Bellend Sebastian

2 hours ago, bovril said:

Rebel citizens protest visitor of Emperor to otherwise loyal satrapy.

Yes, big crowd, looks about 10-12 billion people at a guess

8 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

bread & butter - flutter?

It feels like everyone's taking this piss out of someone having 'misspoke', but if it is this I don't know who

Imagine if they did this. I'd be glued to Facebook for weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/16/uk-could-raise-nearly-2bn-by-taxing-suvs-in-line-with-european-countries-study-shows

Why are loads of people talking about 'having a bread' on Bluesky, I've missed something but I don't know what 

17 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Sub 23minutes for 5k aged 58 really chuffed 

Bloody hell that's some going, gives me something to aspire to 

9 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

Don't worry lots of posh white boys died too. Lt Roy was a volunteer who didn't have to go. 

The real mystery is under which scheme my Uncle Roy was allowed in, must have been one for being overweight and banging on about the cruise control on his BMW for far too long

18 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Didn't stop this chap Indra Lal Roy

A DEI hire in 1917, who'd have thought it. After three years of grinding industrial slaughter, it's good to see they hadn't lost sight of their priorities.

A white man could've had his body smashed to pieces in his place, it's woke nonsense gone mad

Unlucky for those lads to have applied for training in the one year out of 107 of the RAF's history where presumably the exact opposite happened

If they got 110,000 that would be a very good turn out for a right wing march.

They claimed a million for one of Robinson's previous events where everyone else (coppers etc) said it wasn't even 6 figures. 

For all the drama and media attention they just don't get the numbers. Go through the list of the biggest demos ever in the UK and it's all Stop the War, CND, EU vote, anti- austerity, stuff like that. 

I don't know if this is indicative of the level of support or whether right wing people just can't be arsed

Elon Musk talking a load of shite to a crowd of people he wouldn't give the steam off his piss to.

That's what you need if you're on your arse and from Barnsley or wherever. The world's richest man telling you what's what

Have they united the Kingdom yet?

11 hours ago, OntarioFox said:

It's not. It's coming out in the washing that the fella who did this is a terminally-online edgelord who grew up in a white republican family and was trained to use guns by his own father. Trump is pulling the same quirky nonsense Boris Johnson used to when an inconvenient truth came up. The kid doesn't fit the profile of the people the media are blaming (shame on our rag newspapers for parroting the "trans rights" dogwhistle line by the way, if the bullet engraving comments really are true it's more like the sort of shite 4Chan users still think is funny).

 

Expect this to conveniently leave the news cycle in record time.

Like the guy that shot Trump in the ear, who is less infamous than that woman that put a cat in a bin

9 hours ago, MPH said:

 

the casing, or part that has the explosive in it that powers the projectile ( bullet) is usually significantly bigger. This will be the part that is written on and drops onto the floor from the gun once the bullet is fired. Attached is a standard ‘ hunting ammo’  the bullet is the small part at the top

 

 

 @Mark hopefully the context at which I’m sharing the picture is understood and not taken as me encouraging/ promoting anything untoward..

 

I still say that if I were the FBI I would be asking folk who do you know who is a big enough nob to try and write on a bullet

How big are these bullets for heaven's sake?

I'd still just write what I wanted to say in a notebook - more room to be poetic and you can do pictures and stuff if you want

14 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Presume everyone's pension is flying? I've got 8% growth since I started in 2017 and 15.3% this year so far, invested with Royal London Adventurous Tracker.

Just shy of 33% since I moved everything into my current scheme in July 2023.

Been quite fortunate with my investment choice, would've been even better if I'd gone 100% passive but I've no real regrets about that and I don't think it's the time to change out of it

5 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Your should be able to buy a Samsung remote from eBay for a few quid that had the numbers etc. 

 

It'll have instructions to set up with your TV model 

My sister-in-law ordered one off Amazon yesterday for the princely sum of three quid, so goodness knows what that's like. 

If that doesn't work out there's a slightly more realistically priced one for £13 that looks like a like for like replacement. We'll work something out. 

It was all a bit odd though - they were making me feel that typing in a channel number was some futuristic luxury that in no way had been completely standard on all televisions since the late 1980s

2 hours ago, The Bear said:

The model number should be on the back on a sticker near the inputs.

I would've looked but the whole family were watching it at the time!

Found an e-manual in the menu system that confirmed the functionality that SHOULD be there 

3 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

Yes we have those, the 123 button should bring up a number of options on the screen on the TV, scroll to 123 and this should bring up a number screen,  then you can choose the channel numbers with the arrow buttons and choose done to move to the channel you've typed in. 

Thanks - yes, that makes sense, but I think the original remote has been replaced with a crappy after market one where that button doesn't work (it's sending a signal that the TV is not responding to).

We'll have to get another one and see if that works

Anybody got a relatively recent (within last 5 or so years) Samsung smart TV with a ridiculously slimline remote with about 6 buttons on? 

My father in law has been given one and I've set up the WiFi etc but what I cannot get my head round is selecting a high number channel on terrestrial TV - there's no keypad on the remote, just channel up and down, which isn't much use if you want channel two hundred and something.

There's a button with 123 on it that doesn't seem to do anything and I don't know what model TV it is to look up a manual. 

What am I missing? 

It's enough to make you sit in Sainsbury's car park for an hour with your engine running in despair 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/04/fine-particulate-air-pollution-trigger-forms-dementia-study-lewy-body

15 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

He doesn't look very dead just now.  

It's like when everyone in Blaby thought Maxine Carr had moved in, it clearly wasn't true but folk really wanted it to be

6 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Trump is live !

 

he looks ok

He doesn't usually! 

WHAT HAVE THEY PUT IN HIM

2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

I grew up with Father Ted. I still quote it daily. Literally, daily. Similarly, I loved the IT Crowd and still accidentally say something in Moss's voice. 

 

As a Screenwriter especially, I looked up to his work and achievements and the effect it had had on popular culture and still find a lot of his work and advice invaluable to improving my own writing and command of the craft. 

His descent into madness has been horrifying to watch in real time. He blew up his entire life, family, career and reputation just to spout virulent hatred against, by definition, one of the most vulnerable communities in our society. He might have started with the principle of "protecting are women" but he's gone so far past the line now that he's actively inciting violence against people who just need to have a piss or shit.

 

What the **** happened to him? 

It's a classic example of someone not backing away from an argument, having forgotten that arguments are pretty much never won, especially on the internet. 

I followed him on Twitter because I'm interested in TV comedy and how it's made - to be honest I wasn't that big a fan. I wasn't banking on seeing all that jazz unfold, that's for sure.

I never got involved in that debate and I avoid it like the plague to this day. Just surreally horrible, and no real winners at the end - a few folk got themselves cancelled but any victory was pretty hollow when it turned out the prize was being put centre stage in a massive culture war

I've ordered a pond, in an effort to cleverly combine the two

In other news I've been quite entertained by the (I'm sure extremely wishful) social media speculation over the last few days that Trump has died

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

I think this will be making news over the next few days 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2kp

 

Horrible, horrible abuse of trust.  All the more bleak in that if they'd just done regular financial planning they could easily have been set up for life AND those advising them still earned a perfectly good living out of it.

Beware of fear of missing out and always try to have at least a basic understanding of where you're putting your money, even if you're taking advice, ladies and gentlemen