Britain - The Official Thread

[UKMikey]

Not in the US. But perhaps you have a point.

Do you? Near as I can tell weather presenters over here are largely selected for their meteorological expertise*, just like sports presenters are for their experience in that particular field. Perhaps US television is more superficial in this regard but I don't see what that has to do with the Official Britain Thread.

*the occasional trampolining midget aside, of course

 

[Tired Tyres]

Do TV weather reporters in Britain often have big tits and provocative clothing?

Some. Why ask? YouTube does exist you know.

 

[Dotini]

Some. Why ask? YouTube does exist you know.

Probably because they are a proven distraction from depressing or confusing news, or your family being executed by firing squad, as @TenEightyOne alluded.

 

[Famine]

Perhaps US television is more superficial in this regard but I don't see what that has to do with the Official Britain Thread.

Probably aliens.

But as you point out, UK weather presenters are almost entirely professional meterologists who explain their own data on television, not television presenters who read out the weather.

They're also very much not employed for their ability to style out rude gestures.

 

[Wiegert]

You could that say meteorology runs in the blood of some of our presenters:

 

[PeterJB]

The Duke of Edinburgh has died.

 

[merseyxshore]

The Duke of Edinburgh has died.

The lad looked dead for the past two decades tbf

 

[Outspacer]

Oh dear, somewhere led me Twitter again, to this example of tastelessness:



Well of course I'm doubly outraged - they even got the grammar lesson wrong!

 

[Joey D]

So what is exactly going on in Northern Ireland right now?

 

[DK]

The PSNI started cracking down on drug dealers who just also happened to be Loyalist paramilitaries.

 

[andrea]

 

[TenEightyOne]

He has, but as a mindworm that's burrowing away at the behest of the mind control overlords.

That's a joke, but only a bit.

 

[UKMikey]

He has, but as a mindworm that's burrowing away at the behest of the mind control overlords.

That's a joke, but only a bit.

I see what you mean. He's certainly living in a lot of people's heads today.

 

[MatskiMonk]

My local church is opening a book of condolences...

... quite tempted to go along and write, "Gon' miss you, X".

 

[Scaff]

The Venn diagram of people demanding support for the queen after the freeloading racists death and believing the queen also murdered Diana is pretty much just one circle!

 

[Sprite]

I was tempted to send this as a card of condolence to the Queen.

 

[VBR]

And so the pushback begins...




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[UKMikey]

Sure, a demagogic culture warrior who makes Gammons look like Red Ken is just what the capital needs right now in terms of leadership...

Has he got any actual policies to do with running the city besides calling out the woke mob and complaining about lockdown and big tech? As I understand it he's running on a platform of building a bunch of statues of dead white guys.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/e...rence-fox-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-statues/amp
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/laurence-fox-reclaim-party-woke-anti-british-b920415.html

 

[Scaff]

And so the pushback begins...




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Yep, because rich white people are being systematically oppressed right now because, checks notes, statues are being removed and people are subject to accountability for what they say.

Fox and his equally intellectually challenged partner in crime Toby Young, are attempting to do a Trump by dressing the far right up in a suit of faux patriotic flag shagging.

https://the-free-press.co.uk/2021/0...g-allison-pearson-and-the-art-of-being-wrong/

 

[UKMikey]

Yep, because rich white people are being systematically oppressed right now because, checks notes, statues are being removed and people are subject to accountability for what they say.

Fox and his equally intellectually challenged partner in crime Toby Young, are attempting to do a Trump by dressing the far right up in a suit of faux patriotic flag shagging.

Perhaps it's satire.

 

[Scaff]

Perhaps it's satire.

Neither are quite smart enough for that, Young in particular, who twice failed to get into Oxford on his own merit and in the end had to get Daddy to get him in via the old boys club.

Let’s not forget Youngs free speech union, who pretty much as soon as it was founded started to censure members speech!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...ampaign-over-role-of-toby-young-founded-group

 

[Scaff]

Ah, the governments independent report that found the UK to not be racist wasn't that independent after all, what a shock. A shock I tell you.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...rote-independent-report-on-race-experts-claim

 

[HenrySwanson]

And so the pushback begins...




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Yeah, he's definitely not getting my vote....

Not voting for either of the front runners as well since they both seem weak although Bailey is a much better option than the the Conservatives' last candidate who ran with a borderline racist campaign.

 

[HenrySwanson]

I wonder if the Greensill scandal will hurt the Tories support. Really is uncovering the sleaze hidden in this government.

 

[Liquid]

I wonder if the Greensill scandal will hurt the Tories support. Really is uncovering the sleaze hidden in this government.

Everything that has preceded it has failed to dislodge them. Nothing will.

 

[PeterJB]

Tories getting paid obscene amounts of money for minimal levels of work of questionable legality is nothing new.

 

[merseyxshore]

Can you imagine the media storm if Corbyn had been found to have got his mates a load of lucrative contracts, which they then spaffed up the wall and delivered nothing? Or if he had used phrases like 'piccaninnies' and "watermelon smiles"? The Tories get away with anything and everything. They'll probably end restrictions early to get the spotlight off this Greensill stuff.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Glad to see the Tories are taking their local election campaigns seriously...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-56724875

 

[HenrySwanson]

Glad to see the Tories are taking their local election campaigns seriously...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-56724875

 

[UKMikey]

Glad to see the Tories are taking their local election campaigns seriously...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-56724875