say "With freedom comes responsibility."

    "With freedom comes responsibility." ...not to offend the down trodden non-european religons or poke fun at their beliefs........
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    Cyclefree said:

    Canadian PM Stephen Harper:

    “The international jihadist movement has declared war. They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish they’d think and act. We may not like this and wish it would go away, but it’s not going to go away, and the reality is we are going to have to confront it."

    Has he just woken up?
    There was me thinking an International Jihadist Movement was all about swapping stamps - and blow me it turns out to be about making war.
    ''Jihad'' definition 'a war or struggle against unbelievers.'

    Why is it that I think I'm surrounded by Jack D Rippers at the moment. Paranoia rules, maybe its all down to fluoridation.
  • SimonStClareSimonStClare Posts: 7,976
    Socrates said:

    Will Self described the terrorist brothers as "also being murdered". Murder is unlawful killing, you imbecile.

    I just caught that on Ch4 news - Will Self really is a cliched dick of the first order.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,736
    To put Hinchinbrooke into perspective

    All CQC ratings
    4 Outstanding
    249 Good
    86 Requires improvement
    21 Inadequate

    Hinchinbrooke in worst 21 of 360
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,222
    Socrates said:

    isam said:

    Cyclefree said:

    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    Take these good guys where exactly? Because if we do what you suggest and not publish, it's not us taking them anywhere but them getting us in exactly the position the terrorists want i.e. agreeing to abide by Islamic law.

    We'll de facto have been turned into Muslims if we're going to follow Islamic rules.

    Its not following Islamic rules to keep people you need on side, on side

    Moderate muslims, probably even non practicing muslims will be less receptive to integration if we are pissing off their family and friends.I am not saying there should be a law against anything we should just use a bit of common sense.
    If the large mass of non-terrorist Muslims you're talking about would side with the terrorists because of a cartoon, then they are certainly not "good guys". We all need to accept in a free society that we will see things that mock and criticise our dearest beliefs. We shouldn't appease a group who want to opt out of that, under the implicit threat they might not integrate with society as a result.
    I agree that no one should consider the terrorists to be justified in their actions, but nor do I think we should start publishing cartoons for the sake of free speech.

    Just because we think it's appalling that people have been murdered because someone didn't like some cartoons, doesn't mean we should publish those cartoons as a way of sticking two fingers up at the terrorists.

    We need to think for ourselves, and ask the question, do we think the cartoons are funny or make a valid point? If the answer is no, then we should not publish them.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,578

    dr_spyn said:
    Good for him and hopefully Labourlist and Conhome will follow suit. Bloody outrageous.
    Indeed. Although I find Guido does dip into some really lazy attacks sometime with absolutely no self awareness of that fact, on many occasions they can call something just right and be relied on to not mince their words about it.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,736
    All 21 inadequate rated organisations are private sector.

    20 nursing and care homes

    1 hospital (Hinchinbrooke)
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    edited January 2015

    Evening all.

    Sky - Four hostages and a gunman are killed in the supermarket siege as French media say a second suspect is believed to have escaped."

    Dreadful news regarding the innocent victims - how on earth could one of the terrorists escape with so many police covering the scene?

    Well, they were French police.
    Harsh Mr Bond, very harsh. - lets hope after all this horror, France can get back to normality.
    Lets hope no one with a sarcasm bypass reads Mr Bonds comment and sets off after him. You of course are now duty bound to defend him to the hilt despite his use of the lowest form of wit.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 43,346
    HYUFD said:

    Carnyx The Scottish Greens basically grew out of the English and Welsh Greens, it was not founded as a separate party, but basically became the rUK Greens' sister party

    You could say the same about the Tories and UKIP.
    HYUFD said:

    tlg86 If you have 1 minor party, you have to have all main minor parties, especially as the Greens beat the LDs in the euros and in several polls and by-elections. The Greens, or their sister party, stand in Scotland as do UKIP. The best solution would be Miliband v Cameron as debate 1, then Miliband v Cameron v Clegg as debate 2, then Miliband v Cameron v Clegg v Farage v Bennett and maybe George Galloway as debate 3. Scotland would have separate debates too between Salmond, Murphy, Davidson and Rennie; Wales between Carwyn Jones, Andrew RT Davies, Leanne Wood and Kirsty Williams; Northern Ireland between Peter Robinson, Gerry Adams, Margaret Ritchie and David Ford. That way there can be no complaints and all parties represented in the Commons would be in the debates

    Slight update, you need to revise your Scottish politics there.

