UK is Fucked

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  • Gardener2

    • Pre-emptively booked a train for Oct 20th, if they go indie and plan to join EU, me going NORTH!shapesalad
    • How would they deal with a hard border with rUK?Chimp
    • Just like the movie Doomsday https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
    • hahaGardener
    • Best get Hadrian's Wall tarted up and ready for use againIanbolton
    • Gotta stop the neds and chavs from mixing.Chimp
    • more fucking pipedreams, brexit style. it's all the snp have to offer. they're tanking scotland as fast as bozo is tanking the rest of the country.hans_glib
    • Scotland would be fine if it separated. Just be a party everyday.PhanLo
    • Scotland would be rich on haggis exports alone. At the moment Tory MPs use this money to deport immigrants who looks like Rab C. NesbittChimp
    • Getting heavy "Right wing English nationalist, Morris Dancing, cunts" vibes here today.mrAtor
    • God I hope they don't split. It'd be more heart breaking than Brexit.Hayzilla
  • Nairn4

    Carters Steam Fair wants to shut shop and sell to a new owner.

    https://www.carterssteamfair.co.…

    They're set up in a nearby park, so I guess this weekend will be the first and last time my wee one will get to see them.

    Not the end of the world, but a sad chapter.

    .

    Their sign-writing is well-beloved, if you're looking for a design angle here :)

    • :-(
      I really love his work.
      Have fun at the shows
      PhanLo
    • Not goodOBBTKN
    • That is really kind of sad :(dee-dubs
    • The times are a changing, the days of the 40 foot trailer are over.shapesalad
    • Crouch End? That park's right by my place. I always love their signpainting, have taken many a photo of it over the yearsBaskerviIle
    • that's a bummer, they always charge a fair price for their rides, and really developed their offering over the years. do they still have the wall of death?hans_glib
    • His workshop is 10mins away from my house.Hayzilla
  • Bluejam4

    • And Morrisseypalimpsest
    • Is this real? Plus a performance from the cast of cats - the worst movie ever madeIanbolton
    • I guess you haven't seen Schindler's List.palimpsest
    • haha, the thing is, I'd much rather see that, than the actually line up. The Cast of Allo Allo! 'Good Moaning, I was just pissing by'Wolfboy
    • https://cdn.comedy.c…Wolfboy
    • Haha. I can call bollox cos I know that Colin Angus has said the Shamen will never get back together.microkorg
    • That Kiling Joke set would be infinitesimally short.
      'Love Like Blood', 'The Wait', done.
      Continuity
    • not gonna lie. I saw Killing Joke and was all 'OMG! thats amazing! (and continutity...c'mon dude... 'Adorations' is a fucking killer track....exador1
    • a quick look for the 'actual' line up...and...gotta say... I'd MUCH rather see this one ;)exador1
    • OK, fine.
      A three-track set.
      ;)
      Continuity
  • Nairn8

    • Haha. Classy response I guess. Be good to see what our beloved Queen reckonsIanbolton
    • I often toss this in my saladIanbolton
    • Makes excellent lube. I’m told. By other people.scarabin
  • Brabo_Brabo0
    • Will anyone mind? I’m not sure I would care.hans_glib
    • Wow what a garbage countrynb
    • "Our citizens are known to do terrible things, we can't do anything about it but we can push them out into the ocean!"nb
    • Meh, the UK has some fairly harsh laws that are only wielded when necessary. Citizenship complicates making the lives of certain cunts hell.Nairn
    • She's proper evil.PhanLo
    • They, and she is a great example, don't even have to pretend to care anymore, this country has become a grim Punch & Judy show. Depressing.fadein11
    • Why do English people vote for these folk?PhanLo
    • because their dog whistling and 90% of the media is hugely effective. Doesn't help we had the worst opposition under JC. He was a gift.fadein11
    • But England has always been naturally right leaning hasn't it.fadein11
    • I'm sorry, using citizenship of a country you have the antithesis of love for to use as a mitigating shield as a get-out I'm quite happy can be done away with.Nairn
    • The fundamental -ness of British law is that it is ably corrected against when used inappropriately.Nairn
    • Is that a bad thing?pango
    • i wish someone would take it off mewoowahesque
    • AdorableAQUTE
    • I say this from the bottom of my heart... I genuinely wouldn't piss on to put her out if she was on fire. She makes Sauron seem like the nice goth at the pubnecromation
    • Pretty Patel :/i_was
  • Nairn0

    Renowned paedophile David Amess* Stabbed in his constituency surgery

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58…
    .

