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Liz Truss may have lost but she isn’t forgotten – politicalbetting.com

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  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108
    TimS said:

    One thing she isn’t is trans. She was born and brought up female. So this is a case of physiological difference- intersex. It’s a shame it’s got caught up in the culture wars over trans.
    We don't know if she's intersex. Lots of people are assuming things. The IOC cleared her to compete. The IBA did not, but precisely why is unclear and there were lots of problems with the IBA. There are reports that she had too high testosterone or that she's chromosomally XY, but neither has been confirmed AIUI.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,403
    TimS said:

    Sparkling wine tip of the day. I’m drinking Prosecco, which is as we all know generally shit, but with a couple of shakes of angostura bitters. Makes it palatable.

    Soda water with a couple of drops of Angostura is an old alcoholic's trick for something which tastes like a real drink but has very little alcohol.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,789
    edited August 2024

    Thats a bit of a blow.
    A relative of mine calls them "gob jobs". Which I think makes more sense than "blow jobs"
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,789

    Iranian TV: ” In coming hours, the World will witness Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments.”

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1819465211440779456

    Leon, that's your cue I think.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,403
    Leon said:

    Here it is. Probably the best rose wine I’ve ever had

    https://josephbarneswines.com/products/chateau-de-pibarnon-bandol-rose-2022

    Better than this?

    https://hedonism.co.uk/product/bandol-rose-domaine-tempier-2023

    Because that's the benchmark.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    viewcode said:

    A relative of mine calls them "gob jobs". Which I think makes more sense.
    The origin of “blow job” is fascinating

    People presume - as I did - that it comes from notions of blowing or sucking but it’s not true. It comes from late Victorian london prostitute slang and it is a truncation of a “down below job” - a task assigned to the whore that meant she had to lower her mouth below the belt

    See. Now I’ve returned we’re talking about sexual etymology not the rerouting of trains via crewe
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,870

    Iranian TV: ” In coming hours, the World will witness Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments.”

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1819465211440779456

    They're not going to shoot down a random passenger aircraft again, are they?
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108
    Omnium said:

    Not entirely ready to believe that you are the great saviour from dullness. Nonetheless you've often posted worse theories :)
    And the lab leak theory has been pretty much disproven, particularly by the genetic evidence ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348752/ ).
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716
    Leon said:

    That’s the whole point. You dummy

    A chain hotel like radisson in Chisinau is still sufficiently connected to the Moldovan world around it, they serve serve genuine Moldovan food and it is fab and fresh and unprocessed (and also fucking spicy) not dreary club sandwiches or bland versions of curry

    Zama

    https://www.internationalcuisine.com/moldovan-zeama/

    It’s not beetroot. That’s borscht
    I see that recipe is described as also a hangover cure.

    No idea why you'd be attracted to it. :smiley:
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    ‘Bully’ Kamala Harris ‘berated staff,’ left them in tears after berating them with ‘F-bombs,’ intern told never to make eye contact: report'
    https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/kamala-harris-berated-staff-with-f-bombs-report/
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970

    And the lab leak theory has been pretty much disproven, particularly by the genetic evidence ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348752/ ).
    lol. I kinda love you for your bizarre and insane persistence. Also despise you. But you know that
  • carnforth said:

    Better than this?

    https://hedonism.co.uk/product/bandol-rose-domaine-tempier-2023

    Because that's the benchmark.
    Yes. Much better. Chateau Ste Anne Bandol Rose is better than Tempier too.

