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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

A Tory in the news for focusing on doing things with kids rather than following the law? Oh but not the usual thing? Well then.

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol

https://twitter.com/immolations/status/1264220228524834816?s=20

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003



CoolCab posted:

it's gonna get wild for sure. god i hope i have already had it, then i could see my mom again :(

did you change your av recently? i recognize your name but without the avatar i'm lost lol

It was Spider-Man in jail, it got changed by someone in the GBS Final Fantasy thread (at my request.)

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

People are talking about a "new road" between scotch corner and penrith.

Isn't... there already a road between scotch corner and penrith, and it's called the A66?

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006
They're making it dual carriageway all the way, at a cost of £1bn, it may have been overlooked what with 100% of the questions being about Dommy Cummings driving to Durham

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Sounds like a great idea to expand the road that needs to be closed when the weather so much as sneezes at it.

If only we had some other technology that could transport people across the pennines in a straight line.

jaete
Jun 21, 2009


Nap Ghost

Jose posted:

they're proper loving this up to ensure he doesn't get sacked


https://twitter.com/SimonClarkeMP/status/1264163278584000513?s=20

Fuckin' 'ell, never seen a ratio like that

Screenshotted just in case:

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Dan Hodges is the only journalist backing the government on BBC right now lol

escapegoat
Aug 18, 2013
Well, I'd like to see ol Dommy Cummings wriggle his way out of THIS jam!

*Number 10 announces that shortly after lockdown Dominic Cummings resigned his role as government adviser to become a strawberry, and as such has every right to be in said jam"

Ah! Well, nevertheless...

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

classic stopped digital clock dan

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?

namesake posted:

Dan Hodges is the only journalist backing the government on BBC right now lol

Yeah I left BBC1 on, I feel like I need to bathe in bleach now

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
I'll be telling my mum next time she calls that the government says it's okay to bring some shopping round if she cares about me.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

baka kaba posted:

classic stopped digital clock dan

*looks at it* strange it's meant to be 28 minutes past 3 in the afternoon, and yet...

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

baka kaba posted:

classic stopped digital clock dan

DanHodgesClockAnalogy.jpg

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

WhatEvil posted:

DanHodgesClockAnalogy.jpg



drat look at all them setting buttons though. Adjust your alarm fast or slow, sir?

it's a good Dan analogy - slow, methodical, and yet always wrong

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol

https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1263939337030438917?s=20

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Never thought leopards would eat MY face.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.




She didn't bother seeing her between January and March. Sounds like she was using this as an excuse not to visit.

Which is fair enough. What changed two days ago though? Hope she gets fined.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

thespaceinvader
Mar 30, 2011

The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!

:vince:

I'm reminded that Paul Ryan in the US said RATM was his favourite band and was schooled on why that was bullshit by Tom Morello.

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

Dell_Zincht posted:

It was Spider-Man in jail, it got changed by someone in the GBS Final Fantasy thread (at my request.)

oh lol, thanks!

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

thespaceinvader posted:

:vince:

I'm reminded that Paul Ryan in the US said RATM was his favourite band and was schooled on why that was bullshit by Tom Morello.

Which in turn reminds me of the time Davey Cameron said in an interview that he had hosed a dead pig and his favourite band was The Smiths.
https://twitter.com/Johnny_Marr/status/10237162679177216

c0burn
Sep 2, 2003

The KKKing
https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/1264230942228570114?s=19

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
lol Led By Donkeys are so poo poo. I feel like they're more or less well intentioned, but how do well-funded, professional campaigners consistently come out with such anæmic owns?
https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1263848545033031683

Someone sloppily spraypainting "gently caress THE TORIES" over their unreadable graph billboard would improve its impact tenfold.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Bacon Terrorist posted:

Off topic from the hopeful downfall of Deadly Dom: are there any decent investigative journalists on the subject of grooming rape gangs that aren't also massive racists with an axe to grind? I saw Andrew Norfolk won the Paul Foot award for his work in 2013 but has since been heavily criticised since for his views in general etc.

Essentially it has come to light this week my cousin has been a victim of this in my hometown and it has gone public, however 24 hours after it went public the Police made a statement saying 'there's no evidence of this happening in our jurisdiction' and the local paper has a chief reporter with questionable links to the accused has been rushing out multiple articles to immediately discredit her. The family are clear that we don't want the knuckle draggers jumping on the bandwagon as inevitable as it seems, the EDL are banging a drum and people keep bringing up 'Tommeh' which not going to help anything. I'm just at a loss at what to do at the moment, banging the drum on social media is ok to a point but it is hard to control the aforementioned problems so it feels like someone with a neutral, outside perspective and no 'baggage' might provide a better focus?

