
Not in any revisions in the last few years and that articles been locked against vandalism for ages, I like it but I'm not convinced it was ever real, could try harder.
( , Fri 10 Nov 2017, 17:46, Reply)

But a bit short. They could have trolled for weeks on that chat group. I want to know what happens next!
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 23:25, Reply)

Apologies for Metro link but the news is out that Priti Patel has “resigned”.
Edit: for my own 2p worth this just makes May look even weaker. If she couldn’t rustle up the backbone to sack Patel for a gaffe like this and she continues to let Boris do his thing without consequence she’ll be resigning herself before too long. Add in the Brexit papers embarrassment and one can be forgiven for wondering if anyone in government is doing much in the way of governing. At least on the bright side I’ve learnt more about one of the few Tory MPs I have any respect for, in the form of Anna Soubry.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 19:24, Reply)

Should be fun to watch.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 19:44, Reply)

She had an impossible job: to find people willing to accept vast amounts of money but who wouldn't spunk it on Rolls-Royces, wristwatches and London property.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:15, Reply)

If you're about to sack someone and they resign in front of you then you simply accept their resignation as convenient. You certainly don't look any stronger by indignantly refusing the resignation then immediately declaring they're fired.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:00, Reply)

One's a badly-needed show of leadership qualities and the other is a face-saving gesture, which in this case means Patel saves face and May loses face.
I don't believe for one minute that Patel resigned voluntarily but I suppose we'll never know, which is rather the point. That said if this were any normal job she'd have been sacked on the spot and this is another example of the double-standards we see applied to politics vs. everyday life.
Let's not forget that the final straw was Patel not disclosing meetings with Israeli political figures after just being chewed out for the exact same thing. She had her chance to come clean and, frankly, was just taking the piss. There should be consequences for her actions, not just a free pass to go back to her old job.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:16, Reply)

If you're definitely going to be sacked (everyone knows it), then it's just politeness to resign. It's voluntary in the sense that you are volunteering to be polite about it, but you are not going to be doing the job any more either way so the resignation is forced.
Ultimately there is no difference. She would be just as free to get another job in government later if she was sacked, although perhaps marginally less likely to be offered it by a colleague due to a possible perceived risk of being a boat rocker if things don't go your way.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:40, Reply)

If you meet an old friend who works for a competitor and let slip a few trade secrets you expect to be called in front of the management and if you're very, very lucky you'll be given the chance to come clean and apologise rather than be dismissed on the spot.
If you then squander that chance for contrition and it's later found out that you gave them the special sauce recipe as well then any other employer would have you out of the door faster than you can say P45. I don't think I'm being especially harsh in thinking that being shown clemency and essentially throwing it in their face should have real consequences, like having the whip withdrawn. We see the same sort of thing happening in board rooms the world over where executives, having royally fucked up, get a nice pay-off and a friendly handshake.
We can agree to disagree about sacking vs. compulsory resignation, but surely you can see why many people are annoyed when politicians do things like this and seem to get off scot-free.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 22:17, Reply)

But there's been a long history of this sort of thing, and what can really be done about it? People forget about stuff after a while and you can come back to the table... that's human nature.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 23:32, Reply)

The resignation often comes after a sacking and legally it is the resignation that is used as the reason. Something to do with the fact that a sacking has to be in writing whereas a resignation is verbal. Therefore it is possible that May sacked her and she saved face by resigning.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 23:30, Reply)

FAP FAP FAP FAP
FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP
FAP FAP
FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP
*oink*
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:30, Reply)

some batshit mental-some very dark
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 18:34, Reply)

I cracked once and berated my kid for watching this inane shit. It must be easy to grab some assets and set the thing in motion again, but it's depressing stuff
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:09, Reply)

Is that the writer comes across like someone who had no idea there was anything dark on the net. Really naive? Hmmm
Also, I watched the prettily-titled BURIED ALIVE and I think that most kids would more likely get bored and switch iff than watch it hypnotised. Bots have no creativity, wit or understanding of storytelling.
He says he doesn't have kids so doesn't really get these points I guess. So, yet another person getting offended on behalf of other people.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:50, Reply)

And did you look at the black squiggles between the pictures - the things we call words?
Tl;dr for you?
Trump bullet points:
Some people are deliberately creating deeply disturbing content - while at first glance innocent- for kids which is getting past any and all child friendly filters
Bots are churning out really weird variants on themes - and some of this could also cause harm to children
There is absolutely no way to stop it happening without banning YouTube and anything like it.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:54, Reply)

The headswap thing, I can imagine teaches your kid to make a fucking awful crying noise when something isn't correct. I have heard it immitated.
I was actually impressed at the work the author did on it.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 22:14, Reply)

Any more than people were saying video games were before, etc. Trying to patronise me isn't exactly a great defence TACFC. They are mind-numbing rubbish and kids just wouldn't fall for this when they could watch decent animations on another channel. As for the early years videos, parents should be keeping an eye on what they're watching anyway. Final point, kids aren't dumb.
People have different opinions so we should discuss this rather than, oh I don't know randomly choosing something...putting them on ignore. Oh, you didn't do that did you?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 23:20, Reply)

