Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
Interesting - A spokesman for the Met Police says: "On Thursday, 6 March we received an allegation of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man on Friday, 13 December."
"Officers are carrying out an assessment of the allegations to determine what further action may be required."
So the report to the police just happened to be made yesterday, the day of the big bust up.
Months after the threat was actually supposedly made.
This does rather suggest Reform didn't think it was that big of a deal, or that party unity was more important than unacceptable behaviour, until the row yesterday.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I don’t think Jenrick would do well at all. For every “very online” loon like Leon he’d attract, he’d turn away many more.
Jenrick got Labour to crap themselves just yesterday, and reinforced the Two Tier Keir narrative, with one deft bit of politicking (and observant aides, I am guessing). He made Sabana Mahmood scramble, awkwardly
He is simply better at politics than Kemi B (and I like Kemi, she just hasn't got the chops). Indeed he seems to be the only Tory who is capable of taking it to Labour - can you name any one thing that any of the others have done? They are pitiful
Someone like Jenrick is what the Tories need now, urgently. A fighter. With a cruel and ruthless streak. They need someone determined, ambitious, and with a striking resemblance to the leader singer of the Killers. That seems to be Jenrick
If you can name an obviously superior candidate that is right now a Tory MP without making everyone roll on the floor with derisory laughter then go ahead. We can rule out Cleverly for a start, because lol
It is true Jenrick captured the narrative yesterday, although he did so by being economical with the actualitaire.
Interesting - A spokesman for the Met Police says: "On Thursday, 6 March we received an allegation of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man on Friday, 13 December."
"Officers are carrying out an assessment of the allegations to determine what further action may be required."
So the report to the police just happened to be made yesterday, the day of the big bust up.
Months after the threat was actually supposedly made.
This does rather suggest Reform didn't think it was that big of a deal, or that party unity was more important than unacceptable behaviour, until the row yesterday.
Doesn't look great
Well, it looks like the professionalisation has extended to starting a whips office, and a complaint handling function, complete with actually lawyers.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Is your dog watching ?
He's off with his mate 'The Colossus of Rhodes' for the night.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
Interesting - A spokesman for the Met Police says: "On Thursday, 6 March we received an allegation of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man on Friday, 13 December."
"Officers are carrying out an assessment of the allegations to determine what further action may be required."
So the report to the police just happened to be made yesterday, the day of the big bust up.
Months after the threat was actually supposedly made.
This does rather suggest Reform didn't think it was that big of a deal, or that party unity was more important than unacceptable behaviour, until the row yesterday.
Doesn't look great
Well, it looks like the professionalisation has extended to starting a whips office, and a complaint handling function, complete with actually lawyers.
The whip is the MP for Clacton, and the lawyers are Farage & Farage LLP.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
There was one in the endangered breeds competition final earlier
Lowe is, incidentally, a rather good public speaker. If you like firmly rightwing no nonsense opinions expressed clearly, confidently, and articulately. Trouble is:
1. He's too old
and
2. He hasn't got Farage's rizz
I can imagine he has a loyal chunk of Reform activists who prefer him to Nige, but it won't be enough if it comes to a shootout
What Reform desperately need is a cadre of younger sassier telegenic new politicians. That is what all the successful populist rightwing parties in the EU have done - from Meloni to Bardella etc. Indeed that is probably exactly what reform needs: a younger WOMAN
Holly Vallance?
You can have Suella and are welcome to her.
No they need someone HOT
Holly Vallance is HOT (for an older lady type)
There's a Third Man/John Wayne/cuckoo clock joke in there somewhere, but I can't really be bothered this evening.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Is your dog watching ?
Unlike some dogs, he doesn’t pay the TV any attention. If he hears a dog on it, he gives it a sniff, and since it only smells of plastic and glass, he loses interest.
Basically the same as if we could smell a dog in the room but can see there is nothing there.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
There was one in the endangered breeds competition final earlier
I've long wanted to have a dog alongside me. Otter-hounds seem like pretty cool dudes in the dog world. Should I risk all the downsides?
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
Can you please stop finishing posts with "Enough". Makes you sound like Richard Littlejohn.
No, but I will give you a cool picture quiz
Where is this? And why is it so remarkable?
