UK Politics Thread (Part 3)

[RedWhippet]

@Mascot

Musk is basically a Bond Villain in a world without James Bond to stop him.

The thing with James Bond villains is that they are all a bit rubbish.

The spend a fortune on the underground lair and then plot to destroy the world.

What utter pricks. They are fantastically rich and could spend the rest of their lives living a life of luxury, staying in the best hotels, dining at the best restaurants, having the best tickets to the biggest events in the world. And what do they do, sitting in a cave stroking a fucking cat.

I’d love to see a Bond movie where they are introduced to @cynicaloldgit and suddenly have to reassess their life choices.

[Dane]

Scaramanga meets Victor Meldrew

[Noo_Noo]

Damn, this post jus destroyed that franchise in the same way as the revelation that Indiana Jones had no real influence on the outcome of his first movie

[gasband]

@RedWhippet

I’d love to see a Bond movie where they are introduced to @cynicaloldgit and suddenly have to reassess their life choices.

Problem is it will be a very short movie. Villain appears Infront of COG, and he says “all humans sucked”

Then movie ends, credit rolls.

[Bekloppt]

Cynnie (bless him) may be the villain himself.

[redalways]

Damn straight there’s two-tier policing.

On the other hand, 5 years for a peaceful protest for the environment.

[Dane]

Peaceful protests where soup is thrown over paintings, or roads are blocked are as relevant to climate change as looting Greggs is to children being stabbed

[redalways]

Robert Jenrick criticised for saying people shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ should be...

[RedWhippet]

Point is that they weren’t chucking bricks at the police and fire brigade.

Chucking paint at a picture is dickheadish but it isn’t stopping those people who are trying to protect people’s lives.

[Dane]

Agreed.
I based it on the view that the looters were opportunists who just latched onto the tail end of the actual rioters

[redalways]

@Dane

I based it on the view that the looters were opportunists who just latched onto the tail end of the actual rioters

Pretty sure all the reporting by people who actually covered the events says otherwise.

[Dane]

Highly unlikely that the muslim woman, black man or Indian youth I saw looting Lush would be members of a far right rioting mob.

[redalways]

So basically a few isolated examples from right-wing social media?

Got it.

[Dane]

So basically you think that ONE random video captured the ONLY 3 non right wing rioters latching on opportunistically to loot shops?

Got it.

[redalways]

Your original statement was a very definitive

@Dane

the looters were opportunists who just latched onto the tail end of the actual rioters

implying that all the looters were just opportunists.

When that is very much not the case.

[Dane]

Many of then.
Or would you like specific numbers?

[SBYM]

Bit of bickering in here.

Would anyone like to hear about the kookaburra I saw this morning?

I can totally see myself becoming a sad old cunt who goes bird watching in my retirement.

[Dane]

We can have a sub forum for sad old cunts.
I’ll apply in a few years

[RedWhippet]

@redalways

implying that all the looters were just opportunists.

I mean looting is, almost by definition, an opportunist crime.

It’s consequential to something else that is going on. If the theft is planned then it is burglary or robbery.

The looters during the Blitz were not the ones dropping the bombs, just the ones benefitting from it.

[Bekloppt]

Did you know that Kookaburras are related to Kingfishers?
Something like that crazy old uncle who buggered off to Australia and gets drunk and laughs too much and too loud.