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yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:08 am

Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm

SaintK wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:04 pm
How'd you work that out then?
Head back to PR then. The cess pit that is the UK Politics thread there will be much more to your taste.

Some irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him

Rizz ffs man…

He's not even used it properly.

Biffer wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:37 pm

yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:08 am

Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm

Some irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him

Rizz ffs man…

He's not even used it properly.

Haven't a clue what it means TBH

Charm someone

Rizz = charisma

Don’t blame me

yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:50 pm Charm someone

Rizz = charisma

Don’t blame me

Aaah
Never heard anyone use the term. Must be an age thing

Biffer wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:37 pm

yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:08 am

Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm

Some irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him

Rizz ffs man…

He's not even used it properly.

WTF you in about, I was perfectly charming to him in how i reposted his quotes about abusing his own child to nuliffy iirc his assertion that there is no noncing in Ireland

SaintK wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:44 am

yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:50 pm Charm someone

Rizz = charisma

Don’t blame me

Aaah
Never heard anyone use the term. Must be an age thing

It's very much a Gen Z thing that's roundly derided and mocked by anyone else who encounters it.

sockwithaticket wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:27 pm roundly derided and mocked by anyone else

Like Yeeb

sockwithaticket wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:27 pm

SaintK wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:44 am

yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:50 pm Charm someone

Rizz = charisma

Don’t blame me

Aaah
Never heard anyone use the term. Must be an age thing

It's very much a Gen Z thing that's roundly derided and mocked by anyone else who encounters it.

Aaah that'll be it then I'm an ageing babyboomer!!!

Liz Truss has sent a cease and desist letter to Keir Starmer claiming it's defamatory to say she crashed the economy.

Love to see that one go to court.

Biffer wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:34 am Liz Truss has sent a cease and desist letter to Keir Starmer claiming it's defamatory to say she crashed the economy.

Love to see that one go to court.

Biffer wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:34 am Liz Truss has sent a cease and desist letter to Keir Starmer claiming it's defamatory to say she crashed the economy.

Love to see that one go to court.

Not a chance in hell. Doubt she could afford the costs and other than right wing American nutjobs can't see anyone funding her.

The lawyers even suggest that the assertions from Sir Keir before the July general election [that Truss did crash the economy] contributed towards Ms Truss losing her battle to be re-elected as the MP for South West Norfolk.
At the core of the row are the weeks after Ms Truss’s so-called mini-Budget in September 2022, when financial markets reacted negatively to its major tax cuts funded by borrowing.
The legal letter argues that the financial movements did not amount to an economic crash, since there was no fall in economic output or rise in unemployment – the usual signifiers of such an event.
The lawyers back up their claim by quote a report from Andrew Lilico, a rightwing economist who advised Truss when she was running for the Tory leadership. The report says the “financial volatility” of 2022 did not amount to the economy crashing, and that the mini-budget was only one component of that volatility anyway.

tabascoboy wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:35 pm

She has completely lost it.........whatever it was she had!!!

Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.

She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.

Get the populist narrative out in the post-fact world,whi cares if it's true as long as enough people buy in to vote you in.

SaintK wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm She has completely lost it.........whatever it was she had!!!

Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.

She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.

I'm never quite sure whethe she's genuinely mental or just a somewhat thick grifter. I tend to lean towards the latter and her general lack of brains is why what she says is often so hyperbolic or plain ridiculous. It's also why she's in America giving these sorts of speeches - chasing money and telling a paying audience what they want to hear. If she was just a loon she'd be screeching from the back benches in the Commons instead.

SaintK wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm She has completely lost it.........whatever it was she had!!!

Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.

She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.

Maybe she thinks it was only the Islamic stuff that made him kill children - it’s a very strange piece of logic though , and further proof she isn’t really fit for public office

sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:19 pm

SaintK wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm She has completely lost it.........whatever it was she had!!!

Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.

She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.

I'm never quite sure whethe she's genuinely mental or just a somewhat thick grifter. I tend to lean towards the latter and her general lack of brains is why what she says is often so hyperbolic or plain ridiculous. It's also why she's in America giving these sorts of speeches - chasing money and telling a paying audience what they want to hear. If she was just a loon she'd be screeching from the back benches in the Commons instead.

