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This is a link post DJ Khaled Plays Himself and Gets Booed Off Stage at EDC NSFW
Not entirely sure what's going on here, other than 10 second clips of tracks with some dude shouting his own name over the top, for 14 separate tracks. I thought it was rather cringe-worthy anyway, one of you lot might know who this guy is?

NSFW due to some swearing by the crowd.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 8:30, , Reply)
This is a link post Ho99o9 - United States of Horror NSFW
I'm going to see these chaps live tonight. I'm looking forward to a lovely evening of jigs and reels and maybe a nice cuppa and some cake
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 6:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post tell us all about the gig
it certainly gonna be insane! ho99o9 are great!
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 17:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post It were mental
I need to see them again as soon as possible
(, Wed 21 Jun 2017, 8:44, , Reply)
This is a link post Too soon?

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 1:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post Futile either way.
Despite myself I still believe in the freedom of the press. The trouble is that self-regulation is an oxymoron.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 2:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hilarious.
Did he do one with "Qur'an" on the side of the van when Borough Market/Manchester/Westminster got done?
Nah.
Didn't think so.
The very idea would only occur to a complete and utter cunt like me.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 3:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post The important thing to remember
Is that it's the right wing press that fuels anger against Islam. Definitely not the weekly massacres in the fucking streets.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 6:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you get branded Qur'an delivery vans like you do for newspapers?
Part of the joke is the use of a familiar vehicle, can't see it working as well with a made up design
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 7:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post I like the idea of cartoonists
only being allowed one joke per type of event, though.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 8:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post it doesn't work very well as it is
I know they have to crack these out daily but some of them are breathtakingly clunky.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post how is it not working?
I thought the concept was quite clear
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post too clear
The audience barely has to put in any effort at all.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's a satirical cartoon, not a mensa test

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's a satirical cartoon in a broadsheet newspaper
They should assume some degree of sophistication in their audience otherwise it just looks patronising. These are people who like to think they're working in Gilray's shadow remember
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post You don't get Sun and Mail branded vans. I've never seen one.
And nor have you.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've seen loads - not with "Read Sun and Daily Mail" on them admittedly
www.google.co.uk/search?q=newspaper+delivery+van&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx4dKjoczUAhXGJFAKHaunAkkQ_AUICigB&
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post That image search didn't return any vans branded with either The Sun or The Mail.
Which kind of proves my point. What's your point?
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's a cartoon you imbecile
they are supposed to be absurd, ridiculous or even preposterous but with a hint of truth. That's how cartoons work - are you on the fucking spectrum or something?


(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's interesting, it's one of those Madela effect things that you assume you see everywhere
I guess it's down to a mixture of what they used to have and promotional things

Do they deliver unbranded then to avoid things being thrown at them?
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nah. You liked the cartooon because you hate The Sun and The Mail, thus you give it credence.
But the idea that those shitty rags are in any way responsible for Finsbury Park is a profoundly insidious lie. But people are desperate to exculpate Islam under any circumstances in order to defend the dream of harmonious multiculturalism. It seems so strange that people won't even tolerate the fact that there is at least one problematic dimension to that religion, yet it's always open season on other faiths. Maybe if there wasn't such widespread collusive denial, this Welsh clown wouldn't have been motivated to randomly mow down people.

They don't deliver themselves, they use distributors. The biggest is www.smithsnews.co.uk/
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post I didn't click like on the cartoon
I just commented that I'd seen newspaper delivery vans but not Qur'an ones.

So it was people being tolerant that is to blame, not wars, extremists or scaremongering? got it
also

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post If you tolerate those who are intolerant of a liberal western democracy,
what happened in Westminster/Manchester/Borough will happen. Perhaps there should be a media blackout on such events, I find the coverage to be little more than 'scaremongering'.

