No guns. Headscarfs and permission from the menfolk. Fine
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 14:07, Reply)
Would you give them a gun?
*against the teachings of your holy book.
See also: almost everywhere else on the planet
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 14:51, Reply)
but I do think it's a *bit* unfair to put them into conflict situations, unarmed. I'd imagine they find this rather amusing in Israel...
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 14:59, Reply)
If you are worried about being too 'woke', spend some time on mumsnet dating threads or aibu. I did and am contemplating tying a knot in it and dying alone.
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 16:03, Reply)
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 16:47, Reply)
Also, if you're on dress parade in the UK do you normally have a head covering of one sort or another e.g. cap/beret?
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 15:18, Reply)
when you have to walk two steps behind the male troops
(, Fri 18 Feb 2022, 0:18, Reply)
funk
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 23:42, Reply)
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 11:04, Reply)
but very good film and that's one of its best scenes
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 15:00, Reply)
is sneering at how the untermenschen name their children.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 21:40, Reply)
Two sets of brothers who have been producing a surreal fanzine for 27 years, produce books of Haikus about Luton, and rock the fuck out in an instrumental surf way.
It's Album-Length and Free at last, as having sold 11 DVDs I can now comfortably retire and devote my time to increasing the gaiety of nations.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 8:40, Reply)
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 15:38, Reply)
I've seen the first 12 minutes - love it.
The sound levels are all over the place though, which is frustrating
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 21:48, Reply)
Back in my student days at Luton College of Higher Ed. No student halls back then and I spent most of my time in the local pubs, including the Bricklayers Arms. Was that you who spilled my pint?!
(, Sat 19 Feb 2022, 10:31, Reply)
though he was more like republicans from the 80s I knew, who just wanted to drive fast, go skiing and not pay taxes, and thought mexicans were just people you could pay 5 bucks to cut your grass rather than rapists coming to take their jobs
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 4:08, Reply)
It was very refreshing to be able to read articles by someone who clearly had very different political views than I did but still find it hugely enjoyable. I used to say he was like an American version of Jeremy Clarkson but I think that was doing PJ a disservice.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 6:57, Reply)
ANd I often quote his most useful bit of Life Advice: Never put a rollneck sweater on with a lit cigarette in your mouth.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 8:33, Reply)
I thought it was Jonathan Pie.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 8:06, Reply)
Love his channel and his boldness in the face of prostate cancer.
I wish many men of his age had the same braveness to be self funding, self employed and as modest and yet honest as he is.
tl;dr Good guy, great channel and a pure fighter
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 1:04, Reply)
didn't reference any of the 20th and 21st century physics that is making any of this possible.
Electron orbits? Schoolkids are taught that this isn't real; electrons, we understand, occupy certain quantum levels not 19th century orbits; spin is a quantum physics thing, nothing to do with spinning; we ascribed spin up and spin down to mathematically allow two particles, electrons, to exist in the same place at the same time, because they do. If you enjoyed this have a good life but don't think that you understand any of it.
Fucking shitty magnets, how do they work anyway?
(, Fri 18 Feb 2022, 22:38, Reply)
...but I am 100% on board for this
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 15:17, Reply)
and I do love the challenge of trying to play Joe Dart's stuff (I can't, by the way) but it's a bit like the musical equivalent of alcohol-free beer.
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 10:38, Reply)
ASMR land is just reaching levels of stupidity. Gone are the days when it was just Bob Ross painting happy little clouds.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:27, Reply)
Great work. Great creativity and very entertaining. keep up the good work.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:50, Reply)
That weird clicky sound people's mouths make when they whisper does my fucking nut in.
In fairness, I suffer from a moderately severe case of misophonia, which results in the almost unbearable urge to kick seven fucks out of people who: chew with their mouth open/chew too noisily with their mouth closed/tunelessly whistle/tunefully whistle/drag their heels when they walk/make that fucking horrible clicky whispering sound.