Nicht der googlissimi
I promise this is a good one
OK I think this is too hard, so here's basically the answer
This is a ghost town in the Atacama, not far from the coast. The crosses are the graves of miners - there was a mine here decades ago (saltpeter maybe?)
In parts of the Atacama (and elsewhere in Latin America?) there is a weird syncretic pagan-Christian tradition of leaving toys as offerings at graves and roadsides. When I came here I was startled to see hundreds of these plastic toys, decorating the rusty old graves and crosses of minders who died fifty years back. Some were fesh - teenage mutant ninja turtles - staring across the endless desert
It was intensely weird and very noomy
But there was one other thing about this place which makes it outstandingly strange, and means it should be world famous (but it isn't). It certainly added to the already formidable noom. Can anyone guess what this extra aspect might be?
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
There was one in the endangered breeds competition final earlier
I've long wanted to have a dog alongside me. Otter-hounds seem like pretty cool dudes in the dog world. Should I risk all the downsides?
JUst make sure they don't run off if they see a rat or something in the water. Friends of ours had a spaniel - would run offand never come back if it saw a duck. And they live next to a Thames wet meadow.
Interesting - A spokesman for the Met Police says: "On Thursday, 6 March we received an allegation of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man on Friday, 13 December."
"Officers are carrying out an assessment of the allegations to determine what further action may be required."
So the report to the police just happened to be made yesterday, the day of the big bust up.
Months after the threat was actually supposedly made.
This does rather suggest Reform didn't think it was that big of a deal, or that party unity was more important than unacceptable behaviour, until the row yesterday.
Doesn't look great
Well, it looks like the professionalisation has extended to starting a whips office, and a complaint handling function, complete with actually lawyers.
The whip is the MP for Clacton, and the lawyers are Farage & Farage LLP.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
I've told you my answer. If there is a problem defining breed, then ban all dogs over a certain size, unless you have a special licence. Job done
Lowe is, incidentally, a rather good public speaker. If you like firmly rightwing no nonsense opinions expressed clearly, confidently, and articulately. Trouble is:
1. He's too old
and
2. He hasn't got Farage's rizz
I can imagine he has a loyal chunk of Reform activists who prefer him to Nige, but it won't be enough if it comes to a shootout
What Reform desperately need is a cadre of younger sassier telegenic new politicians. That is what all the successful populist rightwing parties in the EU have done - from Meloni to Bardella etc. Indeed that is probably exactly what reform needs: a younger WOMAN
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
So white men now are guilty? I'd guess more tanned gentlemen ran the roost for many, many more centuries.
Blaming the people who exist now for the sins of their skin colour isn't terribly sensible is it?
Blaming anyone for the sins of others past seems to me equally daft.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
Can you please stop finishing posts with "Enough". Makes you sound like Richard Littlejohn.
No, but I will give you a cool picture quiz
Where is this? And why is it so remarkable?
Nicht der googlissimi
I promise this is a good one
OK I think this is too hard, so here's basically the answer
This is a ghost town in the Atacama, not far from the coast. The crosses are the graves of miners - there was a mine here decades ago (saltpeter maybe?)
In parts of the Atacama (and elsewhere in Latin America?) there is a weird syncretic pagan-Christian tradition of leaving toys as offerings at graves and roadsides. When I came here I was startled to see hundreds of these plastic toys, decorating the rusty old graves and crosses of minders who died fifty years back. Some were fesh - teenage mutant ninja turtles - staring across the endless desert
It was intensely weird and very noomy
But there was one other thing about this place which makes it outstandingly strange, and means it should be world famous (but it isn't). It certainly added to the already formidable noom. Can anyone guess what this extra aspect might be?
Didn’t Ewan and Charley go there during the Long Way Up?
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second and just in a very limited way attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
Were you not born in the North? That doesn't sound like topping the privilege tree.
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
In the annals of Ultimately Stupid Comments Made on PB, this one probably goes straight into the top twenty, not least because it manages to be deeply cringe as well as astonishingly dim
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
Can you please stop finishing posts with "Enough". Makes you sound like Richard Littlejohn.
No, but I will give you a cool picture quiz
Where is this? And why is it so remarkable?