Took you long enough. Doesn't look at all recent, and was probably some promo gimmick, since, as l have already said, they use distributors who deliver all the papers.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yep.
Used to be a firm called Mitchell Cotts. Controlled all of the newspaper vans .Only ones that were branded where the evening standard chevron vans.

/Sister was transport manager there for years.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 20:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's always interesting how people react when confronted with something that they don't like but suspect is justified
your appeal for equivalency is one of the more common self-defence mechanisms that people employ
"the ref penalised us for handball but he didn't give one against arsenal when they did the same thing last time we played them"
"Hilary was let off for her emails, but now they're blaming Trump for obstructing justice"
In actually, the penalty was justified, Trump appears to have obstructed justice, and people are influenced by the relentless villification and generalisation of Muslims by the Sun and the Mail. Appeals for equivalency are attempts to effectively shift focus away from the unpalatable reality and recast their side or cause again as the victim
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post
"relentless villification and generalisation of Muslims by the Sun and the Mail" simply isn't true, it is at best a hysterical exaggeration. If your imaginary "relentless vilification" was true these papers would have been successfully prosecuted for inciting racial hatred many times. Still, I'm sure you're right. It's all the fault of The Sun and The Mail. They are the root cause of terrorism. I think that's the equivalency you're looking for, to avoid the reality you find so unpalatable.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post So when the press complaint commission forced the sun to apologise for their massive headline that 1 in 5 muslims in england support isis as "significantly misleading"
that was just a misunderstanding, was it? I mean, excuse me if I'm engaging in "hysterical exageration"
or when the Sun ran a headline saying that book encouraging children to be jihadis were being sold at london mosques was force to be withdrawn because it was " based on forged evidence", that was mistake any newspaper could make
I mean, I just picked these two example because you seem to be insistent that only upheld complaints would indicate that these paper vilify muslims, when to most independent observers it's painfully fucking obvious.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 13:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sauce please.
That is relevant to my interests. I still won't have any truck whatsoever with the idea that these shitty rags were in any way responsible for what that cunt did in Finsbury Park. Also I think the whole "some papers good, others papers bad" is a bit pointless, they are all pretty shitty in their own shitty ways.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 13:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post how tedious, I mean I suspect if you've somehow formed a view that these papers don't relentlessly stoke fears about muslims as some sort of Darth Vader-like menace despite living in the UK, then a few links won't sway you. but LMGTFY
www.pcc.org.uk/cases/adjudicated.html?article=NTAyMg==&type=
www.bbc.com/news/uk-35903066

here's the subtle sun headline

it's a pretty horrible thing to get wrong, don't you think? And a lot of people who probably didn't read the later retraction probably went away believing that there's whole bunch of muslims living in england that support murdering them.

But I couldn't say for sure if this bloke was influenced by the Sun and the Mail or he just had a bad falafel the night before and wanted vengeance. But I could say with certainity that many people are influenced by these rags, and not just the shaven-headed EDL types. They sell by stoking hatred and division and most of all fear. It might be by running lots of photos of Abu Hanza on the cover because he looks like captain hook, or saying muslims are going to outnumber us by 2050 at current birthrates so head for the hill, or something much more viscious. But that's their business model, fear sells
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 13:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post I also guess it was a coincidence that the Sun and Mail printed multiple headlines about Abu Hanza and the Finsbury park mosque up until his arrest in 2004
But no reports in those papers after that the Mosque had shutdown in response, replaced its management, board of trustees and imans and reopened a year later promoting community inclusivity which was widely regarded as a success story. Their readers don't want to know about that.
It just happened to be that mosque that the van man chose
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah. There should have been a media blackout on that.
You know, for the greater good. I bet not a single other paper or news broadcast ever uttered a single word about Finsbury Park mosque. It's all the fault of the Sun and Mail. Case closed.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post you're right that they weren't the only ones
though the Sun in particular seemed to have a hard-on for their cover boy Hanza. He does look like a bond villian, I'll admit.
But at the risk of stereotyping the van man doesn't look the type to be reading The Times, put down his Pimms, and announce, "I say old bean, it's time I jolly well went down to that Mosque and give those chaps what for"
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post
I think we can establish that this guy was a violent, drunken moron. However if you don't think that violent drunken morons are susceptible to suggestion from what they view as a gospel of truth (because they are ignorant and right wing) then you're simply lying to make a point or you have your head in the sand.

