Interviewer doesn't know who Tom Hardy is
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Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:16,
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Hes the fat one with the skinny mate in them old films, right?
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:17,
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Not sure I'm any clearer either.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:56,
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Trick question - Neither of them are
I'm actually Tom Hardy, I just hire a stand-in for interviews so I can spend more time with 'puerile internet message board' the beeters
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One more reason to hate those stupid Brexit racists.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:00,
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Anyone using the phrase "would hinder media pluralism" can fuck off.
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:17,
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of course the UK parliament has a flawless record when it comes to legislating the internet
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At least they have a democratic mandate to fuck things up.
Who voted for these all powerful EU commissioners? Absolutely fucking no one.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 17:43,
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So people just turn up and become EU commissioners?.I call BS or lies.
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They are appointed. They are not elected. They. Have. No. Democratic. Mandate.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 19:28,
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Of course the UK parliament is entirely elected and unappointed
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There's literally no point in having two elected houses.
If you're gonna have a second house, it must by necessity be selected via a different method than the first in order to not suffer the same disadvantages.
I never really understand why people object to the Lords in general.... certainly hereditary peers need to get to fuck, and I don't really see what bishops have to do with anything. But in principle having an unelected house, representative of the recent political and social history of the nation, who are not beholden to the populist whims of a relatively uninformed public, and who are not desperately attempting to win a popularity contest, is actually a bloody good thing.
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You make a good case, except for the fact that there is no limit on the number of them.
Currently we have 750 odd. I'd say that's way way too many. And the 300 quid they get simply for signing in is way way too much. Expenses should in some way relate to participation.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 20:29,
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Yes, the details are the issue here....
but they should be easy to sort out. The expenses nonsense is clearly daft, but I see no problem with the number so long as expenses was linked to participation.
Regardless, I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bath water.
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Well the devil is in the detail.
The Lib Dems have 98 peers. Seems massively over the top to me given that they only had eight MPs elected in 2015, and nearly 1.5 million more people voted UKIP than voted Lib Dem. UKIP have three peers.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 21:00,
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That seems fair though, in relation to how long they've been around...
So far UKIP is a flash in the pan, so has almost no representation in the Lords. If they prove to have some kind of permanent relevance then their share of Lords seats will be increased.
You don't want the Lords to be populated by the latest fads... equally you don't want the Lords to be DE-populated by the latest fashionable hatreds.
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I respectfully disagree.
They have only existed since 1988 after a merge. Their best ever performance in terms of MPs was 62 in 2005. This was only because the Tories were in complete disarray and people weren't that keen on Gordon Brown. They have always been a fringe party with a tiny grassroots base that picks up the floating voters that can't face the Tories or Labour. They have never been a serious political force, but for about ten years were a large fringe party. In 2010 when they got their largest ever share of the popular vote they actually lost about half a dozen seats. They are made up of lightweights and losers. They are hugely over represented in the Lords. They haven't been around long and have achieved fuck all, unless you believe the myth they were a moderating influence on the Cameron administration. Which is bollocks.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 16 Feb 2017, 18:15,
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The house with the only real power, the Commons, is entirely elected. The Lords is, rightly, pretty irrelevant.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 20:31,
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I'm all in favour of hereditary peerage.
It's a genetic lottery. Some random guy who just happens to have a great great granddad who saved the kings life gets to check democracy. He may be bright and serious. He may be a mong. But he has a different perspective and probably wants Britain to be around for another 1000 years so his great great grandchildren can wear ermine and claim a couple of hundred quid for going up to London.
Life peers otoh are the political failures, toadys and bunce-mongering scum of the earth.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 20:58,
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There is the valid issue of retaining a sense of fairness though.
I agree that a genetic lottery isn't actually that bad as selection tool, but you can't deny that to the majority of people it just seems unfair to be selected in that way rather than on some kind of perceived merit. The public need to feel confident that they're not getting screwed over and that is a difficult idea to sell with hereditary peers in this day and age.
You make an a good point regarding how we DO select most Lords currently though. It's a bit jobs-for-the-boys as it stands. Possibly it ought to just be done like Jury service... whenever a slot becomes available we could just randomly select someone from the electoral roll. The risk is that you end up with Lords with a diminished capacity to understand the issues and legislation put before them, as they're now checkout ladies from Asda instead of businessmen, politicians, cultural icons etc.
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A bit like jobs for the boys?
You think?
A bit like jury service?
Do really want a stupid cunt like me engaging with the legislature?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 16 Feb 2017, 0:43,
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No, but if you can trick a lot of thick cunts into thinking that you're at least trying to make it fair,
then you can get lots of stuff done.
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I don't understand the logic behind this at all...
Do these news sites think they're going to get increased web traffic when they start charging google to link to them?
