576 Responses to Midweek Open Thread

  1. vlad says:

    May not be applicable in this case but shame to waste a good photoshop, courtesy of twitter.

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  2. fakenewswatcher says:

    I didn’t see the BBC news you speak of, but it sounds typically deceitful. Anything to avoid calling out the obvious truth…
    You do wonder what bounces around in those near empty little heads in the beeb news studios. The Fuehrer would have loved the ‘sticking to the narrative’ , regardless. I can hear the sound of heels clicking.
    The more these events happen, the more the MSM will find evasive terminology.

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  3. vlad says:

    BBC reveal their prime suspect…

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  4. fakenewswatcher says:

    ‘Die Welt’ says: ‘Please don’t speculate, this could have been a technical defect’. If all drivers of technically deficient vehicles get out and shoot themselves, the German population is really going to shrink…
    I notice a very relieved ‘Welt’ reporting that the driver was a Jens R. That would, indeed, make him a very German German.

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    • vlad says:

      Die Welt, eh? See 3 or 4 posts further down.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      fnw, Jens R or Jens On? But isn’t he retired?

      Mind you, the car he had for his last two seasons was ‘a bit of an old van’.

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  5. vlad says:

    While saying we mustn’t speculate or politicise the Muenster attack, the Beebistan do just that in their interview with some German journalist, whom they manoeuvre into having a dig at an AfD politician who made a hasty comment about it. (The Fraulein seems more than happy to oblige, so I’m guessing she’s a carefully selected lefty, and probably rehearsed beforehand.)

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    • vlad says:

      Just did a bit of research. The said German hackette works for Die Welt, which describes itself as taking a “liberal cosmopolitan” position in editing. Oh dear, a bit like our Guardian then. Or indeed our most trusted broadcaster. Why am I not surprised?

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  6. vlad says:

    Russian Foreign Minister wants a chat with our own Foreign Secretary.

    Great, just don’t shake hands Bojo, or touch any door handles, or drink any tea, and you’ll be fine.

    Probably.

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    • Pounce says:

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      Are the Skripals dead yet?
      It must be the most non-lethal “Weapon Grade” deadly nerve agent in existence, quite an odd choice for the highly trained FSB assassin tasked with offing Sergei et fille.
      So far the only fatalities in this entire sorry episode, are the Skripals’cat and two guinea pigs killed by the British authorities.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Al, three out of four pets prefer it, er .. , no, sorry…. were killed by it.

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        • Guest Who says:

          I think it was being left locked in the house that did for them.

          If only one of the rozzers or fire persons walking about unprotected with the Hazmatters had cracked a window…

          #Justice4Tibbles

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      • Pounce says:

        The thing about Nerve agents is their very short shelf life,
        This is accelerated by hot, cold or damp conditions. As the temperature was below 0 we can gather that its ability to work as designed was degraded , it was also said to be damp at the time. Nerve agents are very lethal, lets not presume they are’nt because they didn’t work as designed.

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        • Al Shubtill says:

          Seems an even stranger method of assassination for an assassin sent by the Russian State to employ, since in Salisbury at the time it was below freezing with three inches of snow on the ground.

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          • Guest Who says:

            I know as much as anyone… Boris, the bbc… Owen Jones… namely bubkiss.

            However, I shall hereby pronounce.

            It seems ‘highly likely’ that a complex nerve agent was deployed by person or persons as yet unknown with close ties to the folk who make it.

            It seems, given the ineffective deployment, to have either have been spectacularly inept in delivery, or deliberately so to send a message, and/or send Western political pygmies and media juveniles into collective meltdown. If so, job done.

            I err on the latter. It was Vlad wot dun it. Or, not.

            Which is why it is entirely barking to have reacted as predictably as he knew they all would. Allegedly.

            But I could be wrong.

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  7. vlad says:

    Merkel on the blower to the Muenster Chief of Police: “If you value your job, the driver was a fair-haired German national called Hans Schmidt, Ja?”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The font of truth which is The Guardian reports on the secret formation of a new political party for the middle – wonder if it will be called the Lib Dem’s
      And have that disasterous Gang of Four again.

      I wonder if it will a pet project of al beeb ?