If you read in the paper that you're under attack from all corners and you don't have the capacity to go and check with other sources, use your mental reasoning skills, or perhaps don't actually know any muslims, then it's likely that you'll come to believe that point of view after a while.

To use your incorrectly utilised phrase "case closed".
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Naivety is something you're often accusing others off
Yet you can't see that repeated scare and hate headlines might influence some people. Really?
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have a minority view that newspapers are not really very influential at all.
Last century maybe, but not anymore. They just reinforce pre existent prejudices. They don't mould society, they just reflect it. Their steadily falling circulation is evidence of this.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post possibly, but that prick murdoch also has TV stations
still, you seemed to have shifted your ground somewhat from saying those papers aren't rabidly anti-muslim shit-stirrers to now just saying that they aren't very influential, so I guess that's progress of sorts.
I don't mind arguing with you, prufock. For one thing it helps sharpen my own arguments up that tend to become flabby and weak if people agree with me. If the topic comes up with someone else i'll know I'll be on point
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post
FOX
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post
1. They don't have falling reader numbers, just circulation. People use the web. Guardian has huge number of online lefty readers, the Daily Mail a similar but opposed audience.
2. They must still be very influential or you wouldn't sound like Richard Littlejohn having a paddy in every political discussions on b3ta ;)
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post The Mail Online has a massive, growing readership.

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Although that would be slashed in half if people stopped posting mail links here

(, Wed 21 Jun 2017, 11:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Have you ever read the daily mail?
You have to admit it leans more to the'drum up anger amongst the right wing' than 'balanced reporting of facts' in general style.
To put it mildly.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post with you the chain of legitimate greivances always ends with 'the muslims' because they are 'irrational' and 'backward'
It's much easier to assume that there's something wrong with the way they think, the way all muslims think, than to to sit down and put some thought into their motivations. Try it now, assume they are rational actors, see where it takes you
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 13:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post Go and read some Juvenal, Benny.

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 13:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post They are irrational and backward
Just like the Ulster Unionists, the mormons and the rest of them.

Please read God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens, ISBN 1843545748
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 20:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sense of humour meltdown much?
As usual your argument uses false equivalence.

It's not the Qur'an at fault for islamic fundamentalism, it's their right wing idealogy perpetuatued by their media and aggressive promotion. Sure put "ISIS Media outlets" on the side of a van to counter this cartoon, but your equivalent would be someone putting the bible on the side of the van.

Hope that clears stuff up for you whilst you froth over your copy of the Daily Mail.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah. The Koran is all peace and love. Not a single hateful verse in it.
If we all lived by a literal interpretation of it, the world would be a wonderful place.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post And you've read the old testament too right?
Living by a literal interpretation of any religion is batshit mental. Their imaginary friend doesn't exist.

However to say one make believe mentalist book from thousands of years ago is worse than another, when Christians did exactly this random murder and attempted enforcing of their ideals on everyone they encountered (sure it started 500 years ago), is a joke.

It's also worth noting that ISIS don't even take a literal interpretation, they are using all kinds of works that are not even part of the Qur'an to justify anything they want.

Can we agree that all religion is dangerous?
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Image From Rochester

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 7:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nicely done

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 8:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Brave depiction of the profit there

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 9:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Everyone knows that the prophet is the bottom line

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 9:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Pfft!
You said 'bottom'
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Goat is also interchangable with Profit

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post *stones*

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post "Oi steady on you could have someones eye out with that"

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post The Guardian's financial woes
are underlined in a clumsy attempt at blaming the competition.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Peace be upon him
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 20:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Seems about right
Perhaps it's time to stop being insensitive and beating around the bush
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 9:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well it's too soon to know what his triggers were.
And because he's still alive there will be restrictions on what can reported to ensure a fair trial.