They tried it in Spain already, Google simply decided to not do that kind of business there any more, and all those Spanish news sites suffered a significant reduction in traffic, causing some of them to go out of business.
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Faster or slower than they are going out of business everywhere else?
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My god they got a tory MEP to do something! Oh right he is anti something - who would have guessed. I guess he will not turn up for another 4 years now.
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I like how they don't bother to say what the law actually is.
Just a hashtag.
As far as I can tell, this is what they are banging on about:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/16/eu_wont_make_hyperlinks_illegal_copyright/
A positive side would be less content thieving shitty adwords blogs.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 16 Feb 2017, 0:09,
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This wouldn't be the eu's reaction to brexit and the election of trump would it?
Social media and mass sharing of news or fake news whatever your view was fundamental in those polls.
And look there's a whole bunch of elections this year over the eu...
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 16 Feb 2017, 8:04,
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Debates about a bunch of amendments, all the bad ones made by a handful of MEPs, and going on since before the Ref.
This ^ is why sovereignty was a poor argument during the Ref...May introduces Snoopers charter, if you think it is wrong...tough while this will finally give all those UKIP & Tory MEPs something to actually do.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Thu 16 Feb 2017, 8:37,
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Undeniable Miracle
I'm shocked, stunned and amazed
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RompaStompa Stick it up your jumper, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:21,
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if only jeremy beadle was here to take advantage of that
sleep well sweet angle ;(
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sock more tea vicar?, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:27,
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Fuck me
you sure that isn't CGI?
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:45,
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Obviously the man who cursed Donald Trump.
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:19,
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Is that fucking 'The Rain Song' by Led Zep there?
They should sue.
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I don't know about this guys
Can't quite put my finger on it, but it just seems fake to me.
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Mex3 =mememe, Thu 16 Feb 2017, 12:24,
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Praise baby Jeebus!
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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 16 Feb 2017, 12:44,
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Leningrad - Kolschik
NSFW
Russian folk rockers' latest video. Possibly NSFW for gore.
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 14:22,
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:(
I was hoping that would be something new from the Leningrad Cowboys. Who are Finnish. And far, far better than that.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 15 Feb 2017, 14:39,
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DID SOMEONE SAY SPACE TRACTOR?!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-IzLU6iWO8
no idea where i first heard of them, i'm thinking it was a rathergood.com thing or similar
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sock more tea vicar?, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:08,
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or i might have just bought their film on a whim
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sock more tea vicar?, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:13,
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:D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17TjMqiOts
Just wish they'd release this concert on DVD. I got into 'em when I was living in Leeds. The landlord of my local was married to a Finnish girl and was a massive fan.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:15,
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Totally deserved
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 12:50,
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I'd put the furry little cunt outside
and sing at it through the window
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 13:24,
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haha
To be fair he was chillin when she piped up.
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presferatu, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 13:31,
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Frankly I surprised our furry little critic didn't go for the throat.
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Spirited little chap.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:01,
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So let me get this straight
Woman films a cat, knowing that it will react in such a way. Then tells it off for doing the expected reaction she was filming for?
You go girl.. 5k hits on youtube. your life is totally worth it.
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Still would....
....I REALLY need to find a girlfriend - my standards have dropped as far as annoying cat worriers, and I LOVE cats.
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Spend over two minutes filming yourself tormenting a cat & then upset when it reacts?
*sigh*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:18,
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She should have skipped the singing
and just shot it through the head.
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Varmint, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:34,
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which would have meant no source of free food for the kitty, at least after it ate her
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Nope, I'm with the cat
I don't think she hit a single note there.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:53,
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New Chinese approach to fire fighting: Multi Rocket Lauchers
Normally used to start fires...
What could go wrong?
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North Korean secret agents are masters of Martial Arts, Espionage, Subterfuge and Trolling.
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Woman?
I think you'll find that's a transvestite assassin.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 12:02,
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"It was a prank bro!"
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BaronMunchausen Interdimensional Demon Day Laborer, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:22,
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I did think that and tried to dismiss it.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 22:23,
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I mean, the 'LOL' shirt would come in handy (heh) about two minutes in, but yeh..
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As a matter of fact, joking aside, I'm going to go one further and promise two minutes of my sexiest times to the one who successfully offs Kim Jong Un. Don't all rush at once.
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I soooo wish it said "YOLO"
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joetotale blear-e'ed, wither'd spectre, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 22:04,
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well their English infinitely better than my Japanese
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Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 12:07,
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Only because you just mispronounce English slowly,
while flattening your eyelids with your index fingers.
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well I am from Nottinghamshire
1# for hate crime
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Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:01,
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I have never seen a larger collection of grim-faced harridans than in Mansfield bus station.
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Varmint, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:35,
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I thought that was gonna go into a Ginsberg poem for a sec.
....I have pissed in the stairwell of that bus station.
