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Biffer wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 10:50 am
Hal Jordan wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 10:47 am

If the tiniest challenge to centuries of baked in positive discrimination in your favour make you flee to the arms of the far right or Rapey Tate, then the problem isn't society, it's you.
Yep.

Pithy and accurate!

In an answer to ‘how does it affect you’, there are a lot of younger white men who feel that they don’t get a fair shake at uni admissions/promotions at work etc., and there is some evidence that this is true (and some companies where there is overt and undeniable boosting of people who aren ...

Neighbouring Borough Council has just seen 8 Tory councillors resign from the party in the space of a couple of days, changing their standing to Independent meaning that the Tories lose the council to NOC. No reason yet given but perhaps it's simply the Tories becoming more and more of a Reform ...

Of course - it's all part of the Project 2025 Plan.

It's going to take decades to fix, if it's even possible ..... Broken empire

It's been coming a long time unfortunately. People have become so disengaged from modern democracy that their answer seems to be "elect a tyrant who will only ...

Last episode tonight was brilliant. Seriously guys this is well worth a watch on catch up tv. You’ll not be disappointed

Rachel Maddow articulates the rage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAGQmuKxPLg

It's no longer TDS - I've got TFS - Fatigue and the non-sensical acts and obvious corruption

You'd have to assume some of that is by design.

We're only a few months in and I can barely touch the news ...

Met GH many times, I actually would say he's a bit self contained, never seen the droning on side once. He's a regular in my golf club bar so I guess he's amongst his mates.

Great laugh - B Clark, FunBus, Moody
Generous - Dallaglio
Difficult to comprehend - Powell

(Most boring - M Lynagh ...

Some years ago my mate came up from down south for his first ever rugby international game, an Autumn International Scotland v All Blacks. We had tickets via a good rugby mate to get into the Murrayfield Wanderers clubhouse after the game, now sadly no more. When we went in we met Ivan Tukalo who I ...

Met GH many times, I actually would say he's a bit self contained, never seen the droning on side once. He's a regular in my golf club bar so I guess he's amongst his mates.

Great laugh - B Clark, FunBus, Moody
Generous - Dallaglio
Difficult to comprehend - Powell

(Most boring - M Lynagh)

GH ...

One of the things I've wondered when you hear the "we need to import more Kazakhs to offset our elderly population" is why no-one proposes policies (economic/social) that would encourage more people to have kids.

It seems like a strangely defeatist position whereby you are coming to terms with ...

Can’t believe how much stick young Pollock is getting, especially in Ireland !! He a very special talent and if he works on his hands around the eye area, could be as big a legend as Schalk Burger one day.

Seriously?

Pollock is an exciting young player and to be fair the Lions have always ...

For balance from the Indian debacle, the government have done well on first review of the US deal and deserve a lot of credit for how they’ve navigated a very sticky wicket with the Trump administration full stop

The Indian one isn't a debacle. Don't eat up the Reform/Telegraph/DailyMail BS ...

My money is on Furlong coming home first due to injury. He hasn't been fully fit for last year or two and even then struggles to last more than 40mins in a game. He was the No1 TH for some years but I doubt he is the force he once was and looks broken to me.

Graham has one potential weakness and it’s physics. He does get bumped by huge players but then so does everyone else, including huge players themselves.

I really hope Darcy makes the cut, he’s Harry Houdini in a rugby shirt.

Certainly no more than Shane Williams. And Darcy is similarly ...

I'm still not getting the seeming English journos problem with Russell. They are at it again this morning trying every possible combination to suggest he shouldn't be there.

I've heard quite often that he hasn't beaten Ireland. True, but his record against Australia is better than England and he ...

Assuming he will be fit, which he should be, then Tuipulotu is captain for me! guaranteed to play at 12 and has experience as captain. Also an excellent decision maker on the pitch.

I seem to recall that Scotland's 5000 is way more per capita than the rest of the uK

The backlog of asylum cases is about 90000 so I don't think that's correct.

My mistake, having looked again it was Glasgow

In Glasgow, the population of asylum seekers supported by the Home Office ...

https://migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Attitudes_Scotland_May24.pdf

Largest group want a reduction and there has been a noticeable reduction in support for immigration. However, as mentioned above there is an acceptance of Scotlands needs for immigration and views ...

What somewhere needs and wants are not necessarily the same, again, why are Reform likely to win seats at Holyrood if not for the fact that some people like their migration policies?

https://x.com/Layo_FH/status/1918327011480879212

Here’s one before bedtime. As I say there’s tonnes of ...

Have to say that, from what we know of it, this minerals deal with the US seems pretty good from Ukraine. Looks like they played Trump pretty well and it suddenly puts a lot more pressure on Russia. I've no doubt that Ukraine can now persuade Trump of the importance of keeping Russia at bay ...