  • Ishmael_XIshmael_X Posts: 3,664
    Let us not lose sight of the fact that the appalling patriarchalism of Islam is underpinned by Big Bad Nobodaddy who Must Not Be Insulted in the background. It is doing a favour to the victims of that patriarchalism (the women going about dressed in bin liners, and getting raped and killed for having boyfriends) to demonstrate that it is actually possible to state loudly and clearly the alternative view that Big Bad Nobodaddy is a risible arsehat, without the sky falling in.
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    edited January 2015
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30744693

    Saudi blogger Badawi 'flogged for Islam insult'

    Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.

    For those that want to live under Sharia Law, this is how it is: Islam as practiced by extremists, who are at the same time one of the West so called allies.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 43,346
    tlg86 said:

    Carnyx said:

    The [English] Greens are also a regional party. But so are the Tories, Labour and the LDs as they don't operate in NI.

    I was thinking about this today and came to the conclusion that the debates are really English debates so the fact that the Greens are the English (and possibly Welsh?!) Greens doesn't really come into it.

    That said I don't think that Greens should be there. Personally I think it should be only those who can be PM (if we must have the debates at all), but I think there are reasons for including the Lib Dems and Ukip and not the Greens.
    Yes, I can see your point re the English debates, but what worries me about that is that falls into the trap of equating England with the UK. I know it's a chronic fault of the BBC, for one, but people should know better ... it';s not even as if anyone is making any serious attempt to discuss the UK as the UK, for no party is truly UK-wide, and it's utterly parochial to try and claim supremacy on some narrower distinction. Unionists are supposed to be Unionists after all, and not, say, Little Englanders.

  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    Omnium said:

    UKIP aren't going to push hard for Tory votes - it'll be Labour votes that they can cultivate in large numbers. Farage is more working-class than Ed and they'll play on that. Ed has after all never had a proper job. Not even a paper-round.

    What policies?
    Or would that be beyond satire?
    It is of course easy as the LDs have shown to be a party of dichotomies as long as you do not have ambitions for govt. Is UKIP left wing or shall we just regard them as crude nationalists now?
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Douglas Murray ‏@DouglasKMurray 5m5 minutes ago
    The journalists of Charlie Hebdo died for free speech. Their President, by contrast, won't even identify why they were killed.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,578
    tlg86 said:

    Socrates said:

    isam said:

    Cyclefree said:

    isam said:

    I agree with you!

    Free speech isn't some form of Tourettes where you HAVE to say EVERYTHING that can be said. Just because it insults the small amount of bad guys, we shouldn't forget that it will also upset the large amount of Muslim good guys to see their prophet insulted on the front page of every paper. These are the people we have to take with us if we have any chance of getting out of the mess that mass immigration and multiculturalism has left us in,. It would suit the terrorists just fine if there was division between "us" and "them"
    Take these good guys where exactly? Because if we do what you suggest and not publish, it's not us taking them anywhere but them getting us in exactly the position the terrorists want i.e. agreeing to abide by Islamic law.

    We'll de facto have been turned into Muslims if we're going to follow Islamic rules.

    Its not following Islamic rules to keep people you need on side, on side

    Moderae a bit of common sense.
    If tsult.
    I agree that no one should consider the terrorists to be justified in their actions, but nor do I think we should start publishing cartoons for the sake of free speech.

    Just because we think it's appalling that people have been murdered because someone didn't like some cartoons, doesn't mean we should publish those cartoons as a way of sticking two fingers up at the terrorists.

