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  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,941

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,971
    edited July 26
    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 4,740
    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    AHH, I thought you'd been banned as well
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    edited July 26
    https://x.com/SalmaYaqoob/status/1949066437361824079?s=19

    Respect : The Unity Coalition rises from the Ashes and goes full dried fruit
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    edited July 26
    Starmer 'which of the malcontent Lefties is this Your Party, Morgan?'

    'ALL OF THEM, SIR!'
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 55,893
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    @Pagan2

    Please stop saying you want people shot/a civil war.

    Why?
    I suspect its the only way to get the country back on back....do I want people killed no probably not....however you do need to relieve the idiots from power what do you suggest?
    I'm curious. When were we last on our feet iyo?
    For me, the reform of the Royal Dockyards by Sir William White and the building of the Royal Sovereign class pre-dreadnoughts was pretty good.

    He massively improved productivity, reduced costs and even introduced an innovative use of borrowing by the government to smooth the cash flow from the Naval Estimates.

    Good government.
    Superficially yes. But arguably the rot had set in by then.
    The British Disease of “we will carrying on selling the failing product and ignore change”? Perhaps.

    But the politicians were far more honest with the voters then.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    edited July 26

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 6,091

    DavidL said:

    DavidL said:

    My goodness, has this been a frustrating day. From 0-2 to 165-2. And to be honest there have been damn few chances. This team is very good with the bat but they seriously need a cutting edge with the ball. Woods is a terrible miss.

    A draw is virtually certain now

    India do deserve credit for how they have kept us out for two sessions
    To be honest, today, frustrating as it was, is what makes Test cricket the greatest sport. England hammered India into the ground this morning then had them 0-2 at lunch. All over? Well, not quite. Two determined and capable batsmen were capable of changing the whole match and saving it for India. Nothing in test cricket is over until it is over. That's what makes it so great.
    Take 2 or 3 before lunch and we win, otherwise its a draw i think.
    New ball vital
    It may depend on the weather. I suspect there won’t be much, if any rain, and few interruptions. Let’s hope so for another enthralling day’s cricket.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,941

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 28,557
    edited July 26

    https://x.com/SalmaYaqoob/status/1949066437361824079?s=19

    Respect : The Unity Coalition rises from the Ashes and goes full dried fruit

    Does anyone have a suitably Gallowegian Lolcat with ...

    My God, it's already been invented.


  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 6,091
    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    TSE is going to find a new source for his thread headers, though.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 55,893

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Your inclination to trim Long Parliaments when drunk betrays you.

    Obviously, you are a reincarnation of The Devils Brewer.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,941

    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    TSE is going to find a new source for his thread headers, though.
    I'm buggered, a whole generation will not understand the term 'More fucked than a stepmom on Pornhub.'
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 55,893

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Bah!

    Sir Harry Esson forever!
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 6,091
    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    I can’t imagine any woman would want their partner to be Dom. (Cummings)
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    Nah, it was a warty weirdo from Cambridge cos playing being King
  • MattWMattW Posts: 28,557

    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    TSE is going to find a new source for his thread headers, though.
    Hubba ! Hubba ! Hubba !
  • ConcanvasserConcanvasser Posts: 198

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    Ahh so you are a Brexiteer deep down, I suspected as much.
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 6,091
    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    In a dog friendly cabin?
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 55,893

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    You mean it was a failure that led to a reversion to the previous arrangements as soon as the loons responsible died?
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Your inclination to trim Long Parliaments when drunk betrays you.

    Obviously, you are a reincarnation of The Devils Brewer.
    Twas Charles who attempted to arrest Pym, Hampden, Holles, Haselrig and Strode
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 4,063

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    I can’t imagine any woman would want their partner to be Dom. (Cummings)
    All new meaning to Dick and Dom in da bungalow.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,941

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    You mean it was a failure that led to a reversion to the previous arrangements as soon as the loons responsible died?
    Indeed.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436
    Compelling, contentious thread on the alleged ‘decline’ of modern Brussels

    REVIEWING EUROPEAN CITIES - BRUSSELS 🇧🇪

    Impressions from recent visit to Brussels and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵

    https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1949126904415457654?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    This is the guy that invented the whole ‘Yookay’ meme
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239

    Leon said:

    Good god. The Online Safety Act is insanely bad

    Apparently you can by-pass it and get to your normal porn in just 5 seconds!
    Thank God. If you can pass on exactly how to do that i’de be grateful, I’m slow at IT.
    Thanks. 💦
    I think this is the blokiest post I've ever read from a lady poster on here.
    Your is the blokiest chauvinist ignorant post, as it doesn’t realise us ladies use more porn and lube than men.

