Microplastics posted:

If only we had a train network to match theirs, eh?

Bobstar posted:

fuctifino posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/17/rishi-sunak-intervened-to-ensure-vip-helicopter-contract-was-not-cancelled

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

You can't even get a bus ticket for £1.25.

Just sink this country, tear it up and start again. What's the loving point of anything.

Pistol_Pete posted:

Only a small subset of UK people are trans and it's only a subset of them that do competitive sports and there's only a small subset of them where anyone has any problem with it, by which time you've got down to a vanishingly tiny number of cases.

I suspect it only gets the airtime in the press and on YouTube that it does because it's seen as a wedge issue that can easily be portrayed as being about 'fairness' rather than 'transphobia' which can then be exploited to draw people more deeply into gender critical craziness.

OwlFancier posted:

There are solutions to these problems because the problems are actually general problems, but the right only pretends to care about them insofar as they can be applied as a beating stick against their preferred targets and aren't interested in the actual solutions.

Guavanaut posted:

anyone writing less words on that specific issue who is not a trans athlete themselves can be safely assumed to be angling for guardian headlines rather than taking a serious position, and should be taken about as seriously as "but what if a gay rugby in the showers???" article from 30 years ago.

kecske posted:

its (allegedly) about perceived unfair advantage, although nobody ever gave a hot gay gently caress that michael phelps was racking up the golds with more cheat code advantages than anyone. Including but not limited to having a body that was observed to produce only half as much lactic acid as any peer athletes, massively reducing fatigue and recovery times in comparison.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I don't think sports are pointless and I do value competition but I think worrying about transpeople in sports is like at the figure this out later end of the scale due to the numbers involved suggested earlier.

And by figure it out later I mean once you've figured out to respect people for who and what they identify as, cos probably once you've done that, the sporting rulebook edits are a much less difficult task.

Ms Adequate posted:

It's an effective wedge issue because it feels like it makes sense, and you can twist it so you feel like it's not a contradiction to say you support trans people but this is a special area that needs special consideration. Without knowing some of the effects of things like HRT it's understandable that some people would think "Trans women have an advantage because of their bone structure/male muscles/etc" and not realize that things are far more complex than that.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

IIRC it was before Boyle melted and started inviting Sarah Pascoe and Badiel on to New World Order.

E: Sept 2014 this was uploaded, so well before he was even starting to get wet around the edges. I don't think Corbyn was even a candidate at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRz9RPlsDQ

I haven't rewatched it, but my recollection is that Osman wasn't primarily being defensive, he was pretty relentlessly laying in to him and there were a bunch of ambush questions that were basically "aren't you childish / a bit of a oval office for saying this thing." All of Osman's objections seem to come from that smug, centrist 'sensible grown-up' platform that would later take over comedy and monster Corbyn between 2017-2019.

As I said, Boyle was extrordinarily patient and well thought out in his answers which just makes Osman look all the more like a spiteful, superior oval office about it. Also it's not 'Richard Osman in conversation with Frankie Boyle,' he was supposed to be interviewing him, not preaching at him like some kind of centrist Piers Morgan.

Wachter posted:

I'm not sure I fully accept Boyle's explanation of the joke, but the interview is a masterclass in responding to an adversarial interviewer. Osman audibly corncobs after the "the audience voted for it" line

His Divine Shadow posted:

Belated happy new years, back at work after the christmas weekend and shitposting on SA. Have -28C here today and it's gonna drop to -33 they say.

Mega Comrade posted:

This is what I see when we do hiring rounds. Lots of Indian or Pakistani applicant's who have degrees from their home countries and decade plus of experience and then suddenly pop to the UK to get a masters. Something that's completely unnecessary in my industry.

It's pretty obvious what they are doing. But they are skilled immigrants, I thought that's what the Tories claim they want?

Mega Comrade posted:

Are you pickpockets or something?

Bobby Deluxe posted:

He's just not pulling his weight stepping slowly toward their enemies while clicking their fingers. Totally out of sync.

Reveilled posted:

Could you maybe have another one of your gang garrote him from behind in the car while you're driving over a bridge and then dump him out so he can sleep with the fishes? It'd be the kinder thing to do, I think.

Just Another Lurker posted:

Do you want to piss him off or the rest of the gang?