Nicht der googlissimi
I promise this is a good one
OK I think this is too hard, so here's basically the answer
This is a ghost town in the Atacama, not far from the coast. The crosses are the graves of miners - there was a mine here decades ago (saltpeter maybe?)
In parts of the Atacama (and elsewhere in Latin America?) there is a weird syncretic pagan-Christian tradition of leaving toys as offerings at graves and roadsides. When I came here I was startled to see hundreds of these plastic toys, decorating the rusty old graves and crosses of minders who died fifty years back. Some were fesh - teenage mutant ninja turtles - staring across the endless desert
It was intensely weird and very noomy
But there was one other thing about this place which makes it outstandingly strange, and means it should be world famous (but it isn't). It certainly added to the already formidable noom. Can anyone guess what this extra aspect might be?
Didn’t Ewan and Charley go there during the Long Way Up?
I don't know, I've never seen it. Maybe?
It is a truly extraordinary place, especially when you know this one last startling aspect. And the weird thing is you can just drive there, the PanAmerican highway goes near (so maybe they did visit it?)
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second and just in a very limited way attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
Were you not born in the North? That doesn't sound like topping the privilege tree.
Leicester is the borderland between privilege and non-privilege, which gives Foxy a special status. Beneath the Leicester parallel, live the Eloi, as H.G. Wells predicted the effete upper-middle classes would turn into.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
I've told you my answer. If there is a problem defining breed, then ban all dogs over a certain size, unless you have a special licence. Job done
That's the problem with you right-wingers: always wanting to ban stuff.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
I've told you my answer. If there is a problem defining breed, then ban all dogs over a certain size, unless you have a special licence. Job done
That's the problem with you right-wingers: always wanting to ban stuff.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
There was one in the endangered breeds competition final earlier
I've long wanted to have a dog alongside me. Otter-hounds seem like pretty cool dudes in the dog world. Should I risk all the downsides?
JUst make sure they don't run off if they see a rat or something in the water. Friends of ours had a spaniel - would run offand never come back if it saw a duck. And they live next to a Thames wet meadow.
I don’t think Jenrick would do well at all. For every “very online” loon like Leon he’d attract, he’d turn away many more.
Jenrick got Labour to crap themselves just yesterday, and reinforced the Two Tier Keir narrative, with one deft bit of politicking (and observant aides, I am guessing). He made Sabana Mahmood scramble, awkwardly
He is simply better at politics than Kemi B (and I like Kemi, she just hasn't got the chops). Indeed he seems to be the only Tory who is capable of taking it to Labour - can you name any one thing that any of the others have done? They are pitiful
Someone like Jenrick is what the Tories need now, urgently. A fighter. With a cruel and ruthless streak. They need someone determined, ambitious, and with a striking resemblance to the leader singer of the Killers. That seems to be Jenrick
If you can name an obviously superior candidate that is right now a Tory MP without making everyone roll on the floor with derisory laughter then go ahead. We can rule out Cleverly for a start, because lol
I agree he is a very effective tactician. I just think he is cryptonite to most of middle England.
Agree. At the moment as a former 'One Nation' Tory voter in GEs for nearly 50 years, now voting Labour, with Kemi as leader I would vote Tory if I were in seat where the Tory was the only candidate who could beat Reform. If Jenrick were the Tory leader I wouldn't bother.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
The future after Trump looks concerning. Two key influences on Vance seem to be Peter Thiek, Musk's techno-supremacist, and Curtis Yarvin, a loon who favours a new American absolute monarchy.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself.
A memorial is meant to stand the test of time, the Palace will crumble or burn in the next 10 years whilst the MPs piss about pretending it will magically becoming cheaper to fix if they delay making a decision and decide to stay in the building during building works.
I have a horrible sinking feeling in the not too distant future the Houses of Parliament will burn like Notre Dame, only the damage will be so great it cannot be restored. Taking with it Westminster Hall, one of the most remarkable buildings on earth, inside one of the most remarkable buildings on earth
It will be a tragedy for the nation and for humanity, and all of it avoidable, except that we are governed by imbeciles
Opens up the opportunity to move the House of Lords to Telford.
The future after Trump looks concerning. Two key influences on Vance seem to be Peter Thiek, Musk's techno-supremacist, and Curtis Yarvin, a loon who favours a new American absolute monarchy.
