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Pissflaps posted:I'm saying don't go to the shops in your pyjamas it's not a subtle message. You're not the boss of me 
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Okay that funeral porn story is still loving killing me.
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Guavanaut posted:To the priest’s credit he handled it extremely well. I met Lionel Fanthorpe and his wife a few years ago, he's a great guy and absolutely hilarious. In addition to being a practising minister he's a biker, black belt judoka, bodybuilder, Fortean scholar and excruciatingly prolific author, all of this in his late 70s. He's like Brian Blessed except slightly quieter and with more God.
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Regarde Aduck posted:I waste hours of my life playing elite:dangerous This is not a waste. I keep telling myself that after spending too much on a HOTAS
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goons! It's almost time for QT get into #ukgoons at irc.synirc.net and hang out with all your faves.
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winegums posted:goons! It's almost time for QT get into #ukgoons at irc.synirc.net and hang out with all your faves. Ugh. Yasmin Alabya Brown, professional offence taker.
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Louise Mensch has come face-to-face with a misogynistic troll who hounded her for several months by sending her graphic pornographic images. Appearing in the BBC documentary Troll Hunters on Wednesday evening, Mensch flew to the UK from her home in New York specifically to confront the troll. Described in the programme as having received “more than her fair share of abuse” online, Mensch said confronting the troll would give her “closure” as she would get “a sense of his real life”. “Would you like to explain why you’ve been sending me pornographic images for a number of years?” Mensch asked the man, who had his face blurred on camera, while he arrived at his home. The troll admitted: “It was to wind you up and upset you did it work?” before saying he didn’t have much interaction with women which led to Mensch affirming: “You don’t like women, why don’t you like women?” Mensch is a controversial presence on Twitter and although not on the same level of the aggressive, misogynistic threats she highlighted in Troll Hunters, Mensch herself has been accused of “trolling” people. One person who hinted at the irony of Mensch confronting a troll was Abby Tomlinson, the leader of the Milifandom movement, who found herself on the receiving end of Mensch in 2015. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/louise-mensch-flies-from-new-york-to-uk-to-confront-twitter-troll-a6839851.html this is like jay and silent bob strike back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsXKAtpLm4I
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Louise Mensch compared to women wearing Burqas to white men wearing KKK hoods. Louise Mensch is a loving idiot.
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Yeah it`s more like a black person wearing that.
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JFairfax posted:
Holy poo poo, Lionel Fanthorpe is still alive.
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Gonzo McFee posted:
There was any doubt? Oh good, the Tory transport minister who sounds like Mr Creosote is doubling down on the 'bunch of migrants' pig fucker comment
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EmptyVessel posted:Ah, a UFOlogist.. Drop a Chrysalid on Westminster, that'd sort 'em. Regarde Aduck posted:I'm a terrible man child. I still play Pokemon games. I waste hours of my life playing elite:dangerous and I regret everything. But I've never gone to the shops in pyjamas. "waste" as though video games are not second only to anime as the best use of time.
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Trickjaw posted:There was any doubt? Is the outrage directed towards the word 'bunch' or the word 'migrants'?
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I think it's mostly the implicit sneering.
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also that they're refugees, not economic migrants
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Plucky Brit posted:Is the outrage directed towards the word 'bunch' or the word 'migrants'? More the point that our government cares no one with human DNA. I wish Angus would talk up a bit more.
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JFairfax posted:also that they're refugees, not economic migrants If they are refugees, why aren't they applying for asylum in France? Or any of the other countries they've traveled through?
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It's that they're trying to turn the word "migrant" into a pejorative, and lump anyone who might want to come to Britain under that one umbrella. They tried "economic migrant" but that implies they might work and goes against the narrative that they're all coming here after our benefits, and they won't use "refugee" because it's too sympathetic, so they stick with spitting out "migrant" in a tone that suggests that even having to say the word is like having a bird poo poo in your mouth.
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I wish one would. In theirs, not mine.
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Plucky Brit posted:If they are refugees, why aren't they applying for asylum in France? Or any of the other countries they've traveled through? maybe they learned english in school and not french
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Or maybe they don't want to stay in some overcrowded tent camp while a crazed death cult is still running around in the neighbourhood. And more to the point, you don't magically lose refugee status the moment you cross a second national border.