    (* I have no idea whether or not he is a renowned paedo, but give his stance on certain moral issues and just taking one look at the cunt, I'd say he's compensating for something.)

    • bit much. He's the CAKE guy, although I doubt it's related to that.Fax_Benson
    • Perhaps, but given his stance on some basic human rights, he's clearly not someone I give a shit about.Nairn
    • ok the bloke might be a pedo cuntut we can't have this kind of thing happening, as inevitably there'll be a call to stop surgeries.hans_glib
    • mps are too isolated from the real world as it ishans_glib
    • Dunno. Most are in their constituency offices dealing with real people shit all the time. They prob know more about real life than I do.Fax_Benson
    • they just have bad ideas on how to help. But yeah, it would be bad if that was lost because of this.Fax_Benson
    • it startedsted
    • Dead.Nairn
    • 2 murdered MP's in 5 years... fuck me, this is the right thread for it.fadein11
    • and so it begins, these cunts have been living above the law and above reality for too long. maybe not this guy but I know dozens of poltcns that deserve this_niko
    • Deserve to be murdered? Why aren't you murdering them then? Get involved.Fax_Benson
    • @_niko, do you understand the concept of democracy. Or perhaps your preference is for mob rule and witch burning.Morning_star
    • Was Brexit a truly democratic process?Nairn
    • I slightly regret posting this since his death, but what do you expect to happen to people who continually lie and pervert democracy and shit on human rights?Nairn
    • We don't have a culture of revolution in Britain - almost the opposite. Perhaps that's changing. Is that not also a facet of democracy?Nairn
    • yeah I understand it all too well, and I also understand its a sham, are politicians in it for us or for themselves? just look at the latest pandora leaks_niko
    • again, "dozens" isn't all, there are thousands of politicians out there trying to do a decent job._niko
    • while murdering the politicians we don't like may be democratic, it's unsustainable, and what comes next isn't more / better democracy.Fax_Benson
    • what about a democratic referendum to stab the lot of them to death?kingsteven
    • His cellular level life has ended. His biology was unable to function with a supply of oxygen. The knife took that away. The action was not worth it.shapesalad
    • *withoutshapesalad
    • Public apathy is the reason our democracy is eroding. The opportunity to change the politicians is in the hands of the public, and we don't.Morning_star
    • wow, he's dead... heavy.Brabo_Brabo
    • The cookdandbombd thread is pretty depressing reading.Brabo_Brabo
    • https://www.cookdand…Brabo_Brabo
    • There are some really funny, lovely people at cookdnbombd, and there are some unhinged loonsFax_Benson
    • Is public apathy really that much worse than it was twenty or forty years ago?Nairn
    • For the record, I'm now feeling pretty shitty about this post being top of QBN with me joking about him being a paedo. This seems in remarkably bad taste now :/Nairn
    • Indeed.Brabo_Brabo
    • @Nairn. Shit happens, don't let it get to you. With regard to public Apathy? i think we take far too much for granted and have forgotten what a privilege and...Morning_star
    • ...a responsibility we have to ourselves and communities. The people we choose to govern us are a reflection of ourselves.Morning_star
    • Somalian perp, quelle surprise.bBrabo_Brabo
  • whatthefunk6

    • ben Carson take notes._niko
    • now we're free to shake hands properly with the rest of the world - stupid left-handed EurocratsFax_Benson
    • +1 faxNairn
    • Argh * Ben Garrison lol_niko
    • lol, from the little I know of Carson, I could well believe he'd be about that bad of a doctor...Nairn
    • what we gonna do with that hand now?neverscared
  • whatthefunk9