Still doesn't stop one newspaper putting the blame on rivals. For all we know this prick has never read a paper and was in his own little bubble with some far right groups.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 18:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Allegedly the bubble extended at least as far as one of his sons.
Something about wishing the hire company leased tanks and steam rollers.

edit: As Toast has pointed out it was the son of the hire company's owner, not the son of the man currently being held for the attack. Mea culpa.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 20:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Source?

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 20:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's the son of the hire company not the bloke that did the attack
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40347813
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 20:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Good to see that a political cartoon
can still generate so much commentary!
(, Wed 21 Jun 2017, 6:13, , Reply)
This is a link post Cats! So good we tamed them twice
First tamed 9000 years ago in the near east. And then again years later in ancient Egypt.
fill in joke about your own cat here ......
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post (^(^;;^)^) STUPID MAMMAL!
YOU DID NOT TAME CATS! CATS TAMED YOU!
TWICE!
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post After the first time
Humanity said never again... and then did it again anyway because we are stupid cunts
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post (^(^;;^)^) LET TEAM SPIDERS CLEAR THIS UP FOR YOU, CLEARLY CONFUSED MAMMAL!
we are stupid cunts Our Kitty Overlords COMMANDED us.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 0:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post I wonder how their conquest of YouTube is shaping cat evolution.
perhaps making them more accident-prone, deformed, and stupid.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 11:29, , Reply)
This is a link post A bit of Brian.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post also
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MDVSHsFFh0
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, now that is BRILLIANT.
I don't know what kids' TV is like these days, but I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that it doesn't involve songs about powder-boys in harems.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post I liked him best in 'A Clockwork Orange'.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 21:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post I always thought Brian Could.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 22:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Have a look on the floor
Just to the right of Brian is the word "SAD" :(

RIP fella, thanks for entertaining me when I was a nipper.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 22:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Why do I suddenly get the urge
to assassinate the president of the United Sates?
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 22:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Erm... is that Johnny Cab?

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 22:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post No, that was the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager.
Trufax
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 2:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Pie of Meat - come and have a pint on Saturday again
www.b3ta.com/calendar/event/26252
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 21:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post I am :)

(, Wed 21 Jun 2017, 0:53, , Reply)
This is a link post Curse you 2017
Brian Cant has done and gone his last curtain call
Fond memmories of his tv shows
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Brian Can't
Just getting that in quick...
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Kant died before Cant.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post sad
from a kinder gentler age when Jeremy Irons made nice children's programmes instead of tawdry unpleasantness such as High Rise

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GF6ouF0AXg
edit: and how could I forget - the voice of all Trmuptonshire (WHICH IS IN SUSSEX BTW)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IxzSTTYmA
that's proper 1997 internet nostalgia
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPT4VdjRUQ
Or this dark twisted little jem
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Old people DIE fluffster. In fact EVERYTHING dies.
Except ME. And my landlady. And (^(^;;^)^)TEAM SPIDERS! We're just too fucking EVIL AND RACISTAND TORY (her) and LOVELY (me) and LOVELY AND FULL OF SPIDERY GOODNESS AND CURDS AND WHEY (TEAM SPIDERS) to die.
Here is a nice song to placate you:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3aiM8K6D0
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 21:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Everything I touch or love or love to touch
Seems to die
A little tear was cried from my heart but that to died