What was that video with that guy who prredicted Ever Increasing Weirdness
FPT. If anyone missed this years Oscar winner in the documentary category 'No Other Land' It's well worth watching. Just shown on Ch4. If anyone wants to see Nazi thugs in Israeli uniforms they're on show here.
The future after Trump looks concerning. Two key influences on Vance seem to be Peter Thiek, Musk's techno-supremacist, and Curtis Yarvin, a loon who favours a new American absolute monarchy.
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
In the annals of Ultimately Stupid Comments Made on PB, this one probably goes straight into the top twenty, not least because it manages to be deeply cringe as well as astonishingly dim
Thank you! Mission accomplished then. It being intended as a mirror of your 'stuff' on that topic. Gosh I'm good sometimes. Got a little glow on now.
Donald Trump is being lobbied to make Puerto Rico an independent nation and save American taxpayers $617.8 billion, DailyMail.com has learned.
At least two congressional offices are in possession of a seven-page draft 'executive order' on how the U.S. can help the island territory transition to independence.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
There was one in the endangered breeds competition final earlier
I've long wanted to have a dog alongside me. Otter-hounds seem like pretty cool dudes in the dog world. Should I risk all the downsides?
JUst make sure they don't run off if they see a rat or something in the water. Friends of ours had a spaniel - would run offand never come back if it saw a duck. And they live next to a Thames wet meadow.
Would you risk it?
It's all down to training, training, training. Train the dog to come back to the whistle.
There is something in a dog's psychology that makes then very subservient to embedded habit. Get beyond a certain point with a habit (e.g. coming back when they hear the whistle) and they find it very hard to resist doing it every time.
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second and just in a very limited way attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
Were you not born in the North? That doesn't sound like topping the privilege tree.
South Yorkshire coalfields. Where the Battle of Waterloo was won.
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
So white men now are guilty? I'd guess more tanned gentlemen ran the roost for many, many more centuries.
Blaming the people who exist now for the sins of their skin colour isn't terribly sensible is it?
Blaming anyone for the sins of others past seems to me equally daft.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
There was one in the endangered breeds competition final earlier
I've long wanted to have a dog alongside me. Otter-hounds seem like pretty cool dudes in the dog world. Should I risk all the downsides?
JUst make sure they don't run off if they see a rat or something in the water. Friends of ours had a spaniel - would run offand never come back if it saw a duck. And they live next to a Thames wet meadow.
Would you risk it?
It's all down to training, training, training. Train the dog to come back to the whistle.
There is something in a dog's psychology that makes then very subservient to embedded habit. Get beyond a certain point with a habit (e.g. coming back when they hear the whistle) and they find it very hard to resist doing it every time.
Thanks. Much as to my own thoughts. I'll post buildings for scale if I ever risk questions of my good nature on such a great enterprise,
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself.
A memorial is meant to stand the test of time, the Palace will crumble or burn in the next 10 years whilst the MPs piss about pretending it will magically becoming cheaper to fix if they delay making a decision and decide to stay in the building during building works.
I have a horrible sinking feeling in the not too distant future the Houses of Parliament will burn like Notre Dame, only the damage will be so great it cannot be restored. Taking with it Westminster Hall, one of the most remarkable buildings on earth, inside one of the most remarkable buildings on earth
It will be a tragedy for the nation and for humanity, and all of it avoidable, except that we are governed by imbeciles
Opens up the opportunity to move the House of Lords to Telford.
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
In the annals of Ultimately Stupid Comments Made on PB, this one probably goes straight into the top twenty, not least because it manages to be deeply cringe as well as astonishingly dim
Thank you! Mission accomplished then. It being intended as a mirror of your 'stuff' on that topic. Gosh I'm good sometimes. Got a little glow on now.
Judged by the very master of dumb, stupid and cringey commentary, it was praise indeed.
The future after Trump looks concerning. Two key influences on Vance seem to be Peter Thiek, Musk's techno-supremacist, and Curtis Yarvin, a loon who favours a new American absolute monarchy.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
There was one in the endangered breeds competition final earlier
I've long wanted to have a dog alongside me. Otter-hounds seem like pretty cool dudes in the dog world. Should I risk all the downsides?
