General News Thread

[Jattdogg]

9 hours ago, Wymsey said:

 

Why is this even a picture? Or is it taken from a video?

 

 Obviously this doesn't prove  anything wrong is going on but this guy is a grade AAA certified creep. Charley boy needs to send him to remote northern Canada so a polar bear can eat him.

[Trav Le Bleu]

15 hours ago, The Bear said:

CPR class. 

TBF, looks more like that than anything sexual, so doesn't prove a thing.

 

Not defending the guy, just applying logic.

[Raj]

I'm a simple( some would say literally!)bloke of near 55 but I am truly disgusted by some of the things I've read about Epstein and the files and how some of these " people" are going to get away with horrendous vile acts of depravity.

Worse thing is nothing will happen to these protected garbage top.

 

[Mike Oxlong]

I'm not a royalist at all but I feel rather sorry for Beatrice and Eugenie. Imagine having to go through life having such disgusting parents as theirs 

[Tommy G]

Bet Peter Mandelson is having a relaxing Sunday 

[StanSP]

6 hours ago, Raj said:

I'm a simple( some would say literally!)bloke of near 55 but I am truly disgusted by some of the things I've read about Epstein and the files and how some of these " people" are going to get away with horrendous vile acts of depravity.

Worse thing is nothing will happen to these protected garbage top.

 

The 'protect women and girls' crew seem deadly silent... 

[bovril]

23 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

That would be fine, I'd be happy for them to put it that way and think collaboratively about how we could move forward differently, but there's a real nastiness that pervades in the way they talk about those that are culturally different - however small the cultural difference - not just ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, but it's always the same people putting up laughing emojis when a cyclist is killed, complaining about teacher's holidays, shouting about cancel culture when somebody inciting violence is jailed before screaming that the BBC should be taken off air...... They basically hate everybody that isn't themselves. 

Don't disagree and I can't really get over these people consistently voting to make others as miserable and soulless as they are. So while I sympathise a lot with the concerns over immigration and cultural change, I'm also kind of happy for them to stew in the vat of red-faced, vein-popping rage of their own creation. 

[Parafox]

On 31/01/2026 at 15:03, Wymsey said:

 

It looks to me like a Resusi-Annie mannequin used to teach CPR.

 

I've seen loads over the years.

 

Mind you, you can't get a decent shag out of any of them.

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Bet Peter Mandelson is having a relaxing Sunday 

Watching the football and admiring players physiques.

[surrifox]

22 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Bet Peter Mandelson is having a relaxing Sunday 

One of the most corrupt and disgusting individuals ever to enter public office IMO 

[Trav Le Bleu]

22 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

I'm not a royalist at all but I feel rather sorry for Romeo and Harper. Imagine having to go through life having such disgusting parents as theirs 

[Jon the Hat]

22 hours ago, StanSP said:

The 'protect women and girls' crew seem deadly silent... 

Not sure what you’re getting at here? There is clearly a huge cover up going on - it’s no coincidence that few American names have come up this week.  Many people should be in jail for this industrial scale abuse, but it’s not going to happen under Trump.

[StanSP]

39 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Not sure what you’re getting at here

I'd have thought it's quite straightforward. 

 

White males commit heinous abuse, well documented - Tommy ten-names, Nigel Farage, whoever else is slimy enough to hang around them like leeches you don't hear a peep out of. 

 

Non-white males commit heinous abuse - they're rioting in the streets and encouraging the burning of hotels and inciting of violence to those ethnic groups. 

 

 

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I'd have thought it's quite straightforward. 

 

White males commit heinous abuse, well documented - Tommy ten-names, Nigel Farage, whoever else is slimy enough to hang around them like leeches you don't hear a peep out of. 

 

Non-white males commit heinous abuse - they're rioting in the streets and encouraging the burning of hotels and inciting of violence to those ethnic groups. 

 

 

I assume you're talking about Pakistani grooming gangs, which obviously operate more in those places of increased ethnic tensions than Epstein does. I imagine if Epstein, Andrew et al were grooming girls on a large scale in a post-industrial town in Yorkshire, people would be protesting.

 

You have a point about Farage and his friendship with Trump I suppose, but it's a more general one. Also the notion that Farage doesn't complain about 'white' people is quite a funny one, considering how he built his career. 

 

I guess people generally care more about stuff that directly affects them and their families, which might not be right but is kind of understandable. 

[Tommy G]

26 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I'd have thought it's quite straightforward. 