    We need to think for ourselves, and ask the question, do we think the cartoons are funny or make a valid point? If the answer is no, then we should not publish them.
    It could be argued that because someone, many people in fact, are willing to commit violence or defend such behaviour if and when such things are published, means the publishing of them, irrespective of their artistic or satirical merit otherwise, makes a valid point. I don't think anyone should feel obligated to publish them in order to make that point if they don't want to, but that people respond so viscerally and indisputably wrongly and idiotically to their mere existence and dissemination goes a long way to making even an unfunny doodling expressing similar sentiment potentially a valid point.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    Indy has 'The Truth about the Sex Scandal that brought down Roger Bird' on its front page.
  • volcanopetevolcanopete Posts: 2,078
    Digital debates offered by Telegraph,Grauniad and YouTube.Cameron can't really refuse-can he?-but it looks like he would play this as a substitute for the TV debates which he will still avoid like the Black Death.Cameron must not be allowed to use this to squirm out of the main TV debates,sliding into the undergrowth like the spineless reptile he is.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11335945/David-Cameron-challenged-to-five-way-digital-leaders-debate.html
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Daily Mail Online ‏@MailOnline 44m44 minutes ago
    30 Jewish shoppers survived Paris supermarket siege by hiding in the freezer http://dailym.ai/1y04EyF
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012

    The question of extra media attention for Ukip may well work against it than for it if past performance is anything to go.The fact that at the moment Ukip's support comes from the elderly but the party has no pensions policy is a case in point.
    Farage could,however, score points off Cameron in the TV debates which is one reason Cameron is trying to avoid the debates completely.It could be more to do with the fact that when he loses it and becomes Flashman,the red and purple faced Bullingdon bully boy,it is very unpleasant for voters to watch.Farage,too,must be careful as he looked well out of shape in the 1st debate with Clegg-a heavily sweating Farage won't attract either.

    You mean the debates where, by common agreement, Farage wiped the floor with Clegg? I think he could live with that.
    Wot! Debates where Farage showed he was a bigger smartarse than Clegg in the beauty parade stakes? That was of course a triumph.
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    Fox News has overdone it as usual, watch the video:
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-guest-blames-paris-attack-on-pol-correctness-warns-communist-de-blasio-will-bring-it-here/

    “Until we hold the Arab world and the Muslim world accountable for letting this radical Islamic ideology — which as I have said before is as evil as Naziism, Fascism, and Communism, it is not a religion — until we hold these people accountable and in their own environment as general al-Sisi of Egypt said a few days ago when he chastised the imams for preaching this kind of radical ideology,” he continued. “So the west, the entire world, must hold Islam and the Muslims accountable.”

    “But with the current leadership in New York, and I’m referring to the COMMUNIST mayor you have up there, that may change,” McInerney replied. “So I think that the world better wake up.”
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Pete Durnell UKIP ‏@PeteDurnell 44m44 minutes ago
    French MP gives almost word for word same speech on terrorism (as Farage's) on Sky News, not accused of racism or 'making political capital'
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,578

    Omnium said:

    UKIP aren't going to push hard for Tory votes - it'll be Labour votes that they can cultivate in large numbers. Farage is more working-class than Ed and they'll play on that. Ed has after all never had a proper job. Not even a paper-round.

    Is UKIP left wing or shall we just regard them as crude nationalists now?
    UKIP do appear to be, if we view it charitably, still in the process of formulating a solid identity. But why should they not pick and mix policies from all across the left-right spectrum. The spectrum is tribal nonsense often with the barest of ideological underpinnings. Choose what works regardless of where things fall, why not? UKIP doesn't have to pick left or right, or they can pick mostly one except in other areas. It's not like the action is unprecedented among political parties.
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5517/instant_view_media_plays_down_paris_kosher_pogrom

    INSTANT VIEW: Media plays down Paris Kosher pogrom
    The vile anti-Semitic pogrom at a Paris Kosher supermarket on Friday is being dramatically downplayed by a politically correct mainstream media that cannot handle the reality of widespread Jew-hatred among Islamists
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    dr_spyn said:

    Indy has 'The Truth about the Sex Scandal that brought down Roger Bird' on its front page.