    You men all over in 8 seconds, then cheese and onion sandwich and match of the day.
    We can go days in eternal orgasm.
    Sleep on that. Loser.

    If you don’t believe me, you can pay my lube bill.
    There's an episode of "Bottom" where the lads happen to obtain some cheese and onion flavour condoms from the machine in the pub toilets :lol::lol::lol:
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 46,369
    edited July 26

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 55,893
    edited July 26

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Your inclination to trim Long Parliaments when drunk betrays you.

    Obviously, you are a reincarnation of The Devils Brewer.
    Twas Charles who attempted to arrest Pym, Hampden, Holles, Haselrig and Strode
    But that wasn’t the Long Parliament.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,477
    edited July 26

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    In a dog friendly cabin?
    Yep. It’s a two storey sleeping train and they have cleverly put the dog cabin next to the stairs so there’s a space under the stairs for the dog to sleep.

    The car has been taken away on another train a few hours earlier; hopefully I will see it, and all my stuff, again.

    A real bargain at about €175 for the ticket, the dog, a two berth cabin, breakfast brought to me in the morning, and transport of the vehicle. Saves nearly ten hours’ driving (and a night’s accommodation).
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 74,443

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    That didn't work very well either then, did it?

    My favourite historical irony has to be that Cromwell became such a colossal giant dictator* that his own supporters tried to make him a King, because even Charles I had had to follow some rules.

    *Not necessarily in The Big Bang Theory sense.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    edited July 26

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Your inclination to trim Long Parliaments when drunk betrays you.

    Obviously, you are a reincarnation of The Devils Brewer.
    Twas Charles who attempted to arrest Pym, Hampden, Holles, Haselrig and Strode
    But that was the Long Parliament.
    Yes, i tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament (ran 1640 to 1660)
  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    I can’t imagine any woman would want their partner to be Dom. (Cummings)
    Mary Wakefield is kinda cute
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239
    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
  • MattWMattW Posts: 28,557

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    How do you take a picture of the line when it's under the train and you only have side windows?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 74,443
    MattW said:

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    How do you take a picture of the line when it's under the train and you only have side windows?
    Pierce Brosnan's Omega watch is your friend here.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,477

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    You’re forgetting I am near the Arctic Circle and it’s high summer….
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 19,258

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    The Commonwealth lasted 11 years until we decided to give control back to them.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Disappointing. The rest of your post did not live up to the first word.
    You lack brains

    One reason we are experiencing a baby bust is because young people are not having enough sex. This is a statistically proven fact. And here we have one possible reason why - the desires of the genders are mismatched. To put it crudely, women have demanded that men become less masculine and dominant, more yielding, kinder. That has happened, but now women are discovering that this doesn’t turn them on, sexually - they want more dominant men in bed

    Bingo: a lot of sexual unhappiness and a lot of incelism
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 46,369

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 28,557
    ydoethur said:

    MattW said:

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    How do you take a picture of the line when it's under the train and you only have side windows?
    Pierce Brosnan's Omega watch is your friend here.
    I'm honestly more inclined to Moneypenny's Sniper Rifle.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 55,893

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    Buy an older digital camera. Remove the filter in front of the sensor. Which blocks IR and UV.

    The camera can now see in the dark - pretty much.