  • kingsteven1

    • 'Rescued' the dog that ran off the edge of a cliff after he tried hanging out the back of it. I'm not sure that counts.Nairn
    • What Matthew doesn't mention is how Andy then later shaved the dug and fucked it like a canine fleshlight until it tore in two.face_melter
    • Or maybe he does? The Times is behind a paywall.face_melter
    • Exactly. The dogs bid to end it all was scuppered by its abuser. HRH Dog Shagger.Morning_star
    • False flagjmckinno
    • But how many stolen dogs has he deliberately taken to the highlands and abandoned? More questions than answers.Fax_Benson
    • "OK, it wasn’t a fair maiden" :-| https://archive.is/k…kingsteven
    • We may have our differences on the forum here but I'm gladdened to know that we were all able to come together and 'joke' about HandyAndy fucking a dog.Nairn
    • Well, he did marry one.Brabo_Brabo
    • Poor dog! A traditional royal rescue in which you are rescued and then fucked in the arse until you wish you hadn't been rescued at all.Ianbolton
    • He got 99 problems but a bitch aint oneNonEntity
  • neverscared1

    Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit

    https://twitter.com/thetimes/sta…

    muahahaha

    • WHAT
      THE
      FUCK
      Projectile
    • lol children up chimneys and a new series of Steptoe and Son next.face_melter
    • FFSChimp
    • If bovril walkers and raspberry fanta come back I promise I'll vote brexit next time.Fax_Benson
    • Once had a court judge insisting I used imperial feet to describe distances between vehicles just before a car crash...microkorg
    • ... I told him I was never taught inches/feet so couldn't make an estimate in case it was incorrect and was not accurate evidence...microkorg
    • ... me as a cheeky c*nt teenager then suggested that as a Court Judge however that he should know both units or at least be able to convert. ;)microkorg
    • Ha! Ha!monospaced
    • This is a meagre change in the law to simply make it legal to state things in none- metric terms. That's it. Nothing more. Metric's going nowhere in UKNairn
    • Every half-wit ultraEuro or moron is jumping on this like it's some ultimate affirmation of the stupidity of Brexit. Nope, it's just making things a bit freer.Nairn
    • Do I want that extra freedom? Nope. I, like you, couldn't give a shit. Do I think it's improves things? Nope, not for me. Is it the apocalypse? Also, nope.Nairn
    • For the record - we also never tried to metricise time.Nairn
    • What do you use in place of milliseconds?palimpsest
    • touchéNairn
    • https://youtu.be/1ml…drgs
  • Bluejam6

  • Fax_Benson3

    Is that poll about which restrictions people would like to keep long term real?

    19% want permanent 10PM curfew even if covid is no longer a threat?
    26% want all nightclubs and casinos closed, forever?

    Assumed it was fake news but it's being shared everywhere.

  • PhanLo6

    • what a good vid.utopian
    • Really good.
      Thanks PhanLo
      Sellies
    • well deserved recognition
      https://www.orwellfo…
      Bluejam
    • @Sellies, the whole series is really good. I think it is less sensational and quite matter of fact at points. I also find it quite positive and hopeful.PhanLo
  • shapesalad3

    • Who makes this shit? Rather than complaining about the incompetence of the government, let's just get on with it and stop the spread by acting responsibly.BaskerviIle
    • It puzzles me that we agree that Boris is an idiot, yet still wait for him to dictate new rules. We're free to act with an excess of caution without being toldBaskerviIle
    • Exactly. The only other way is for the government to go full authoritarian and fuck everyone over, and then we'd have that full spectrum of complaint.Nairn
    • Italy has curfew-level lockdown now, which is probably not a terrible idea, but people are going fucking spastic about it over there.Nairn
    • Who makes this shit?! No idea, probably a spotty 15 year old lad in Cleethorpes named Darren who likes to wank off to Anal sex porn.shapesalad
    • But my guess is as good as yours.shapesalad
    • I agree Nairn, you're damned either way if you go full curfew. Cummings' airport psychology books and his 'nudge' theory did F-allBaskerviIle
    • Watching the UK from NYC has been quite wild. All of my mates had kids back in school and were booking holidays when we were still in a lockdown here.DaveO
    • They all had their summer in and out of pubs and restaurants, and masks in public aren't required as heavily as here.DaveO
    • And then on NYE we face timed with our friends and they were all having various parties that broke all the rules!DaveO
    • I hope everyone can clear it up – my brother has a wedding business so his livelihood depends on it!DaveO
    • Boris will do it via Zoom at his dad's house in FrancePhanLo
    • loldmilfhunter
    • It's easy to say, blame the people, but look at the infrastructure in which certain societies exist in the UK. Boris has an impossible task for sure,Ianbolton
    • but then surely as a government you should already have built the trust and compassion necessary for the people to follow your guidance - because it makes senseIanbolton
    • I have friends who work within COVID wards and also with vulnerable people. One of those had to pay for their own test - his first since all this started.Ianbolton
    • You can see why people refuse to follow rules, but our country is segregated enough by people thinking Brexit was a fucking good/bad idea. Good luck n stay safeIanbolton
  • lowimpakt3

