Britain - The Official Thread

[Famine]

There has been a hatchet job about George Osborne the day before his wedding. The strong rumour is that it is a deadly assassination of explosive magnitude. I'd love to know what it is but doubt the Tory-loving press will do much. Anyone else heard anything?

I have now.

There's a number of allegations, lots of which revolve around cheating (no surprise; both of them seem to have had affairs in order to end up together), but there's one specific one that he slept with a 16-year old girl - younger than his own daughter - and said girl went on to have a child that was born at the same time, and curiously has the same name, as his own son with his fiancee. Edit: Seems the allegation is he named his son (Beau) after the girl he boned, not that she had a kid with the same name.

So that'll be fun.

 

[Liquid]

I have now.

There's a number of allegations, lots of which revolve around cheating (no surprise; both of them seem to have had affairs in order to end up together), but there's one specific one that he slept with a 16-year old girl - younger than his own daughter - and said girl went on to have a child that was born at the same time, and curiously has the same name, as his own son with his fiancee.

So that'll be fun.

And should anybody know of any reason why these two should not be joined in matrimony...

Edit: I wonder if he'll get the same grilling as Schofield.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Edit: I wonder if he'll get the same grilling as Schofield.

Nope, because Huw Edwards is the person in trouble now

 

[Touring Mars]

A former BBC editor has said "hopefully the BBC will get to the bottom of this..."

 

[Tired Tyres]

If there's anything to get to the bottom of. It is funny how the anti BBC press run stories like this every now and then.

 

[Liquid]

If there's anything to get to the bottom of. It is funny how the anti BBC press run stories like this every now and then.

If I have read correctly, the Met has said that Edwards has done nothing wrong. I mean, he's obviously finished. He's done. But he didn't do anything illegal.

I wonder if George Osborne will get the same level of spotlight in the press.

 

[Famine]

Katie Price's son Harvey Price sets Guinness World Record for longest drawing of train

The former glamour model said her son had done "amazingly well" to draw the record-breaking artwork.

news.sky.com

You shouldn't be able to see someone's eyebrows raise at the word "train" in a static jpg, yet somehow...

 

[EngieDiesel]

Katie Price's son Harvey Price sets Guinness World Record for longest drawing of train

The former glamour model said her son had done "amazingly well" to draw the record-breaking artwork.

news.sky.com

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You shouldn't be able to see someone's eyebrows raise at the word "train" in a static jpg, yet somehow...

If only he'd drawn it six months earlier. Just think of how much some rich doofus would have paid for an NFT of a Guiness World Record awarded piece of artwork!

 

[TheCracker]

I have a 25ft roll of paper somewhere back at the companies office. I'm going to go beat that record.

 

[Tired Tyres]

More than 850 people referred to clinic for video game addicts

Experts say UK not doing enough to tackle gambling-style features in games on smartphones and consoles

www.theguardian.com

We had a chance to do something about this.

 

[Famine]

Nobody's told Italy that 40-degree temperatures are normal and no problem, so they've issued red weather warnings in 16 cities and told people to stay out of the sun between 11am and 6pm.

Meanwhile in Greece, where it's also normal and no problem, they've shut entry to the Acropolis to keep tourists away.


Of course here in the UK we've had the wettest July since ever, or something.

 

[Famine]

It's sure been another fine month on Normal Island.

 

[Touring Mars]

Shock across the UK as buildings (mainly schools and hospitals) made between 1950 and 1990 with aerated concrete with a predicted life of "around 30 years" start to crumble...

This comes as another in a series of building scandals, including the Grenfell Tower tragedy, where a high-rise block of flats caught fire after being covered with flammable cladding.

 

[Liquid]

Don't worry, the Tories have built 40 new hospitals.

 

[MatskiMonk]

So, we're making NOS a Class C drug. I wonder how this will impact the relatively small tuning scene in the UK that uses it.

 

[Sprite]

So, we're making NOS a Class C drug. I wonder how this will impact the relatively small tuning scene in the UK that uses it.

Put it this way, they won’t have many smiles on their faces.

 

[Liquid]

They all laughed when I said I wanted to ban nitrous oxide, well they're not laughing now.

(Credit: Bob Monkhouse)

 

[HenrySwanson]

So this "game changing" drug has finally hit the UK:

All you need to know about Wegovy after it wins UK approval

Experts have hailed the drug as ‘a true game-changer’, but how does it work and does it have any side effects?

www.standard.co.uk

And the drug's manufacturers? Now the highest valued European company:

Wegovy: Weight-loss drug firm becomes Europe's most valuable

Shares rose after the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk launched Wegovy in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Daz555]

So, we're making NOS a Class C drug. I wonder how this will impact the relatively small tuning scene in the UK that uses it.

There are exemptions to the law - NOS is required in medicine and food manufacture for example, but I can't find a full list of exemptions. It will probably surface at some point.

 

[MatskiMonk]

There are exemptions to the law - NOS is required in medicine and food manufacture for example, but I can't find a full list of exemptions. It will probably surface at some point.

I'd imagine it'll be sold to licensed users under tight regulation, but for companies selling bottles to Joe Public for their cars, they'll be selling a Class C drug to the public.. can't see them being licensed?

 

[Pupik]

So, we're making NOS a Class C drug. I wonder how this will impact the relatively small tuning scene in the UK that uses it.

I believe all the best tuners have long since turned to speed.

 

[DK]

So...any bets on where a certain comedian is fleeing to? I'd say Russia is odds-on.

 

[Liquid]

To a creepier, unfunnier, less intellectual guy it couldn't happen.

 

[HenrySwanson]

Katherine Ryan tried to tell us.

 

[MatskiMonk]

He can't be that bad, he's got the support of the Media the News GBNews.... oh dear.

 

[Liquid]

I know the court of public opinion is extremely subjective but look who is rushing to the defence of Russell Brand:

World's Biggest Virgin, Elon Musk
Apex Predator, Andrew Tate
World's Most Divorced Man, Laurence Fox
Professional Schmuck, Tucker Carlson

I know how that influences me.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Braverman stopped immigration centre inspections despite safeguarding warnings

Inspector reveals home secretary’s decision as Brook House inquiry finds evidence of verbal and physical abuse

www.theguardian.com

Home Office Windrush ‘transformation team’ formally disbanded

Campaigners reject justification that ‘significant progress’ has been made towards reform and describe news as insulting

www.theguardian.com

Getting more and more obvious that we have a proto nazi government.

 

[Touring Mars]

Russell Brand genuinely believes that he stands accused of being a total dick because of his 'non-mainstream' views.

It doesn't seem to occur to Brand that he has become a conspiracy theorist whackjob because he is a total dick.

And one only needs to look at the cast of truly horrific people - Tate, Jones, Carlson, Fox, Musk - who are defending him to understand just how much of a monumental penis Brand is.

 

[R55NA]

So this "game changing" drug has finally hit the UK:

All you need to know about Wegovy after it wins UK approval

Experts have hailed the drug as ‘a true game-changer’, but how does it work and does it have any side effects?

www.standard.co.uk

And the drug's manufacturers? Now the highest valued European company:

Wegovy: Weight-loss drug firm becomes Europe's most valuable

Shares rose after the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk launched Wegovy in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

Good show on Channel 4 regarding this drug, last night.

 

[Liquid]

An EV revolution has to be customer-led, apparently, but customers won't instigate it with poor infrastructure.

Typical weasel politics.