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Pretending that the Irish were the only thing that stood between the British and victory in the Atlantic (against historical consensus which says they were neutral and tended towards Britain) and pretending that no one else gave dodgy world leaders respect during the war. It reeks of Anti-Irish bigotry.

It’s pretty fucking left field to the actual point. Both times you’ve brought it up.

I don't understand a bit of what you're banging on about. Presumably the Vicoria Cross which I couldn't give a single f**k about. All I see is two colonial masters trying to spread disinformation and trying to dIscredit Irish self-determination so far as possible.

Source? You bigoted weirdo. I think you'll find, despite their policy of neutrality and despite the fact Britain oppressed them for hundreds of years, the Irish tended towards the British in WW2. You are a swivel eyed 'Parkhead floodlights left on' loon.

My God the two weirdo PULs trying to excuse their colonialism apropos of nothing is palpable. Mind that time the British Empire and her Allies teamed up with Stalin? Must negate the whole of British democracy.

Martin Scorsese called them 'theme parks' so cartoons isn't too far fetched. Tbh though if you get Pixar with Disney+ that's not bad - they're generally far better than Marvel and recent Star Wars.

Weans' films.

Yes Friends managed to combine “animal ate the wedding ring” and “dead grandmother’s wedding ring”.

Watching Still Game, in particular the episode where Tam is getting married. Sure I’ve probably seen it before but I can’t really remember it. Anyway, Jack just accidentally swallowed the wedding ring. I suspect that “person or animal swallows wedding ring” is perhaps the most played out trope in TV and Film. Gauntlet thrown. Over to you, PnB.

Mispelling and confusion is more common with Scots and slang words because they’re not often written down except by dafties on social media. Part of the blame for this is the types on this thread who cringe and tell their children off for using useful and innocuous words like “yous”. This leads to mass confusion over whether (for example) it’s weans, weins or wains (it’s weans). However, I’m not sure it’d ever be a struggle to work out dillion or dullion was “dull yin” as that is exactly how it is pronounced. See me after class.

Agreed, the 80s which gave us some of Mozart’s finest works or the 80s which gave us Bananarama? You do the math(s).

I see you’re a bit behind on the boffin news there Einstein as a vaccine from Pfizer and BioNtech has shown positive results in early testing.

I’m not saying having an armed response I’m talking about bitching and moaning and expressing outrage online.

I like it but I suspect Inter supporters will be outraged. The timternet would spontaneously combust if we brought out zigzag hoops and I can’t imagine a famous Italian side’s supporters will be less precious than us.

I’ve only really watched the Neil deGrasse Tyson, Louis Theroux and Leah Remini ones in spite of, rather than because of, Joe Rogan. Guarantees you get lots of recommendations saying (annoyingly voiced, meaningless buzzphrase spouting weirdo) “Jordan Peterson DESTROYS radical feminazi”. Although in his defence he doesn’t showboat like your traditional talk show host and just lets smart/interesting people talk. The flip side of this is he seems quite gullible and open to believing quite a lot of nonsense.

Not sure Janey Godley is particularly brilliant but wouldn’t really want to be on the same side as the people who get worked up to the point of mania by her on twitter. Seems like the same sort of people who are incredibly angry if a woman (particularly an unattractive woman) gets a speaking role in a film about superheroes or that.

Expression is not different. Expression includes speech. The US just has a weird formulation where they treat things like porn as “speech”. Furthermore, citizens of the US don’t have an unfettered right to freedom of speech, it is just less fettered than here. It is enshrined in Article 10 of the ECHR to which the UK is signatory and is enshrined in Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998 which is primary legislation. The US has lower restrictions on free speech but if (in the US) you publicly falsely accused your boss of being a rapist and they can prove your claims are false they can sue you for defamation in the US. It seems like an incidental point to this discussion and we’re both singing from the same hymn sheet but we do have freedom of speech in this country and that right is balanced by other rights. Other countries will place a greater emphasis on one right or another.

Yes of course various human rights are balanced by other rights. If we had an absolute right to liberty there’d be no prisons, if we had absolute freedom of assembly trespassing wouldn’t be a thing and if the right to a private life was unrestricted there would be no newspapers or criminal investigations (and conversely if we had complete freedom of the press no one would have the right to a private life). Just because the right to freedom of speech is limited to prevent harm to others doesn’t mean we don’t have it. It strikes me as a specious point you are making.

Defamation is not a criminal breach so you’d need to cause fear or alarm through your actions - then it’s breach of the peace. Difficult to say whether that behaviour would, but it is mighty oddball so it is arguable. Nothing to stop your boss suing you and the onus of proof would be on you but it’s difficult to see why defaming people without proof of your allegations should be unchallengeable or uncompensatable.

There are empty flats in various areas of Glasgow which are not investments by any stretch of the imagination however most of the rough sleeping homeless will have been problem tenants and/or will be deemed intentionally homeless so there is no obligation for housing associations (or local authorities outwith Glasgow) to house them.

Also annoying that people who park their trolley right in front of a set of shelves and have a full texting session still exist in the pandemic.

I’d do most nationalities. Liberal.

Also, the description on Netflix is cracking - “how do six kids and a boozing dad function in the projects with mom long gone? Very dysfunctionally.”

I loved Shameless in the early days but gave up on it at the end of Series 4 where previously peripheral character Karen was fine with the rubbish Jamie Maguire murdering 3 folk and everyone started singing.

Pretty sure that’d be classed as terrorism.