I'm not sure which is least likely.
I assume they're created as a cynical attempt to get views from kids intrigued by disgusting things, or adults as a result of articles like these.
( , Thu 9 Nov 2017, 7:50, Reply)

I was pleased when a video of mine got a couple of million views, but realised that it's nothing when I saw my kid watching a video of someone opening Kinder Eggs - 42 million views. Most of these videos are just click bait purely for the ad revenue. Seems like the titles are generated by algorithms, but actual people make the videos - and if they can make enough videos with different variations of keywords, they can make money - sometimes a lot. I don't think there's any dark intentions behind most of these videos (unless it's those pesky Ruskies again)
I imagine Google will get round to doing something about it in the same way they change their search algorithms to downgrade websites using sneaky SEO practices. Eventually.
( , Mon 13 Nov 2017, 10:15, Reply)

I'd like a foool bridge rectifier over easy, please.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 18:07, Reply)

With the typical "youtube star" flavored start, I expected to hate this. Pleasantly surprised...
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:16, Reply)

Sounds like a shit idea.
[edit] Also, am I the only person who thinks Tool are MASSIVELY overrated?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:34, Reply)

you're not wrong there. I don't get all the fuss about Muse either
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:39, Reply)

My source for new bands is now randoms on the internet.
www.reddit.com/r/ifyoulikeblank/
www.discogs.com/
Are my go to now and through them have found some really great bands.
Here's some little writing because my ocd says I should add some
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:48, Reply)

Lately I have disappeared down a pyschobilly rabbit hole.
Music is such a personal thing though. If you like it great, who gives a fuck what anyone else thinks?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:52, Reply)

Currently exploring French electro myself.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:58, Reply)

I quite liked Imelda Mays early stuff if that counts for anything?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 17:05, Reply)

southern gothic americana is the warren I'm currently burrowing in
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 18:36, Reply)

"Music is such a personal thing though. If you like it great, who gives a fuck what anyone else thinks?"
And yet people post music all the time on here...
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:23, Reply)

They aren't doing it for approval. We're not all needy click whores.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 22:03, Reply)

Though I try and bear in mind that they do champion their mates' shit bands.
change your sig, you horror
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:55, Reply)

It's part of the tribalism that goes along with music tastes.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 17:11, Reply)

Beavis "huh huh Ghost "BC" huh, huh, huh, huh"
Butthead "Shut up butt munch"
( , Thu 9 Nov 2017, 8:42, Reply)

… officers were examining whether any animal protection laws had been broken.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:26, Reply)

What else might it?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:01, Reply)

but he bottled it and got pissed instead
( , Thu 9 Nov 2017, 13:44, Reply)

( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:58, Reply)

She's just flown over my House in Greenwich, so she's just home to face the Music.. not sitting Pritti is she!
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:00, Reply)

Hah!
That plane she's on didn't have wi-fi!
Oh to be there now she's getting a signal..
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:10, Reply)

Oh I'm sure she knew. She'd been summoned to London to see the boss halfway through a journey to Uganda. You can't think that's going to be a good meeting.
Edit: Apparently a ministerial car met her on the tarmac. A swift motorcycle escort down the M4 and she'll be falling on her sword within the hour.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:38, Reply)

twitter.com/theousherwood/status/928291081577467904
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:36, Reply)

Gone to the office to
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 17:29, Reply)

( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:09, Reply)

( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:18, Reply)

The boil needs lancing.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:35, Reply)

She's got sod all to lose.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:40, Reply)

Worries and tribulations related to shipping now are not a part and parcel of your daily life. Have a stress free shipping of your vehicle through services by We Will Transport It.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:24, Reply)

... that We Will Transport It are massively involved in the smuggling of children for the slave trade and the distribution of extreme animal porn.
How is that business model working for you?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:54, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyYNQo6RovM

( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:43, Reply)

avoid the dangers of driving in the sun?
Do you haul municipal service truck?
Tell me about the multi car shipping discount for auto dealers!
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:36, Reply)

B3ta is the hub of vehicles that need shipping. We've got vehicles coming out of our arse. Thank God you turned up
As the elderly lady says in the video, "I'm very satisfied". Little minx
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:18, Reply)

Specifically this:
In the olden days, when I was alive, television used to "live" for things like football matches. What you saw on the telly was actually happening. The only control you had over it was to switch to another channel, or switch off. So, if something exciting or interesting happened, the broadcaster would show an action replay, anticipating the viewer going "wtf?".
It's 2017. Most of what I watch, I watch on Youtube. The rest, I watch streamed from my PC or on my SkyHD box. EVERY SINGLE MEDIA SOURCE I HAVE allows me to pause, rewind and replay any section of video it shows, at will, all the time.
So why THE ACTUAL FUCK do Youtube video makers waste my FUCKING TIME making a 30 second video that consists of the same 15 second clip, twice?
( , Thu 9 Nov 2017, 8:47, Reply)