Some might say that I'm just an irritable cunt. They'd be absolutely right. But it goes way further than that with certain sounds.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:03, Reply)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEfOHHn26U
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:54, Reply)
It is acknowledging "if I go to court, I'd get convicted"
He will forever be Rapey Andy.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 17:04, Reply)
Unofficial in the sense that you can't call him a child molester or a rapist, because he's never been convicted of said crimes and doing so would be as libellous as claiming that Cliff Richard is a nonce. Not that I'm in any way suggesting that dear old Cliff has a taste for prepubescent flesh. Just that claiming that he does would be equally as libellous and damaging to his character.
I'm sure Virginia simply realised that she imagined the whole thing and that Andy treated her with the utmost respect and dignity at all times.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:13, Reply)
Under the circumstances it seems very sensible for him to settle just in case new evidence came to light that suddenly made him remember that he is actually a sex criminal.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:34, Reply)
she will get $millions and the charity will get $millions.
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 8:04, Reply)
As a British republican I'm disappointed the trial isn't happening. This could have been the one to end the monarchy.
Better luck next time, I guess.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 17:39, Reply)
I have never really understood deference to these people.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 17:53, Reply)
Your mystifying pipe dream of a grey republic with a Tory president ain't happening.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:23, Reply)
We have the foundation of a good system already, it just needs a few tweaks here and there.
Our de-facto head of state, the Speaker of the House of Commons, would become actual head of state, with the Speaker of the (elected) Lords as deputy HoS. Their function would be no different, and they could be elected in the same way as they are now.
It might be nice to give the speaker powers to censure the prime minister if they turn out to be a lying sack of shit. It might also be nice to codify a few laws associated with the office of prime minister to avoid future repeats of the mess we're in now.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:55, Reply)
Why not have a German style republic, where the president is basically some unknown, boring has been politician whose sole responsability is cutting ribbons and signing laws. Or the Swiss model, where cabinet ministers take it in turns to function as head of state.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:17, Reply)
the options are colourful and institutionally paedophilic, or grey and only occassionally paedophilic.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:55, Reply)
Fuck me, did you just read that shit though? Imagine making a billion dollar Netflix series about brb or Tusk's vision of the world. Imagine being excited about it. Imagine fucking living in it! You're the constitutional equivalents of Eric Olthwaite.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 20:29, Reply)
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:27, Reply)
Yes, I don't imagine you're ever entirely sure about anything.
Let's have a look - if you can stop eating crayons for a moment - at Wikipedia.
By one metric at least, it's literally impossible to name a more stable head of state:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_state_leaders_by_date_of_assumption_of_office
Never mind, probably a Harvard study will show your infantile theory to be true. Nope, eight of the ten most stable countries in the world have a monarch.
www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/10-most-politically-stable-countries-ranked-by-perception
Still, probably the best thing to do is to ignore all that, cross our fucking fingers, and give your clownish Speaker of the House idea a try.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 5:23, Reply)
You know what's guaranteed to win you an argument? 1: attack the arguer, not the argument, 2: link to wikipedia.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 13:00, Reply)
1. See your post below FeralCatMan's nonsense that nobody read. 2. Your library of hide-bound volumes on constitutional politics seems to be full of freshers week bollocks.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 18:50, Reply)
You seem to be in favour of the status quo on the basis that my alternative isn't worth getting exited about. So I guess the status quo is worth getting excited about..? But a small change to remove the aristocracy from government, that's dull.... I do not follow your argument. You could try to make yourself clearer.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 22:00, Reply)
Germans are good at efficiency and wars, so the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family seems a good choice.
What I object to is the accumulation of ridiculous unearned wealth and wielding power over swathes of people purely as a product of birth. Lots of the grand buildings were built on the cruel exploitation of people here and abroad.
During the Victorian era the hypocrisy was blatant eg. Chimneys built for children to crawl through, built on the outside so they could be dismantled to retrieve dead kids, without damaging the structure. I'll stop ranting now.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 13:12, Reply)
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:19, Reply)
The queen's permission is required to start and stop parliamentary sessions. She literally has control over parliament in that way, and a fair few other ways which need to be legislated away post haste.
Our speaker is essentially the head of state, and is who all parliamentary business is directed to, and is the authority who says who can and cannot sit in parliamentary sessions, so is in charge of parliament in that way.