JUst make sure they don't run off if they see a rat or something in the water. Friends of ours had a spaniel - would run offand never come back if it saw a duck. And they live next to a Thames wet meadow.
Would you risk it?
It's all down to training, training, training. Train the dog to come back to the whistle.
There is something in a dog's psychology that makes then very subservient to embedded habit. Get beyond a certain point with a habit (e.g. coming back when they hear the whistle) and they find it very hard to resist doing it every time.
Hiding from your dog now and again, when it’s young, is a useful tip. If it thinks you might disappear at any minute, it will learn to keep half an eye on you, ready to run back if you should magically vanish.
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
So white men now are guilty? I'd guess more tanned gentlemen ran the roost for many, many more centuries.
Blaming the people who exist now for the sins of their skin colour isn't terribly sensible is it?
Blaming anyone for the sins of others past seems to me equally daft.
Blaming people for the actions of people the same colour as them has a name.
Tomorrow we have the Gundog showing, flyball quarterfinals, and the ever popular scruffts, as well as the international dog dancing competition. What an exciting weekend in store!
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
So white men now are guilty? I'd guess more tanned gentlemen ran the roost for many, many more centuries.
Blaming the people who exist now for the sins of their skin colour isn't terribly sensible is it?
Blaming anyone for the sins of others past seems to me equally daft.
I know. Rather trite and overwrought, wasn't it.
I'd not worry too much. Like many on PB, you're often rather more wise than daft.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second and just in a very limited way attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
Were you not born in the North? That doesn't sound like topping the privilege tree.
South Yorkshire coalfields. Where the Battle of Waterloo was won.
What on earth were all those Irish, Dutch, Belgians and Prussians doing up there?
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
So white men now are guilty? I'd guess more tanned gentlemen ran the roost for many, many more centuries.
Blaming the people who exist now for the sins of their skin colour isn't terribly sensible is it?
Blaming anyone for the sins of others past seems to me equally daft.
Blaming people for the actions of people the same colour as them has a name.
Racist.
I'm a bit baffled as to what you're trying to say.
Tomorrow we have the Gundog showing, flyball quarterfinals, and the ever popular scruffts, as well as the international dog dancing competition. What an exciting weekend in store!
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick reply
Sure. I'll complete my other comment.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about Jews
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
I agree. Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists. Or, better, just nothing. The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorial
Looks like Reeves is to reduce funding for GB Energy and Reynolds is to announce substantial changes to electric vehicles policy
If so just how long can Miliband remain in post ?
They’ve surely got to go for limiting cash ISAs. The original idea was to encourage people to save, not to turn almost all bank and building society interest into tax free income. People sitting on a £million in ISAs don’t need encouraging to save.
Looks like Reeves is to reduce funding for GB Energy and Reynolds is to announce substantial changes to electric vehicles policy
If so just how long can Miliband remain in post ?
They’ve surely got to go for limiting cash ISAs. The original idea was to encourage people to save, not to turn almost all bank and building society interest into tax free income. People sitting on a £million in ISAs don’t need encouraging to save.
I expect this also plus much more
Amazing how Europe and UK can suddenly ( and rightly) find hundreds of billions in unexpected defence spending
Looks like Reeves is to reduce funding for GB Energy and Reynolds is to announce substantial changes to electric vehicles policy
If so just how long can Miliband remain in post ?
I’m beginning to regret voting Labour. Although trying to get Priti Patel out of Parliament has to have a positive aspect. The independent who came last seemed like a nice lady, if rather naive.
That Terence McKenna clip, esp at the beginning, is so on point it deserves to be transcribed
"I think it is just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder, and finally it's going to be so weird, that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. And at that point Novelty Theory can come out of the woods. Because eventually people are going to say 'what the hell is going on, it's just too nuts', it's not enough to say it's nuts, you have to explain WHY it's nuts.
"I look for the invention of artificial life, the cloning of human beings, possible contact with extra terrestrials, possible human immortality. And at the same time appalling acts of brutality, genocide, race baiting, homophobia, famine, starvation. Because the systems that are in place to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate to the forces that have been unleashed."
That Terence McKenna clip, esp at the beginning, is so on point it deserves to be transcribed
"I think it is just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder, and finally it's going to be so weird, that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. And at that point Novelty Theory can come out of the woods. Because eventually people are going to say 'what the hell is going on, it's just too nuts', it's not enough to say it's nuts, you have to explain WHY it's nuts.