    Don’t wish to knock Tempier. Their white is delicious.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    carnforth said:

    Better than this?

    https://hedonism.co.uk/product/bandol-rose-domaine-tempier-2023

    Because that's the benchmark.
    Never had it. They seem to be a similar price. £35 a bottle. Must be a close call

    All I can say is that rose I just had is the best I’ve ever had
  • ydoethur said:

    They're not going to shoot down a random passenger aircraft again, are they?
    No, they have put a Fatwa on Shugborough Tunnel.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,609
    HYUFD said:

    ‘Bully’ Kamala Harris ‘berated staff,’ left them in tears after berating them with ‘F-bombs,’ intern told never to make eye contact: report'
    https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/kamala-harris-berated-staff-with-f-bombs-report/

    Isn't the NY Post a Murdoch vehicle? A bit like the print edition of Fox News. Next.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108
    HYUFD said:

    ‘Bully’ Kamala Harris ‘berated staff,’ left them in tears after berating them with ‘F-bombs,’ intern told never to make eye contact: report'
    https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/kamala-harris-berated-staff-with-f-bombs-report/

    Not exactly the most reliable source, is it?
  • BromptonBrompton Posts: 20
    Nigelb said:

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers announced the largest fentanyl seizure in agency history.

    A U.S. citizen was caught smuggling 4 million fentanyl pills weighing over 1,000 pounds in his pickup truck at a port of entry.

    https://x.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1819375650899161113

    Not a bad week for the administration.

    Except the rule of thumb is 10% max gets intercepted so the bigger the bust the bigger the problem.

    More generally I agree. By looking sharp as a pin Joe has nixed any claim they were covering up his drooling vegetable status. If he starts drooling any time after now they just say Yup this is exactly what we feared was coming.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333

    Isn't the NY Post a Murdoch vehicle? A bit like the print edition of Fox News. Next.
    It has a big readership in New York though
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824

    Iranian TV: ” In coming hours, the World will witness Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments.”

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1819465211440779456

    Someone pulling out of the Tory leadership?
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    edited August 2024
    Leon said:

    The origin of “blow job” is fascinating

    People presume - as I did - that it comes from notions of blowing or sucking but it’s not true. It comes from late Victorian london prostitute slang and it is a truncation of a “down below job” - a task assigned to the whore that meant she had to lower her mouth below the belt

    See. Now I’ve returned we’re talking about sexual etymology not the rerouting of trains via crewe
    Just have a look at the meaning of "getting off at BR Edge Hill".
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824
    viewcode said:

    For the avoidance of doubt regarding my earlier comment, the act of fellatio was not in progress nor in prospect in or near the kitchen where and when I mispronounced the word "fellatio".

    I'm sure that has cheered you all up. 👍

    It's a bit of a mouthful in fairness.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,403
    edited August 2024
    Leon said:

    Never had it. They seem to be a similar price. £35 a bottle. Must be a close call

    All I can say is that rose I just had is the best I’ve ever had
    All colours of Dom. Tempier outstanding.

    (Bear in mind that Hedonism is overpriced. "What would happen if we opened a wine shop in Mayfair and had no fucking shame?" being their business model.)
  • Leon said:

    The origin of “blow job” is fascinating

    People presume - as I did - that it comes from notions of blowing or sucking but it’s not true. It comes from late Victorian london prostitute slang and it is a truncation of a “down below job” - a task assigned to the whore that meant she had to lower her mouth below the belt

    See. Now I’ve returned we’re talking about sexual etymology not the rerouting of trains via crewe
    "Can I park my train inside your tunnel?"
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    dixiedean said:

    It's a bit of a mouthful in fairness.
    *perks up ears at the realisation that it is a potential nonuple word in Scrabble*
  • BromptonBrompton Posts: 20
    HYUFD said:

    ‘Bully’ Kamala Harris ‘berated staff,’ left them in tears after berating them with ‘F-bombs,’ intern told never to make eye contact: report'
    https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/kamala-harris-berated-staff-with-f-bombs-report/

    That changes everything.

    Is there anyone who doesn't say fuck, sorry, drop an F bomb on most days? The pope perhaps and the very old cardinals. Holly Willoughby.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108

    Isn't the NY Post a Murdoch vehicle? A bit like the print edition of Fox News. Next.
    Got the identity of the Olympic Park bomber wrong, got sued, had to settle. Got the Boston Marathon bomber wrong, got sued, had to settle. Compared Obama to a chimpanzee in a cartoon. And this from Wikipedia is wild ride...