    It also says 'Norwegian Christians did not have to apologise for Brevic...'
  • kle4 said:

    Omnium said:

    UKIP aren't going to push hard for Tory votes - it'll be Labour votes that they can cultivate in large numbers. Farage is more working-class than Ed and they'll play on that. Ed has after all never had a proper job. Not even a paper-round.

    Is UKIP left wing or shall we just regard them as crude nationalists now?
    UKIP do appear to be, if we view it charitably, still in the process of formulating a solid identity. But why should they not pick and mix policies from all across the left-right spectrum. The spectrum is tribal nonsense often with the barest of ideological underpinnings. Choose what works regardless of where things fall, why not? UKIP doesn't have to pick left or right, or they can pick mostly one except in other areas. It's not like the action is unprecedented among political parties.
    Indeed and no one with any sense thinks in terms of left and right anymore anyway.
  • Ishmael_XIshmael_X Posts: 3,664

    Digital debates offered by Telegraph,Grauniad and YouTube.Cameron can't really refuse-can he?-but it looks like he would play this as a substitute for the TV debates which he will still avoid like the Black Death.Cameron must not be allowed to use this to squirm out of the main TV debates,sliding into the undergrowth like the spineless reptile he is.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11335945/David-Cameron-challenged-to-five-way-digital-leaders-debate.html

    Reptiles are not spineless. Try gastropod?

    Cameron has a country to run, he can't pop along to every sixth form debating society in the country.

  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300

    dr_spyn said:

    Indy has 'The Truth about the Sex Scandal that brought down Roger Bird' on its front page.

    It also says 'Norwegian Christians did not have to apologise for Brevic...'
    Did Roger Bird, or the bird he tried to roger sell the story to the paper?

  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Matthew Goodwin ‏@GoodwinMJ 37s37 seconds ago
    Le Pen asked Hollande to suspend Schengen agreement and strip terrorists of citizenship http://rt.com/news/221167-le-pen-france-attacks/
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    dr_spyn said:

    Indy has 'The Truth about the Sex Scandal that brought down Roger Bird' on its front page.

    You mean this?
    http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/roger-bird-ukip-power-struggle-not-a-sex-scandal-cost-exgeneral-secretary-his-job-9969180.html

    Essentially a struggle between 2 party wings using shady HRx Consultancy Services as a weapon.
  • The question of extra media attention for Ukip may well work against it than for it if past performance is anything to go.The fact that at the moment Ukip's support comes from the elderly but the party has no pensions policy is a case in point.
    Farage could,however, score points off Cameron in the TV debates which is one reason Cameron is trying to avoid the debates completely.It could be more to do with the fact that when he loses it and becomes Flashman,the red and purple faced Bullingdon bully boy,it is very unpleasant for voters to watch.Farage,too,must be careful as he looked well out of shape in the 1st debate with Clegg-a heavily sweating Farage won't attract either.

    You mean the debates where, by common agreement, Farage wiped the floor with Clegg? I think he could live with that.
    Wot! Debates where Farage showed he was a bigger smartarse than Clegg in the beauty parade stakes? That was of course a triumph.
    Flightpath everyone knows that as far as politics is concerned you couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it so do stop making yourself look a bigger fool than you already are.
  • perdixperdix Posts: 1,806
    Omnium said:

    UKIP aren't going to push hard for Tory votes - it'll be Labour votes that they can cultivate in large numbers. Farage is more working-class than Ed and they'll play on that. Ed has after all never had a proper job. Not even a paper-round.

    Commodities trading is a "working class" activity?

  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    Anyone else having trouble with le mode mgz com when they try to access PB?
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    MikeK said:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30744693

    Saudi blogger Badawi 'flogged for Islam insult'

    Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.

    For those that want to live under Sharia Law, this is how it is: Islam as practiced by extremists, who are at the same time one of the West so called allies.