    Alternatively, a really modern camera can shoot at an ISO of 250,000 - far better than the human eye.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,477
    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Disappointing. The rest of your post did not live up to the first word.
    You lack brains

    One reason we are experiencing a baby bust is because young people are not having enough sex. This is a statistically proven fact. And here we have one possible reason why - the desires of the genders are mismatched. To put it crudely, women have demanded that men become less masculine and dominant, more yielding, kinder. That has happened, but now women are discovering that this doesn’t turn them on, sexually - they want more dominant men in bed

    Bingo: a lot of sexual unhappiness and a lot of incelism
    If you applied what intelligence you have to the question, you ought to be able to come up with at least half a dozen more credible reasons for the falling birth rate than that. Working backwards from a prejudice isn’t analysis, or thought.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,941

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    The Commonwealth lasted 11 years until we decided to give control back to them.
    Indeed, Brexit is a bit like our Prohibition era.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,996
    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    I can’t imagine any woman would want their partner to be Dom. (Cummings)
    Mary Wakefield is kinda cute
    You mean Mary Wakefield, commissioning editor for the Spectator? That Mary Wakefield?

    Suck up.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239
    IanB2 said:

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    You’re forgetting I am near the Arctic Circle and it’s high summer….
    Then it can't be a "night" train, can it? :)
  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436
    IanB2 said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Disappointing. The rest of your post did not live up to the first word.
    You lack brains

    One reason we are experiencing a baby bust is because young people are not having enough sex. This is a statistically proven fact. And here we have one possible reason why - the desires of the genders are mismatched. To put it crudely, women have demanded that men become less masculine and dominant, more yielding, kinder. That has happened, but now women are discovering that this doesn’t turn them on, sexually - they want more dominant men in bed

    Bingo: a lot of sexual unhappiness and a lot of incelism
    If you applied what intelligence you have to the question, you ought to be able to come up with at least half a dozen more credible reasons for the falling birth rate than that. Working backwards from a prejudice isn’t analysis, or thought.
    You literally only interact with a dog, from one week to the next, so I’ll ignore your opinion on this subject, if it’s all the same
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
    There's a hosepipe ban, we cant risk completely drying up all the ladies
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    The Commonwealth lasted 11 years until we decided to give control back to them.
    That's only because Cromwell started acting like a dick... tator.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 32,179

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    The Commonwealth lasted 11 years until we decided to give control back to them.
    Indeed, Brexit is a bit like our Prohibition era.
    Oh look, it's remainer group therapy day again. Bless.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    Buy an older digital camera. Remove the filter in front of the sensor. Which blocks IR and UV.

    The camera can now see in the dark - pretty much.

    Alternatively, a really modern camera can shoot at an ISO of 250,000 - far better than the human eye.
    They shot "Collateral" (Cruise and Foxx) with some really snazzy cameras, I believe.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,941

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
    There's a hosepipe ban, we cant risk completely drying up all the ladies
    I've found a workaround the hosepipe ban.

    My hosepipe identifies as a watering can.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239
    MattW said:

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    How do you take a picture of the line when it's under the train and you only have side windows?
    By line, I mean scenery and stuff (is the line wooded/urban/cutting/high level?).
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,477

    IanB2 said:

    I’m on a train! The night train from Lapland to Helsinki must be one up on Sunil, surely?

    You can't take pictures of anything (trains/tracks/stations/landscape/anything) from a night train :lol:

    You see, my ubergeekery demands that I have to take a picture of the start and end stations, at least one pic of any intervening stations, as well as at least one pic of the line BETWEEN each station for me to truly "do" a railway line.
    Buy an older digital camera. Remove the filter in front of the sensor. Which blocks IR and UV.

    The camera can now see in the dark - pretty much.

    Alternatively, a really modern camera can shoot at an ISO of 250,000 - far better than the human eye.
    It won’t be dark until nearly midnight and will get light by 0430, but any photographs from the train are just going to be trees, the same as from the road.

    I was amused yesterday to be driving a local designated “scenic road” - signposted as such because it was half way up a hill in a country that was otherwise flat. But still all you could see on either side were tall pine, fir and birch trees.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    edited July 26

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
    There's a hosepipe ban, we cant risk completely drying up all the ladies
    I've found a workaround the hosepipe ban.

    My hosepipe identifies as a watering can.
    Indeed. But we can see it has a spout and sprinkler rose. Watering cans cannot deny biology
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
    There's a hosepipe ban, we cant risk completely drying up all the ladies
    I've found a workaround the hosepipe ban.