'tis but a moment of sad before the mind recalls the joy and smiles.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 22:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post HELL YEAH!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=duF2KAs0Pqo
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post MOAR!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ypG9Ig5AW4
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, alright.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=baExq6xNhQ8
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfiaYVCPgbI
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:30, , Reply)
This is a link post Game of Thrones vs Vanilla Ice I made this!
If nothing else i must now hold the record for speed watching game of thrones. All six series in about 4 days, then watched it again isolating each characters lines. I think id like to go back to the 9 to 5 now.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Holy flip that was brilliant!
Massive effort. Great work.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post
ta
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post We're not worthy!
We're not worthy!
We're not worthy!
We're scum!
We suck!
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post
ok that's enough now, rise
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Swede, now be still:
I clickll'd not thee with half so good a will.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 18:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post bloody hell mate
how much do you hate that show now?
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Probably still far less than I hate it.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yup.
Watched the first two eps.

Fucking twaddle.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Quite enjoyed it first time round. Third, not so much
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Incredible

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Win!

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post holy frijoles!
excellent as ever mr mason
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Darn good job

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Fourteen times better than the sources.
Brilliace!
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post When the fuck did ANY of those characters say "DJ" for a start?
FAKE NEWS!
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 21:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post That was fucking brilliant!
Woo, Yay, Hoopla and Panowie!
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDE!
Really, whenever you walk in to a room everybody should just jump up and down shouting "SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDE!"

Wonderful. You're dead good at this.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 12:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post fuck, I'm getting a dead link
hope it wasn't copyright infringement or some such bullshit. it could regional blocking
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 15:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post That must have taken ages

Don't know how you begin to do this. You're a wizard of some description. Well done!
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 16:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Fantastic!
That must have taken flaming forever!
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 23:56, , Reply)
This is a link post A firefighter's account of Grenfell Tower
This is doing the rounds on the Facebook at present. It's a vivid account of one person's experiences within the tower, illustrating the kind of life-or-death choices that had to be made.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post I take it there are no basic literacy requirements for becoming a fireman then.
Made it past the end of the third paragraph before I'd had enough of their whinging.

Cheers for that.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post Guilty lols.
He's a bit chippy too. Did no one warn him that being a fireman is a dangerous job before he signed up?
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post That was an incredibly long first sentence.
Is this something to do with his breathing?
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks to the Tory cuts he can't afford the full stops

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post FFS
I can be a grammar Nazi but that really wasn't the main thing I took from that.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, sorry. TLDR: Man who is paid to put out fires complains about not being appreciated.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post And yet SOME public servants (Yes I'm looking at YOU Army, Coppers, Fireys etc) Nurses apart, STILL overwhelmingly vote Tory.
Fucking turkeys get ROASTED and then bitch about it.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 21:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post Appears to be a long anti-Tory rant
Rather than the article described.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Of course you've never complained about not having sufficient budget or pay.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Of course
But I don't remember ever blaming it on the government.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post yeah it's not like they could do anything about it

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post is that perhaps because you dont work for the government?

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 9:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post No it's the brexit voting cunts fault.
It's the government's fault for being utterly shit at their jobs
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post If Andy wants a pay rise he just works a bit harder and it should be the same for the firemen
You only get your 1% if you actually pull someone out of a burning building that year. 10 cats out of trees for a free toaster, that sort of thing. What could go wrong?
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 9:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post No, it's not.
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(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post You are a Tory MP AICMFP
You stick up for them over every anti-Tory thing that is posted. Although I can't recall any mention of the Tories in this and from a whole page of text only about 2 paragraphs near the start mention cuts and pay.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 8:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post "If only they knew"
They do know, they just don't give a shit.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Until it's *their* home burning anyway...

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post I like the bit where she promised higher redundancy pay to the staff whose jobs she fucked over.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sounds like an exhausted guy trying to make sense of what happened.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Water-fairies
Always fucking moaning
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 14:25, , Reply)
This is a link post How to behave in the UK
If you're a GI, and it's 1943.

We drink warm beer, play darts and shove ha'penny, are always grateful for an 'american cigarette', eat like mice because rationing, and the scots don't like hearing about their 'skirt'. Some fascinating racism at 26mins in too.

