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I agree that this is a pretty tolerant country. However, the only reason we're a more tolerant country than many of the ones you mention is because this country has a sizeable number of left leaning, compassionate people like the ones you're arguing with - not because our right wingers are better than anyone else's. So when you or anyone else goes on about how tolerant this country is, you're really saying how much good the left has done here, and how fortunate it is that we're able to make our presence felt. Our method for doing this, and ensuring that the country is held to account on being tolerant and compassionate, is kicking off at the government day in day out about its relentless bullshit. That is the only reason anyone can even begin to consider this a tolerant country. If we left it to the right we'd be nowhere fucking near it, because our right don't really care anymore than anyone else's right. They look 'better' than those places you mention because we have lifted them up. We educated and shamed them into moving forward. If we ever want to get anywhere, we have to constantly hold their feet to the fire. How do you think we became more tolerant than those places you mentioned ffs. By refusing to let intolerant and despicable actions be acceptable. The moment we say "ah well, we're still better than the Middle East" is the moment we give the government and the bigots permission to start backsliding.

Speaking of dog eggs, this tickled me. Removed now, but that’s one for the swear box

Train's been pulled for Edinburgh tonight. Don't know what's happening tomorrow? Mild as fuck for this time of the year, all year until we're going on the piss for a jolly. If I fell in a skip full of tits I'd come out sucking me thumb as Sidney once said.

Batten down the hatches lads, it’s going to get wild soon. 70-90mph winds forecast. Storm Arwen approaches, which, let’s face it, is the closest any of us will come to getting blown by Liv Tyler.

( note the date ).

Billy’s out in the countryside #farming #someplants #guesswhereimkippingtonight

If you pause it at 1:29, you can just make out Adam Pearson tearing the neck off it in the bushes at the back.

Surely the great hope is that we find a more infectious variant that is less dangerous? In fact there must be some boffins in a Chinese lab who could develop such a thing.

I’m supposed to be going out tonight. Fucking typical. The Olympic torch goes out more often than me

Right, the budget’ll stretch to one cameraman, a bloke with an equity card dressed as a copper and his missus who likes dressing up as a traffic warden. The location’s that market on Shadwell High Street. They’ve got that nutter there who dresses like a cartoon burglar, we'll rope him in. Yeah, don’t worry, we’ll tell the blacks there’s an NF rally that afternoon. The script? You just mime the words and grab whatever’s close, women, dogs, eggs, kids, use your initiative

But she's a lush dog, sweating or not.

There's a really lovely, well written article by Shearer about Gary Speed that's just popped up on the Athletic. 10 years tomorrow since he died. Anyway, it's well worth a free trial or the £12 for 12 months offer they've got on at the minute just to read this one piece. https://theathletic.com/2966447/2021/11/26/alan-shearer-my-friend-speedo-10-years-on-through-the-eyes-of-those-who-knew-him?source=user-shared-article

Here, man, it can fuck off with this now, like. Nobody is impressed, Covid. Grow up.

When she gets her tits out now she takes her socks off.

'It lasted about three seconds but in super slow-mo it seems to go on for ever. It looks like I think we've won it.' 'Perhaps it's an example of how social media can hurt you because it has hurt me. Anyone who knows me will tell you that's not really a reflection of what I'm about. I'm more professional than that.' 'I want to manage again. I look at Roy, who coached Palace with real credit into his 70s, and think that can give me another 10 years.'

Peers? Pfft, more like underlings! Do you even know who Steffan is? Ludwycht? Gustav? Dec?

That implies Bruce actually did the bare minimum, though.

The script, summarised.

Let’s not fool ourselves in that there isn’t an element of the former in Macron’s actions.

The title. 10/10

It’s like Heron Foods Chas and Dave #rabbitrabbitwolfjerky #notavailableanywhere #cockerneesparrow

Can you not just get wankered and miss the actual game?

What a fucking embarrassment our PM is, publishes a bull shit letter on twitter and actually manages to get Patel disinvited from a EU meeting. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/26/channel-deaths-priti-patel-disinvited-to-meeting-with-france There's fuck all we can do about this situation, we gave up all our leverage when we left the EU. We didn't want to cooperate then, don't expect it now.

Aye Peston said that 2 days ago though. He's another that regularly uncritically reports what Johnson says as if it's fact, so it's no big surprise that he's listened to some MPs waffle on and then reported what they've said as if it's some provable stat.

It was my wedding day (marriage number 1). I should have known something was up.

Never too soon

In fairness most folk probably do.

Well I’ll go t’foot of our stairs!

The Home Office “Hostile Environment” of which the Windrush scandal was a sort of flagship policy was brought in by Theresa May to keep the votes rolling in from pigshit bigots so am not sure where any of that sits under the heading of tolerance tbh . You wouldn’t have heard heard a thing about it without tireless work from the Guardian newspaper , specifically Amelia Gentleman https://twitter.com/ameliagentleman?s=21 . For me it’s one of the worst things any UK government have ever done. As an attack on ordinary people it’s up there with Hillsborough iyam.

Anyone remember/into the Smithereens? The Bo Radleys? That Rickenbacker Jonny Marr guitar sound from the Smiths? Which let's be honest was all just a reinvention of the Byrds' guitar sound. If any or all of the above floated your boat then check out young US band called Chime School.

Ah, so that’s the reason

What's it Homer says? It's funny because it's true.

Randomly saw this the other day on some ‘one hit wonders’ thingy. Wtaf is going on here I do know:

I don't think Sandra (was it Sandra?) would be very impressed with the stance of Villa's CEO on our takeover...

Jonjo…

I knew you’d bite.

Whatever they come up with, I hope it falls flat on its face.

Came through when Howe was at Burnley too. Nailed on

Trippier would be fantastic, imagine someone who can actually take set pieces!!

Manateetees

So did Clarko get jettisoned or did he just get the message? I was hoping Ant would pull out the old "Facebook hack" ploy, post pics of his missus & kids/sad lonely existence etc etc for us to enjoy...

Reminds me of this