Oh hey, nobody answered this yet - first off I'm really sorry about your cousin, I hope she's getting some support at least, definitely don't rely on the police for that, especially if they're being dismissive

I feel like you'll have trouble finding any non-right-wing groups though, purely because "grooming gangs" was invented as a Thing by the Sunday Times, specifically to racialise exploitation and systematic abuse by groups who happen to be Muslim (or predominantly). The sad fact is it happens a lot, sometimes by organised groups and sometimes just between a bunch of mates who think preying on people like that is ok.

The whole "grooming gangs" thing is a narrative used to paint it as a specifically ~nebulous brown people~ problem (never used when the perpetrators are white) so obviously that attracts the bad people. And it also means the bad people try to push that narrative onto any case they can, so they'll always be there

I don't know what the deal is with the police, they're not exactly known for taking sexual abuse massively seriously anyway, and they're probably less likely to listen to claims about grooming because they probably get them non-stop from the Legitimate Concerns people

Hopefully someone knows who you could contact, but maybe some legal advice would be a good idea, just because they'd have a better idea of how to push the cops into treating it seriously. Maybe you could contact the agencies that specifically deal with child abuse (if that applies to your cousin)? Or contact a charity that deals with sexual abuse, even just so they can point you in the right direction

Sorry if that's unhelpful or feels too negative, it's just such a politicised topic that I feel like you and the situation might end up getting used when you really just want the people who did it held to account. I hope you and your family are ok anyway

HidaO-Win
Jun 5, 2013

"And I did it, because I was a man who had exhausted reason and thus turned to magicks"
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1264219198974296069?s=20

Piers Morgan getting stuck in.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
those tory polling numbers lol

https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1264248573400616961?s=20

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
sad news

https://twitter.com/peppappig/status/1264242537000124416

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

baka kaba posted:

Oh hey, nobody answered this yet - first off I'm really sorry about your cousin, I hope she's getting some support at least, definitely don't rely on the police for that, especially if they're being dismissive

I feel like you'll have trouble finding any non-right-wing groups though, purely because "grooming gangs" was invented as a Thing by the Sunday Times, specifically to racialise exploitation and systematic abuse by groups who happen to be Muslim (or predominantly). The sad fact is it happens a lot, sometimes by organised groups and sometimes just between a bunch of mates who think preying on people like that is ok.

The whole "grooming gangs" thing is a narrative used to paint it as a specifically ~nebulous brown people~ problem (never used when the perpetrators are white) so obviously that attracts the bad people. And it also means the bad people try to push that narrative onto any case they can, so they'll always be there

I don't know what the deal is with the police, they're not exactly known for taking sexual abuse massively seriously anyway, and they're probably less likely to listen to claims about grooming because they probably get them non-stop from the Legitimate Concerns people

Hopefully someone knows who you could contact, but maybe some legal advice would be a good idea, just because they'd have a better idea of how to push the cops into treating it seriously. Maybe you could contact the agencies that specifically deal with child abuse (if that applies to your cousin)? Or contact a charity that deals with sexual abuse, even just so they can point you in the right direction

Sorry if that's unhelpful or feels too negative, it's just such a politicised topic that I feel like you and the situation might end up getting used when you really just want the people who did it held to account. I hope you and your family are ok anyway

Thanks for your kind words. Yeah it's all so complicated with this and then there is the standard misinformation spreading everywhere on the back of it too. Unfortunately the police have actually remanded my cousin in custody until a court appearance on June 19th for 'peverting the course of justice' by 'falsely accusing persons of rape' despite the fact she was beaten so badly she was in intensive care and her attackers tried to cut a finger and a breast off. At least her attackers can't get to her in the meantime I suppose. Maggie Oliver, the detective who was whistleblower on the Rochdale cases is getting involved which seems to be a good thing though it'll probably turn out she believes in muslamic ray guns or something.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
loving hell that's horrific :catstare:

And more proof that the police care more about false reporting of rape than they do about actual rape.

If there's any intersectional feminist groups in the area (that seems to be the going searchable term to differentiate them from TERFs and groups that care more about the guardian) then that might be a good start.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

Oh dear, oh dear, swine flu is the last thing we need right now!!!!!!! :dadjoke:

The Deleter
May 22, 2010

crispix posted:

Oh dear, oh dear, swine flu is the last thing we need right now!!!!!!! :dadjoke:

I read this in the voice of your avatar and needless to say it was a good time.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

:doh:

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
https://twitter.com/LabourRichard/status/1264226685748199436?s=19

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
cringe

a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"
I think I've found the most searing hot take possible

https://twitter.com/CliveMitchell54/status/1264189444774596608?s=19

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
class doesn’t exist in britain

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1264262838622830601?s=19

:laffo:

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1264264397972811776?s=19

:laffo::laffo:

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010

as funny as this is nowt will happen t'dommy cumcums

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
I think that'll depend on whether or not he becomes a useful target for the right wing rags to distract from the fact that the app is nonsense which was used to distract from the failed testing targets that was used to distract from the plan to cut furlough wages which was used to distract from the delay to lock down which was used to distract from the 60,000 dead people.

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