    In April 2021, the Post published a false front-page story asserting that copies of a book by vice president Kamala Harris were being distributed to migrant children at an intake facility in Long Beach, California.[134] Fox News then published a story about the matter, followed by numerous Republican politicians and pundits commenting on it, in some cases speculating that taxpayers were funding the supposed book handouts for Harris's personal profit.[134][135] Responding to questions from Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed no knowledge of the matter; the Post then published a new story headlined "Psaki has no answers when asked about Harris' book being given to child migrants."[136] Four days after the original publication, the Post replaced the story with a new version clarifying that just one Harris book had been donated by a community member but maintained that it was an "open-arms gesture by the Biden administration," though there was no evidence of the administration's involvement.[136] Laura Italiano, the author of the story, resigned that day, asserting she had been "ordered" to write it.[57][136]
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    edited August 2024

    Not exactly the most reliable source, is it?
    It comes from a Democrat 'An unearthed 2019 op-ed from professor Terry McAteer published in California newspaper The Union describes the “eye-opening” month his son Gregory spent as an intern for Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

    McAteer, a Democrat with generational political ties to the party, claimed his son was subjected to a “side of Kamala Harris which the general public does not know”'

    To be honest I am not surprised, Trump and Harris are the most dislikeable 2 US presidential candidates of my lifetime
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716
    edited August 2024
    Luke Tryl
    @LukeTryl
    ·
    13h

    Think Farage is in danger of speaking to his online audience rather than body of Reform voters here. Speaking to Reform voters since the unrest, there was no “but” just straight out condemnation of rioters and total rejection rioters are standing up for Britain.


    Edit: The new tory leader may get very lucky very early if Farage continues down this path.
  • BromptonBrompton Posts: 20

    "Can I park my train inside your tunnel?"
    Depends how broad your gauge is.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824
    Carnyx said:

    Just have a look at the meaning of "getting off at BR Edge Hill".
    Or indeed change at Baker Street.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Leon said:

    The origin of “blow job” is fascinating

    People presume - as I did - that it comes from notions of blowing or sucking but it’s not true. It comes from late Victorian london prostitute slang and it is a truncation of a “down below job” - a task assigned to the whore that meant she had to lower her mouth below the belt

    See. Now I’ve returned we’re talking about sexual etymology not the rerouting of trains via crewe
    And also read up on the trains on the North London Line (I think it was: comes off the WCML very close to you) when it had compartments and no corridors, and a particularly long section between two stops.
  • TimSTimS Posts: 14,471
    Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments” is:

    A. The bittersweet memoirs of an American political journalist operating in Pakistan during the troubled years following partition
    B. The long awaited sequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events
    C. A threat of retaliation against Israel by the IRG?
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    edited August 2024
    HYUFD said:

    It has a big readership in New York though
    Is New York in play? If Trump has a chance there then Harris may as well give up. But, on Planet Earth, it isn’t. Biden was averaging 8 point leads in the state. Harris has probably added three or four points to that. So the Post, on your own argument, is pissing in the wind.
  • BromptonBrompton Posts: 20
    TimS said:

    Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments” is:

    A. The bittersweet memoirs of an American political journalist operating in Pakistan during the troubled years following partition
    B. The long awaited sequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events
    C. A threat of retaliation against Israel by the IRG?

    The title of the North Korea TV knock off of The Thick of It, translated back.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,497
    Leon said:

    I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?