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Plucky Brit posted:If they are refugees, why aren't they applying for asylum in France? Or any of the other countries they've traveled through? Hey fuckstick. http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php
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JFairfax posted:maybe they learned english in school and not french I was quite surprised - expected to see Syrian's speaking French overwhelmingly due to the old League of Nations mandate, but apparently it's no more prominent than English in schools. Some Syrians still speak Aramaic, which is pretty cool.
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XMNN posted:I think it's mostly the implicit sneering. It's actually worse in context. quote:Cameron replied: "The shadow chancellor's pointing - the idea that those two right honourable gentlemen would stand up to anyone in this regard is laughable.
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Cerebral Bore posted:Or maybe they don't want to stay in some overcrowded tent camp while a crazed death cult is still running around in the neighbourhood.  the vast, vast, vast majority of refugees from Syria are taken in by Lebanon, Turkey, and Serbia. A small fraction reaches western europe, and a tiny minority of that applies for asylum in the UK.
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Pissflaps posted:I don't understand this post. Great, good for you.
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Plucky Brit posted:If they are refugees, why aren't they applying for asylum in France? Or any of the other countries they've traveled through? Multiple reasons. For some it's because they were helped out of the country by agents who have jobs waiting for them in the UK. They don't have a choice about coming here. Others have family or friends in the UK and are thus more likely to get support and have someone they can actually relate to. The vast majority don't speak French, but some do speak English. Much like when I go seeking a job, I tend to go for ones where I can do an interview without resorting to charades. But the most important reason is most countries want gently caress all to do with them and they think (wrongly) that the UK will be less callously indifferent. 35,000 refugees arrived in Greece in three weeks this month. That's 15,000 more than the UK's promised to resettle in total and unlike Greece our country isn't hosed. There's just no way for Greece to process them, so they move on. Bulgaria promised to take around 2000. Romania 6000. Hungary 800. They keep moving on because wherever they go there's far more refugees waiting than positions available so of course you're going to keep trying elsewhere. Every country in the EU is complaining they can't handle the number of refugees they have and they need to go elsewhere. They just want a place to live and some work, they're not being dicks just to spite us.
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Oberleutnant posted:Great, good for you. Are you making the point that Syrian refugees don't end up in Calais attempting to get in to the UK, instead applying for asylum in other countries?
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Pissflaps posted:Are you making the point that Syrian refugees don't end up in Calais attempting to get in to the UK, instead applying for asylum in other countries? shut the gently caress up
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Oberleutnant posted:shut the gently caress up Because when you posted Oberleutnant posted:Hey fuckstick. it seemed to be suggesting you were about to take issue with the post you were replying to, but you posted what amounts to an endorsement instead? It was a thrilling twist.
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It's also worth noting that France accepts less than half the European average percentage of asylum applications. Their entire system is built around making it as hard as possible to settle in France while simultaneously doing as little as possible to prevent them from trying to get to Britain, so it's not surprising that a lot of refugees take that path.
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:It's also worth noting that France accepts less than half the European average percentage of asylum applications. Their entire system is built around making it as hard as possible to settle in France while simultaneously doing as little as possible to prevent them from trying to get to Britain, so it's not surprising that a lot of refugees take that path. But it's far easier for somebody in France to go to one of the other countries on its border, surely?
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Oberleutnant posted:shut the gently caress up yesssss Ober's drunk!
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Wasn't the camp in Calais there before the current crisis, though? I could've sworn reading reports about it before 2013.
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Plucky Brit posted:If they are refugees, why aren't they applying for asylum in France? Or any of the other countries they've traveled through? We can't very well radicalise ourselves, can we? Now Portillo blubbing about Cecil Parkinson. Sheesh.
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Pissflaps posted:it seemed to be suggesting you were about to take issue with the post you were replying to, but you posted what amounts to an endorsement instead? Wasn't it a direct refutation of the post he quoted? Plucky Brit said (paraphrased) "why haven't they applied to countries they pass through before they get here?" Ober posted a map showing that 99% of refugees from Syria have done exactly that. I don't understand your confusion. Plucky Brit: Next time you read about us being swamped, spare a thought for countries like Jordan and Lebanon with a fraction of our population or financial resources, but a gazillion more refugees. We're a pitiless country on this topic.
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