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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

The Question IRL posted:

"Fishing expedition" is judicial speak for "You got nothing! Get that weak-rear end poo poo out of my courtroom!"

The applicant's have also been stung for costs.

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1366336582341517317?s=19

WOMP WOMP.

Oh what an absolute shame!

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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006


Isn't Collymore a bit of a baddie? Like domestic abuse or something along those lines?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Poor Jimmy Carr never got to visit Pontins :(

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Bobby Deluxe posted:

In other news:

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1366191901196644354?s=19

Watch Kieth flail about not knowing who to copy now.

That's a lot of mistakes for someone obviously reading off of a teleprompter. Seems odd to publish it like that.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/piscisvir/status/1366748479452815362

yikes

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

forkboy84 posted:

Poor Jon has bigger worries, what with his wife owing ~£120,000 in legal fees now

She has to pay Unite's fees too so it's more like 200k

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006


:yikes:

Tesseraction posted:

Yeah this wasn't meant to be me saying "let us all love Joe Biden" it's more that the US left is doing better than it's done in a long time while our left has been purged and Sir Haircut has been loving dying in the polls while our criminally corrupt government has killed a hundred thousand brits through sure malevolence.


Do keep in mind that he made queen of the prison-factory his VP and tried his very best to die on the hill of putting the biggest Sanders-hater in the universe in charge of the budgets.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Tesseraction posted:

Joe Biden has aphasia and a stutter, making fun of him for misspeaking is pretty lovely TBH. Yes, he makes mistakes talking but because he's had that problem his whole life, even in the days when he ran rings around Paul Ryan a la 2012 he was still making these kind of mistakes.


Tesseraction posted:

There are many things he deserves to get attacked for but that ain't it.

I wasn't making fun of Biden, I was questioning his media production team.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Bobstar posted:

Funny, I was reading a Twitter thread of "what does the US do better than the UK?" yesterday, with some strange claims (toilets? water pressure? one person even tried to claim internet speeds), but the top two were food (lol) and dentists/ry. Like, yeah I know British teeth haha, but I'd take more people having (imperfect) access to ok dentists than the rich getting everything up to and including Hollywood orthodontics, and screw everyone else.

Also, "yes we'll fix your eyeballs if they get diseased or damaged, but cough up if they don't focus light quite right" - healthcare

I feel like I read somewhere recently that brits on average have more healthy teeth than americans

e: ^^ well it might have been that?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Ewan posted:

is... that a death threat?!?

Don't really see any other way to read it

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Jakabite posted:

total car crash

:thunk:

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Endjinneer posted:

The thread does seem a bit more welcoming to newcomers since then though, even as the left wing UK politics scene that drives a lot of the content is going through a bit of a nadir.

I'd argue the opposite to be honest. The thread has been a very hostile place the last few months, with a few extremely aggressive people leading the charge

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Considering how hard he defended the queen, it has to be either Charles or William

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Jedit posted:

It's absolutely William. He's that kind of shithead and if the monarchy persists he'll likely be king a decade or so from now.

Yeah I'm thinking it's probably William too. It wouldn't be that damaging if it was Charles.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

MikeCrotch posted:

It's also almost certainly William who kicked off the smear campaign against Harry and Meghan anyway, when Harry tried to out the fact that William was shagging around (like Charles did to their mum)

To be fair, that went boths ways. Hence Harry's non-inbred gene-pool.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

a pipe smoking dog posted:

It is amazing how effectively the news William's affair got stifled here given that everywhere else in the world knows about it.

I've literally not heard of it before it was mentioned here just now. Was while he was with Kate?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Private Speech posted:

It's about the grep command a.k.a. the linux regular expressions parser, presumably found using wrong phrases on some sort of communication log or whatever.

No idea about 6f, I'm curious tho.

6F is probably FFFFFF which is white in hexadecimal

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

A random tweeter's take on William being the baddie:

https://twitter.com/jasebyjason/status/1369047092065402881

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Gotta say it feels a bit staged. I'd imagine Piers a lot more red and animated if that was real.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Jeremy Clarkson managed to out-twat himself

https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/1369306308684480516

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006



this one's my favourite

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/matthew1butcher/status/1369969955878412296

"The people have spoken, and we have listened" -Labour Frontbench

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Communist Thoughts posted:

Starmers response to BLM was also to say we needed more cops.