    My hosepipe identifies as a watering can.
    Indeed. But we can see it has a spout and sprinkler rose. Watering cans cannot deny biology
    You're being Hose-ophobic!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 74,443

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
    There's a hosepipe ban, we cant risk completely drying up all the ladies
    I've found a workaround the hosepipe ban.

    My hosepipe identifies as a watering can.
    Is it sufficiently green though?
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,971
    edited July 26
    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Disappointing. The rest of your post did not live up to the first word.
    You lack brains

    One reason we are experiencing a baby bust is because young people are not having enough sex. This is a statistically proven fact. And here we have one possible reason why - the desires of the genders are mismatched. To put it crudely, women have demanded that men become less masculine and dominant, more yielding, kinder. That has happened, but now women are discovering that this doesn’t turn them on, sexually - they want more dominant men in bed

    Bingo: a lot of sexual unhappiness and a lot of incelism
    Actually, I lack brawn, not brains. But I haven't found my weediness to be any impediment to a very rich love life, thanks, shared with beautiful women who have appreciated my kindness, sensitivity and lack of machismo.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
    There's a hosepipe ban, we cant risk completely drying up all the ladies
    I've found a workaround the hosepipe ban.

    My hosepipe identifies as a watering can.
    Indeed. But we can see it has a spout and sprinkler rose. Watering cans cannot deny biology
    You're being Hose-ophobic!
    Radcliffe, Grint and Watson will be cancelling me again ffs
  • ConcanvasserConcanvasser Posts: 198

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Giving up women was the easiest decision women ever made for me
    I laugh them into bed. Then they laugh me out of it.
    These days I ignore them into strangerhood. Its all very tragic, they are missing out on something truly forgettable
    On fire. We should consider a hangdog double act.
    There's a hosepipe ban, we cant risk completely drying up all the ladies
    I've found a workaround the hosepipe ban.

    My hosepipe identifies as a watering can.
    Newly planted trees, shrubs and lawns are exempt from the hosepipe ban. I imagine you kept your receipt, you should be fine.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    edited July 26
    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,477
    Leon said:

    IanB2 said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    MattW said:

    Pagan2 said:

    MattW said:

    Hmmm.

    SAVE OUR BRITISH WOMEN !!!

    Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
    Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse


    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

    Dont forget that plenty of the antis' were also arrested. I dont doubt many left wing nazis that serial domestic abusers
    If there are stats I'd like to see them - seriously.

    The Swappies had a significant history of exploitation of female activists by senior males, but they partly imploded around Comrade Delta.

    I'm not sure about the more mainstream left, though there are domestic abuse issues everywhere of course - *that* feminist analysis is about right in principle.

    I think at present such items as Farage's endorsement of Andrew Tate are more significant present problems, and some of the values underneath NatCon stuff, which is dripping in from the US Nationalist Right.

    On the more marginal end, it is only a month since Russell Brand was having Tommy Robinson's "Silenced" on 'Watch Along with Russell'. I haven't watched the playback. I have seen enough of TR's stuff to observe it's self-collapsing nature,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXUIF7J0mY
    Extremists of all colours tend to like a bit of controlling behaviour. It’s part of the same mental makeup that makes them extremists in the first place.
    Cyril Smith? Charlie Elphicke? Andrew Griffiths? None of those, and I could cite many others, are usually described as extremists.
    I rather suspect your statement would have better evidence if you substituted 'extremists' for 'men'.
    Interestingly, a woman on X has just gone viral for claiming the opposite

    “I’m not making a judgment either way, but I read the reddit BDSM sub for an article a while back and it was surprising how many women were begging their boyfriends/husbands to be doms and the men were just very not into it”

    https://x.com/cartoonshateher/status/1948889091309011193?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg

    In my experience, this is the case. If you are a genuine Dom, you can have an awful lot of fun. But try and avoid an appearance at the Old Bailey
    Disappointing. The rest of your post did not live up to the first word.
    You lack brains

