276 Responses to Weekend Thread September 11 2021

  1. MarkyMark says:

    “A society can be trained relatively easily to not notice things.”

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  2. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    Callum Baker-Osborne’s twin brother Ryan said the group who went swimming would never have entered the water if they knew of its dangers.

    ***
    Seems this tragedy resulted in the loss of his sibling.

    Hence the obvious thing to do is to get straight on to the bbc to demand a stretch of water along the coast is ‘closed’, rather than ponder more practical factors.

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    Afghan evacuee boy who ate poisonous mushrooms dies in Poland
    Published2 September
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58421631

    Polish media reports say an Afghan family picked the mushrooms from a forested area and made a soup with them.

    Local officials have denied media reports that the refuges picked and ate the mushrooms because they were not being given enough food.

    The evacuees are given “three meals a day”, said Jakub Dudziak, a spokesman for the Office for Foreigners, which is dealing with Afghan evacuees in Poland.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    Sorely mi… who again?

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    Liverpool kept pace with the Premier League’s leading pack as Mohamed Salah’s 100th English top-flight goal helped them to victory at Leeds.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58437041

    DID THE CROWD CHEER FOR TALIBAN?

    Here are the lyrics:

    “If he’s good enough for you, he’s good enough for me.

    “If he scores another few, then I’ll be Muslim too.”

    “If he’s good enough for you, he’s good enough for me.

    “Sitting in the mosque, that’s where I wanna be!

    “Mo Salah-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la.”

    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/salah-muslim-chant-liverpool-mo-14300095

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  6. Northern Voter says:

    Watching the box this afternoon (Tour of Britain bike race, not a coloured face in sight), I was struck by an advert from sky about going carbon neutral by 2030, to save the planet.
    The ad is about the moon visiting the earth, as if, and not liking what it saw, climate change, rising waters etc,etc. Do the cretins not know that the Moon along with the Sun controls the tides that happen everywhere twice a day, thus creating rising waters. Clowns!

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    • davylars says:

      I saw that advert also, and it reminded me of this…
      Not the climate porn ending sky had in mind,
      But much more likely… (25s)

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  7. Demon says:

    Just caught up with the Last Night of the Proms. The anti-British EU hats and flags were more in evidence than ever. I have tried to get tickets before for the Last Night even going to the right number of Proms and entering the ballot. All to no avail.

    These hats have finally made me put two and two together. The reason why it is so hard to get tickets for the Last Night is that most of the tickets will be given to BBC employees. Hence those awful hats and the fact there are more EU flags in evidence than Union flags. The BBC make me want to be sick.

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    • taffman says:

      Demon
      What’s our patriotic prime minister and his cultural secretary going to do about it ? We voted to leave the EU back in 2016.
      Blatant propaganda bias in front of our very eyes .

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  8. StewGreen says:

    The Times TV guide recommends a new streaming movie/drama-series channel StarzPlay
    https://www.starz.com/
    promo £1.99/month for six months

    They have a weekly travel show
    “Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish explore Scotland, delving into its culture and history. New Episodes Sundays.”

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  9. StewGreen says:

    10:15pm ITVnews Specia; : Britain’s Housing Shame on
    … filmed in a Britain where very few white people live

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  10. StewGreen says:

    7:15pm R4 comedy : Henry Normal
    Hilarious lines
    “- I live in Brighton”
    “- That Trump he’s so thick, he meant to Tweet ‘Global Warming is a Hoax’ but he tweeted ‘Global Whamming is a Hoax’ “

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  11. StewGreen says:

    9pm BBC2 and BBC4 (alternative camera angle)
    Live nude model drawing
    .. very Channel4

    BBC4 is 100% art tonight

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  12. Zephir says:

    Not specifically bbc but peripheral maybe, experiences this weekend.
    What you see and hear on the bbc and what you see in the world may be very different .
    Saturday just decided to explore a different town, and unfortunately chose Northampton, nice church and town hall, the rest, well, the town centre was a little like a cross between the Star Wars bar and a casting for Shameless. Despite that they had a market, of sorts, luckily a second hand book stall. Whilst perusing. the proprieter asked me what that noise was (it was NHS nurses in the corner shouting for “fair pay”.
    I did not know this proprieter at all but just happened to comment about NHS diversity vacancies going for 50 000 plus and he went on and on about how sick he was about blacks in every advert etc etc as so many I have heard on the street but never ever on the bbc. How many ike this are sick of it ?
    Second experience, a town that every year gives its pubs up to live bands, one pub punk, one pub heavy metal another rock etc etc. Heard music I never ever ever hear on the mainstream bbc i.e. guitars, drums, bass guitar and hundreds and hundreds of people but NO police. No police needed.

    Notting Hill or any of those things, assaults rape etc and a police bill of tens of thousands every year to control them how many are sick of it ?

    Go figure

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  13. StewGreen says:

    Countryfile about to start
    The bBC put 4 trailers on in a row
    Black announcer bloke tonight as well

    Afterwards they had 2 trailers
    Licence advert
    + Another trailer

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    • StewGreen says:

      They seem to be running 4 trailers between each programme
      5 before the 10pm news including Drag Race
      and “Ridley Road about the rise of fascism in the 60s and anti-fascism. “

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  14. StewGreen says:

    Sport’s presenter rota’s
    Alex(andra) Scott was set to take over from Sue Barker on Question Of Sport
    .. but the BBC changed their minds and made her the presenter of Football Focus
    .. Ad by adding another female presenter each week and female guests ..the BBC are engineering to lever up women’s football to the same prominence as mens.