    Do you remember Death of a Princess?
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,736
    Ishmael_X said:

    Digital debates offered by Telegraph,Grauniad and YouTube.Cameron can't really refuse-can he?-but it looks like he would play this as a substitute for the TV debates which he will still avoid like the Black Death.Cameron must not be allowed to use this to squirm out of the main TV debates,sliding into the undergrowth like the spineless reptile he is.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11335945/David-Cameron-challenged-to-five-way-digital-leaders-debate.html

    Reptiles are not spineless. Try gastropod?

    Cameron has a country to run, he can't pop along to every sixth form debating society in the country.

    LOL even most sensible Tories think his excuses are laughable.
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    perdix said:

    Omnium said:

    UKIP aren't going to push hard for Tory votes - it'll be Labour votes that they can cultivate in large numbers. Farage is more working-class than Ed and they'll play on that. Ed has after all never had a proper job. Not even a paper-round.

    Commodities trading is a "working class" activity?

    It is on Eastenders. They all seem barrow boys of one kind or another. So maybe UKIP are onto something
  • Moses_Moses_ Posts: 4,865
    Well Who'd have thunk it?

    Labour voters in England asking 'what is in this for us?', says Miliband aide
    John Denham, the former Communities Secretary, calls for party to produce 'English Manifesto' and warns Jim Murphy's 1,000 nurses announcement irked southern voters

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11335740/Labour-voters-in-England-asking-what-is-in-this-for-us-says-Miliband-aide.html
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,704
    Speedy said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Indy has 'The Truth about the Sex Scandal that brought down Roger Bird' on its front page.

    You mean this?
    http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/roger-bird-ukip-power-struggle-not-a-sex-scandal-cost-exgeneral-secretary-his-job-9969180.html

    Essentially a struggle between 2 party wings using shady HRx Consultancy Services as a weapon.

    Essentially a struggle between 2 party wings using shady HRx Consultancy Services as a weapon.

    Just as a warning: Blaney is very litigious. Be careful.
  • BlueberryBlueberry Posts: 408
    "Those who committed these acts, these fanatics, have nothing to do with the Muslim faith."

    Said Cnut, as the waters of World War 3 lapped around his dick.
  • These fanatics are patsies, prepared in advance to carry the can.
    http://tapnewswire.com/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-patsies-in-grave-danger/
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012

    The question of extra media attention for Ukip may well work against it than for it if past performance is anything to go.The fact that at the moment Ukip's support comes from the elderly but the party has no pensions policy is a case in point.
    Farage could,however, score points off Cameron in the TV debates which is one reason Cameron is trying to avoid the debates completely.It could be more to do with the fact that when he loses it and becomes Flashman,the red and purple faced Bullingdon bully boy,it is very unpleasant for voters to watch.Farage,too,must be careful as he looked well out of shape in the 1st debate with Clegg-a heavily sweating Farage won't attract either.

    You mean the debates where, by common agreement, Farage wiped the floor with Clegg? I think he could live with that.
    Wot! Debates where Farage showed he was a bigger smartarse than Clegg in the beauty parade stakes? That was of course a triumph.
    Flightpath everyone knows that as far as politics is concerned you couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it so do stop making yourself look a bigger fool than you already are.
    Oh dear whose upset? The fact that Farage out gurned Clegg is a real shocker
  • Ishmael_XIshmael_X Posts: 3,664

    Ishmael_X said:

    Digital debates offered by Telegraph,Grauniad and YouTube.Cameron can't really refuse-can he?-but it looks like he would play this as a substitute for the TV debates which he will still avoid like the Black Death.Cameron must not be allowed to use this to squirm out of the main TV debates,sliding into the undergrowth like the spineless reptile he is.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11335945/David-Cameron-challenged-to-five-way-digital-leaders-debate.html

    Reptiles are not spineless. Try gastropod?

    Cameron has a country to run, he can't pop along to every sixth form debating society in the country.

    LOL even most sensible Tories think his excuses are laughable.
    No, look again at the debates vp wants him to participate in.