    One reason we are experiencing a baby bust is because young people are not having enough sex. This is a statistically proven fact. And here we have one possible reason why - the desires of the genders are mismatched. To put it crudely, women have demanded that men become less masculine and dominant, more yielding, kinder. That has happened, but now women are discovering that this doesn’t turn them on, sexually - they want more dominant men in bed

    Bingo: a lot of sexual unhappiness and a lot of incelism
    If you applied what intelligence you have to the question, you ought to be able to come up with at least half a dozen more credible reasons for the falling birth rate than that. Working backwards from a prejudice isn’t analysis, or thought.
    You literally only interact with a dog, from one week to the next, so I’ll ignore your opinion on this subject, if it’s all the same
    Defeated at the first hurdle? Poor show.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Broken, sleazy Tories and Greens on the slide!

    But no Sultana Party???
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 12,993
    edited July 26

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Broken, sleazy Tories and Greens on the slide!

    But no Sultana Party???
    Fieldwork 23rd to 25th, I guess haven't had time to insert into prompts
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239
    MattW said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Broken, sleazy Tories and Greens on the slide!

    But no Sultana Party???
    At the risk of repeating myself, George has it cut and dried.


    "You keep dog food in your fridge???"
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 74,443

    TimS said:

    Civil War II has its first casualty.

    Oh dear. Just say no to daytime drinking, kids.
    I once drank so much I tried to arrest 5 members of the Long Parliament
    You are Colonel Thomas Pride and I claim my firkin of best bitter.
    Goodness no, I would never have fought for Cromwell
    Boo, I would have been on Team Cromwell, Cambridge all the way.
    Norfolk stands by the Wuffingas claim to be Bretwalda and does not concern itself with warty Christmas haters from Cambridgeshire. Priggish oaf he was and priggish oaf he remains
    The Civil War was Brexit for the 17th century, taking back control from our unelected rulers.
    The Commonwealth lasted 11 years until we decided to give control back to them.
    That's only because Cromwell started acting like a dick... tator.
    As a villain he was positively Dickensian.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 5,137

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Broken, sleazy Tories and Greens on the slide!

    But no Sultana Party???
    Fieldwork 23rd to 25th, I guess haven't had time to insert into prompts
    This reminds me of an interesting chat I had with an LLM today.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 5,686
    ohnotnow said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Broken, sleazy Tories and Greens on the slide!

    But no Sultana Party???
    Fieldwork 23rd to 25th, I guess haven't had time to insert into prompts
    This reminds me of an interesting chat I had with an LLM today.
    May I ask what’s an LLM ?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,941
    nico67 said:

    ohnotnow said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Broken, sleazy Tories and Greens on the slide!

    But no Sultana Party???
    Fieldwork 23rd to 25th, I guess haven't had time to insert into prompts
    This reminds me of an interesting chat I had with an LLM today.
    May I ask what’s an LLM ?
    Master of Law.

    https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/lwlwllll
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 46,369

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    That's great for Labour. They're the middle distance gold medal favourite with the finishing kick sitting on the shoulder of the puffing front-running donkey.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,013
    kinabalu said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    That's great for Labour. They're the middle distance gold medal favourite with the finishing kick sitting on the shoulder of the puffing front-running donkey.
    The poll doesn't include 'can't believe it is not communism' though.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436
    kinabalu said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    That's great for Labour. They're the middle distance gold medal favourite with the finishing kick sitting on the shoulder of the puffing front-running donkey.
    lol!

    Wait until the Jezlamists take 10 points off Labour
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 36,522
    edited July 26
    Reading this is like reading something from the 1950s in terms of the fact they haven't visited the sea before.

    "Sheer joy as kids see the sea for the first time, as cost of living's impact on school trips revealed
    Children from the Rockliffe Manor Primary school in Plumstead, south London, headed for a day of seaside fun at Broadstairs Beach in Kent. Some of them had never been to a beach before or even seen the sea."

    https://news.sky.com/story/rising-costs-and-tight-budgets-mean-school-trips-are-under-threat-even-though-some-kids-have-never-seen-the-sea-13401639
  • FishingFishing Posts: 5,735
    kinabalu said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    That's great for Labour. They're the middle distance gold medal favourite with the finishing kick sitting on the shoulder of the puffing front-running donkey.
    And the July Award for Wishing Thinking goes to ...
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 11,306
    A
    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Leon said:

    Good god. The Online Safety Act is insanely bad

    Which bits in particular?
    It’s already being used to censor political speech
    I wish someone could apply it to you.

