171 Responses to Weekend 19th August 2023

  1. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Earlier I noticed someone saying the Lionesses shouldn’t be called after an animal which is not native to the UK.

    Perhaps the should change their name to something we do have here, Beavers springs to mind.

    However, with all their ponytails swishing about perhaps something horsey would suit them…Shire Girls?…Mares?

    Maybe something doggie would suit them (fetch!) (can they wag their ponytails?)

    Cats don’t suit them so much as the British Shorthair would rule out the beponytailed blondies although Pussy might work.

    Anyway, good luck to them.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    GBnews and TalkTV both constantly banging on about the same boring topic
    “Lucy Letby won’t attend court for sentencing
    .. here’s some people saying she should be forced to”

    That seems like a bread and circuses thing
    .. I wonder if there is a bigger topic we are being distracted away from.

    In the real world two wrongs don’t make a right
    Dragging someone into the courtroom is torture
    equivalent of having a crowd throw rocks.

    She’s crazy , you can’t change that
    The babies are dead, you can’t bring them back
    What you can do is prevent FUTURE victims
    #1 Proper management to monitor staff actions
    If a cat kills birds in the garden 7 day in a row , it doesn’t make the cat 7 times as evil, rather you should be controlling it better.

    #2 Furthermore if the system tortures criminals that sends a signal to bad guys that they can torture people as well

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    • Guest Who says:

      Surkeer swung her a tv for the live match, or a bank holiday off?

      Anyone who did what she did is clearly mentally unsound, so demanding attendance is beyond silly and worthy only of media kindergarten twats.

      Like rummaging through Corbyn’s old tweets to see if he attended an unapproved briss before hitting one of his good friends’ ritual slaughters.

      Which is why every Spad worth their future safe seat has the old guard and ministers’ feeds on auto for any stupid anniversary, to fend off a researcher at BBC Verify getting excited and tipping off everyone from VD to Brando.

      Then screwing up anyway.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Stew, I agree. One story equates to 12 hours of disection, and discussion by every Gbnews regulars they can get in the studio. Even, God knows why, the non-funny shouty shouty Leo Kirsk – whose wangled himself a presenting role, is asked for his views.
      Have the summer holidays totally played havoc with regular presenters? They’ll be shoving the night time cleaner in front of the camera next. In the beginning I quite liked Emily Carver, but she’s on far too often now, and her voice grates on me.

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  3. Scroblene says:

    Scrobs Publishers Inc is founding a new free daily paper, ‘THE RETRO’…

    The idea came from Markymark’s posts which regularly reminds citizens of all the stuff that was once in the public eye, but has been quietly stuffed away to be forgotten by the MSM – especially the Champagne Beeboholics in W1AA!

    The editorial will be there to: –

    Revisit old scandals, i.e. who ‘bonked’ who…

    Ignore Ginge and Minge entirely

    Remind the public of politicians hoping their foibles of, cheating, lying, fiddling expenses etc., to be forgotten

    Blair legacy starting the rot for UK and got worse under Brown

    Woke kids’ realisation in five year’s time that they’ll be the biggest losers – too late by then

    Simon Jack, ‘getting away with it’

    Natwest payoff? Who else and how much?

    Pensions loss for miscreants in local authorities and civil serpents

    £100,000 pa for civil serpents and how that sum was arrived at – i.e. by promoting them way above their usefulness just before they retire at 50

    There will be no mention of Comical Mad Ali, Larry Ginker or Picky Vice.

    There will be no paywall, but all contributions will be welcomed, rather like the awful Guardian, fawning and begging everyone to give them some cash to be leftie with…

    THE RETRO’s Editor, Senor Shamus Conrad Roberto O’Blene will always be on hand, until they’re open at 12.00 noon prompt, in which case, all work will be supervised by his secretary, Miss Toniatteline Nougat, the former pole dancer and tea-taster in a private club down Old Compton Street!

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  4. G says:

    “Phonebox Stuffing”. A fad of the 60’s. Or was it?

    Perhaps those advocates of ‘Open Borders’ and ‘Welcome Migrants’ started their no limit on numbers when they became infected with and/or memories (or fantasies thereof) of the 60’s fad.

    Anyway be warned, a ‘hideously white’ demonstration of the fad. Now within context, Wiki needs a new photo to depict the multiracial experiment that is now Britain. A pure and simple explanation of what’s happening to the UK.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonebooth_stuffing

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    • Guest Who says:

      Talking hideously white, should the gels prevail, or half prevail, thereby seeing a ‘demand’ for 1/2 a day off, Saddo might well issue a memo requiring them to hit the hair dye to become acceptably non blonde for his perverse race based tastes before allowing any open top leccy busses.

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  6. BRISSLES says:

    Scrobs, glad you put “the” in front of Retro. Not to be mistaken for Retro magazine http://www.yoursretro.co.uk . and to which I subscribe. It’s for the likes of me who like to reminisce on past golden age film stars, vintage TV programmes, products and gadgets which I grew up, long since gone sweeties, and a mag I thoroughly recommend.

    I look forward to yours Scrobs as an antidote to the lighter stuff (or should that be the other way around ).

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      I second this, I’ve picked up Yours Retro a few times. They pack it with varied content, it’s decently written and the vintage photos are great.
      Also raise half a cheer for Infinity magazine (“Nostalgia, Sci-Fi and Cult”), although there’s too much boring nerd stuff about the contributors’ own memories.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Oh hellfire, I didn’t know there was such a competitor, and would wish that I should have checked first, but there again, I’m not a Beeboid Veryflutter, so clearly didn’t!