  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,736
    Terrible wind tonight

    Must be the Curry!!
  • john_zimsjohn_zims Posts: 3,399
    edited January 2015
    @tlg86


    'We need to think for ourselves, and ask the question, do we think the cartoons are funny or make a valid point? If the answer is no, then we should not publish them'


    Exactly,'we' can make our own minds up when they are published,and if 'we' don't like them 'we' may not want to buy the newspapers,magazines they are published in in future.

    'We' used to enjoy freedom of speech.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Interview with gunman Cherif Kouachi shortly before he was killed:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0-X6SqJyw
  • The question of extra media attention for Ukip may well work against it than for it if past performance is anything to go.The fact that at the moment Ukip's support comes from the elderly but the party has no pensions policy is a case in point.
    Farage could,however, score points off Cameron in the TV debates which is one reason Cameron is trying to avoid the debates completely.It could be more to do with the fact that when he loses it and becomes Flashman,the red and purple faced Bullingdon bully boy,it is very unpleasant for voters to watch.Farage,too,must be careful as he looked well out of shape in the 1st debate with Clegg-a heavily sweating Farage won't attract either.

    You mean the debates where, by common agreement, Farage wiped the floor with Clegg? I think he could live with that.
    Wot! Debates where Farage showed he was a bigger smartarse than Clegg in the beauty parade stakes? That was of course a triumph.
    Flightpath everyone knows that as far as politics is concerned you couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it so do stop making yourself look a bigger fool than you already are.
    Oh dear whose upset? The fact that Farage out gurned Clegg is a real shocker
    The only thing I am upset about today is your inexcusable comments about the murdered journalists. I always knew you were a nasty piece of work but hadn't realised just how much of an authoritarian sociopath you really were.

    As is common knowledge here I couldn't care less about Farage generally. But pointing out your epsilon semi-moron tendencies is something that I consider to be a public duty these days.
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    dr_spyn said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Indy has 'The Truth about the Sex Scandal that brought down Roger Bird' on its front page.

    It also says 'Norwegian Christians did not have to apologise for Brevic...'
    Did Roger Bird, or the bird he tried to roger sell the story to the paper?

    The report is quite interesting.
    ''Ukip officials also failed to tell Mr Bird the company that carried out the investigation into the sexual harassment claims, HRx Consultancy Services, is closely connected to a leading Tory activist.''

    '' “It was Roger who failed her for the third stage and recommended getting her back in that day for reassessment.” ''
    And having reassessed he took her to bed.

    Boringly it seems to have been a UKIP power struggle. Despite him being assessed innocent they used it as an excuse to sack him.
  • john_zimsjohn_zims Posts: 3,399
    @bigjohnowls

    'LOL even most sensible Tories think his excuses are laughable.'

    And sensible lefties are relieved they won't have Ed on TV costing them thousands of votes.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,711
    perdix said:

    Omnium said:

    UKIP aren't going to push hard for Tory votes - it'll be Labour votes that they can cultivate in large numbers. Farage is more working-class than Ed and they'll play on that. Ed has after all never had a proper job. Not even a paper-round.

    Commodities trading is a "working class" activity?

    Dulwich College vs Dagenham Secondary?
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Pulpstar said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!

    Of all the posters on pb.com, I think audreyanne is one of the worst. "Her" posts are incoherent, poorly argued, lack wit, insight, betting tips, analysis or - indeed - any contribution of value whatsoever to our discussions.

    Many of her posts are just downright rude and insulting. The tragedy is that "she" seems to think she's a wag and that her insights possess real intellectual rigour. I skip over almost everything she writes.

    Worst poster of the year award.
    Ye but every word she writes out I read back in Mrs Doubtfire's voice. It is comedy gold.

    Mind you, I do that with all the posters here, except the animal ones - I don't imagine cyclefree's posts being barked out... ;p
    I'm curious: what does a little statue of a cherub sound like?
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,736
    john_zims said:

    @bigjohnowls

    'LOL even most sensible Tories think his excuses are laughable.'

    And sensible lefties are relieved they won't have Ed on TV costing them thousands of votes.