Like a few others in her party/Reform I honestly think she has been radicalized by the white, right wing, quasi religious, xenphobic, racist fundamentalists. Any sane person with access to all the info would never come to such a crazy conclusion as she has. It is just a poor mans/womans rehash of the great replacement theory. Hopefully Prevent have her in their sights as she seems to fit their definition?

Braverman is a 7-time failed politician doing whatever she can to make some money now, before she's broomed off into the weeds again. She'll say anything to make a buck. Sadly this is the moment in history when her kind of stupid, racist dog-whistle speech sells seats.

I hope we look back on this decade and all hang our heads in shame.

Sandstorm wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:59 pm Braverman is a 7-time failed politician doing whatever she can to make some money now, before she's broomed off into the weeds again. She'll say anything to make a buck. Sadly this is the moment in history when her kind of stupid, racist dog-whistle speech sells seats.

I hope we look back on this decade and all hang our heads in shame.

All Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no different

mat the expat wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:13 am

Sandstorm wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:59 pm Braverman is a 7-time failed politician doing whatever she can to make some money now, before she's broomed off into the weeds again. She'll say anything to make a buck. Sadly this is the moment in history when her kind of stupid, racist dog-whistle speech sells seats.

I hope we look back on this decade and all hang our heads in shame.

All Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no different

Speaking as a member of GenX, we’ve failed. The things we like about our generation, the not giving a fuck in particular, means we’ve produced no serious politicians, no leaders, no statesmen. There hasn’t been a GenX President of the US, and there probably won’t be. The UK has had three GenX PMs - Cameron, Truss and Sunak. France, Macron.

We’ve shat the bed as a generation and let the fucking loonies in.

The US is verging on a gerontocracy in terms of its legislative houses, Congress got a bit younger (av. 58.4 years) but the Senate is God's waiting room (64.3) with some Senators way past it, mentally and physically. But if they quit, the party loses their seats on committees etc , so cling on in there!

Hal Jordan wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:56 am The US is verging on a gerontocracy in terms of its legislative houses, Congress got a bit younger (av. 58.4 years) but the Senate is God's waiting room (64.3) with some Senators way past it, mentally and physically. But if they quit, the party loses their seats on committees etc , so cling on in there!

It is a bit worrying - I'm the same as the average of these guys in the Senate and my main aims in life now are now getting my handicap down and making it to the loo in time!

dpedin wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:13 am

Hal Jordan wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:56 am The US is verging on a gerontocracy in terms of its legislative houses, Congress got a bit younger (av. 58.4 years) but the Senate is God's waiting room (64.3) with some Senators way past it, mentally and physically. But if they quit, the party loses their seats on committees etc , so cling on in there!

It is a bit worrying - I'm the same as the average of these guys in the Senate and my main aims in life now are now getting my handicap down and making it to the loo in time!

Lol
How does our unelected second chamber compare?

Biffer wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:27 am

mat the expat wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:13 am

Sandstorm wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:59 pm Braverman is a 7-time failed politician doing whatever she can to make some money now, before she's broomed off into the weeds again. She'll say anything to make a buck. Sadly this is the moment in history when her kind of stupid, racist dog-whistle speech sells seats.

I hope we look back on this decade and all hang our heads in shame.

All Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no different

Speaking as a member of GenX, we’ve failed. The things we like about our generation, the not giving a fuck in particular, means we’ve produced no serious politicians, no leaders, no statesmen. There hasn’t been a GenX President of the US, and there probably won’t be. The UK has had three GenX PMs - Cameron, Truss and Sunak. France, Macron.

We’ve shat the bed as a generation and let the fucking loonies in.

Boomers still had the balance of power for Cameron, etc. Same in Oz for Conservative voters

Luckily, the demographics have tipped over here

mat the expat wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:35 am

Biffer wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:27 am

mat the expat wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:13 am

All Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no different

Speaking as a member of GenX, we’ve failed. The things we like about our generation, the not giving a fuck in particular, means we’ve produced no serious politicians, no leaders, no statesmen. There hasn’t been a GenX President of the US, and there probably won’t be. The UK has had three GenX PMs - Cameron, Truss and Sunak. France, Macron.

We’ve shat the bed as a generation and let the fucking loonies in.