 

White males commit heinous abuse, well documented - Tommy ten-names, Nigel Farage, whoever else is slimy enough to hang around them like leeches you don't hear a peep out of. 

 

Non-white males commit heinous abuse - they're rioting in the streets and encouraging the burning of hotels and inciting of violence to those ethnic groups. 

 

 

I think you can be disgusted by both at the same - not sure why race has to be brought into it Stan. 

[StanSP]

3 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

I think you can be disgusted by both at the same - not sure why race has to be brought into it Stan. 

Because they bring race into it! But they only fancy protesting and rioting when one group does it. 

 

Obviously you can be disgusted by both, and I fall into that category. 

 

I'm surprised you had to bring that point up, because it most certainly wasn't the one I was making. 

[leicsmac]

19 minutes ago, bovril said:

I assume you're talking about Pakistani grooming gangs, which obviously operate more in those places of increased ethnic tensions than Epstein does. I imagine if Epstein, Andrew et al were grooming girls on a large scale in a post-industrial town in Yorkshire, people would be protesting.

 

You have a point about Farage and his friendship with Trump I suppose, but it's a more general one. Also the notion that Farage doesn't complain about 'white' people is quite a funny one, considering how he built his career. 

 

I guess people generally care more about stuff that directly affects them and their families, which might not be right but is kind of understandable. 

You're absolutely correct. 

 

It's understandable, it's definitely not right, and it directly allows for some pretty grotesque stuff to happen. 

 

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

I think you can be disgusted by both at the same - not sure why race has to be brought into it Stan. 

Perhaps because that particular dividing line has been drawn already, for perhaps over a decade now, and so that perspective is the one from which this must be examined, as much as folks like you or I would like to make it just about humans?

[bovril]

6 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

I think you can be disgusted by both at the same - not sure why race has to be brought into it Stan. 

Because every time something like this happens now people need to point out it's not their tribe doing it

[Tommy G]

Just now, StanSP said:

Because they bring race into it! But they only fancy protesting and rioting when one group does it. 

 

Obviously you can be disgusted by both, and I fall into that category. 

 

I'm surprised you had to bring that point up, because it most certainly wasn't the one I was making. 

I was a bit confused what you were getting at, maybe I misunderstood. I think another poster made a point that it's unlikely to cause riots here because it's something that largely seems to have involved more American's than brits apart from Mandelson and Prince Andrew - I guess the riots here are a bit more exaggerated in reference to the grooming gangs because it's happening on your doorstep, neither are right though I agree!

 

I think the Epstein files has had massive coverage on the news and this thread

[leicsmac]

Is it much of a stretch to say that the current Epstein discoveries would have at least killed the political career of any previous President, and that they haven't shows the massive depth of cult of personality still present in the US at the present time preventing exactly that?

Edited 2 February by leicsmac

[bovril]

I mean we had mass protests here when a guy was killed by a policeman in America so obviously there are people in England who care very deeply about stuff that doesn't affect them in the slightest. 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, bovril said:

I mean we had mass protests here when a guy was killed by a policeman in America so obviously there are people in England who care very deeply about stuff that doesn't affect them in the slightest. 

I'm not sure, I'm thinking that perhaps an international nonce ring of unspeakably gargantuan depth involving a fair few people whose decision-making does affect most everyone on the planet would be everyone's problem? 

 

Perhaps not, though.

[bovril]

41 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

You're absolutely correct. 

 

It's understandable, it's definitely not right, and it directly allows for some pretty grotesque stuff to happen. 

Caring about everything all the time all around the world is exhausting though and maybe one of the reasons so many people these days are burned out and apathetic to many of the world's problems. Probably better when we didn't know much about what was happening outside our own communities. 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, bovril said:

Caring about everything all the time all around the world is exhausting though and maybe one of the reasons so many people these days are burned out and apathetic to many of the world's problems. Probably better when we didn't know much about what was happening outside our own communities. 

That's an argument I've heard a few times before and tbh I can't offer much compelling evidence to the contrary - the amount of bad stuff that a person hears about (and being cranked up to 11 in this digital era) often clearly has a negative impact on their mental health. But at the same time, these issues do matter because they can and do affect everybody in the long term. 

 

No idea how you square that particular circle. Perhaps just by everyone doing their best, at the same time, to make sure just "their" patch is well looked after (Tolkien could well be right on that one).

[Heathrow fox]

5 hours ago, surrifox said:

One of the most corrupt and disgusting individuals ever to enter public office IMO 

He gets an easy ride on these pages 

which is a bit weird