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  1. 8 minutes ago, cyderspaceman said:

    Paywall for me, I'll never know.

    FREE speech’ is the latest buzz-phrase for right-wingers and ranters. Here’s how to bang on about it furiously without understanding it.

    Have a very limited definition of it

    By ‘free speech’ you really mean ‘me droning on about my predictable right-wing obsessions’, which are ALWAYS transgenderism, ‘woke’, BLM, etc. If aliens landed tomorrow, they would assume ‘free speech’ meant hating feminists.

    Post a quote you don’t really understand

    ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it’ is what you should be posting furiously with a picture of Voltaire, even though he didn’t actually say it. Worse still, it refers to his right to criticise religion. And the b*****d was French.  

    Look thick as pigshit

    Talk a lot about ‘free speech’, but in a way that shows you haven’t given it two seconds thought, eg. ‘Brexit is my freedom of speech. So shut up, Remoaners.’

    Use it in a trivial context 

    ‘Free speech’ is often used in the context of oppressive regimes that do terrible things to dissidents. If you’re Piers Morgan or one of his supporters, claim a tabloid TV interview with celebrity royals is ‘a hill to die on’, even though no one has been killed or tortured, except perhaps those who watched the whole two hours.

    Be hilariously paranoid

    If a few leftie students are trying to no-platform some oddball speaker, it’s clearly only a matter of time before Winston Churchill is completely erased from British history, right? 

    Oppose free speech 

    Don’t even pretend not to be totally partisan. Make it clear that you think the people being censored and persecuted are Laurence Fox, Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson. Then when someone has the temerity to point out this is bollocks, say it’s an attack on your free speech.

     

  2. 18 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:

    Isn't that what some MP is suing about? He apparently made a quip about Trans folk, a complaint was made and the Police investigated. They decided it didn't breach the criminal threshold but they recorded the incident. Later, the police referred to it with a number - effectively, the guy was now on a list.  The police have also said they will investigate every complaint and presumably record the results. No idea what is being done with this list but as it's a public record, I presume other agencies will be able to access it. 

    It’s Murdo Fraser, if he wasn’t for the list he wouldn’t have a career. 

  3. 10 hours ago, Eednud said:

    Brewed by Nomad Brewery, Brookvale, near Manly, NSW for New York’s Eviltwin Brewing. It’s good but not worth the price they think justifies putting it in a 440ml can.

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    If they’re using the same pricing structure as they do in the US their imperial stouts are pretty good value but anything with the word ‘pale’ anywhere are a bit silly. Maybe their hop supplier’s bumping f**k out of them. 

  4. 26 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

    Lozza the Loser fails in his bid to become Mayor de Londres due to failure to comprehend application forms.

    London dodged a bullet then.........

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/28/laurence-fox-ruled-out-london-mayor-contest-errors-nomination

    Translation - 'after my 'million man march' last weekend attracted less than 100 folks and I managed to wear Nikes while trying to slag off Nike, Jeremy Hosking's decided I don't have enough sphere of influence and am too much of a joke to bankroll another campaign'.

    Not looking good for Lozza. He's 47k in arrears on his child support and the damages judgements from his losing court cases are coming soon. Wonder if it's worth it to Hosking to keep him going just to stop the entire country pissing itself the next time some arsehole giving it 'gO WoKE GO brOkE'

  5. 1 minute ago, Derry Alli said:

    I'll get about an hour until the stomach pain starts then a two or three hour period of gradually getting worse then it's emptying time. Usually right as rain about an hour after that. Apart from last Friday, felt like a wringed out sponge. 

    Aye, sounds familiar. I started getting that in my mid thirties, although if you want a bit of hope, it's never gotten any worse since then. Although everything else is fucked. A frozen shoulder because...I've no idea why, just my left shoulder decided it was going to be fucked...is still twanging a wee bit 8 days later. Sorry about shiteing all over the hope.

  6. On 23/03/2024 at 18:23, Craig fae the Vale said:

    Nice "Kölsch-ish" (their description) from Copenhagen's People Like Us.

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    Does Kolsch have geographical protection that it has to be brewed in Koln? Any Chicago-brewed Kolsches I’ve had always say ‘Kolsch-style ale’ in the small print 

  7. 3 hours ago, Derry Alli said:

    Growing old is terrible. I'm not even 40 and groan every time I move. My hands were like ice blocks doing up two ratchet straps in the rain yesterday and I'm just back from a 20 minute walk and my feet are fucking freezing.

    Plus, my body is starting to reject certain foods. Fair enough, they're not healthy but they're quick and easy. Stop moaning about packaged meatbaws.

    When you say ‘reject’ does that mean just shite straight out? Dominos Pizza does that to me, it’s gone in three hours tops. 

  8. 14 hours ago, Thane of Cawdor said:

    I found this comment strangely ambiguous. Is the location in the USA or Eastern Europe, and does it involve firing off an in memoriam round or raising a glass to the departed? All permutations seem equally likely.

    I figured Eastern Europe because the only time an American would have ever heard ‘serpentine’ would be Axl Rose talking about his cock in Welcome To The Jungle. 

  9. 33 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

    I've driven it once before and just remember it being steep.

    That's the bit I don't like, because it's so steep and the climb is so long it feels like the start of a roller-coaster before the big drop.

  10. 33 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

    I am guessing that Hopeless and Hapless has replaced Strong and Stable.

    Those tory wordsmiths, always fresh.

    It just seems a weird one, given that from what I can see, he's very much in danger of losing his own seat. If that happens, he gets emptied as a very much bigger beast than he warrants, and those of us of a certain age will remember the hilarity and GIRFUYs of Portillo going. Is the thinking that they know they're whipped and ridding the Party of the most obvious helmets stands them in better stead for next time round by being able to say they've 'changed' (although no doubt Truss will still be on the back benches rictus grinning at whatever happens to be in her field of vision)? Or maybe he's pissed Sunak off and Rishi wants to stick a bit more humiliation on him before he buggers back off to California to lounge by a swimming pool full of his wife's money?

  11. 4 minutes ago, velo army said:

    What I hate about this is I'm now trying to figure out how two dogs shag each other up the arse.

    Three dogs on a shirt

    Working out logistics

    Rashford sclaffs a pen

    Arseholes go ballistic 

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