Have some downtempo rub-a-dub-dub
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:16, Reply)

But while it lasted it was a steamy affair. She always felt very hornby.
Drove her loco.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:56, Reply)

really shows off her gargantuan, pendulous udders. You go gurl.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:03, Reply)

then I think it is worth the risk.
I am tumescent with anticipation.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:21, Reply)

P.S. It's "railway station", not "train station".
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:08, Reply)

"In British English, traditional usage favours railway station or simply station, even though train station, which is an Americanism, is now misused instead of railway station in writing."
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:19, Reply)

I take no issue with the first part of that sentence.
But misused? Is there a more correct usage for "train station" than meaning "station for trains" such that using it as "station for trains" counts as misuse?
That's clearly just someone's opinion, and not an objective fact. So I have corrected it.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:50, Reply)

I was just amused that the page you produced as proof seemed to directly contradict you.
Edit: and now you've edited that page so that it doesn't? That's genius. I'd take my hat off to you were I the sort of cunt who wore one.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:55, Reply)

but I wouldn't edit a page to be actually wrong only to prove a point. I figured I should do it here since the original sentence basically didn't make sense.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:04, Reply)

( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:18, Reply)

No not him.
TL:DR Minister goes to Israel on "holiday" and has secret meetings with the Israeli government. Then planned to use humanitarian aid money to fund the Israeli armed forces.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 8:27, Reply)

An embarrassment.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:27, Reply)

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-israel-army-idf-foreign-aid-money-british-holiday-meetings-netanyahu-international-a8041716.html?amp
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:45, Reply)

She's flying home now and is pretty much finished.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:47, Reply)

hope she goes
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:55, Reply)

( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:57, Reply)

Jussayin.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 10:04, Reply)

as my wife works in international aid and a lot of their funding comes from DFID. I believe the majority of the projects they're working on are actually completely sensible - the one my wife is on certainly is. However the ones that grab the headlines are clearly in the "what the hell were you thinking" category, and there seems to be a serious problem in some areas in ensuring the aid isn't siphoned off by the regime before it reaches the intended recipients.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 10:36, Reply)

My wife is a civil servant and I've heard stories about massive waste in spending.
Is it true that a lot of the WTF projects are funded because the DFID has a legal target on how much they have to spend?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 10:49, Reply)

They are the only government department that are obliged, BY LAW, to spent the entirety of their budget and if they do not they have to make a statement to the House explaining why. You know how councils suddenly become highly concerned about fixing kerbs and paving stones in the run up to April even when they don't need fixing... Their budget is fixed, again BY LAW, at 0.7% of GDP.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:03, Reply)

Underspend by 10% this year and (rather than a pat on the head for being efficient) you get 10% less than whatever you ask the Treasury for next year.
Fortunately there are plenty of government suppliers who are good at 'helping out' the procurement people and pricing based on what's currently in the pot (which is how you get to the NHS and MOD paying shitloads for spoons and pens and stuff).
But enough of that! Lets get back to decrying celebrities who avoid tax...
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:14, Reply)

Apart from that, it's exactly the same.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:51, Reply)

My wife is
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:29, Reply)

How exactly is that faceless and unelected?
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:16, Reply)

for one so inclined to sanctimony, you're very quick with the offensive language and verbal abuse.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:32, Reply)

And you're still jumping to conclusions and not reading things properly. C'est la vie.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:57, Reply)

Plus ça change...
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:05, Reply)

When one's entire argument for Brexit is based around magic beans and complaining about imaginary "unelected faceless eurocrats" and your wife is one, I feel entirely fine pointing out the hypocrisy.
You're a genuinely thick shit.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:26, Reply)

Carry on.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:45, Reply)

I just find myself arguing with many other remainers here when they rely on shitty arguments, or ignore very good arguments from the other side. Similarly, I voted Lib Dem, but I end up finding myself defend Tory ministers because of shitty arguments.
Everyone then assumes I'm on the other side when mainly I'm trying to tidy up the mess on my own side.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:49, Reply)

It’s almost as if the PM is incapable of sacking anyone.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:06, Reply)

uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/KQA100
This has got to have been a long flight.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:07, Reply)

( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:12, Reply)

Anyone else see the last episode of Mind Hunters?
( , Tue 7 Nov 2017, 21:54, Reply)

( , Tue 7 Nov 2017, 21:58, Reply)

The singer needs to have words with whoever came up with those volume levels.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:46, Reply)

Edit: don't bother watching past 20 seconds. Nothing else happens unfortunately
( , Tue 7 Nov 2017, 20:54, Reply)

Utrecht to me.
www.google.nl/maps/@52.0884184,5.1215193,2a,34.7y,342.89h,89.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdGwVsIdOnWMoaHh4lPC6sA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
( , Thu 9 Nov 2017, 13:48, Reply)

Mario's nipples are the least delightful thing about it. That's how delightful it is.
( , Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:15, Reply)

A man obsesses over perfecting his death rattle. Weird and a little disturbing
( , Tue 7 Nov 2017, 19:12, Reply)
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