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  8. StewGreen says:

    “A March report by the Moroccan newspaper Al-Ousboue traced her lineage back 43 generations to the founder of Islam, sparking widespread interest across the Middle East.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5587555/Historians-trace-Queens-heritage-Prophet-Muhammad.html

    Adam Rutherford wrote a book asserting that everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne the Emperor from 800.
    His premise is sound, cos when you go back so far we each have millions of ancestors.
    However I believe he forgot to account for the way the numbers diminish particularly in remote areas, where pretty much every ancestry line has the same ancestry. But other people will have multiple connections to Emperor Charlemagne

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  9. StewGreen says:

    Interesting framing on the Radio 4 6pm news
    #1 Munster attack…. blah blah similar a year ago a man drove into a mosque crowd

    item #4 The Rail Awards “featured a mock terrorist attack, particular;y tasteless cos it’s a year since the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack”

    ..hang on why didn’t they connect the Munster attack with the pattern of the Westminster attack.

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    • Pounce says:

      A few years back, I got on the Tube at Finchley Central. The carriage I boarded had a woman dressed in a Black tent, only her eyes were showing everybody (Including I) went into another carriage.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    When a truck hits a crowd we expect it’s an Islamist attack.

    Yes a nutter can decide to drop into a random crowd, but never happened before.

    A possible scenario is that Islamists might manipulate a mentally ill person, that’s an MO used in Palestine/Iraq

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  11. StewGreen says:

    The lefty outrage bus is being driven at Quentin Letts cos he disliked the acting of a black actor.
    They focus on part or his review

    Was Mr Wringer cast because he is black? If so, the RSC’s clunking approach to politically correct casting has again weakened its stage product.

    I suppose its managers are under pressure from the Arts Council to tick inclusiveness boxes, but at some point they are going to have to decide if their core business is drama or social engineering.

    He concludes the other good actors save the play.

    How can you criticise a poor performance of a black actor without being called racist ?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5584191/QUENTIN-LETTS-reviews-Fantastic-Follies-Mrs-Rich.html#ixzz5C1bCgXev

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    • Halifax says:

      .Great point made. It can also apply to advertisers. I believe advertising revenue on TV is falling through the floor. Look at the number of BME people on adverts. I’m not being racist but I dont see the people used in the Sainsbury adverts (to use just one as an example) actually in Sainsbury. Therefore and plagiarizing the comments made about the RSC………at some point they are going to have to decide if their core business is advertising or social engineering…….surely the discussion must be had in boardrooms, do we want to use advertising to sell or are we social engineering sheep.
      The latest sheep are Clearscore gone is the dog and white hetro couple to be replaced by 2 likeable men from BME backgrounds (Are they in a gay relationship?) Under a table. They really must think we are stupid not to notice.

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  12. Up2snuff says:

    BBC, I gather from posts above, having some trouble with their German geography.

    This morning the BBC described Saskatchewan as being in Western Canada. Canadians consider it to be in Southern Canada.

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  13. Nibor says:

    Well I fell over and hit my head and that must be due to Brexit .

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  14. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    Sorry, sorry not BBC But Daily Telegraph.

    Amber Rudd has written a column on crime control etc.
    Behind a paywall but you can read the comments.
    “They could be going better” would be one way of putting it.

    “Total disaster” a more accurate description. Enjoy!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Meanwhile, Anthony is feeling unloved. Cannot think why.

      Do love his quotes notion that journalists (presumably like him) are underpaid.

      Ps: reported by thick thumb. Sorry.

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  15. Zelazek says:

    If the Munster perpetrator turns out to be a mentally ill white German, the liberal elite shouldn’t heave a sigh of relief. It means that Islam has successfully spread its ideas to the insane community, putting the rest of us in even more danger than we were before.

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  16. vlad says:

    It’s a typical slippery disingenuous argument used by the liberal-left to lump all ‘migrants’ together. Some undoubtedly have benefitted this country – including I would argue the recent influx of Poles – while many others have most definitely not.

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      The Poles have certainly increased the number of fatalities involving HGVs on Britain’s motorways, since our elite decided we needed more people in the country.

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