    After @PaddyMcGuinness made a good job of ruining Top Gear
    the BBC made him the presenter of Question Of Sport
    and completely changed the format

    “PaddyMcGuinness should be working at JD Sports
    …., not Question of Sport.”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “This internship (BBC Job Title: Trainee Broadcast Journalist) is only open to candidates from a black, Asian or non-white ethnic minority background.“

      “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}””

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41265644

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Among the finer points I didn’t get to is one that seems relevant to those US “negotiators” in Doha so effortlessly played by the Taliban: Wazir Akbar Khan, the duplicitous prince with whom the British negotiated the terms of the retreat, understood that the infidel were more familiar with Dari than with Pashto. So, as the bloodbath began, he repeatedly shouted to his men “Fire!” in Pashto (their tongue), but punctuated by “Hold fire!” in Dari, in order that the British would think he was trying to prevent the massacre and sticking to the terms of the retreat.

    https://www.steynonline.com/11685/the-remnants-of-an-army

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    • Zephir says:

      Theres a chance of another Carry on film there, lets do lunch and work the script, Sid James could do a great Joe Biden with his forgetrfulness but an eye for young girls, a bit like Clinton really which everyone had amnesia about

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  16. StewGreen says:

    Countryfile : a bit different this week all actual farming people
    not city people
    and no item trying to flog the Calendar

    Half was about a Northern Ireland farm
    They kept talking about worrying about their carbon Footprint
    and then did a lot of poncing about in a gas guzzling Landrover.

    19:33 Young Farmer contenders
    “Lucy is very interested in sustainability in farming projects”

    19:41pm a 10 minute promo for the sponsored ramble for Children in Need
    “Your money could help children like these whose dad died of cancer , by paying for counsellors”

    back to the Northern Ireland farm, viewers tweeting what a a rip off it is for selling jam at £8.75 a jar.

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  17. Zephir says:

    Joe Biden at the Whitehouse:

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    Top BBC executives run up more than £25,000 in expenses before leaving
    This article is more than 5 years old
    Outgoing head of natural history unit, Wendy Darke, files biggest bill of £11,000 in six months as union chiefs criticise new deal for corporation staff

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/11/top-bbc-executives-run-up-more-than-25000-in-expenses-before-leaving

    The biggest bill by far belonged to Wendy Darke, the outgoing head of the BBC’s natural history unit, who claimed almost £11,000 for travel and hospitality, according to official BBC figures published on the expenses of the corporation’s top executives.

    Yentob, who stood down as creative director late last year but remains a presenter of BBC show Imagine, ran up a bill of £2,574.18 in the last six months of 2015, according to information disclosed by the corporation. One entry in his expenses filing includes £22 for “BBC speech prep”.

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Did these people as for more immigration….

    MILAN, Sept 12 (Reuters) – A Somali asylum-seeker was arrested by Italian police after he allegedly stabbed four women and a six-year-old child in the tourist town of Rimini on Saturday night, ANSA news agency reported on Sunday.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/five-people-stabbed-italian-resort-somali-man-arrested-2021-09-12/

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    American President Joe Biden don ask im kontri pipo to embrace unity as dem rememba di victims of di 9/11 terrorist attack.

    For video wey e release one day to di 20th anniversary of di attacks, di president rememba di 2,977 pipo wey die for di attack.

    Wetin happun for 9/11?
    Oga Biden follow thank di emergency workers wey follow respond to di attacks.

    E add say, “no mata how long don pass, dis commemoration events dey bring evritin back painfully like say na just now you hear di tori”.

    E gree say afta di attack, violence against Muslim Americans bin start but still press leg for ground say unity don remain di US “biggest strength”.
    https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-58513312

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  21. Zephir says:

    Expenses means tax avoidance, the taxes that pay for social care and the NHS what do the bbc employees have to say about that, any normal employee is not allowed to claim the tsax free sums but the bbc are experts at avoiding tax, the absolute selfish self serving hypocrisy is astounding that they demand tax payers fund there pet projects like the socialist twats they \zre live in luxury avoid tax and ax everyone else not me

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  22. Wink1 says:

    Watching the BBC news – why do I do it!! – there was a report from John Simpson at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He showed two guards , from either side, standing at the check point. He pointed out the Taliban soldier and then to my shock went over and actually shook the Taliban soldier’s hand!!! The absolute hypocrisy – the Taliban are barbarians and the reason thousands of people are trying to escape from their tyranny!!

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  23. Zephir says:

    They will run a programme about poverty while all staying at a hotel (off their tax) meals (off their tax)_ anything else they can defraud HMRC from and harangue the rest of the piopulation for not funding the nhs

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  24. Zephir says:

    And even it one finds what a bbc racist earns it will be thousands andn. upon thoudands

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  25. petebogtrott says:

    Notice they never showed the clip of the reporter saying that the WTC 7 had collapsed when it could be seen behind the reporter it was still standing. Also the clip where reporters said there was no plane debris at the pentagon site. Both videos of these two reports where not repeated as they were told not to show them again.

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