    If that were likely dont you think Dave would be keener?
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012

    The question of extra media attention for Ukip may well work against it than for it if past performance is anything to go.The fact that at the moment Ukip's support comes from the elderly but the party has no pensions policy is a case in point.
    Farage could,however, score points off Cameron in the TV debates which is one reason Cameron is trying to avoid the debates completely.It could be more to do with the fact that when he loses it and becomes Flashman,the red and purple faced Bullingdon bully boy,it is very unpleasant for voters to watch.Farage,too,must be careful as he looked well out of shape in the 1st debate with Clegg-a heavily sweating Farage won't attract either.

    You mean the debates where, by common agreement, Farage wiped the floor with Clegg? I think he could live with that.
    Wot! Debates where Farage showed he was a bigger smartarse than Clegg in the beauty parade stakes? That was of course a triumph.
    Flightpath everyone knows that as far as politics is concerned you couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it so do stop making yourself look a bigger fool than you already are.
    Oh dear whose upset? The fact that Farage out gurned Clegg is a real shocker
    The only thing I am upset about today is your inexcusable comments about the murdered journalists. I always knew you were a nasty piece of work but hadn't realised just how much of an authoritarian sociopath you really were.

    As is common knowledge here I couldn't care less about Farage generally. But pointing out your epsilon semi-moron tendencies is something that I consider to be a public duty these days.
    You are incapable of English comprehension if you draw that conclusion. Either that or you you cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. As such its you who are the moron. Maybe a moron who does not even understand free speech since to you all of a sudden are deeming comments 'inexcusable' if they do not suit you.

    We have already had another commentator on here delivering a dose of sarcasm against dead French police. But you seem to object to little ol' me saying that it was wrong to murder a satirist irrespective of if the satire was good or bad or justified or not.
    Or do you object to me reminding everyone that official muslim spokesmen also called the murders totally unjustified. Perhaps you object to me regularly pointing out that Islam is a medieval religion that needs to grow up.
    But as a well known hysteric I guess you just object to everything.
  • MonkeysMonkeys Posts: 758
    edited January 2015
    dr_spyn said:

    Anyone else having trouble with le mode mgz com when they try to access PB?

    Yes. Odd adverts pop up that take up the full page? I think it's time to fire up an adblocker.
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548
    Monkeys said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Anyone else having trouble with le mode mgz com when they try to access PB?

    Yes. Odd adverts pop up that take up the full page? I think it's time to fire up an adblocker.
    I got it earlier too.
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012
    AndyJS said:

    Interview with gunman Cherif Kouachi shortly before he was killed:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0-X6SqJyw

    It looks like the police had no option but to raid the supermarket after the police killed the original terrorists as they tried to escape. The supermarket gunman was demanding their escape. (The Times)
  • Monkeys said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Anyone else having trouble with le mode mgz com when they try to access PB?

    Yes. Odd adverts pop up that take up the full page? I think it's time to fire up an adblocker.
    I got it earlier too.
    I'm getting ads for free knitting classes

  • From Popbitch this week.
    This should appeal to TSE.
    http://popbitch.com/home/2014/12/19/carol-service/
  • Ishmael_XIshmael_X Posts: 3,664

    john_zims said:

    @bigjohnowls

    'LOL even most sensible Tories think his excuses are laughable.'

    And sensible lefties are relieved they won't have Ed on TV costing them thousands of votes.

    If that were likely dont you think Dave would be keener?
    Christ on a bike.

    As everyone has now despaired of making you understand, it's not just a 2 way ed vs dave fight.

  • The hostage the terrorists didn't know they had: Print worker hid in cardboard box for eight hours and texted police while Charlie Hebdo gunmen held his boss captive in final showdown

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903870/The-hostage-terrorists-didn-t-know-Print-worker-hid-box-texted-police-Charlie-Hebdo-gunmen-held-boss-captive-final-showdown.html
  • The question of extra media attention for Ukip may well work against it than for it if past performance is anything to go.The fact that at the moment Ukip's support comes from the elderly but the party has no pensions policy is a case in point.
    Farage could,however, score points off Cameron in the TV debates which is one reason Cameron is trying to avoid the debates completely.It could be more to do with the fact that when he loses it and becomes Flashman,the red and purple faced Bullingdon bully boy,it is very unpleasant for voters to watch.Farage,too,must be careful as he looked well out of shape in the 1st debate with Clegg-a heavily sweating Farage won't attract either.