    The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious

    And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
    Its fairly obvious who recruited him. He was described as dangerously inaccurate by his schook rifle club. The only people likely to recruit him is the people being shot at.
  • We don't know if she's intersex. Lots of people are assuming things. The IOC cleared her to compete. The IBA did not, but precisely why is unclear and there were lots of problems with the IBA. There are reports that she had too high testosterone or that she's chromosomally XY, but neither has been confirmed AIUI.
    Is this the same issue that the South African runner had a few years ago? A natural difference from the defined parameters?
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,403
    TimS said:

    Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments” is:

    A. The bittersweet memoirs of an American political journalist operating in Pakistan during the troubled years following partition
    B. The long awaited sequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events
    C. A threat of retaliation against Israel by the IRG?

    D. Sequel to Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • Brompton said:

    That changes everything.

    Is there anyone who doesn't say fuck, sorry, drop an F bomb on most days? The pope perhaps and the very old cardinals. Holly Willoughby.
    Most popes (in recent centuries. Not this Pope.

    He is quite fond of F Bombs (of various types)

    https://www.ansa.it/english/news/vatican/2024/06/12/pope-used-derogatory-term-for-gays-again-sources_d848d862-c9c8-4731-b0d0-eb644a38ee65.html

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/mar/03/pope-francis-swears-vatican-blessing-video
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 33,196
    edited August 2024

    Luke Tryl
    @LukeTryl
    ·
    13h

    Think Farage is in danger of speaking to his online audience rather than body of Reform voters here. Speaking to Reform voters since the unrest, there was no “but” just straight out condemnation of rioters and total rejection rioters are standing up for Britain.


    Edit: The new tory leader may get very lucky very early if Farage continues down this path.

    If he hadn't done it before, Farage has definitely jumped the shark on this one.
  • Taz said:

    Blyth Spartans. A match of equals.
    Hopefully will pass through Blyth Bebside on the way to Ashington station within the next couple of months.
  • Brompton said:

    That changes everything.

    Is there anyone who doesn't say fuck, sorry, drop an F bomb on most days? The pope perhaps and the very old cardinals. Holly Willoughby.
    My dear wife of 60 years doesn't and wouldn't even think to do it
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108

    We don't know if she's intersex. Lots of people are assuming things. The IOC cleared her to compete. The IBA did not, but precisely why is unclear and there were lots of problems with the IBA. There are reports that she had too high testosterone or that she's chromosomally XY, but neither has been confirmed AIUI.
    OK, the latest BBC article has this...

    The IBA denied Khelif's testosterone levels had been tested.

    In an interview with BBC sports editor Dan Roan on Thursday, IBA chief executive Chris Roberts said XY chromosomes were found in "both cases". [Khelif's and another boxer's]

    Roberts said there were "different strands involved in that" and therefore the body could not commit to referring to Khelif as "biologically male".

    The IOC has raised doubts over the accuracy of the tests.

    "We don't know what the protocol was, we don't know whether the test was accurate, we don't know whether we should believe the test," said IOC spokesperson Adams.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642

    My dear wife of 60 years doesn't and wouldn't even think to do it
    Are you married to Holly Willoughby?
  • Luke Tryl
    @LukeTryl
    ·
    13h

    Think Farage is in danger of speaking to his online audience rather than body of Reform voters here. Speaking to Reform voters since the unrest, there was no “but” just straight out condemnation of rioters and total rejection rioters are standing up for Britain.


    Edit: The new tory leader may get very lucky very early if Farage continues down this path.

    I noticed that both Starmer and Reeves ratings have dropped since the election and a sensible leader has a chance to make progress but not Jenrick IMHO
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    DougSeal said:

    Is New York in play? If Trump has a chance there then Harris may as well give up. But, on Planet Earth, it isn’t. Biden was averaging 8 point leads in the state. Harris has probably added three or four points to that. So the Post, on your own argument, is pissing in the wind.
    Not in the EC maybe but it could make a difference in the popular vote given NY is one of the biggest states
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,850
    HYUFD said:

    ‘Bully’ Kamala Harris ‘berated staff,’ left them in tears after berating them with ‘F-bombs,’ intern told never to make eye contact: report'
    https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/kamala-harris-berated-staff-with-f-bombs-report/

    I'm sure some of my employees would level similar complaints at me.
  • Carnyx said:

    And also read up on the trains on the North London Line (I think it was: comes off the WCML very close to you) when it had compartments and no corridors, and a particularly long section between two stops.
    Would that have been between Acton Central and Williesden Junction?