Our defacto HoS is usually a relatively unknown boring politician, and much of their duties are ceremonial and bureaucratic.
A cabinet minister as head of state seems one step away from having an American style president, so no thank you. We can keep keep the role of Speaker mostly as it is.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:13, Reply)
I wanted him to call the author of Budgie the little Helicopter to defend him
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:47, Reply)
Don't assume that the payment was solely made to her charity of choice.
The payment appears to have been to her personally in the first instance and the charity in the second.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:59, Reply)
Well done on reaching an agreement.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:17, Reply)
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 11:50, Reply)
He was a divorced prince and one of his rich friends at a party says there's a cute 17 year american old who wants to fuck you. Of course you'll say yes, just like every touring rock band ever. you should be proud that as a member of the monarchy he's giving two fingers to the laws of this rebellious colony, and possibly to her as well as he's getting on a bit. and personally I reckon sex slavery is too strong a term for somebody manipulated by promises of money and career support into fucking people, when you compare it to east european prostitutes forcibly hooked on heroin and kept working with threats of extreme violence. It's sleazy, but it's pretty small potatoes compared to what princes were getting up to in the Hellfire Club as late as the 1920s
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 21:28, Reply)
People just care more now.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:43, Reply)
once, I was backpacking in Norway, I was about 21, and there was young woman in a cafe drinking coffee who I got to talking with, and went back to her place (later I found it was the house of some university lecturer, a long story) where we ended up screwing. Given that it was in the middle of a week day, and she spent the rest of the week with me, it never occurred to me that she was anything other than an adult and our ages never came up in conversation, which were limited because of language. so when I eventually found out she was 17 it came as a fair a surprise to me. I did break up with her shortly afterwards, which I was thinking about doing anyway but this hurried it up. The age gap is fair bit different with PA, which is quite sleazy, but he might have assumed she was an adult and I haven't seen any pattern of him seeking out underage girls, in fact fergie shows he's not that fussy where he gets his end wet
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 23:04, Reply)
but sure it's sleazy, and he should have done more due diligence instead of thinking with his dick, thick privileged twat that he is. but that was Epstein's game, and the fact that he was friends with ex and current presidents in clinton and trump might have made PA think it was all cool and consensual
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 0:28, Reply)
Nobody comes out of this looking good, in my opinion.
Being a middle-aged bloke and finding a 17 year old girl sexually attractive isn't against the law. Christ, it might not even be against the law to fuck them - assuming they're capable of consent. However, if you're a middle-aged bloke and you do decide to partake in some shaggery with said 17 old, you're a sleazy old pervert, regardless of how legally permissible the act might have been. We all know that Andy allegedly shagged Virginia. So, whether or not she was coerced is completely irrelevant. He's allegedly a dirty old pervert for allegedly shagging a 17 year old. Allegedly.
Virginia Giuffre, on the other hand, has just proven herself to be the alleged whore that some people were allegedly labeling her as from the beginning. Allegedly.
Granted, nobody is making all the right choices at 17. You could 100% make the case that Jeff and Jizz manipulated a vulnerable young girl into shagging older men for money. And you'd be absolutely right. Those two were 100% wronguns. In that respect, she was a victim. But as you quite rightly point out, there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of girls (many far younger than 17) having a far worse time of things, in far less comfort and for far less money than Virginia was. That's not to say she was in a good situation, but it could have been a far worse one.
Anyway, that's not why she's a whore (allegedly). She's a whore, allegedly, because she took a settlement after publicly stating that he had no interest in financial gain from the case and her lawyer stating that “I think it’s very important to Virginia Giuffre that this matter be resolved in a way that vindicates her and vindicates the other victims.”
So, vindication for the other tens of thousands of current sex trafficking victims around the world is, in fact, accepting a massive payout from Andy to keep your mouth shut and move on with your life. I bet that makes all those other victims feel super vindicated.
Well, at least she can claim to be the highest paid prostitute on record. After Melania Trump. Allegedly.
Really, though, at the end of the day, this is no more of a story than that fucking vapid Instagram argument thing between two footballers wives a few links back. This kind of shit is going on every single day, with very real, very vulnerable young people. The fact that so few of us really stop to consider that until it involves some celebrity sleaze is somewhat depressing.
