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Paddock Lad absolutely losing it there.

David C. Vigilante. What a name.

I'll just apply the 5 Km rule where the metro centre's concerned.

Trans women ARE women, you smelly pussy TERF cunt.

If they get cold they can pop into the Jolly Sailor to get warmed up. After that they can pop into the boozer next door for a drink

It's a Cold War Steve collage come to life.

Farage leaving LBC with immediate effect. Has this thing just claimed its biggest scalp to date?

On Wallsend High St, but shut down because nobody could find it.

A lot of nostalgia is a yearning for a time and place that never existed beyond people’s imagination

I’ve just shown the current Mrs PL this pic & your comment.....seeing as the image contains the block of flats she lived in when I first met her she’s not very fuckin happy with you chummy

Fuck sake, I need a new username, then.

Italian bloke rings the docs for a medical, and is asked to bring a specimen with him. “ ‘Ow am I gonna do tha? I don’t know any astronauts!” I Thangew.

People are weird as fuck.

Cross country skiing all the way there for a fight. That is commitment.

If the wider world had any knowledge of you, you’d have been cancelled long ago

32 years ago. Jesus. I fucking hate the place and don't get why anyone north of the Tyne would go there. Newcastle is far better.

Nothing completely outrageous but she does have a history of hating on the trans community. https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/12/19/21029874/jk-rowling-transgender-tweet-terf

This is fucking brutally cringeworthy.

True like. You make one little comment about how autistic girls are being tricked into transitioning and suddenly there's a #WeAreNotConfused hashtag full of actual autistic trans people telling you you're wrong, based solely on [checks notes] their own lived experience. Everyone's so sensitive these days.

That riles a lot of people like. “This character was queer along but I thought I wouldn’t reference it in the 20 books I wrote they were in” She’s a billionaire ffs

https://medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68d I think I might be Team Rowling.

PL is right on this one. I gave up after Hollyoaks had a plot about a lass who wanted to be a gay lad. Best stay away from these debates.

there's an undeniable distinction between sex and gender. rowling is spot on tbf. not only that, the way she expresses her opinion is reasoned, thoughtful and considerate - unlike the twitter keyboard warriors. some of the abuse she's received is vile.

i remember the day it opened. like everyone else who lived in the north east, we received an invitation to attend the big first day of trade. and, like everyone else who lived in the north east, we sat in a gridlocked a1 for about an hour before giving up and driving home

"ring of steel" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8409331/Statue-Scouts-founder-Lord-Baden-Powell-REMOVED-seafront.html disappointed not to see some of the Gammon among my acquaintances not taking the opportunity to get themselves on to the mail online lead story, contrary to the threats they were making on Facebook this morning to protect to the death a statue of a widely rumoured paedo that's been there little more than a decade

Everything that’s happening at SAFC at the minute, and the biggest topic on there by far is their NUFC thread. They get so big they have to open a new one monthly. This months has 1000 replies in 10 days

You've just reminded me that one of my more tangential celebrity encounters is having had a G&T in one of the House of Lords bars while Betty Boothroyd was sat at the next table over. Sadly I was still a massive pisshead at the time so I don't remember a great deal about it beyond that. (Much like most of the Lords really.) Defiinitely the cheapest round in London anyway.

Can't help thinking these fuckers want to return to those "times" - look at the nostalgia for the 50s as if they were some kind of moral utopia when they really mean they were whiter.

If WWE can forgive Chris Benoit for murdering his wife and child in a concussion and steroid induced rage, surely we can forgive comedians using the language of their day

Knew it. Soft as shite.

It's not even the week - it was saying the lockdown was starting on Monday and allowing pubs to have the Friday night - even that icing on the cake stupidity probably killed thousands.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52993734 And yet we only began quarantining arrival from abroad *checks notes*... two days ago.