    Waterloo East caused sexual chaos when it opened. Before it opened trains went from Charing Cross to Cannon St before reversing, which was just enough time.

    Then Waterloo East opened and people barged on in the middle of proceedings.

  • FossFoss Posts: 1,301
    .

    Iranian TV: ” In coming hours, the World will witness Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments.”

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1819465211440779456

    If it’s not the Ayatollah doing the white-eared elephant then I’m going to be most put out….
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824

    Hopefully will pass through Blyth Bebside on the way to Ashington station within the next couple of months.
    Was looking at Ashington station today. Seems ready to use. Looks no different to any other Metro terminus. Less grand than the Airport.
    You'll be disappointed to hear December is now the plan.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-line-december-opening-cost-29664780.amp
  • Evening folks, so, moving on from my random drive by comments, a question for the PB brains trust. I assume this has already been addressed but I missed it.

    How come Tommy Robinson is marching in London today when a warrent was issued for his arrest a few days ago?
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716

    Nick Lowles
    @lowles_nick
    ·
    12m
    For those who say these aren’t far right protests, well, in Sunderland they shouted racist slogans, they attacked an Uber driver’s car because of his colour and they attempted to march on the mosque, only stopped by riot police. Pretty conclusive evidence if you ask me
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    edited August 2024

    If he hadn't done it before, Farage has definitely jumped the shark on this one.
    I think he's been remarkably restrained. Indeed maybe too much so

    He made one 90 second video saying “there are questions to be asked, legitimately” and that is clearly true and fair. And that’s it
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    HYUFD said:

    Not in the EC maybe but it could make a difference in the popular vote given NY is one of the biggest states
    The NY Post runs stories shitting on the Democrats every day. It’s like posting a DM or DT article critical of Starmer or a Guardian article critical of Sunak. Unless it gets traction elsewhere this article will make zero difference.
  • DougSeal said:

    Are you married to Holly Willoughby?
    I am married to a very special kind and loving lady who I haven't heard swear once in our 60 plus years

    And who is Holly Willoughby?
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716
    Leon said:

    I think he's been remarkably restrained. Indeed maybe too much so

    He made one 90 second video saying “there are questions to be asked, legitimately” and that is clearly true and fair. And that’s it
    What are the questions?
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,814

    I am married to a very special kind and loving lady who I haven't heard swear once in our 60 plus years

    And who is Holly Willoughby?
    Ya know. Willabooby.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824


    Nick Lowles
    @lowles_nick
    ·
    12m
    For those who say these aren’t far right protests, well, in Sunderland they shouted racist slogans, they attacked an Uber driver’s car because of his colour and they attempted to march on the mosque, only stopped by riot police. Pretty conclusive evidence if you ask me

    Or, an average Friday night out in Sunderland.
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252
    edited August 2024
    dixiedean said:

    Was looking at Ashington station today. Seems ready to use. Looks no different to any other Metro terminus. Less grand than the Airport.
    You'll be disappointed to hear December is now the plan.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-line-december-opening-cost-29664780.amp
    The Northern Heights line from Moorgate to Alexandra Palace was at a similar stage of completion when Labour got into power in 1945 and cancelled it.