    so the deal is

    No free movement of people to work, live or study in Europe

    No free movement of goods or services meaning lots of new paperwork but with zero tarrifs and quotas

    UK to leave Erasmus programme and concede on fisheries

    UK pets need passports as do the the UK financial services but fuck the financial services.

    plus dis

    • Blue Passports though and some shite about borders and fish.PhanLo
    • all these to discourage others...grafician
    • These are not things brought out to discourage anyone. They are a tiny amount of the basic realities of being in the EU (if I understand your point correctly)lowimpakt
    • I wonder how fast the tories will get rid of workers rights? Then human rights?PhanLo
    • It’s fucking shite. Idiots voted for it based on fake ass hype rich idiots told them.shapesalad
    • It’s happened, get over it and get on with your life. Nothing anyone can say or do will change that.Morning_star
    • Pandemic + Brexit = Y'all Fucked!utopian
    • I don't see the £350 million a week NHS money on this list.jmckinno
  • PhanLo6

    • Would've been event better with "cunt" at the end.NBQ00
    • and better again with a comma before that.MrT
    • Lolskinny_puppy
  • shapesalad-2

    What's with the quality of eggs today? No matter which I buy, cheapest caged hen eggs through to expensive organic ones - they all make me explode in farts.

    Is it because the birds have been caged for a year due to bird flu?

    • signs of getting old.sted
    • maybe they weren't wearing the proper N95 maskshotroddy
    • have you ever thought about posting something you like and/or positive? You are such a depressing nause.fadein11
    • ^Continuity
    • @fade he isn't venting enough ahahasted
    • he's either ranting his racist BS or whining about how shit it is in the UK (he as a small point)... but ffs, I he needs to fuck off back to Lisbonfadein11
    • Where are rules for what we can and can't post here?shapesalad
    • feel free to bore and depress people if that's your thing.fadein11
    • Theyre are no rules. It's just that you're a revolting individual many of us would prefer to not hear from. That's all.Continuity
    • I mean, between you being both a flagrant racist and being where fun goes to die, I really don't know what's the point of you.Continuity
    • so this is where the drama is :)
      https://media1.giphy…
      pango
    • And to top it off, he thinks he wins if you call him racist, as if that was some nonsense that has no bearing on his overt and overwhelming ignorant bigotry.monospaced
    • whenever i go see my folks i buy a dozen or so from a local farm, laid that day. a totally different thing from the supermarkets' offerings.hans_glib
    • Interesting to read your opinions of me and your guesses of what I think.shapesalad
    • @fadein11 sorry but we had in down here long enough, please look elsewheredmay
    • word soup?fadein11
    • @dmay, yep I don't blame you.fadein11
    • @SS you are a miserable, negative racist twat who inflicts everyone here to your boring whining. They aren't just my opinions. Back to Andrew Tate or whateverfadein11
    • tbf, I often wince at eggs from a certain brand that taste really fishy to me - presumably a function of the hens having been fed awful seatrawl-mass.Nairn
    • https://imgur.com/zZ…pango
    • Get local farm fresh. I have noticed this too.rootlock
  • zardoz1