Hold on. Cheltenham was undertaken whilst the government stated it wasn't a risk, before lockdown. The government has since released lockdown, effectively allowing for the gathering of large crowds, be that on Bournemouth beaches or around statues of slave traders. The government has said it is acceptable to travel hundreds of miles in a car with others, including children, whilst symptomatic, and to drive where the fuck you like to test your eyesight. The attorney general, who is supposed to be impartial, has publically stated this was not illegal, even during lockdown, so its surely okay now? What we needed was a societal response to the pandemic, but for that to work, we absolutely have to led by the government. They have completely failed to give that lead, so yes, now its entirely up to what each individual thinks is acceptable according to his or hers own risk. Clearly the demonstrators were happy to take the risk they did for them. Fair enough. They did nothing wrong, ask the government.

Well I'm not sure. Not often I disagree PL but I do here. It makes little sense to compare what Cummings did with a collective. But what Cummings did as an individual was probably worse than what the huge majority of individual protesters did at the weekend. He travelled hundreds of miles with symptoms at the PEAK of infection. And of course, he refused to apologise, lied through his teeth, and got the government including the health secretary and the attorney general to back him that his actions were acceptable. This has caused me and probably millions of others to completely lose whatever tiny bit of faith I had in the government, including some protesters, I imagine. To the extent I do not trust them on anything and will not be part of track and trace. Common sense for me from now on. I would say this was much, much more damaging than a few thousand protesters letting off steam in an outside environment. And Hannon is a total cunt who is always wrong.

A Portsmouth vs Fleetwood playoff final would be just the job now. Their tiny brains would explode trying to work out who they want to go up least.

This kind of equation grips my shit. It’s like cunts on fb and Twitter saying “what about cops killed by criminals”. Cummings is a member of the government, we have an expectation that the people making the rules abide by them. We also get annoyed when they lie through their fucking teeth about it. We don’t hold protesters sick of racism to the same standards for a reason.

Advice on racism from an Aussie. Well I never...

As for removing comedy that is offensive by today’s standards, I can see the argument but I think it’s generally more important to leave things like that in view as an education tool. I’m not saying we should have Little Britain replayed at prime time on a Friday night but culture moves and is defined by the reactions to what has went before it. Learning why those things were offensive and learning how to be better in the future is a far more important way to live life than burying your head in the sand and pretending you’ve been woke all along. Like, yes, Apu in The Simpsons was a heavily stereotypical character but if anyone says they actually never laughed at the episode where Homer works in the Kwik-e-Mart because they knew it was racist all along is doing more harm than good and is as blinkered as the turbo PC Police.

This particular wing of the left is the one that the culture warriors on the right use to discredit the rest of us. So you're right. Having said that, these guys are the first left wingers to land some actual blows on the right for quite some time now so I'm having a hard time not enjoying it on some level. What I find remarkable about this with statues coming down, TV shows being cancelled etc, is that it appears to be happening with no due process. The seas are just parting before the protesters. The implication of this is that the police and the government are running scared, that the BBC knew Little Britain was racist but we're only prepared to do something about it if 1m people started protesting through cities, that Sadiq Kahn needed widespread protests to awaken himself to the notion that statues in London needed review, etc. Now from the protesters POV it's a total win. From society's its a complete mess IMO. We can't have such flimsy governmental and institutional structures that they yield the first time a big protest comes onto the scene. They should have procedures in place to correct for this stuff through proper channels. And if they don't do it, we have to accept that this is the outcome dictated by the society we live in. Not taking action until a mass protest is carried out just makes them look weak as shit. I saw police running from collections of white 20 year olds throwing bottles and shit at them yesterday. What the fuck is the point in them then. We're seeing a mass discrediting of a number of institutions and I don't remotely understand how they've allowed themselves to get to this point. Why is it just now news to them that black people are angry? It's not. It's been news for fucking decades.

Sorry, what were we talking about again?

Woah woah woah- are you telling me the lads in Father Ted weren’t real priests? Down with this sort of thing.

At least as they hurtle down through the leagues, they’ll be able to look back up with smiles and think of all the friends they’ve made on the way

By the end of the week?

The guy Rhodesia was named after? Surely not