Bellend Sebastian
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2 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:
I cannot overstate how much I hate the backwards t shirts trend. Put the design on the front.
I don't even know what this is. I don't think I could hate it more than that period of time when you'd see a nice shirt and there was a sort of false t shirt stitched into it, which I think is one of the very worst things to have happened in human history, an event my more fashion conscious colleague attempted to justify as being of interest to anyone aspiring to the 'layered look'
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3 minutes ago, Heart-Shaped Fox said:
Results finally been posted. 13th Place and 434 runners. 40:19 time. Would have loved the sub 40 but the hills and wind did me in. Didn't help the Chinese takeaway and fish/pie and chips I've had three nights in a row 😂
I disagree, surely that can only propel one on to the very heights of athletic excellence.
Seriously, very well done though. Amazing stuff
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6 minutes ago, Md9 said:
Tommy Robinson arrested again and begging for donations for his legal fees . Tw@
On his way back from Russia where he met Elon Musk's Dad. You couldn't make it up etc
A veritable Lord Haw Haw for our times
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18 minutes ago, kingcarr21 said:
Wordle 1,819 1/6
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Wow, for the second time the word i always start with has been the word.
Now to think of another new starting word. My first one was Water (obviously i wont say this one
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There I was pleased with myself that I'd got it in two!
This has happened to me before as well, it's a bit mad isn't it? There doesn't seem to be much consensus on how many words are in Wordle, but it's long odds to get it in one whichever number you use
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54 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:
Fines would be completely useless. They should have an emergency lock on the overhead compartments, that would actually stop anyone getting their bag out.
I tend to agree, unless the fines were excitingly disproportionate - five grand or something
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Have some data to go to bed on, my lovelies.
However horrifying individual incidents are, the bigger picture can provide at least some comfort, I find.
Night night
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37 minutes ago, LcFc_Smiv said:
Watched Mandalorian on Saturday night, dont think I have ever considered walking out of a film before. Awful.
Oh no, that does sound like a bit of a turd. I didn't think much of the TV show (even when it was supposedly good) so I shouldn't be surprised that a big screen version isn't any better.
My kid has expressed zero interest in it so I can probably dodge it until it's on Disney+
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4 minutes ago, Zear0 said:
Just to make today even more chaotic following the domestic issues...
And our compact friend Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has apparently been in Moscow meeting Elon Musk's Dad in I expect a very patriotic way, it really is all happening
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3 hours ago, leicsmac said:
It is darkly interesting to see how crime figures across the board have fallen over the last 30 years, yet folks still believe that things have actually gotten worse - as the below graph indicates.
It's a tremendous example of how massive information exposure today can shape people's opinions, making problems either bigger or smaller than they actually are - and, sadly, be used to manipulate in various ways.
Recency bias and survivorship bias with respect to the past clearly play a part, too.
That's all very well Mac but show me your graph of levels of people saying 'everything is broken', that would be OFF THE SCALE
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I'd suggest a ten year flight ban for this. Influence that, cretins:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/09/air-passengers-bags-filming-emergencies-airlines-iata
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/04/the-20-best-songs-about-football-ranked
I was quite a way down the list and assumed that my favourite wasn't going to feature, thereby rendering the whole thing a complete dog crap exercise, but it was only at blooming number one!
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"previous offending included four instances of public disorder and possession of a blade"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz2xq7ykvo
As per bloody usual
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5 hours ago, nnfox said:It does my head in!
Slightly different, but still in the realm of youth injustice, in Northampton last year a 15 year old boy (with a couple of friends) walked into Dunelm on a busy Saturday afternoon, walked to the bedding section and set fire to it. The entire store was destroyed, Pets at Home (next door) was also destroyed. Thankfully no people were hurt and it was reported that all the animals were evacuated from Pets at Home (I find that hard to believe). The wake of carnage for his actions was unbelievable... Road closures on the day causing big delays for everyone, closure of the whole retail park (loss of revenue for other businesses), firefighters risking their lives to control the fire and stop the spread to other stores, policing resources to manage all of that on the day and the subsequent weeks of investigation, millions of pounds worth of damage, staff losing their jobs, public safety issues (aside from setting fire to a shop in the middle of the afternoon) relating to the shells of the buildings left behind and so on.
The 15 year old was charged with the offence and a couple of weeks ago the case was thrown out because his ADHD means he wouldn't be able to have a fair trial. That's it. Finished. Nothing will now happen to him, no custodial sentence, no community punishment, no rehabilitation order, nothing. It's as though nothing happened.
The message he has received is that "You have ADHD, so you have a pass to do whatever you want to do and nothing will happen to you. The law that you show no regard for will prioritise protecting you, over the safety of the wider public. You are untouchable.".
Again, there needs to be balance. Mental health issues are a serious issue in the criminal justice system, but there are varying degrees of mental health conditions and varying degrees of seriousness of offence. The two have to be looked at together. This was another case where the welfare of the offender was placed front and centre and of higher priority to that of the victim(s) and the seriousness of what was done. For me, his actions passed a threshold where regardless of the severity of his ADHD diagnosis, there has to be some kind of justice served, not nothing!
Yeah, I think we have to be a bit careful here.
I looked this up and the way it's been reported isn't massively helpful, in that it's pretty easy to read it as the kid didn't stand trial because he's got ADHD, when they've actually said that's one of a range of unnamed conditions they'd got.