Sunk cost fallacy drives the MAGA/Trump supporters. The big pay off is just round the corner, just one more effort and it will all come good. They will keep pouring their money, time and loyalty into MAGA because the reality is just too awful to contemplate ... that they have been duped, stripped of ...

Anyone watching? Just feckin brilliant tv at its very very best. Neurodivergent and autistic folk interviewing famous people, no holds barred. Danny Dyer and David Tennant so far. Here is a clip of possibly the best ever rendition of Sunshine over Leith!

As a long term sufferer of OA in both knees I have tried lots of supplement options and pain relief including, post op, strong pain killers like Oxycontin and Tramadol. Whilst some pain relief and supplements will provide limited short to medium term relief for arthritic pain in joints there is ...

As a long term sufferer of OA in both knees I have tried lots of supplement options and pain relief including, post op, strong pain killers like Oxycontin and Tramadol. Whilst some pain relief and supplements will provide limited short to medium term relief for arthritic pain in joints there is very ...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/ ... tournament

As expected! I hope the blazers dont bend to the pressure from the Gov to try and appease the Tango Twat!

Yeah, the change in the us treasuries now means their cost of servicing the national debt has increased by more than the amount of money DOGE has saved.

Saw that as well! All that DOGE has done is create chaos and mayhem, sacked loads of innocent hard working folk, destroyed public health ...

Two year bond yield for US treasuries is now at the same level as the UK two year yield. Big indication of how fragile the markets view the US economy.

Even worse for the US where their debt to GDP ratio is c124%! For comparison the UK is c95%. With the cost of debt and financing the US Gov ...

Dont know if folk saw this on the news but there is limited cheap availability on some of the St Andrews courses - see link. Took me all of 2 mins to enter the Old Course ballot. I think they are doing this every month over the summer? Dedicated tee times for NHS, Armed Forces etc. Only small number ...

Two year bond yield for US treasuries is now at the same level as the UK two year yield. Big indication of how fragile the markets view the US economy.

Even worse for the US where their debt to GDP ratio is c124%! For comparison the UK is c95%. With the cost of debt and financing the US Gov I ...

I'm sure we're all awaiting Trump's input to the papal election with bated breath.

he wants to ban the black smoke? partly for contempt shown to white smoke but it also speaks poorly to clean coal

More seriously, I bet he tries to make some kind of public message about the type of pope ...

This is to keep Trump happy and probably part of ongoing discussions re any 'deal'! It means a lot to Trump to get Turnberry onto the rota, as I said some weeks ago. I suspect the R&A feasibility study and projected works required would take c4 years to complete?

Think you meant to put a link ...

This is to keep Trump happy and probably part of ongoing discussions re any 'deal'! It means a lot to Trump to get Turnberry onto the rota, as I said some weeks ago. I suspect the R&A feasibility study and projected works required would take c4 years to complete?

There's an article in the WSJ about Musk and his breeding legion, him approaching women on twitter to father his kids, paying them and housing them in a compound in Texas. It's, well, it's, wow.

https://archive.is/UEoS6

It's more than wow ... it's feckin completely bonkers! The man is mad ...

It was certainly a potential banana skin, but in the end avoided, and a home quarter final secured , though the highlight reel will be pretty small.

Both McKay and Hiddleston got pass marks , and the defence was pretty decent

All the rested players who didn't play tonight , McBeath, Brown ...

Biffer wrote: Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:51 am Fucking hell.

The NASA page will have flat earth as a legitimate theory before long.

That'll be in the queue just after the 'Vaccines are bad and cause autism' page and just before 'Donald Trump is 190lbs' and Trump - Champion Golfer 2025' pages!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x5xn1g92o

'Nobody likes us, everybody hates us, think I'll go and eat worms!'

This is what failure looks like! Compete and utter incompetence by a bunch of naive, moronic idiots being played relentlessly by Putin. Complete lack of self awareness and how much ...

They really don't have a clue do they

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1913138621034475545

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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/04/17/premiership-revolution-franchise-model-relegation-rfu-cvc/

Can't copy the article on my phone, but proposing some significant changes.

Behind paywall
Some interesting ideas in there. Going to struggle to get complete buy-in and agreement from ...

Ever suspect that their info on who to target comes from some botched surreptitious data mining by Elon’s minions while they were rummaging around various govt entities?

I don't think it's botched at all, I'm sure the DOGE goons did a lot of damage and made a lot of mistakes while attempting ...

Have your fun but I don't think you appreciate what the loss of my Comte and saucisson means to me! I have 'friends' who depend on me bringing home a stash of Comte, as soon as I return home the phone starts ringing with folk looking for their wrap of Comte and slice of saucisson. Of course I ...

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