It's pretty clear what he's about. The dude is a loving psychopath

Nownow, he did also kneel awkwardly before he said it was a moment not a movement.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1370064864425689096

So another case of trying to stop someone from talking?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

learnincurve posted:

Yeh I don’t see anything sinister in it, especially in the south.

Cops beating up a suspect who's alone in his cell is sinister no matter how you twist and turn it

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

kingturnip posted:

I can't decide if it's reassuring to see Jess Phillips making the most of an opportunity for self-promotion, or horrific.
Society may have accepted dead women, but it's also accepted dead teenagers in inner cities. It's a shame Jess Phillips doesn't give a poo poo about them.

Apparently Jess 'forgot' to read up any transwomen names. Funny that.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/MrNishKumar/status/1370323911997554690

A good way to go out, imo

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

serious gaylord posted:

If the Met wanted to guarantee a violent protest tomorrow this would be the way to do it.

We all know they love a good beating.

e: https://twitter.com/graceblakeley/status/1370830446393765888

TheRat fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 13, 2021

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1370838142845132807

rarely see him use that kind of language.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

kecske posted:

'lessons must be learned' is absolutely the single most useless platitude in the world

'Lessons must be learned' is what you say to deflect from the lack of actual consequences.

E: Speaking of Sir MI5:

https://twitter.com/BeckettUnite/status/1370864056035332096

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006


Quite impressed they managed to find a focus group on a saturday evening to be honest.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Flayer posted:


Narrator: Actually, things took a turn for the worse

The only thing that will change is Labour and Tories both going full ~tough on crime~

https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1371064349595426816

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Pistol_Pete posted:

The AstraZeneca vaccine is being suspended all over the EU. I'm a bit baffled as to why.

There's been a few cases of young people in Norway getting really weird symptoms of combined bleeding + clotting + low platelets, and in at least two cases dying, within 10 days of taking the vaccine. There's no link proven yet, but it's enough that we stopped the vaccine a few days ago. They were talking about checking if the vaccines were from the same batch as similar issues in Austria, but I don't know what came of that.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

I've seen a lot of people (including Owen Jones) suggest this is just nonsense and/or political, which is a pretty absurd take. Norway doesn't give a poo poo about Britan vs EU slapfights. There's been a cluster of really serious cases shortly after taking the vaccine, it would be completely irresponsible to not check it out properly.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

peanut- posted:

A mass suspension of administration it with all the accompanying headlines and news stories that do not cover any of the this-is-just-a-routine-precaution nuance is absolutely going to hurt it's image problem, probably beyond recovery.

It's going to be dead in the water in much of the EU at this point.

Our media/government is very much saying "this is unlikely and just a precaution", and the same is the case from Denmark as far as I have seen.

E: It seems like british journalists take any scrutiny as a personal attack on their british pride.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

multijoe posted:

The EU going on tilt because of their own crappy deal they signed with AstraZeneca and then making up reasons to explain why its good they don't have it and didn't want it anyway was not one of the plot twists I predicted for 2021

See this is the kind of absolute nonsese I was referring to in my earlier post.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

multijoe posted:

First they had 'we shouldn't give it to over 65s because they're not enough data on it so people should probably just have nothing instead' before it turned out the efficacy in that age bracket was fine, and now they're slamming the brakes on it again across the continent because of unsubstantiated links to blood clotting in a demographic highly prone to blood clots. As Peanut said they've basically buried its viability on the continent now over what is likely to be needless hesitancy

Yeah, again this is just absolute nonsense that has nothing to do with what's going on in Norway.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Random Integer posted:

Edit: Also these decisions are happening on a country by country basis, it's not the dreaded EU COMMUNIST BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS making the decision

Furthermore they're happening outside of the EU

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

learnincurve posted:

It’s three chuffing blood clot cases in a demographic notorious for blood clots, of course this is political

Since when are Norwegian healthcare workers in the 30-50 age range notorious for having blotclots and bleeding disorders at the same time?

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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/BoozeAndFagz/status/1371748021692682240

lol

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