And I confess I totally didn't work out who it was, until Bob Hope pitched up and named him 30mins in...
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, but the racism thing? The Brits were a LOT less racist than the Yanks who came over in WW2.
And I'm not just talking about the 'uneducated white trash' yanks. Trufax.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 21:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well that was kinda the point
As in 'dont be shocked if a nice old lady asks a negro over for tea... they dont seem to see a problem with that in england, like what you might do'

Was just interesting to see racism of americans acknowledged (in a film made for their consumption), with a general 'you know it's prejudiced and wrong, so don't be surprised if you see people not being racist over here in england, and try to keep a lid on it if you can'.

(goes without saying you only need to wind the clock back to the 18th century and england was busy rounding up slaves in africa, so there's no moral high-ground here really...)
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 1:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Speaking of prejudice
I was hoping to see a mention of women soldiers. This whole video reminded me of the guide to GIs linked some time ago, wherein Americans are advised to 'treat women soldiers with respect; they didn't earn those medals for darning socks.'
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 3:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Aberystwyth is the capital of Wales?
edit: I didn't get it until he got the cigarette holder out.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 22:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Cardiff has only been the capital of Wales since 1955, so after that film was made.

(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post I was thinking the same
Also, I think the muted bit about southern ireland (19mins 50secs) might be something like the 80's Sinn Fein broadcasting ban maybe?
(, Wed 21 Jun 2017, 23:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post The penguin?!!

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 22:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post Must be - I was thinking the same!
Good to see some of his early work! Wahk! Wahk!
(, Wed 21 Jun 2017, 10:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post The cigarette holder at 32:40 looks somehow familiar....

(, Wed 21 Jun 2017, 10:06, , Reply)
This is a link post Rescate 137 pres; Piero Piccioni, Un Saluto Borghese
From 1965, he went from being an attorney to becoming a film score writer. I think this is the most amazing album I've ever heard.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:11, , Reply)
This is a link post so fecking hot
just because
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 16:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post A man has just fixed my aircon
To say I'm happy would be an understatement
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 16:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post I was at work
So I had my butler let him in.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm currently sitting in Cornwall
With a very pleasant breeze and about 24 degrees. Thoroughly recommend it. It you're looking for down sides though, the internet is a bit patchy and it appears the main pastime down this way is teenage pregnancy.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ditto North Wales

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 18:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yep

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 21:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post I also am currently sitting in Cornwall.
Internets ok but the fuckers have put content filters on.
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 9:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bob is amazing
Vic is a deeply creepy mf!
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 16:58, , Reply)
This is a link post This is GGGOOOORRRGGGEEEOOOOUUUSSS

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 15:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post
It's also glass
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 16:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post thought it must be
soz
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 16:46, , Reply)
This is a link post A tune to wake up to. Desmond Dekkar's Israelites

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Misheard lyric number 16......
me ears are alight........
(, Tue 20 Jun 2017, 2:34, , Reply)
This is a link post Pakistan kid dancing!
full beast mode activated at 6 seconds
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post Was that filmed in
Pissflaps bumming dungeon?
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 15:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post No
It was filmed in portrait.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 20:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post He's dancing because it's a cloudy day.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hard Brexit Now
/ac
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:45, , Reply)
This is a link post Seafood restaurant frees 132-year-old lobster
after 20 years
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 12:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post How do they know how old it is?