"I look for the invention of artificial life, the cloning of human beings, possible contact with extra terrestrials, possible human immortality. And at the same time appalling acts of brutality, genocide, race baiting, homophobia, famine, starvation. Because the systems that are in place to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate to the forces that have been unleashed."
For centuries white men have topped the privilege tree, exploiting others for money and status, yet when just for a second (and just in a very limited way) attempts are made to change this they cry like little babies and turn to fascism. ENOUGH.
So white men now are guilty? I'd guess more tanned gentlemen ran the roost for many, many more centuries.
Blaming the people who exist now for the sins of their skin colour isn't terribly sensible is it?
Blaming anyone for the sins of others past seems to me equally daft.
Blaming people for the actions of people the same colour as them has a name.
Racist.
I'm a bit baffled as to what you're trying to say.
Blaming anyone for the actions of people who have the same skin colour is stupid.
We had this the other day - blaming Orangutans for Donald Trump is simply wrong.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
I've told you my answer. If there is a problem defining breed, then ban all dogs over a certain size, unless you have a special licence. Job done
The simple solution is to require dog insurance, which would effectively price certain kinds of dogs out of existence.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
I've told you my answer. If there is a problem defining breed, then ban all dogs over a certain size, unless you have a special licence. Job done
The simple solution is to require dog insurance, which would effectively price certain kinds of dogs out of existence.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
I've told you my answer. If there is a problem defining breed, then ban all dogs over a certain size, unless you have a special licence. Job done
The simple solution is to require dog insurance, which would effectively price certain kinds of dogs out of existence.
So, the utility group shortlist is the Akita, French bulldog, Lhasa Apso, miniature schnauzer, toy poodle, Tibetan spaniel, the Mexican hairless dog, the Shiba Inu, and the Keeshond.
I reckon the Lhasa may get it.
Where are the Otter-hounds!?
Just as well that the XL Bully doesn't qualify as a Kennel Club breed, else we'd have more pearl-clutching than a whole oyster farm on here.
I saw an XL Bully today. Kentish Town Road. About the size of a small bullock. He had a muzzle on which gave him the demeanour of Hannibal Lecter in that mask
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
I don't think they are just fine: simply that the legal focus on one breed is foolish when there are other dangerous dog breeds, including newly imported and even invented ones to bypass the laws.
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
I've told you my answer. If there is a problem defining breed, then ban all dogs over a certain size, unless you have a special licence. Job done
Great Danes and Mastiffs? It's not the size, it's the temperament.
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Interesting - A spokesman for the Met Police says: "On Thursday, 6 March we received an allegation of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man on Friday, 13 December."
"Officers are carrying out an assessment of the allegations to determine what further action may be required."
So the report to the police just happened to be made yesterday, the day of the big bust up.
Months after the threat was actually supposedly made.
This does rather suggest Reform didn't think it was that big of a deal, or that party unity was more important than unacceptable behaviour, until the row yesterday.
Doesn't look great
But the Atacama desert is a huge place, and this is a very particular corner of the Atacama
It is not that far from the coast, tho you REALLY REALLY wouldn't know it
Basically the same as if we could smell a dog in the room but can see there is nothing there.
And fools like you think these dogs are just fine. They should all be exterminated, they only exist because of human evil
If you can't grasp the difference, when even the Kennel Club can't define it as a specific breed ...
Best-selling author, experienced Minister, popular tv personality.
Sadly not currently an MP, but believe she still holds a frontbench role as “Shadow Minister for Being Mad as Batshit”.
This is a ghost town in the Atacama, not far from the coast. The crosses are the graves of miners - there was a mine here decades ago (saltpeter maybe?)
In parts of the Atacama (and elsewhere in Latin America?) there is a weird syncretic pagan-Christian tradition of leaving toys as offerings at graves and roadsides. When I came here I was startled to see hundreds of these plastic toys, decorating the rusty old graves and crosses of minders who died fifty years back. Some were fesh - teenage mutant ninja turtles - staring across the endless desert
It was intensely weird and very noomy
But there was one other thing about this place which makes it outstandingly strange, and means it should be world famous (but it isn't). It certainly added to the already formidable noom. Can anyone guess what this extra aspect might be?