    How the BBC has fallen :(

    • haven't watched it in years but its pretty incredible that the bbc's interpretation of 'impartiality' has made them hated by the left and the right.kingsteven
    • thats a lie, i did watch Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishingkingsteven
    • BBC is direct product of London.shapesalad
    • Only Bloomberg is worth watching in terms of TV. Youtube is more direct and niche, tonnes of great content that would never be commissioned by BBC types.shapesalad
    • This journalist had 20 minutes to prepare for an interview like this. Musk is such a dickhead to gaslight all of us like this.SlashPeckham
    • The Journalist made big bold assertive affirmative assertions - with no peer reviewed evidence to back it up.shapesalad
    • he really did massively fuck that up, but lets face it. BBC, Twitter, Musk, America, England, Sky News Au. I'd rather watch a niche youtube vid on clown shoeskingsteven
    • The BBC's now run by a rampant tory donor, so yes, it has taken a turn for the worse, like nearly everything else in this country.fadein11
    • at least the journalist didn´t buy a mediaplattform at 8times its value... so much for a massive maybe even fatal fuck up..neverscared
    • The beeb ain't what it used to be, but 'destroys', really? Andrew Bolt is a proper twat.MrT
    • so which news media is getting it right these days? holding Musk to account in live interview arranged at 20mins notice? Sky AU?Fax_Benson
    • That excuse for a journalist could've had 20 days notice and he'd still have failed.zardoz
    • Not a quick thinker, no analytical brain, not even particularly articulate. Feeblezardoz
  • neverscared2

    Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic
    Author of landmark report says Met can ‘no longer presume that it has the permission of the people of London to police them’

    The Metropolitan police is broken and rotten, suffering collapsing public trust and is guilty of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia, an official report has said.

    The report by Louise Casey, commissioned by the Met after one of its officers abducted Sarah Everard, taking her from from a London street in March 2021, before raping and murdering her, is one of the most damning of a major British institution .

    The 363-page report details disturbing stories of sexual assaults, usually covered up or downplayed, with 12% of women in the Met saying they had been harassed or attacked at work, and one-third experiencing sexism.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-n…

    • chances are highest that zardoz is a police manneverscared
    • How deep does this rabbit hole go? And did Boris break lockdown rules?!Ianbolton
    • To find a devil, it helps to be like a devil. Police have to be nasty to sniff out the nasty criminals. But it can go too far, clearly...shapesalad
    • Surprised they havent blamed brexit.zardoz
    • Nationwide problem unfort including W.Mids police (2nd biggest force). Rotten.fadein11
    • sweepstakes on who says: "a few bad apples" first.fadein11
    • His defense: 'the term institutional racism has become politicised" lol, at least he didn't mention the woke mob.fadein11
    • @SS - you may want to delve a little deeper, a lot of this is about blue on blue culture.fadein11
    • "Get rid of them and let the drug lords take over"toemaas
    • We met some internal affairs officers in a bar one night. They were saying the top police in Scotland had got caught sending pictures of their cocks to each...PhanLo
    • ...other via a whatsapp group. Worse than QBN.PhanLo
    • lol (kind of)fadein11
  • jmckinno0

