Priti priti priti Patel

13 brown bread Edit: maybe including the shooter? Guy was wearing a trench coat. Retro https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/08/multiple-people-injured-in-shooting-at-college-bar-in-california-8116861/ maybe including the shooter.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grenfell-tower-bonfire-model-made-13548041 So maybe just idiots, not racist.

Any discussion on here as to whether or not it's racist is going to be complicated by the fact both camps are leaving their underlying emotions unspoken. I may be wrong, but I would guess the following: Those who argue "you cannae say it's racist man" object to the idea of people taking the 'moral high ground' while engaging in a public castigation based on technically unfounded aspersions. Those who argue "m8 it is obviously racist" are speaking from experience that gammon coloured Englanders often hold generally prejudicial and idiotic opinions about people of colour and are unwilling to let that slip on a technicality. Both of those are positions you end up in for emotional reasons. You feel either the emotional pull of 'justice' or an emotional aversion to gammony idiots. Personally, I feel both. And it's impractical to run a society by emotion, which is why we have law. If there is a law against this, then let's impose the right punishment. And if not, then let them be seen for who they are (probably insensitive, possibly racist). No need to get all emotional about whether it is or is not technically racist.

@a_white15@sky.com

I wouldn't know about that. Mid 2000s I was able to get plenty jobs with just standard grades. Problem was I kept getting sacked. Got my Highers and went to university and got a degree. I am now firmly on the career ladder. Although until about a year ago, I still kept getting sacked. But i seem to have knocked that on the head now so it's onwards and upwards. Nine years ago I had f**k all, I'm now heading into a junior management job in the City of London in a couple of weeks. Life started to feel good after about 18 months though, so you don't have to wait nine years! And as the Slippery one has said above, you don't have to chase professional success, there are many other potentially rewarding paths.

DA Baracus you can move to a city even if you have no qualifications. Just go there and do what the unqualified city folk do - admin and stuff like that. Then when you get a glimpse of what life can offer and you want a bit more of it, you can start to get yourself qualifications. You can get a full suite of Highers in one year with distance learning, for example. I suspect what holds you back is psychological, as it is for most people (including me). Edit: I used an earlier version of this to get my Highers after initially leaving school without even Standard Grades.

We all make sense of the world in our own ways etc so I respect yours and your great uncle's opinions, but I couldn't make sense of them myself, because Britain in 1939 was a global imperial force subjugating people around the world. That's different to fascism, but not that different to what happened in the War on Terror, so I presume British imperialism wasn't the value set your great uncle believed he had fought for - in which case, what was?

I've no doubt about that, if they're the sort who think it will still work when launched at (an uncatered) lunch meeting.

It's people who have had a bright idea but their managers haven't bought into it. They can't justify pulling people away from work without the higher ups' consent, but they still want to do their project so they schedule it for lunch time.

These sort of people strike me as particularly unsuitable to teach kids. I get that we live in a diverse society and not every teacher will be the smartest, kindest, most knowledgeable, etc, and to some extent market forces mean your kids will be taught by people who wouldn't be your first pick. But this particular Head Teacher seems to think (i) there's a singular and simple meaning behind the poppy, and (ii) it is undoubtedly a source of pride and not any other emotion. This inability to comprehend the idea that meaning is subjective seems anathema to teaching. But maybe this c**t went into it motivated by a kind-hearted desire to help kids learn the "right" way to think, behave etc. Edit: having said that, over the past few years I've distanced myself from public discourse, become apolitical, and spend my time with a woman who jobs as a musician and was raised in west Africa and a bunch of other unusual sorts. I do often forget how orthodox certain ideas are across GB, such as wearing a poppy. I'm probably overreacting.

Have seen the video. Didn't appear to be a lot of steering involved.

That's a breach of Art 9 of the ECHR. Get em sued.

Always wondered. Was there something in particular about Bradley Lowery that made him more special than other dying kids? Or just a winning personality?

Girl in the bottom right accurately describing this guy.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Excellent bants

Any photos of fireballs on here m9? Nope. It wasn't trending on Twitter at the time which (sadly) I was glued to at the time. And it was a single line on a generally lighthearted thread. There was no reason to believe it was a flaming, deadly mess. I made a single post consisting of four words from which you were unable to discern tone, context or intent. And I am a person about whom you know practically nothing. Yet you're adopting this tone. Most definitely "your bad".

At the time of writing I hadn't seen any photos and wasn't aware that the helicopter had crashed from a great height. I took the impression it was a minor crash since it was in the car park right outside of the stadium and I presumed the helicopter would also have been parked up adjacent - not flying off from the centre circle. That said, if I was a raging maniac who thought a flaming air disaster was funny, your disapprobation wouldn't change that, so try to assume the best in people.

It's just wonderful banter

Great bants if true

Interesting to see if that will be true in this case. A lot of Jews in US media and politics on both sides of the aisle who can influence the narrative.

That's what I was going to say. Was looking for a small loan of £1500 off my bank in the summer. Everything going fine, decent income etc. They checked my credit rating and I apparently owe £250 on a phone contract from 2015. I do remember this. The sim card broke and they never sent me another one so I never paid. Now I have a red credit rating as it's the only entry (no mortgage, credit card, etc). Can understand your frustration Bob. We all just get hammered constantly by these massive corporations. They knowingly create systems that are too complex or frustrating for most people to navigate and then profit off us for failure to do so. It will never change while we're locked into global capitalism.

Serious biker types show how serious they are by unashamedly doing sensitive things, like helping old women with shopping bags and selling poppies.