I think I nicked that one from Chris Morris.
Wasn't Anne Widdecombe enough?
https://annwiddecombe.substack.com/p/weekend-widdy-e03?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Cometh the hour, cometh the Widdy.
Blaming the people who exist now for the sins of their skin colour isn't terribly sensible is it?
Blaming anyone for the sins of others past seems to me equally daft.
I feel so sorry for millions of decent British men and women from all over the country who put their faith in Reform.
They have been let down by this malicious circus.
You all deserve so much better.
It is a truly extraordinary place, especially when you know this one last startling aspect. And the weird thing is you can just drive there, the PanAmerican highway goes near (so maybe they did visit it?)
Beneath the Leicester parallel, live the Eloi, as H.G. Wells predicted the effete upper-middle classes would turn into.
And surely one of them is hardly in the country.
So that’s 3.
And Tice is not in the country much either, as his family now live in Dubai. So that’s 2.
And Lee Anderson can’t be long for this world, not with a face that pink.
He needs to cut down on the pies, if Reform is to have any kind of future.
Do you still think you can control him?
I'd ban all pets, if I was Caudillo*
*a prospect that moves nearer as Reform implode
Q4. Number of Tory MP defectors to Reform in 2025.
What is the scariest thing you could learn about a place? Anywhere on earth, if you moved there?
That is this place, like nowhere else on earth. This place is NE PLUS ULTRA
Was it Terence McKenna?
It seems to be coming true
And the winner is….the papillon, for the second year in a row. Runner up is the Maltese, third to the Pomeranian and the smooth chihuahua in fourth
I think the Shropshire Papillon is the first British dog to go through to the final this year.
A papillon won best of show not that many years back, which may be a handicap.
Terence McKenna on the inevitable surge and intensification of Weirdness, he nails it all: it's like he scripted the 2020s
https://youtu.be/KkKb8WnDMFA?si=Y421JBO-qYQlrEEo
Donald Trump is being lobbied to make Puerto Rico an independent nation and save American taxpayers $617.8 billion, DailyMail.com has learned.
At least two congressional offices are in possession of a seven-page draft 'executive order' on how the U.S. can help the island territory transition to independence.
There is something in a dog's psychology that makes then very subservient to embedded habit. Get beyond a certain point with a habit (e.g. coming back when they hear the whistle) and they find it very hard to resist doing it every time.
Racist.
I think we're certainly in for some major changes.
If so just how long can Miliband remain in post ?
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Amazing how Europe and UK can suddenly ( and rightly) find hundreds of billions in unexpected defence spending
A price has to be paid
The independent who came last seemed like a nice lady, if rather naive.
"I think it is just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder, and finally it's going to be so weird, that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. And at that point Novelty Theory can come out of the woods. Because eventually people are going to say 'what the hell is going on, it's just too nuts', it's not enough to say it's nuts, you have to explain WHY it's nuts.
"I look for the invention of artificial life, the cloning of human beings, possible contact with extra terrestrials, possible human immortality. And at the same time appalling acts of brutality, genocide, race baiting, homophobia, famine, starvation. Because the systems that are in place to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate to the forces that have been unleashed."
https://x.com/FrederikNeckar/status/1753170039308427331
As of now we have
1. the invention of artificial life
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/15/cambridge-scientists-create-worlds-first-living-organism-with-fully-redesigned-dna
2. human cloning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22540374
3. Extra terrestrial panic, for sure
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/14/what-happens-if-we-have-been-visited-by-aliens-lied-to-ufos-uaps-grusch-congress
4. Human immortality moves closer
https://medium.com/@david.a.ragland/the-promise-of-longevity-escape-velocity-are-we-on-the-brink-of-reversing-time-2eae526a926b
I don't think we need links for the brutality, genocide, race baiting, etc
Terence McKenna gave that interview in 1998, possibly while off his head on shrooms
We had this the other day - blaming Orangutans for Donald Trump is simply wrong.
(H/t @Malmesbury, I believe)
It seems like a fairly sensible solution.
Dog chipped and insured = OK
Dog not chipped and insured = Webley in 0.455
Bit like Tory v Ref I suppose.