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[Alf Bentley]

4 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Posted by Donald on his twitter account 

 

 

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

 

Nah, on second thoughts, we need a love-in during Trump's visit....

"Boris is a great guy. He and Nigel are going to do great things to help America. We're going to do a great deal for the NHS!"

Something like that....

 

[leicsmac]

8 hours ago, MattP said:

The fact you immediately have to go to the extent of black eyes and a broken nose shows just how it's impossible to even talk about this sensibly.

 

A court of law should have every piece of information available to it - you shouldn't not hear things because you want to influence a decision. 

Pardon the hyperbole, but those are two actual real life cases (one anecdotal, the other rather more famous and has been making the news recently).

 

If you want to be sensible, as you say, then please: do give an example or two (hypothetical or no) of where you believe a womans taste in kink is in any way relevant to a consent violation she has received.

 

NB. I don't get the "shouldn't not hear things" argument either - courts and judges have cut short lawyers for giving what they believe to be irrelevant arguments pretty much since there were lawyers. The only reason such arguments should be allowed in a court of law is if they are relevant - and I still haven't heard exactly why they might be in this case.

[Mike Oxlong]

Japanese store 'rethinks' badges for staff on periods https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50597405

 

The girls in the Oxlong household also gave it a very firm thumbs down 

Edited 29 November 2019 by Mike Oxlong

[Soup]

Brad Gobright, one of the worlds best free solo climbers has died. Only 31 but died doing what he loved. Massive respect to these guys. 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/nov/29/brad-gobright-renowned-us-rock-climber-dies-after-fall-in-mexico

Edited 29 November 2019 by Soup

[leicsmac]

6 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Japanese store 'rethinks' badges for staff on periods https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50597405

 

The girls in the Oxlong household also gave it a very firm thumbs down 

Sadly Japan and East Asia seems to have a fair way to go when it comes to healthy attitudes towards women in general - not that those attitudes aren't on show pretty much everywhere else in the world too, though.

 

A couple of saddening examples from my side of the world that demonstrate this:

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50596943

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50582338

[Tuna]

Incident on London Bridge, reports of shots fired.

 

 

[urban.spaceman]

25 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Incident on London Bridge, reports of shots fired.

 

 

Here we go again.

 

Katie Hopkins is on her way with a cameraman just in case.

[jonthefox]

28 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Incident on London Bridge, reports of shots fired.

 

 

I’ll be there tomorrow. Makes you think.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

32 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Incident on London Bridge, reports of shots fired.

 

 

I’m in London with the wife now. We were going to stop at London Bridge but thankfully carried on to Canary Wharf instead. 

[Jon the Hat]

There’s video on twitter of a guy being shot by Police who were backing away and getting civilians off him.  Went to get up and shot twice.  Suggests they were concerned he was a threat.

Edited 29 November 2019 by Jon the Hat

[Bobby Hundreds]

1 minute ago, Jon the Hat said:

There’s video on twitter of a guy being shot by Police who were backing away and getting civilians off him.  Went to get up and shit twice.  Suggests they were concerned he was a threat.

Heard the police flushed the assailant out.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Hopefully he's brown bread and the five casualties all recover.

[stripeyfox]

2 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

There’s video on twitter of a guy being shot by Police who were backing away and getting civilians off him.  Went to get up and shit twice.  Suggests they were concerned he was a threat.

Then there's another guy holidng a knife? Maybe disarmed the attacker? 

[stripeyfox]

Love the fact that "normal" people pile on the attacker and restrain him until the Police turn up and shoot him!

 

Well done all.(assuming they got the right guy, of course....)

 

 

[bovril]

I hate to make a political point with the (presumed) attacker not even cold, but makes you realise again that it's a hell of a lot easier to kill someone with a gun than a knife. I hope to fvck our drift towards the US doesn't involve US style gun laws over here. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

8 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Hopefully he's brown bread and the five casualties all recover.

Just seen the video, anyone would do well to survive getting shot by an assault rifle from 2 meters away. 

[Guest MattP]

Some very brave members of the public looking at the video.

[Jon the Hat]

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

I hate to make a political point with the (presumed) attacker not even cold, but makes you realise again that it's a hell of a lot easier to kill someone with a gun than a knife. I hope to fvck our drift towards the US doesn't involve US style gun laws over here. 

Don’t be ridiculous.

[stripeyfox]

4 minutes ago, bovril said:

I hate to make a political point with the (presumed) attacker not even cold, but makes you realise again that it's a hell of a lot easier to kill someone with a gun than a knife. I hope to fvck our drift towards the US doesn't involve US style gun laws over here. 

Ridiculous statment

 

I fail to see how you can make that connection? Police using lethal force against an attacker, and suddenly we're all going to get tooled up like Texans ?

 

We have among the strictest gun control laws in the world and I don't see anyone having any appetite to change that anytime soon. Most people have never even seen a gun in real life (other than police in airports and other high security areas).

 

[bovril]

Just now, stripeyfox said:

Ridiculous statment

 

I fail to see how you can make that connection? Police using lethal force against an attacker, and suddenly we're all going to get tooled up like Texans ?

 

We have among the strictest gun control laws in the world and I don't see anyone having any appetite to change that anytime soon. Most people have never even seen a gun in real life (other than police in airports and other high security areas).

 

Alright alright. Maybe I was being a bit of a drama queen, I'm just pleased we have strict gun laws. For what it's worth I don't think they'll change anytime soon either, thankfully.

[RoboFox]

The other half was on her way out of London Bridge station maybe just after it happened. Her office is at the Shard. 

 

They were told not to exit towards the bridge, and seems like there was a lot of confusion, and she saw hundreds of people panicking and running.

 

They're not being allowed to leave their offices for the time being. The entire area has been cordoned off. 

[Guest Kopfkino]

Full respect to the members of public that wrestled the knife off the attacker. Bigger stones than I will ever have. 

[StanSP]

Huge respect and bravery of those who tackled the terrorist down. Would have given valuable time for armed police to get there and no doubt saved other lives before he would have injured anyone else. Especially given they'd have had no idea his suicide vest was a fake. 

 

Massive credit to them and police/emergency services. Always first to go towards danger and that can't be praised enough. 

 

Glad the dickhead got shot dead. 

[Fox92]

Two confirmed deaths.

[String fellow]

Well - three - including the 'suspect'.

Edited 29 November 2019 by String fellow