My missus used to do a lot of work around cognitive and capacity assessments and though you cannot read that much from how the story was reported, it's quite possible that the ADHD didn't have much to do with the decision (people with ADHD are overrepresented in the prison population so that's definitely not a reason to not prosecute in itself). It's all about capacity at the end of the day - the media over simplifies things and makes it appear to the reader that there are 'get out of jail free' cards where having a condition (often erroneously lumped into a broad brush 'mental health' category) means you can get away with anything, and it's simply not the case.
There's any number of things that might be taken into account in determining whether someone has capacity to stand trial, but it boils down to do they have capacity or not?
It's interesting and probably significant that in the report I read "three doctors" had agreed on whatever assessment had been made - that's pretty thorough, this isn't being done on the view of some overly idealistic hippy support worker or something (apologies to any support workers reading) and is not a decision that would be taken lightly.
Another thing that's massively unhelpful about the reporting is - and this becomes more and more of an issue as such stories get shorter and shorter (is that because of ever reducing attention spans or because journalism and actual reporting has been hollowed out to the extent there isn't anyone to actually write them anymore?) is again what isn't reported. The story reads as if they weren't fit to stand trial and that's that, end of story, everybody walks away when that probably isn't the case. There are inpatient mental health units and secure hospitals throughout the country full of folk deemed to be a danger to themselves or others, some of whom will have convictions but a lot of whom will not.
I've not a clue what happened after the trial decision but the idea that you've got someone that will start a fire in a building with people in it AND has been deemed not fit to stand trial is not a combination where the system says 'nothing to see here, carry on' - just because they've not gone down the criminal justice path doesn't mean they are not still in the system
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1 hour ago, Parafox said:
I watched the documentary on the team effort to save the twelve kids in Thailand. British cavers along with others from around the world, combined to get them out alive. The whole thing was an amazing watch. Sadly one member of the Thai army died trying.
Tham Luang cave rescue - Wikipedia
That's the one where Elon Musk called the British diver a paedo because he disrespected his shit miniature submarine.
I'd have countered by asking why he's got a submarine for transporting children but hey not everyone has this gift
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Two hours or so of pretty heavy rain in west Leicester in the night.
Struggling to remember a storm with so much lightning but the volume and time between the strikes and the thunder made me think the worst of it was to the south so some folk were really getting it
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1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:
It's amazing isn't it?
I know someone that used to do cave diving as a hobby and I always wondered what you would get out of it.
There was an interview with a cave diver in the aftermath of those Italians dying in the Maldives (?) recently and everything he said about it, in terms of what it's like, what you need to be able to do and how careful you need to be made it sound completely shit
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On 25/05/2026 at 19:23, Trumpet said:
I’m moving tomorrow and the house I’m moving into has been locked for the past few weeks
So how did it go?
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How typical of Andy Burnham to remain silent about what he would or would not do to popular TV celebrity Carol Vorderman's back door, whereas his main rival in the Makerfield by election, Reform candidate Robert 'he's only saying what we're all thinking' Kenyon has been very clear on this hot doorstep issue
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1 hour ago, st albans fox said:
I’ve given up fighting with my missus on this
she simply cannot understand that having the windows closed is better once it’s becoming hotter outside than in
does anyone else have this issue with their female partner when it comes to this (and thermostats )
My wife completely gets this but I used to work with a bloke that would always come back from going for a walk on a hot day with a proper sweat on and EVERY TIME open the window we'd kept shut all morning to let a lovely blast of hot air into the office and say 'oh, that's better'
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1 hour ago, Parafox said:
Don't let kids become dead kids.
Just because the parent survived being chucked off the bridge in Abbey Park, doesn't mean the kid will, but the parents do seem quite risk averse because of the second bit in bold.
I think it's a variation on the 'don't tell me what to do' stance which a lot of folk like to take in all sorts of situations including many where they are not being told what to do. 'Don't warn me of risks with a view to helping keep my family and I safe and avoiding foreseeable harm!' doesn't have the same ring does it?
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1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:Once again numerous deaths of teenagers happening from entering bodies of water and getting into trouble. It seems 4 reported including just down the road from myself at Rother Valley in Rotherham.
So needless. There seems to be a real lack of awareness about water safety and you only ever hear about it after a series of incidents like now.
Should schools be doing more? Surely educating young people on matters like this and road safety is more important than certain parts of the curriculum. Do they cover this and it’s just always going to be certain people don’t take notice? Is it parents not doing enough? Really hard to know but it’s really worrying as a parent.
It's horrible, and I think you'll always get an element of 'it'll never happen to me' on anything like this.
I was annoyed the other day as there was something on FB about the police warning about these very dangers and the comments were littered with stuff like 'why aren't you catching criminals', 'let kids be kids' and 'I used to jump off a 50ft cliff into 6 inches of water and it never did me any harm' and all that total bollocks, and I imagine if you live in a household where that's the sort of thing that gets said then the risk goes up quite a bit
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I saw someone out running at about 11.30 this morning and it didn't look like a lot of fun.
I ran in similar heat years ago and the lesson learned from that was that you can re-hydrate all you like but if you don't put those electrolytes back you're going to feel like death, would NOT recommend
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My brother has been helping his son and daughter in law move out of their flat and into his gaff.
Got a van and did it all themselves, of all the days to pick
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Lumbered round a 5K in 29 minutes early doors. Wasn't even that warm but so different to weather of late, really draining
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Good to see someone doing some journalism for a change.
In fairness, more obscure media outlets have been looking into Russian interference for years but it never seems to get much traction in terms of getting people talking about it. As for our Stephen, it doesn't exactly weaken my belief that those he persuades to join him on his big days out might as well be covering themselves in Russian flags