Normal Island

[BFTD]

32 minutes ago, gannonball said:

Absolutely horrible what is coming out of her mouth, she's being racist too.

I'd be curious to find out if that counts as racism from the apologists who permeate the island and occasionally pop up on here. After all, she didn't lynch him and "foreign" isn't a race, which is the usual feeble cover for why this kind of behaviour is acceptable.

"She was drunk" is another good one, as though alcohol makes people say things they'd never normally think, rather than lowering the inhibitions that stop them being honest about who they are. The lack of "we never saw what happened before the video started!!!" in the comments is probably indicative of just how much of a foul, indefensible piece of shit she was being.

[welshbairn]

Police say she's been charged. Someone claiming she was in Lauders last night living it large over her new found fame. 

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

Apparently she is well known locally as an arsehole drunk. Hopefully she ends up with a prison sentence.

[gannonball]

3 hours ago, BTFD said:

I'd be curious to find out if that counts as racism from the apologists who permeate the island and occasionally pop up on here. After all, she didn't lynch him and "foreign" isn't a race, which is the usual feeble cover for why this kind of behaviour is acceptable.

"She was drunk" is another good one, as though alcohol makes people say things they'd never normally think, rather than lowering the inhibitions that stop them being honest about who they are. The lack of "we never saw what happened before the video started!!!" in the comments is probably indicative of just how much of a foul, indefensible piece of shit she was being.

I was more taking the piss out of her accent* but yeah I would agree the whole drunk thing doesn't wash with me. If I woke up to see a video of me acting like that I probably wouldn't drink again.

Spoiler

I actually think the Inverness accent is class, it's kind of like a Scottish and Cornwall accent mixed.

 

[ICTChris]

1 hour ago, welshbairn said:

Police say she's been charged. Someone claiming she was in Lauders last night living it large over her new found fame. 

When I was a kid Lauders was an over 21 bar and we all kind of thought it was this sophisticated place.  Then I went in and realised that it was a fucking pit.  My mates would periodically like to go there but I didn't like it - it was one of those pubs that fancies itelf as being a bit above but in actuality is a hovel and the clientele were very much in the mould of racist taxi woman.  Almost every time we were in there I'd have someone offer to sell me imported ciggies, once my mate had someone offer to go and steal a leather jacket to order for him from Arnotts.  last time I was there was at a stag weekend and while standing outside I had several people come up begging for money, that whole part of town seems to have gone 'that way' a bit.  Maybe my visits to Lauders have been unlucky, maybe my experience is more a indictment of me and my friends, who knows.

Also worth saying that this is all at least ten years ago so maybe Lauders has been fully gentrified.

[welshbairn]

Just now, ICTChris said:

When I was a kid Lauders was an over 21 bar and we all kind of thought it was this sophisticated place.  Then I went in and realised that it was a fucking pit.  My mates would periodically like to go there but I didn't like it - it was one of those pubs that fancies itelf as being a bit above but in actuality is a hovel and the clientele were very much in the mould of racist taxi woman.  Almost every time we were in there I'd have someone offer to sell me imported ciggies, once my mate had someone offer to go and steal a leather jacket to order for him from Arnotts.  last time I was there was at a stag weekend and while standing outside I had several people come up begging for money, that whole part of town seems to have gone 'that way' a bit.  Maybe my visits to Lauders have been unlucky, maybe my experience is more a indictment of me and my friends, who knows.

Also worth saying that this is all at least ten years ago so maybe Lauders has been fully gentrified.

Nah, it's still a shithole. I could do with a leather jacket though so I might pop in.. 

[ICTChris]

4 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Nah, it's still a shithole. I could do with a leather jacket though so I might pop in.. 

I haven't been out in Inverness in a long time, nearly ten years.  I was just using Google Street view to look around Union street, Baron Taylor Streetand that area, it looks very different to when I was last there.

[highlandmac]

5 hours ago, ICTChris said:

When I was a kid Lauders was an over 21 bar and we all kind of thought it was this sophisticated place.  Then I went in and realised that it was a fucking pit.  My mates would periodically like to go there but I didn't like it - it was one of those pubs that fancies itelf as being a bit above but in actuality is a hovel and the clientele were very much in the mould of racist taxi woman.  Almost every time we were in there I'd have someone offer to sell me imported ciggies, once my mate had someone offer to go and steal a leather jacket to order for him from Arnotts.  last time I was there was at a stag weekend and while standing outside I had several people come up begging for money, that whole part of town seems to have gone 'that way' a bit.  Maybe my visits to Lauders have been unlucky, maybe my experience is more a indictment of me and my friends, who knows.

Also worth saying that this is all at least ten years ago so maybe Lauders has been fully gentrified.

When it first opened it was really up itself,"you're not getting in with those shoes"&c&c&c.lasted less than a year like that before becoming jakiefied

[Wee-Bey]

 

[RuMoore]

Inb4 Peep Show meme. 