Everyone who hasn't, should look out a documentary called 'Who Took Johnny'. Gives a much starker look into the world of child exploitation than this fucking car crash of a case was ever going to.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:57, Reply)
Her job was to maximise the settlement on offer by convincing him that she would take him to court. This is why you hire lawyers. Do you understand?
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 14:57, Reply)
obliging her to take the cash and fuck off
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 19:10, Reply)
In the early '80s I went to an exhibition of Gerald Scarfe's work, one of the exhibits I took a photo of was this, entitled "Andrew's taste in women". His red-carpet tongue had a further two bikini-clad women on it:

(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:22, Reply)
NSFW: 80sactual.blogspot.com/2016/03/spitting-image-nick-george-man-who-gave.html
(, Thu 17 Feb 2022, 22:16, Reply)
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:55, Reply)
A couple of years old, about an hour long.
While I'm here, unrelated but because I had a c4 day, the dvd extras of talking heads from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace:
Darkplace Illuminatum www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZlA6Qeseo
and
Horrificata Illuminata www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVI2X5fxy1A
original series is on All4
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 12:45, Reply)
or does the MSM want you to believe they're nutters? Wake up, sheepotle!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 11:54, Reply)
eliminating natural selection from the equation, I don't know. Common sense is non-existent in these circles. Plenty of raw agression instead.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 12:14, Reply)
Had a weird experience while listening to that. I kind of zoned out and when it ended I discovered I'd machined a lovely bracket.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 13:42, Reply)
and I had, Corduroy 'borrowed' a bit of it,
(interesting mix into what sounds like the Generation Game too)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUGLVzkzD1A
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 13:54, Reply)
.....on his Album title track 'Disco Baby'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjlMjomZaDk
(, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 17:10, Reply)
You lot have a special yearly alarm?
Concandulations !
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 15:13, Reply)
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:37, Reply)
The preview reminded me of an episode of Love Death Robots so I decided to give it a chance and watch for a few minutes, then I saw who the director was and thought I was in for something good. I was not disappointed. French farce at its finest.
I truly hope M. Jeunet has many more films in him. This is a lot funnier than Amélie and much more light-hearted than The City of Lost Children but still, like both, absolutely beautifully executed.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 4:10, Reply)
Thanks for the recommendation. Will definitely give it a watch now.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 12:09, Reply)
But if it's good enough to be linked, I'll watch it for certain now.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 12:49, Reply)
Daft humans under attack from daft robots
Entertaining but not Jeunet's best work
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 14:08, Reply)
It was excellent, with some tremendous acting
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 15:40, Reply)
This is one of the more brilliant renditions of the meme.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 0:28, Reply)
Not very well executed.
I would describe Super Nintendo Chalmers as only being vaguely aware of what was going on.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:25, Reply)
to leave it the fuck alone.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 20:10, Reply)
a) Russia doesn't invade Ukraine. You westerners and your imaginations, it was all just a military exercise
b) Russia invades. Turns out our threats of further economic sanctions were not much of a deterrent after all
c) Thermonuclear war. Winner of sweeps gets pickaxe to fight off marauding irradiated mutants from gaining access to their fallout shelter
(, Mon 14 Feb 2022, 23:28, Reply)
It's not "Crimea", by any chance?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 4:15, Reply)
is looking like this might be the winner winner chicken dinner.
Let's hope it is.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 12:51, Reply)
Hitler "Its just a camping trip, Ve likes to camp!"
August 1939, Russian forces on a camping trip on the Polish border.
Stalin "Hitler invited us on a camping trip"
The rest of the world - Enjoy your camping trip
Quite depressing how we learn nothing from history.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 5:14, Reply)
Except that I don't have a fallout shelter so have to play the irradiated mutants.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 10:38, Reply)
Putin's getting everything he wants without having to fire a single (expensive) missile or lose a Russian life. He can just ratchet up the tension at any time he wants. I don't think it woudl be in his interests to engage in actual conflict at the moment.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 13:39, Reply)
In Vladimir's Poo-tin!!!!!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 16:01, Reply)
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