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Cut its head off
and count the rings
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post bend him over and count his rings.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post They do that in Antwerp
In the red light distric.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bit cruel when he's still alive.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post I see what you did there.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post The sad thing is
He probably won't last five minutes in the ocean.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post I expect he'll really struggle to adjust to all the advances in Lobster technology that he's missed, he'll be like Brendan Fraser in Blast from the Past

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post or Brendan Fraser in California Man

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Or Brendan Fraser in "George of the Jungle"

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post Or Brendan Fraser in "The Mummy"

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 16:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post Or Kelsy Grammer in Frasier

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post "Holds BaronMunchausen's hand up high"
You sir, have won this thread.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 19:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post He should never have been released
Think how its rape victims must be feeling when they heard the news. For them there is no end to the sentence
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Look. It WASN'T rape, alright? The lobster didn't say 'We have the upper hand. Or claw.'
And Jayne Mansfield didn't say 'WE have the upper hand.'
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 16:23, , Reply)
This is a link post Massively misleading title
I was so looking forward to a massive murine monster masticating on marine m... er fish
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 12:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post They way they construct narratives is really clever. No one beats the beeb at nature docs.
Also NZ is awesome.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post BBC twat mangling headline

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:33, , Reply)
This is a link post "I'll go to the looney bin with you man, I don't give a F*CK!"
- Man wants crowdfunding to develop a machine to help us to communicate to aliens via the medium of DMT. I doubt it'll work, but I'd still be up for the ride.

youtu.be/-vPBM-mHWWk


:o)
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 9:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Jeeze
sounds interesting, and frightening in equal measures.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 10:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah right

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 10:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post Never heard of DMT before.
Sounds like a laugh.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post i was already tripping on mushrooms and so when i inhaled the dmt the hallucinogenic sheen that was overlaid across everything in front of me shimmered
then cracked and broke into uncountable thousands and thousands of bright shards and whirled together into a mini cyclone of shimmering reality pieces in the middle of the room leaving a new reality sheen of a richer and more profound character overlaid across everything. At the same time the most incredible feeling of pure rightness blossomed at the base of my spine moving slowly out through my body in all directions particularly wonderful as it made its way up my spine to the top of my head where it radiated up and out across the universe/me/us complex.

it's alright.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post
You're not the kind of person to drop into a self-referential spiral of loathing and doubt then? :)

I'd personally suggest unless you have a pretty high level of self-confidence, stay the feck away from all strong hallucinogens.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Awesome, dude.
{:-)
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 15:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yep, been there man :o)

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 15:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's mental

Known as the "bunjee jump" if psychedelics as you trip balls for just a few minutes if you smoke it. Ayahuasca lasts much longer but it seems this guy is trying to go full-retard.

youtu.be/LtT6Xkk-kzk
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 15:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wacky excuse!

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 15:35, , Reply)
This is a link post Worse than the Kim Jung romper!
Screen printing technology is getting out of hand...
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 5:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post That is just horrible
The chin wrinkles that sit over the lady parts is particularly gross.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 8:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post I bet you'd rip a hole in that
bit and give whoever's wearing it a right angry seeing too.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 8:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post Said Melania to Donald after ordering said item.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 8:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post we could be witnessing the birth of a whole new sub genre of pornography

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 9:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post and rhyming slang
donald ducking
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 9:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post PumpaTrump

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 10:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post wattle and daub

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 10:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's the most un-sexy thing ever.

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 9:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Eew, really?

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 15:38, , Reply)
This is a link post 30 years of The Proclaimers
Scroll down to the Hi-bees fans singing Sunshine on Leith after Hibernian tonked Hearts.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 0:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think you could pay me enough to click that

(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 4:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's great
I'm not into football at all whatsoever and not a huge Proclaimers fan but it's a beautiful moment and it made me happy for Hibs fans and glad that Leithers have an anthem of their own to be proud of.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 14:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post exactamundo
there is a whole sub-genre of youtube dedicated to Hibees singing it after various big victories. not a footie fan at all. or of the proc-lamers. But quite frankly you can stuff cardiff arms park singing land of my fathers after hearing this.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 17:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's lovely and all
but looking at the number of police they need there reminds me why I hate football fans so much

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3b_lw7t2TE
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 23:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Lookin' forward to seeing that.
(, Mon 19 Jun 2017, 7:40, , Reply)

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