They are an adult who is supposed to do a job and should know better, time to remove them from the equation before everyone gets brought down.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Michael Gove and Boris have probably done a lot of rails in the Strangers Bar, let them know you're hiring.

TACD posted:

A rail maintenance gang?

grobbo posted:

in sincerity,

This sucks and I'm sorry. Try and remember that this is on him and not on you; ultimately your responsibility is to the entire team, not to him, and it sounds like you've tried to make it work and everyone's at their limit. Feeling the weight of it is a reminder that you're conscientious, not a sign that you're doing anything wrong.

Mega Comrade posted:

I've never heard gang used in a professional setting

Pablo Bluth posted:

Have something political instead:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/03/farnborough-airports-biggest-critic-silenced-as-expansion-plans-continue

OzyMandrill posted:

Lava bread* can get hosed tho.

* It's thin, papery seaweed, a bit like Nori I guess, but served hot, wet, and inedible to non-whelk lifeforms.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Sorry about the physical assault, that's poo poo. But definitely confirmation that he's a wrong'un and you made the right call

Just Another Lurker posted:

For fucks sake, nobody needs that type of poo poo at work.

He would have gotten worse over time and some in the gang might have decided try elsewhere, so i'm glad you got rid of him and sorry that it went physical.

Any chance he might try and hold a grudge, or will he just move on to ply his shite elsewhere?

Sanford posted:

Names not Damien, is it? Just an absolute oval office of a guy I used to know, does the railways and has to my knowledge been kicked out of at least two gangs due to his general cuntishness.

sinky posted:

OwlFancier posted:

I can see there's a gradient but I can't tell what the colours in the gradient are.

I always have trouble explaining it but it's like, you know how blurry vision blurs the edges of things? Well colourblindness blurs the colours of things. I have low colour acuity centered around the red/green bit of the spectrum but it extends to everything to a degree.

I can see there's colours but that whole bit of the spectrum of red/green/orange/yellow is extremely subjective, it could be any of the colours depending on how I want to think about it.

The bluish one isn't much better, gradients in general are just unpleasant to think about. They're fine as backgrounds but if I try to look at them and identify any of the colours my brain starts to crunch. Like looking at a blurry image through blurry eyes.

Which is also IMO a point for not trying to sort people into male/female because gently caress if I can tell what a lot of people are going for.

quote:

A postmistress from Edinburgh falsely accused of stealing £30,000 tragically alone, and penniless in a homeless hostel, her family has said.

Fiona McGowan passed away in 2009 at the age of 47 after she lost her family, her home, and her job.

Her three children, who have bravely come forward to fight for justice, said the Post Office Horizon scandal is to blame for killing their mum and tearing all their lives apart.

Beefeater1980 posted:

He was blaming Starmer for a lot of the things he didn’t like, which is quite impressive 360 degree noscope puppeteering for a leader of the opposition.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Utterly mental but I have been told that there are certain parts of the country that are just like this where literally everyone has a parasocial relationship with the Royal family to the point where they react like 9/11 shot Kennedy when one of them gets sick.

Beefeater1980 posted:

Hello, operator? My fellow humans have feelings of group belonging that I don’t share. Can I stop this?

Guavanaut posted:

Good post.

OwlFancier posted:

A real life hustle bro, never seen one actually working a real job rather than posting about it on twitter or whatever.

Jakabite posted:

That is deranged. What’s the point in earning loads of money if you don’t have time to enjoy it?

fuctifino posted:

It was this oval office: Jeremy Hosking

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Hosking is listed in the Parliamentary register of interests as having donated legal services to Andrew Bridgen MP to the value of £4,470,576.42 in December 2023, "the costs of which will be repaid to the donor on an interest-free basis."

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After losing the case, Bridgen stated that "in actuality I won the case and my brother will be compelled by the Court in due course to repay considerable sums of money back to the businesses", adding "if courts always got everything correct the first time there would be no need for appeal mechanisms". In August 2022, Bridgen was evicted from the property, and ordered to pay £800,000 in legal costs.

smellmycheese posted:

BREAKING! Keith tells the truth

Jedit posted:

Let's reword that sentence: it's disgusting to see what the NHS has been turned into. It is not the fault of the NHS that it is in the state it's in. It's the fault, and indeed the deliberate intent, of neoliberal scum who would rather see a million people die than have a thousand pounds less in their pocket.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1755527215645659255