Boomers still had the balance of power for Cameron, etc. Same in Oz for Conservative voters

Luckily, the demographics have tipped over here

Yeah, let's blame other generations again

Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.

I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.

Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.

I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.

We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.

Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.

Everybody knows she's useless but this is excruciating.

Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 am

Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.

I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.

We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.

Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.

Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.

Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:07 am

Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 am

Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.

I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.

We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.

Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.

Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.

My wife is of Goan ancestry (first generation of her family to be born in the UK, but third generation to be born on a different Continent to the parents - India - Africa - UK).

I also shagged a ginger lass in my youth.

Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:07 am

Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 am

Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.

I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.

We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.

Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.

Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.

There are large swathes of the country that are overwhelmingly white (even more so when Gen X was in its prime, all those years ago) so it probably is quite small. I managed to find myself a Muslim immigrant spouse in Scotland, but I think that is relatively unusual as it is not a diverse place.

I think Brits are relatively open to relationships outside the ethnic group, even going back generations to when the immigrants were Jewish, Italian etc. Some of our resident communities (for example, Pakistani) are notably less into exogamy.

Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.

I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.

We've gloried in the 'there's nothing we can do' attitude you've shown here.

We said 'it's your fault' to the older generation then pivoted to saying it to the younger one.

We didn't even try.

Can this tournament kick off already? Absolutely no interest in imagining you all shagging

robmatic wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:55 pm

Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:07 am

Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 am

We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.

Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.

Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.

There are large swathes of the country that are overwhelmingly white (even more so when Gen X was in its prime, all those years ago) so it probably is quite small. I managed to find myself a Muslim immigrant spouse in Scotland, but I think that is relatively unusual as it is not a diverse place.

I think Brits are relatively open to relationships outside the ethnic group, even going back generations to when the immigrants were Jewish, Italian etc. Some of our resident communities (for example, Pakistani) are notably less into exogamy.

Well not if the brides older than about 15 anyways, even then it’s not marriage exactly

Hal Jordan wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:30 pm

Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:07 am

Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 am

We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.

Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.

Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.

My wife is of Goan ancestry (first generation of her family to be born in the UK, but third generation to be born on a different Continent to the parents - India - Africa - UK).

I also shagged a ginger lass in my youth.

A ginj ?
Yuk


I dated a lady from Goan once, she told me which town she was from, iirc it was….









… “Goan Fukyorself“

Paddington Bear wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 2:17 pm Can this tournament kick off already? Absolutely no interest in imagining you all shagging

But if you’ve not drilled a dusky mixed race teacher, a Malaysian auditor , or a nurse from st Helena who had very big tits & good bj technique , how will you have anything to compare to a homegrown aryan type ?

Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 2:23 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:30 pm

Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:07 am

Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.

My wife is of Goan ancestry (first generation of her family to be born in the UK, but third generation to be born on a different Continent to the parents - India - Africa - UK).

I also shagged a ginger lass in my youth.

A ginj ?
Yuk

She was amazing in bed but a total headcase.

robmatic wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:55 pm

Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:07 am

Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 am

We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.

Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.

Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.

There are large swathes of the country that are overwhelmingly white (even more so when Gen X was in its prime, all those years ago) so it probably is quite small. I managed to find myself a Muslim immigrant spouse in Scotland, but I think that is relatively unusual as it is not a diverse place.

I think Brits are relatively open to relationships outside the ethnic group, even going back generations to when the immigrants were Jewish, Italian etc. Some of our resident communities (for example, Pakistani) are notably less into exogamy.

A Sri Lankan friend I met at uni had been dating his then girlfriend (now wife) since college, but had to keep her a secret from his family for two reasons. 1. They didn't want him to date until he'd finished his studies and 2. They wanted him to find a Sri Lankan girl.

The Pakistani group at my college were eye-opening and interesting. Partly because I'd essentially been in overwhelmingly white environments prior to that, so a fairly large number of Pakistanis was a big change, but also because of some behaviours. The girls seemed to socialise with anyone but their own male folk and it was always slightly sad to see that they clearly enjoyed going uncovered during the day, but all rushed to put on headscarves by home time when parents came to pick them up . The boys were very, very insular; never saw them hang out with anyone else. I didn't see anyone from either gender show any sign of dating anyone at all, within or without their group.