    I've kept away today because you have been on fire. In between your role as a PB sport summariser, which is fine, you have been posting stuff which fifty percent of your audience will applaud whilst the rest of us consider all the stuff about immigrants stealing mobile phones, and immigrants this, and immigrants that, best avoided.

    What a shame.

    I have noted that you have been even more disagreeable with other posters than normal today. Anyway my turn now, I have the exercise book in place for the caning.
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit

    This is how we're rolling today.
    I came across a cricket game in a run down, post-industrial UK town today. I needed a spot to eat my gigantic egg mayonnaise bap, followed by custard slice and flat white, so I watched 45 mins of a game that is much, much better (and quicker) in person than on TV.

    I think cricket might be to the answer to many of our woes. One of the south-east Asian players smashed a ball into a tree for his century and was roundly and rather aggressively congratulated by his teammates. Nice to see.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 74,443
    Andy_JS said:

    Reading this is like reading something from the 1950s in terms of the fact they haven't visited the sea before.

    "Sheer joy as kids see the sea for the first time, as cost of living's impact on school trips revealed
    Children from the Rockliffe Manor Primary school in Plumstead, south London, headed for a day of seaside fun at Broadstairs Beach in Kent. Some of them had never been to a beach before or even seen the sea."

    https://news.sky.com/story/rising-costs-and-tight-budgets-mean-school-trips-are-under-threat-even-though-some-kids-have-never-seen-the-sea-13401639

    More like the 1850s. Day trips to the seaside were incredibly common in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • Jim_MillerJim_Miller Posts: 3,424
    Off topic, but I thought some of you might appreciate this challenge: How well do you know the United States? https://xkcd.com/3118/

    Someone who really knows the US should be able to guess many of the 102. (I know only a couple, but could have guessed more of them.

    The Mississippi plant might make a good horror movie.)
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 5,137
    Tres said:

    Well for a start it makes you look like a huge tit

    #outofcontextreplytoleon
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 1,231
    I pop off to have something to eat and come back to see that Pagan2 raised an issue that had popped into my head. Do those who preach revolution seriously think the armed forces will stand by and let them? So many cosplaying nutcases about at the moment.

    Anyway, was at the Army Museum in London today to reconnect with some of the issues that veterans have and came across this charming piece from a 7 year old. Bit of information from Freddie for those plotting revolution.




  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436
    I have made a truly spectacular salad Nicoise

    No one can complain they don't get varied discourse from THE LEONDAMMMERUNG
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 36,522

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Baxter

    Ref 363
    Lab 156
    LD 58
    Con 24
    SNP 22
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,309
    nico67 said:

    ohnotnow said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    Broken, sleazy Tories and Greens on the slide!

    But no Sultana Party???
    Fieldwork 23rd to 25th, I guess haven't had time to insert into prompts
    This reminds me of an interesting chat I had with an LLM today.
    May I ask what’s an LLM ?
    Large Language Model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

    Some LLMs are generative pretrained transformers (GPT) and some (all?) AIs use them. Which is why "ChatGPT" is called that.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 5,137
    Eabhal said:

    A

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Leon said:

    Good god. The Online Safety Act is insanely bad

    Which bits in particular?
    It’s already being used to censor political speech
    I wish someone could apply it to you.

    I've kept away today because you have been on fire. In between your role as a PB sport summariser, which is fine, you have been posting stuff which fifty percent of your audience will applaud whilst the rest of us consider all the stuff about immigrants stealing mobile phones, and immigrants this, and immigrants that, best avoided.

    What a shame.

    I have noted that you have been even more disagreeable with other posters than normal today. Anyway my turn now, I have the exercise book in place for the caning.
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit

    This is how we're rolling today.
    I came across a cricket game in a run down, post-industrial UK town today. I needed a spot to eat my gigantic egg mayonnaise bap, followed by custard slice and flat white, so I watched 45 mins of a game that is much, much better (and quicker) in person than on TV.

