Mr Teatime posted:

quote:

Three crew members had been killed and at least four injured, including three critically.
The vessel had a crew of 20, comprising one Indian, four Vietnamese and 15 Filipino nationals.
Three armed guards - two from Sri Lanka and one from Nepal - were also on board.

BalloonFish posted:

Seems wrong to give this trivial culture war fantasy more thought than it deserves but, hey

This:

gets to the meat () of a key element of conservative thought.

They're not mad because the woke-ists have made it difficult to see giggly blondes with big boobs. Never in human history has it been easier to summon images of boobs, in all their many forms and attached to people of infinite variety.

They're mad that giggly busty white blonde women aren't the default. The norm. The expected and enforced standard of what an attractive woman is. They're mad that their preferences aren't seen as better than everyone elses. And they’re mad that they're not getting social bonus points for having 'normal' tastes.

When women who are muscly or curvy or flat-chested or square-jawed or blue-haired or whatever get promoted as beautiful, conservatives are annoyed because it's a sign that other people's preferences are being given equal standing to their own and that might mean that there aren't objective, correct, natural, inherent ideas of what beauty is ().

This is what really gets on their nerves and drives so many of their more meaningful actions. They don't just want to win - they want to get patted on the back for being 'normal' and liking 'normal' things.

quote:

A pensioner has been captured on CCTV seemingly etching a slur in bright red paint on the Margaret Thatcher statue in her home town. The £300,000 monument of the Iron Lady was defaced with the word 'b*****d' in what has become the latest offence in a string of vandal attacks against the statue.

Cops are now investigating this latest attack which is believed to have taken place overnight on March 5-6, at around midnight in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Investigators from Lincolnshire Police have released a still image from CCTV footage showing a pensioner seemingly scrawling the derogatory message in paint.

The person can be seen dressed in a long coat, sporting a white patterned scarf and has short grey hair. Cleaners managed to remove the vulgar statement by lunchtime today but police are appealing for the photographed person to come forward. Police say they have identified a person after an appeal but, at the time of writing, this had not led to an arrest.

Byeline Times posted:

Around half of all British people would choose to leave the UK and move themselves and their families to another country, if given the opportunity to do so, according to an exclusive new poll for Byline Times.

As recent polls suggest that most Brits are now unhappy with the direction the UK is headed in, pollsters Omnisis asked voters whether they would now prefer to live abroad.

45% of all respondents said they would take up the opportunity to leave, compared to just 35% who said they wouldn’t.

Once ‘don’t knows’ were excluded, 56% of all respondents said they would emigrate away from Britain if given the chance.

The poll found differing levels of attachment to the UK among voters for each political party.

Liberal Democrats were the most likely to say they would choose to remain in the UK, with just 34% saying they would quit the country. Voters for the Scottish National Party, which endorses Scotland leaving the Union, were the most likely to say they would leave.

Angrymog posted:

Mortgage havers, don't let your mortgage go onto the default rate if your deal comes to an end. It was always a bad idea, but now my provider, Santander, is saying that if let mine roll over onto the standard rate, it'll be 8.5% (up from 2.39)

Angrymog posted:

Mortgage havers, don't let your mortgage go onto the default rate if your deal comes to an end. It was always a bad idea, but now my provider, Santander, is saying that if let mine roll over onto the standard rate, it'll be 8.5% (up from 2.39)

fuctifino posted:

"The Hunt, The"

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1765346697893322957

Josef bugman posted:

If that is for residential then that's worse than some places BTL variable. Always get fixed in though!

Failed Imagineer posted:

While "always go fixed" has been orthodoxy for a number of years now, might not necessarily be the right call at a time when rates are peaking and should drop in the near future. Might be better to let it float for a little while. Admittedly I track the ECB rate and not the UK, but I don't think they're completely uncoupled.

But whatever kind of rate is going at 8%+, GTFO ASAP

kingturnip posted:

There also is a need for more academic research on some topics like "Does watching violent porn make you more likely to want to enact it?" (to pick a media favourite topic) but the fact that there's a real taboo around discussion of porn, probably puts a barrier in place.

keep punching joe posted:

Going well in Britain then.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/02/24/brexit-britain-half-of-brits-would-choose-to-leave-uk/

fuctifino posted:

Heroes walk among us:

Pensioner seen seemingly spraying slur on Margaret Thatcher statue as police release appeal for information



e: A bit of lol news:
https://twitter.com/DnellyBPD/status/1765489453655588999
I love how Harry and Meghan are open season, but there's a 'code of etiquette' involved with Kate.

"She'll be back"
(she's dead)

Dabir posted:

Does he even still rap? I've only heard of him in the context of acting and Twitter shitposting for years now

Dabir posted:

Does he even still rap? I've only heard of him in the context of acting and Twitter shitposting for years now

Zalakwe posted:

Porn in general is known to be bad for the brain.

Zalakwe posted:

Edit: It should also be noted that studies have found BDSM practitioners tend to be healthy and well adjusted mentally

crispix posted:

i fancy you could have found the hardest 1990s gangster in north america and effin mary would have beaten that gangster into submission in a gently caress off

kecske posted:

He's still putting out music with Body Count

PriorMarcus posted:

So what is it that Keith saw which scared him so much?

PriorMarcus posted:

So what is it that Keith saw which scared him so much?

forkboy84 posted:

he did a guest spot on a Kool Keith track last year

Guavanaut posted:

The antimatter version of himself

Isomermaid posted:

Uncool Keith and the Ultrarepellant MPs

quote:

Labour now intends to pay for its NHS and school breakfast plans through future savings to public spending if it wins power, Rachel Reeves has said.

The party had planned to fund the flagship policies by replacing the UK's current "non-dom" tax regime.

But Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the same move at Wednesday's Budget, to fund a cut to National Insurance.

His Labour counterpart Ms Reeves has admitted it will force her to tweak her own plans.

Speaking to the BBC, she said Labour would now "go through every pound" in the government's spending plans to fund the policies.