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Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 18:56,
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Can anyone recommend a better news site than the Beeb please?
This utter shambles of an article - (two people I don't care about having an argument on Twitter) was the top ranked story earlier. It doesn't even link to the argument in question.
I've got to the point where I think I'm willing to pay if the site is any good.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 10:47,
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Use a news aggregator
there are plenty of them about.
I use Flipboard quite a bit.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 10:56,
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That's not a bad call actually
I already use Feedly for RSS feeds. It wouldn't be much more of a stretch to use that.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:07,
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Can even make your own
which is quite handy
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:13,
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Try
Fark.com
Lots of snark in the provided headlines.
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id10ts WTF happened, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 23:09,
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Have you tried Breitbart?
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 10:56,
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No
Are they any good?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:06,
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Oh dear
BBC has gone downhill badly in recent times with little real news content and more and more pointless non-celeb fluff and bollocks
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:01,
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That's not BBC news
That's newsbeat, the 'youth' based news. So that is relevant to their interests. The fact it's popular shows how they cater for everyone.
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^This
Newsbeat is worth nought.
This explains it all:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoZmCzRrQZM
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Varmint, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:30,
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Doesn't explain why the output is such garbage
or why these "stories" are intermingled with actual news front and centre on the BBC news homepage.
See also the Philip Pullman book plug right there at the moment.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:33,
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It's amazing how much the BBC dominates and sets the news agenda.
Some actor leaves a kids' TV show (Dr. Who) and somehow that becomes a widely covered national news story. Same deal when some Z lister joins the cast of Eastenders. Load of shite cunts.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:39,
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True. You never get Coronation Street,
X Factor or Big Brother stories on the front pages.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 14:11,
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I see your point
but those stories are almost exclusively the preserve of red tops such as The Sun, Star, Mirror. That Dr. Who story was covered in The Times, Telegraph and Guardian. It was a lead Headline on the Today program every hour.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 14:22,
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They all have plenty of stories
speculating about the next Bond. Dr Who is culturally pretty similar.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 17:48,
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I thought Rod McKenzie being a patronising drip going for lowest-common-denominator "news" summed it up.
Only surpassed by John Craven.
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Varmint, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 12:03,
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The Daily Stormer is good,
but my favourite is The Canary.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:26,
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Educate, inform, & entertain
This appears to come under entertain.
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I don't read a news site to be entertained
I read it to be informed & edumacated.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:39,
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you will never get good news from one source
that's why I recommend infowars.com and prisonplanet.com
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$$ ✅, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:56,
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I am interested in Piers...
...but only if it is news that he is going to be put through an industrial meat grinder broadcast live on Sky Arts.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Wed 15 Feb 2017, 12:17,
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Are people loyal to news sites beyond who they follow on social media?
I just look at Google news to get an overview of them all. It also has the benefit that you can add your own categories, and remove the sport.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 14:09,
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Wikinews
en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 14:26,
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Actually I have been following the exchanges between JR and Cuntly McCuntface; her twitter game is on point!
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:24,
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I quite like Reuters
And the App is pretty useable.
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Jimbuktu See? Right here, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 22:10,
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GENIUS
where was this idea when i was a kid?
I even had a trombone!
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Utter genius
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 9:54,
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Just air? Namby pamby nanny state...
My boys getting one of these
youtu.be/tQk1mddwX6A
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 10:25,
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...may just be the last thing you hear
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:14,
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I like that there a blokes out there with ships' horn mounted on trailers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUtYEZwgXk
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Varmint, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:44,
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And train horns on mopeds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnr6uGIV8no
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:57,
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youtu.be/LTJvdGcb7Fs?t=1m30s
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 12:58,
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This sort of thing amuses me greatly
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 22:18,
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Yeah, we missed the story a little...
I made this!
But none-the-less, here's something I helped to film.
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Paper craft pipe organ powered by a balloon.
This guy has some serious skills.
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Which one of you etc...
Would anyone like to buy this lovely photo?
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The Togaboy The world will end on, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 2:50,
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Give me a break,
flights to Thailand don't come cheap.
On the plus side, I did have an empty seat next to me on the way home.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 3:07,
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I don't know.
I asked but he hasn't answered me.
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The Togaboy The world will end on, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:58,
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RL clickbait...
...only a matter of time until retailers start doing it..."The inside of this mini-Kiev will amaze you" ...etc
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:14,
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Jesus H Cope
It's only the very rare footage of the first ever Teardrop Explodes television appearance 1979.
Bloody good quality too!
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*clicks*
You should learn to accept your reward.
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:02,
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He was a bouncing baby then
Good find. St Drulian of Cope - believing mad things so we don't have to.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:23,
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I like the way you managed to post this at the exact start of your b3taday!
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:03,
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He's been planning it for months.
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sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 11:00,
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