    I think cricket might be to the answer to many of our woes. One of the south-east Asian players smashed a ball into a tree for his century and was roundly and rather aggressively congratulated by his teammates. Nice to see.
    Back in the early 90s, a bad boy who 100% was not me - had taken a lot of acid. By about 6am decided sleep really wasn't going to happen so went to the local park for some fresh air.

    Sat on a bench looking over the city - lovely calming view. And then - apparently - a bunch of Indian lads set up an impromptu cricket ground while he watched. Then got into a huge argument about something to do with cricket, which almost ended in someone getting a cricket bat to the head.

    Which really wasn't the chill scene that particular bad boy had been after.

    👀
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,309
    I know we're all banging on about subbing and domming and suchlike, but I'm still wondering about Jade's cheese and onion sandwich. I mean: onion? You'd have to chop it. Shouldn't one substitute pickle instead?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,239
    edited July 26

    Off topic, but I thought some of you might appreciate this challenge: How well do you know the United States? https://xkcd.com/3118/

    Someone who really knows the US should be able to guess many of the 102. (I know only a couple, but could have guessed more of them.

    The Mississippi plant might make a good horror movie.)

    Wakko Warner and his State Capitols:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvJ9SN8THE&t=2s
  • kjhkjh Posts: 12,930
    RobD said:

    kjh said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Foxy said:

    Taz said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    Foxy said:

    Andy_JS said:
    Farage is just displaying what an idiot he is.

    No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.

    it.
    Exactly this

    How can people not see this.
    Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.

    I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
    I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.

    It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
    I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
    There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
    Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
    FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
    It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect

    Just look at the data

    I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
    Well if you are going to walk around drunk or stoned all the time you are bound to get targeted. Normal people on the other hand experience different things.

    I have only had my pocket picked once, in Nice, in the early 90s and caught the thief so lost nothing. I did, and do to a lesser extent now, spend lots of time in London, and at night. Never had an issue.
    Isn’t this just anecdote vs data? The stats show a rise in phone thefts.
    @RobD Sorry I didn't mean to ignore you. I have only just seen your post. Yes it is but he started this nonsense with an anecdote which we all countered with our anecdotes. Live by the sword, you die by the sword.
  • kinabalu said:

    Opinium with changes from 2 weeks ago

    Ref 32 (+3)
    Lab 25 (+1)
    Con 17 (-1)
    LD 13 (=)
    Grn 8 (-1)
    SNP 3 (=)

    That's great for Labour. They're the middle distance gold medal favourite with the finishing kick sitting on the shoulder of the puffing front-running donkey.
    After a year of almost total non delivery who's the puffing donkey? 💩
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 5,137
    edited July 26
    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Reading this is like reading something from the 1950s in terms of the fact they haven't visited the sea before.

    "Sheer joy as kids see the sea for the first time, as cost of living's impact on school trips revealed
    Children from the Rockliffe Manor Primary school in Plumstead, south London, headed for a day of seaside fun at Broadstairs Beach in Kent. Some of them had never been to a beach before or even seen the sea."

    https://news.sky.com/story/rising-costs-and-tight-budgets-mean-school-trips-are-under-threat-even-though-some-kids-have-never-seen-the-sea-13401639

    More like the 1850s. Day trips to the seaside were incredibly common in the 1940s and 1950s.
    I remember watching a Rick Stein show a while back. He was opining on "Who can forget their first childhood trip to the Med. Swimming in that warm water.".

    And I was thinking "Almost everyone, you posh git."
  • TazTaz Posts: 19,905
    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Leon said:

    Good god. The Online Safety Act is insanely bad

    Which bits in particular?
    It’s already being used to censor political speech
    I wish someone could apply it to you.

    I've kept away today because you have been on fire. In between your role as a PB sport summariser, which is fine, you have been posting stuff which fifty percent of your audience will applaud whilst the rest of us consider all the stuff about immigrants stealing mobile phones, and immigrants this, and immigrants that, best avoided.