    • Well... I actually had a immigrant middle eastern family live next to me for 5 years and it was shit. They lived on a different timezone,shapesalad
    • so lots of noise at 2am, lots of shouting in arabic at 2am, spicy food smells all summer, all 4 lived in a 1bed flat that was more suitable for a young graduateshapesalad
    • trying to make it in London. They constantly broke the rules that were set for the apartment building, listed in the foyer, and were aggressive when Ishapesalad
    • SS dropping his bombs againfadein11
    • mentioned the rules there were breaking. In another apartment, I lived below a muslim arabic guy who also lived a different timezone, shouting from 1pm to 2amshapesalad
    • "spicy food smells all Summer" hahafadein11
    • everyday, even xmas day, supper aggressively shouting, and loud praying songs. Both neighbours, with their noise, made it feel like I was living in the middleshapesalad
    • east. I didn't make it feel like I was living in Europe or UK, and both experiences were negative. To be fair, it could have been great, but it's given me ashapesalad
    • very bad impression and turn me into sounding like one of the callers in that video, lol.shapesalad
    • I think to be fair, you can live next to shit white english people.shapesalad
    • What no one dare say is racism is sort of a natural feeling, the desire to exist in a local area that feels like your tribe, where you understand each other andshapesalad
    • share the same values and customs, is well.. normal. Of course living in a cosmopolitan are is also cool if that's what you want.shapesalad
    • But what the callers here are against is a cosmopolitan/diverst... atmosphere being forced on them without then being asked if that's what they want.shapesalad
    • The host is full of shit. Imagine if we moved to Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia and demanded that our women be allowed to walk down the street in a bikini_niko
    • James o'brien is such a cunt though, a complete lefty, forcing his globalisation diversity view on everyone.shapesalad
    • or demanded that we drink alcohol or demanded that they respect our rights as atheists._niko
    • Humans have different skin colour due to adapting to our environment. The wests diversity drive = going against that adaptation.shapesalad
    • if you want to live in a country you absolutely have to respect their cultural values and try to integrate into that society as much as possible._niko
    • does the host think it's ok for your neighbour to practice female genital mutilation? what about the rape of boys as a right of passage?_niko
    • If the UK remains a grey and cloudy place for the next 1000+ years, eventually all our non white immigrant's future generations will by adaptation become paler.shapesalad
    • what about canibalism? there are tons of crazy shit that happen all over the globe in remote cultures, it doesn't mean we need to embrace and accept them in_niko
    • So give it time and there'll be nothing to worry about, lol.shapesalad
    • ...fear of being labeled a racist ffs._niko
    • Of course, if global warming increases and UK becomes a super sunny place to live, then give it a 1000+ years and we'll all be brown skinned.shapesalad
    • sorry shape our comments look like a shuffled deck of cards lol_niko
    • I left Spain as soon as I could because as much as I loved the place, i didn't want, at the time, to integrate. I think it's an important aspect to consider.Nairn
    • There are plenty of people living here in London – white and otherwise – who have fuck-all desire to 'integrate'. I don't think that is healthy multiculturalismNairn
    • Honestly, most of the 'bad shit' i see here is less to do with brown people than white people who think, and do, get away with shit.Nairn
    • obviously the caller is a moron as well, would he be ok with a polish Neo-nazi family?_niko
    • reverse engineering open door cheap labour immigration may be a problem now, Windrush 2.0?fadein11
    • Whatever - our country needs to have a deep look inside of itself and an honest analysis of what it actually wants.Nairn
    • 'Diersity', if charted on a graph, has gone exponentially up since the 1940s. Perhaps it's peaking and we need to roll it back a bit and gradually adapt to it.shapesalad
    • you joked about wanting to murder immigrants, shape. get in the bin with the other shit, you fucking twat.face_melter
    • Wait. Didn't you guys get your country back after Brexit? Was it all for nothing?pango
    • yes, it's brilliant here now! Like a different cuntry.fadein11
    • Humans are ethnocentric, tribal and territorial. We dont know how to live in big multicultural megapolises -- archaic instincts come in the waydrgs
    • What to do about it? Become a poet, a citizen of the world, without home country or ethnicitydrgs
    • Or dive into it, step off the cliff of racism head first
      In WW3 your skin color will be your uniform™
      drgs
    • Doubt it. Even China has beef with all the neighbouring countries.pango
    • And Japanese aren't too terribly fond of Koreans.Continuity
    • If anyone can tell me the difference between a Hutu and a Tutsi or an Igbo and a Yoruba or a Tigray vs an Oromo or a Serb vs a Croat or a Russian vs a Ukrainian_niko
    • Racism, conflicts, wars, genocides happen between actual neighbours with minute cultural and ethnic differences at a rate millions of times higher than they do_niko
    • Between people from different countries and different continents._niko
    • So for the host to imply this is some kind of white British problem is absurd. He’s got to look no further than the barely “united” kingdom in his own back yard_niko
    • Btw who does UK belong to? White skin people or all of its citizens? If it belong to white skin people. Are you all so monolithic? Or maybe only God's chosenpango
    • White people? Or the rich white people and which rich white people? Cuz I bet every rich rich people would like to run it differently too.pango
    • So who does it belong to? Or better yet. What is it anyway?pango
    • It belongs to Russian oligarchs, actually.Continuity
    • *black guy walks in...necromation
    • ... Walks right back outnecromation
    • +1 necro.
      Waiting for one of those bright sparks up there to say, 'Oh, but you're different ... '
      Continuity