    You mean the debates where, by common agreement, Farage wiped the floor with Clegg? I think he could live with that.
    Wot! Debates where Farage showed he was a bigger smartarse than Clegg in the beauty parade stakes? That was of course a triumph.
    Flightpath everyone knows that as far as politics is concerned you couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it so do stop making yourself look a bigger fool than you already are.
    Oh dear whose upset? The fact that Farage out gurned Clegg is a real shocker
    The only thing I am upset about today is your inexcusable comments about the murdered journalists. I always knew you were a nasty piece of work but hadn't realised just how much of an authoritarian sociopath you really were.

    As is common knowledge here I couldn't care less about Farage generally. But pointing out your epsilon semi-moron tendencies is something that I consider to be a public duty these days.
    You are incapable of English comprehension if you draw that conclusion. Either that or you you cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. As such its you who are the moron. Maybe a moron who does not even understand free speech since to you all of a sudden are deeming comments 'inexcusable' if they do not suit you.

    We have already had another commentator on here delivering a dose of sarcasm against dead French police. But you seem to object to little ol' me saying that it was wrong to murder a satirist irrespective of if the satire was good or bad or justified or not.
    Or do you object to me reminding everyone that official muslim spokesmen also called the murders totally unjustified. Perhaps you object to me regularly pointing out that Islam is a medieval religion that needs to grow up.
    But as a well known hysteric I guess you just object to everything.
    Let's calm it down eh?
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,736
    Oh dear it gets worse.


    Inadequate’ Hinchingbrooke hospital to be put in special measures
    Care Quality Commission publishes scathing report revealing catalogue of serious failings at privately run hospital
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,626
    MikeK said:

    Matthew Goodwin ‏@GoodwinMJ 37s37 seconds ago
    Le Pen asked Hollande to suspend Schengen agreement and strip terrorists of citizenship http://rt.com/news/221167-le-pen-france-attacks/

    It is - of course - worth remembering that even well before Schengen, there were basically no border controls between mainland European countries. If you drove from the UK to Italy, as we used to do regularly in the early 1980s, it was incredibly rare for you to be asked for your passport, even between France and Switzerland. Between Belgium and France it was similar, there would usually be a place where a policeman could stand... but didn't.

    Regarding stripping terrorists of their citizenship, aren't they all dead now anyway?
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,538

    Cyclefree said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    audreyanne


    "By the way, I applaud the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons. I have kept away from this topic, knowing how the rabid right will react. So I simply remark: well done to our media. Spot bloody on."

    It's certainly hard to keep up. Last week we had a thread on whether 'chinks' was an acceptable word and a footballer was banned for a clumsy line on twitter.

    This week the likes of David Aaronovitch are crucifying our national newspapers for choosing not to print some gratuitously offensive cartoons.

    Could someone please make the rules clearer?


    Freedom of speech from the 16th century onwards was not won, slowly, against much opposition and with many setbacks, by the likes of the Audreyannes of this world but by the scabrous, the scatological, the rude, the insulting, the satirical, the persistent and, above all, the brave.
    And look where your goal led: nowhere. It's a blind alley championing something without a core, without a soul. It's vacuous crap.
    It led to the freedom to allow you to write rubbish posts like that!


    Worst poster of the year award.
    Lol.

    Like the proverbial rogue poll = the poster with whom you least agree award.
    No. There are posters I disagree with more (EiT, Nick Palmer, BJO, and Roger, to name a few) and I'm on your side of the political spectrum.

    I just think your posts on here are absolutely dreadful, as is the manner in which you engage with others.

    Now, I have other things to do this weekend. Good evening.
    "Her" low point was trying to justify Mohammed raping a 9 year old.

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