[Florentine_Pogen]

28 minutes ago, Ziggy Sobotka said:

 

Surely that should read 'Frische Lebensmittel', 'Kostenlos WiFi' & 'Frische Kaffe' ?

[Dan Steele]

40 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

Surely that should read 'Frische Lebensmittel', 'Kostenlos WiFi' & 'Frische Kaffe' ?

Would've been if it wasn't for are brave lads.

[highlandmac]

1 hour ago, Ziggy Sobotka said:

 

Pretty sure one of the better known atrocities carried out against British troops by waffen SS involved prisoners from a Norfolk regiment 

[Guest DannyBlue]

News is now just explaining what words mean to Russell Brand fans. Next week: gullible.

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/celebs-tv/baroque-meaning-after-being-used-8757365

[bennett]

15 minutes ago, DannyBlue said:

News is now just explaining what words mean to Russell Brand fans. Next week: gullible.

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/celebs-tv/baroque-meaning-after-being-used-8757365

I'd to google it and I'm guessing I'm not the only person on here to do that. 

 

[GNU_Linux]

27 minutes ago, DannyBlue said:

News is now just explaining what words mean to Russell Brand fans. Next week: gullible.

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/celebs-tv/baroque-meaning-after-being-used-8757365

Always thought BA Baroques was a member of the A-Team.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

waldemar januszczak made a very good documentary about the Baroque of anybody wants to know more

 

[GNU_Linux]

 

The shaving adverts are turning the weans trans. From the Daily Mail. No link as I'm not giving that rag oxygen.

At first glance, Braun's latest marketing campaign looks like any other advert for male grooming gadgets: a shirtless, tattooed model wields his razor in front of a mirror.

That's until you notice the unfamiliar — and to my mind disturbing — twist: the model is a trans man, sporting livid-red surgical scars left by a double mastectomy.

It is not the first time that the British consumer has been confronted with such a provocative image. In July, for Pride month, the UK's largest coffee chain, Costa, adorned one of its vans with a cartoon image featuring mastectomy scars in the name of 'inclusivity and diversity'.

In the same month, boot maker Dr Martens gave away a pair of custom rainbow-coloured boots featuring a topless cartoon individual with the same post-operative scars.

Both companies were accused of glamorising complex surgery and were branded crass and irresponsible — sparking calls for boycotts by customers.

Yet, as they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

And no doubt anxious to capitalise on such outcries, Braun has gone one step further, producing an advert that goes far beyond the reach of a local poster and is likely be seen by millions nationwide.

Irresponsible? Certainly. But I would go further and say it is immoral (itals), not to mention breathtakingly cynical.

Immoral because, as Braun undoubtedly knows, its advert will be seen by millions of teenagers already bombarded by trans ideology in schools. For them, an advert showing scars like these only contributes to the ongoing normalisation, even glamorisation, of invasive surgery as the 'answer' to adolescent angst.

That road, as recent research has shown, can end in disaster. By unhappy coincidence, Braun's advert was released in the same week that new analysis found that a third of transgender children on puberty blockers — the starting point for confused youngsters who believe they are 'trapped' in the wrong body — suffered mental health problems after taking this powerful medication.

You only need to listen to Keira Bell, who herself experienced how dangerous this dogma can be. Placed on puberty blockers at 16 by doctors at the now-discredited Tavistock Clinic, Keira then underwent a double mastectomy, only to realise she bitterly regretted what she'd done.

And what makes Braun's advert so cynical? Well, I do not believe that the well-remunerated executives have any real interest in promoting inclusivity.

In thrall to trans campaigners, they appear to have chosen instead to normalise traumatic surgery from which only a tiny portion of the population is likely to benefit.

To its shame, Braun seems unconcerned about the influence this imagery might have on impressionable young minds.

It may yet find its cynicism comes at a price. Guidance issued by the Advertising Standards Authority on its website warns against 'glamorising' or 'trivialising' the decision to have cosmetic surgery, and I would hope that the regulator is paying close attention to this shocking and bizarre campaign.

The real cost, however, may come at the check-out. When U.S. beer giant Budweiser hired the controversial Tik-Tok influencer and transwoman Dylan Mulvaney as the new face of its Bud Light brand earlier this year, its sales fell 15 per cent, and it was knocked off its perch as the holder of the title of the U.S.'s bestselling beer.

Braun may suffer a similar fate — and I would urge consumers outraged by this advert to take their business elsewhere.

If they do, then Braun may finally wake up to the fact that when the customer is your judge and jury, you virtue-signal at your cost.

[Sergeant Wilson]

11 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

waldemar januszczak made a very good documentary about the Baroque of anybody wants to know more

 

Aye, maybe when On the Buses is finished.

[tamthebam]

21 hours ago, Ziggy Sobotka said:

 

Funny how a 1940s festival is all about the War and Churchill and flegs and that and not about a proper Socialist Government nationalising everything and founding the NHS.