    #RachelBeeching © @Sunil_Prasannan
  • moonshine said:

    Ya know. Willabooby.
    No idea but then I am not someone who has any interest in celebrities and the like
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    Leon said:

    I think he's been remarkably restrained. Indeed maybe too much so

    He made one 90 second video saying “there are questions to be asked, legitimately” and that is clearly true and fair. And that’s it
    That’s an out of context quote from a video that essentially excused attacks on mosques. We know you’re fash curious - you’d do well to finally come out of the closet on this one. If you think what’s happening in Sunderland tonight is excusable say so, and explain why.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108

    Is this the same issue that the South African runner had a few years ago? A natural difference from the defined parameters?
    We don't know. Caster Semenya has 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency (5-ARD), where she is chromosomally XY and has testes internally (producing testosterone), but is externally female in anatomy, was raised a girl and has always identified as female. Khelif might have the same, but we don't know. Tests were done by the IBA, but we don't have details (they've said she's XY, which could be 5-ARD, but could be other things) and the IOC don't trust the IBA (because they're Russian and because of the Russian doping scandal).

    The IOC position is that she is a woman, end of. Her Italian opponent has withdrawn her complaints and apologised to Khelif.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,347
    Pagan2 said:

    Its fairly obvious who recruited him. He was described as dangerously inaccurate by his schook rifle club. The only people likely to recruit him is the people being shot at.
    Doubt we'll ever know. Whole thing was so eerie.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970
    edited August 2024

    What are the questions?
    Really? REALLY?

    Just think for yourself. I don’t want to get banned again for the 19th time in a week but examine the evidence we have and do some digging and then think for yourself rather than relying on pabulum fed you by mainstream media which - remember - told us he was a good Welsh boy of 17 from a nice family and maybe he’s a bit autistic so that’s all it is

    Insane drivel
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    rcs1000 said:

    I'm sure some of my employees would level similar complaints at me.
    This too? 'Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, ‘Good Morning General’...“Gregory was also given instructions to never address Harris nor look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members.”
  • Stark_DawningStark_Dawning Posts: 9,932
    Pagan2 said:

    Its fairly obvious who recruited him. He was described as dangerously inaccurate by his schook rifle club. The only people likely to recruit him is the people being shot at.
    They recruited him because they knew his shooting was so poor the best he could do was hit Trump's ear?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333

    No idea but then I am not someone who has any interest in celebrities and the like
    The target of Jabba the Hut
    https://news.sky.com/story/holly-willoughby-kidnap-plot-trial-gavin-plumb-says-tv-presenter-was-his-celebrity-crush-13160270
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108

    Evening folks, so, moving on from my random drive by comments, a question for the PB brains trust. I assume this has already been addressed but I missed it.

    How come Tommy Robinson is marching in London today when a warrent was issued for his arrest a few days ago?

    I don't think he is marching in London today. He remains out of the country, I believe.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716

    I don't think he is marching in London today. He remains out of the country, I believe.
    Such a f*cking patriot who loves his country he has to leave it?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 58,970

    I am married to a very special kind and loving lady who I haven't heard swear once in our 60 plus years

    And who is Holly Willoughby?
    Women should only swear in bed. Men should only cry during war

    I invented these rules when I was 30 and they remain sound. Indeed they aren’t rules they are guidelines for life. Women SHOULD swear in bed etc
  • eekeek Posts: 29,399

    Evening folks, so, moving on from my random drive by comments, a question for the PB brains trust. I assume this has already been addressed but I missed it.

    How come Tommy Robinson is marching in London today when a warrent was issued for his arrest a few days ago?

    No warrant was issued - he wasn't required to attend on Monday. If he doesn't turn up in October (next court date) a warrant will be issued.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824

    I don't think he is marching in London today. He remains out of the country, I believe.
    Whose country?
    Not his it would seem.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,138
    The Neds in Sunderland have such "legitimate concerns" they torched the police station...
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108
    eek said:

    No warrant was issued - he wasn't required to attend on Monday. If he doesn't turn up in October (next court date) a warrant will be issued.
    The media report an arrest warrant was issued a few days ago.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,347
    Leon said:

    Really? REALLY?