    What a shame.

    I have noted that you have been even more disagreeable with other posters than normal today. Anyway my turn now, I have the exercise book in place for the caning.
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit

    This is how we're rolling today.
    I’ve been at Durham Cricket ground today with my wife for a curry fest so not been around.

    Looks like I’ve not missed much.
  • TazTaz Posts: 19,905
    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    Brazzers ?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436
    Taz said:

    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    Brazzers ?
    Shyla Jennings
  • TazTaz Posts: 19,905
    viewcode said:

    I know we're all banging on about subbing and domming and suchlike, but I'm still wondering about Jade's cheese and onion sandwich. I mean: onion? You'd have to chop it. Shouldn't one substitute pickle instead?

    My favourite cheese and onion sandwiches by a mile were the ones my Mom used to make for me when I was at school.

    Okay it was mild cheddar but all the same

    Made the night before and sweating in the plastic bag overnight the onion changed in texture

    It was ruddy ace.

    Dunno about this subbing and domming as not been around. Is this anything to do with Finland ?
  • TazTaz Posts: 19,905
    Leon said:

    Taz said:

    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    Brazzers ?
    Shyla Jennings
    Resists temptation to google !!!!
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 5,137
    viewcode said:

    I know we're all banging on about subbing and domming and suchlike, but I'm still wondering about Jade's cheese and onion sandwich. I mean: onion? You'd have to chop it. Shouldn't one substitute pickle instead?

    Cheese and onion sandwich (or usually roll, in my experience) is just grated cheese and chopped raw onion. And none of your fancy 'red' onion either.

    If it was a foreign favourite of commissioning editors - I'm sure 'the sharpness of the onion really makes the dish by cutting through the fattiness of the cheese. The crispy roll brings the whole dish together.'

  • LeonLeon Posts: 63,436
    Taz said:

    Leon said:

    Taz said:

    Leon said:

    I never liked Pornhub anyway

    Brazzers ?
    Shyla Jennings
    Resists temptation to google !!!!
    Yield

    OOOOF
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 11,306
    ohnotnow said:

    Eabhal said:

    A

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Leon said:

    Good god. The Online Safety Act is insanely bad

    Which bits in particular?
    It’s already being used to censor political speech
    I wish someone could apply it to you.

    I've kept away today because you have been on fire. In between your role as a PB sport summariser, which is fine, you have been posting stuff which fifty percent of your audience will applaud whilst the rest of us consider all the stuff about immigrants stealing mobile phones, and immigrants this, and immigrants that, best avoided.

    What a shame.

    I have noted that you have been even more disagreeable with other posters than normal today. Anyway my turn now, I have the exercise book in place for the caning.
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit
    Cricket
    Racist shit

    This is how we're rolling today.
    I came across a cricket game in a run down, post-industrial UK town today. I needed a spot to eat my gigantic egg mayonnaise bap, followed by custard slice and flat white, so I watched 45 mins of a game that is much, much better (and quicker) in person than on TV.

    I think cricket might be to the answer to many of our woes. One of the south-east Asian players smashed a ball into a tree for his century and was roundly and rather aggressively congratulated by his teammates. Nice to see.
    Back in the early 90s, a bad boy who 100% was not me - had taken a lot of acid. By about 6am decided sleep really wasn't going to happen so went to the local park for some fresh air.

    Sat on a bench looking over the city - lovely calming view. And then - apparently - a bunch of Indian lads set up an impromptu cricket ground while he watched. Then got into a huge argument about something to do with cricket, which almost ended in someone getting a cricket bat to the head.

    Which really wasn't the chill scene that particular bad boy had been after.

    👀
    This guy got caught out shortly after his century when he knelt down and tried to flick it over his left shoulder - looked really cool and nearly went for 6 again but didn't have the legs. The vitriol from the drunks alongside me was quite something. Nowt racist but brutal nonetheless.

    Interesting game. I understand DavidL's obsession, but I simply didn't grow up in an area where it is played with any regularity like most of us in Scotland. If I were from Yorkshire I suspect I'd be a huge fan.
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