    Just think for yourself. I don’t want to get banned again for the 19th time in a week but examine the evidence we have and do some digging and then think for yourself rather than relying on pabulum fed you by mainstream media which - remember - told us he was a good Welsh boy of 17 from a nice family and maybe he’s a bit autistic so that’s all it is

    Insane drivel
    You're doing my response for me now, I see. That's a good innovation.
  • Sod it, I've laid Jenrick. I'll lay more if price decreases but we seem to be at a bit of an inflection point and I hate him so much.
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,814

    They recruited him because they knew his shooting was so poor the best he could do was hit Trump's ear?
    The TDS explanation for the shooting is the most deranged thing I’ve ever heard. And I have heard otherwise intelligent people espouse it irl. ThT Trump staged a shooting by a loser kid, to just miss his head, in order to win sympathy votes. I mean really. I wouldn’t trust that Turkish Olympic gangsta shooter to just graze my ear from 150m, yet alone some incel kid thrown out his high school shooting team.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,642
    edited August 2024
    Leon said:

    Really? REALLY?

    Just think for yourself. I don’t want to get banned again for the 19th time in a week but examine the evidence we have and do some digging and then think for yourself rather than relying on pabulum fed you by mainstream media which - remember - told us he was a good Welsh boy of 17 from a nice family and maybe he’s a bit autistic so that’s all it is

    Insane drivel
    So, your “question” is, in fact, an assertion that the suspect was not born in Wales. What evidence do you have for this assertion. Where should we “dig”?

    The evidence we have is that the suspect is a 17 (nearly 18) year old born in South Wales to Rwandan parents. Why do we doubt this? Don’t fuck us around with coy statements about the “mainstream” media (which you work for BTW) can’t be trusted. Just come out and say it.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716

    They recruited him because they knew his shooting was so poor the best he could do was hit Trump's ear?
    "A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?"

    I once shared a student flat with a guy in his final year of physics. He was distinctly odd. Almost no interaction with others. Never seemed to sleep. If you did see him in the corridor and tried to interact you would end up after a few seconds feeling utterly bemused and shaking your head thinking he is on another planet.

    His room was incredible. Literally like no one lived there.

    One day I overheard one of the uni cleaners say to another: 'leave that room Brenda, there's no one living in that one.'
  • I don't think he is marching in London today. He remains out of the country, I believe.
    Ah apologies. I misunderstood the MSN headlines.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824
    edited August 2024
    Leon said:

    Women should only swear in bed. Men should only cry during war

    I invented these rules when I was 30 and they remain sound. Indeed they aren’t rules they are guidelines for life. Women SHOULD swear in bed etc
    Do you often find it's "Who the fuck are you? And how the fuck did you get in here, c***?"
    :wink:
  • DumbosaurusDumbosaurus Posts: 825
    edited August 2024
    Scott_xP said:

    The Neds in Sunderland have such "legitimate concerns" they torched the police station...

    I have noticed from videos a lot of them don't have Wearside accents. Make of that what you will.

    I was considering going along today to spectate (I shouldn't have to say this, but just to be clear - not in any way join in or support the "cause", wahtever that cause might be, but just to have a bit of fun watching people do things) but sadly decided to do other things as didn't forsee anything like what happened happening. Really regretting that now.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,216
    edited August 2024
    Leon said:

    Really? REALLY?

    Just think for yourself. I don’t want to get banned again for the 19th time in a week but examine the evidence we have and do some digging and then think for yourself rather than relying on pabulum fed you by mainstream media which - remember - told us he was a good Welsh boy of 17 from a nice family and maybe he’s a bit autistic so that’s all it is

    Insane drivel
    A) He's not Muslim.
    B ) He didn't come over in a small boat.
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252
    edited August 2024
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  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    Scott_xP said:

    The Neds in Sunderland have such "legitimate concerns" they torched the police station...

    BBC reports mobs looting and smashing shops in Sunderland too, far right figures identified, extra police units being sent
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716
    edited August 2024
    Is looting "legitimate protest" Nigel?

  • Leon said:

    Women should only swear in bed. Men should only cry during war

    I invented these rules when I was 30 and they remain sound. Indeed they aren’t rules they are guidelines for life. Women SHOULD swear in bed etc
    Men may also cry when influential monarchs die.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    edited August 2024

    Sod it, I've laid Jenrick. I'll lay more if price decreases but we seem to be at a bit of an inflection point and I hate him so much.

    Based on his launch today Jenrick looked more credible than Ed Miliband and Hague were when they took over leadership of their parties after they lost power. He also speaks more fluently than Starmer does
  • A) He's not Muslim.
    B ) He didn't come over in a small boat.
    Someone told me before not to speculate, but I'm convinced if this isn't pure mentalism that it's gonna be incel. And I said that before finding out he was autistic. Even more likely now.

    Chances of a Rwandan ethnicity kid being muslim are negligible.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,347
    moonshine said:

    The TDS explanation for the shooting is the most deranged thing I’ve ever heard. And I have heard otherwise intelligent people espouse it irl. ThT Trump staged a shooting by a loser kid, to just miss his head, in order to win sympathy votes. I mean really. I wouldn’t trust that Turkish Olympic gangsta shooter to just graze my ear from 150m, yet alone some incel kid thrown out his high school shooting team.
    Unlike you to snub a ludicrous conspiracy theory. It'll be confused and a little hurt.
  • Peter Hitchens wrote a few years back that until recently the British Police would deal with all demostrators/rioters in the same way.

    In contrast, the response of the French police would depend on whether the government politicians sympathised with the demonstrators /rioters. If so then kid gloves time. If not then it would be all truncheons and tear gas.

    Alas, our police are now similarly politicised in their response to such matters.

    That is the issue.
    Really? How?

    Seems to me the Police take a fairly consistent approach to rioters and have done since the London riots onwards (if not before): stand back, film it all, round up the perps later.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824

    I have noticed from videos a lot of them don't have Wearside accents. Make of that what you will.

    I was considering going along today to spectate (I shouldn't have to say this, but just to be clear - not in any way join in or support the "cause", wahtever that cause might be, but just to have a bit of fun watching people do things) but sadly decided to do other things as didn't forsee anything like what happened happening. Really regretting that now.
    Though the seven in court for the Hartlepool riot were all local.
    (Maybe because they were the ones already known to the Law?).
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,347

    "A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?"

    I once shared a student flat with a guy in his final year of physics. He was distinctly odd. Almost no interaction with others. Never seemed to sleep. If you did see him in the corridor and tried to interact you would end up after a few seconds feeling utterly bemused and shaking your head thinking he is on another planet.

    His room was incredible. Literally like no one lived there.

    One day I overheard one of the uni cleaners say to another: 'leave that room Brenda, there's no one living in that one.'
    Yes, some people are like that. Ultra clean and tidy.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,824
    edited August 2024
    Police Station set alight from the inside in Sunderland.
    Call for reinforcements across the NE.
    All Police leave cancelled today and tomorrow.
  • kinabalu said:

    Yes, some people are like that. Ultra clean and tidy.
    Especially if OCD which can go hand in hand with some autism.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,716
    dixiedean said:

    Though the seven in court for the Hartlepool riot were all local.
    (Maybe because they were the ones already known to the Law?).
    Early days.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,204
    edited August 2024
    Looks like Harris’s VP pick has leaked, or someone is trying to bounce her into it:

    https://x.com/peopleforparker/status/1819436801280389542
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,227
    Foxy said:

    Possibly the Tories should look at how Truss lost her seat while Hunt saved his against the odds.

    More likely that they will disappear down the rabbit hole.
    By spending 10s of thousands of pounds of his own money campaigning for himself?
  • dixiedean said:

    Police Station set alight from the inside in Sunderland.

    One of those stations that have limited opening times. doubt if it was manned.
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