        Hows about I call it something else then? Suggestions are always welcome, and on a personal note, I dreamed up the title of my new venture while half-asleep one early morning, before I got up and walked the dog – so you can also blame her…

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  7. micknotmike says:

    I notice Dickie put up a compilation of snippets from the awful bbc spring woman. One of the articles showed (Yet more) head and shoulder pictures. Her comment? –
    “Now I have my own official headshots”
    If only it were true. Somewhere there must be some old people on a farm who could give her a home.

    Additional note – Top headline on the bbc now “England suffer agonising word cup defeat”.
    Some sort of spelling quiz?
    I have a jpg screenshot but I’m unsure how to add it, if anyone competent could help?

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  8. BRISSLES says:

    Spain won, yeah !! Bet Wills is glad he didn’t waste the plane fuel. So much for those that predicted a 3-1 win…

    Never mind it gives the commentators a different dialogue like “they should be proud of themselves, they’ve inspired a generation of girls, desperately disappointing,”. Wonder how long before the words from Beckham will be reported.

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  9. Foscari says:

    I just finished watching the ladies World Cup final. In
    which Spain completely outplayed England. The
    co commentator on the BBC. Not the one with the sore throat
    reminded me of the supporter that sits next to you
    and is so biased that every foul his team makes was a great tackle. Messi for the opposition is crap. And that every opposition player
    should be sent off. And that the referee is a wanker for awarding
    a blatant penalty against his team. Other than that the
    commentary was unbiased !

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Foscari
      Thank you for the summary – I suppose the losers will all get ‘honours ‘ and will be recruited to play in Saudi for £700 k a week – or maybe not …..

      No doubt the BBC will be crowing about the hundreds of millions who watched . I had a nice walk in Epping Forest – I’ve had that first whiff of Autumn …..

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      • Deborah says:

        As I said in a previous post there is an agenda behind women’s football. I haven’t worked it out yet but am sure it is linked with things like trans issues and gay marriage. The BBC was pushing this agenda 10 years ago and it is a global phenomena. I prefer to watch women’s hockey or even cricket.

        Meanwhile, just gone to a news website and cheered. No need for Richi to consider a bank holiday. I expect a push for the women to receive Damehoods because there is no such thing as losers these days.

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Deb, I would have expected Damehoods for winning, but a tricky one to give losers the gong.

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        • TrickCyclist says:

          I watched the match in a vaguely interested way, I suppose I would have preferred England to win but I can’t say I felt any disappointment at the end. They were a bit “meh.”
          At least they don’t give me the gnawing dislike that Gareth Southgate’s team do!

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      • BRISSLES says:

        I did a shop in an empty Tescos.

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    • Dickie says:

      The Spanish ladies football team all appear to be hideously white. Wonder if the BBC or media will comment on this😂😂

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  10. Guest Who says:

    New Labour Deputy Leader?

    https://x.com/gbnews/status/1693238611049586697?s=61

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  11. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/leilanidowding/status/1693240259285233724?s=61

    This one is easy, Ms. Imang… direct her to renowned historical revisionist Sadiq Khan for the best steer.

    Talking of steers, here’s BBC rancher Mehdi…

    https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1693240266868617272?s=61

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  12. G.W.F. says:

    Too many blonde blue eyed girls.

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  13. Up2snuff says:

    Weather Report Watch #1 – is that a real note of regret in your voice, Stav?

    Early morning weather pre-7 a.m. News forecast was from Stav Danaos. He sounded positively regretful that the Met Office’s Extreme Weather Warnings had been dialled back to a week of sunshine instead. I wondered if he was putting it on but I think the regret was genuine. He is obviously disappointed at the lack of fire and brimstone: https://www.bbc.co.uk › weather › about › 29078780

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    I thought I’d – just for a change – watch the BBC news – the Spain droid managed to find a couple of dozen Spanish kids in Madrid ‘celebrating ‘ the win . The whole 10 minutes was just the girl footy – there’s no other news today – no green crap – there’s no weather – no nurses are killing babies – no war in Ukraine …. Apparently …

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  15. tomo says:

    I took a quick look at The Guardian’s take on the Maui winds and wildfires – simply putrid…

    elsewhere there was this :

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  16. Zephir says:

    Thank God thats over, now maybe we can choose what football we like rather than wimmins football being endlessly shoved down our gullets by the media desperate because they are wimmin, usually playing in empty small stadiums.

    I commented in a shop that was playing the match on radio, funny that, two wimmin commentators no blokes, yet also wimmin commentators on blokes football, stunning silence from the sexists around me

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      Z
      On the bright side.
      We will not have the blanket coverage 24/7 which would have happened had the girls won.

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      • Zephir says:

        If they had won, their top players could possibly have been poached by a Sunday league / pub side somewhere, so it is maybe for the best for the bbc sexists

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  17. Zephir says:

    I propose we put the wimmins England team up against a third or fourth division male side and see what happens.

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  18. Zephir says:

    And, if they are so bleeding fit, why is the male section in any clothing shop always on the upper floor and the wimmin bit on the ground floor ?

    Every time I come across this I walk out now. Bloody sexists.

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  19. tomo says:

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  20. tomo says:

    Trick question!

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  21. tomo says:

    Vile on X

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  22. taffman says:

    “William Gladstone’s family to apologise for slavery links”
    How about the democratic world celebrating the fact that Great Britain was one of the First Nations in the world to stop slavery and actively go out the globe preventing it ? – over to you BBC .

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    • micknotmike says:

      Evening Taff,
      Fair point. Wasn’t it Gladstone who held up a copy of the koran in the houses of parliament and said “While this book exists there will never be peace in the world”? Definitely his era but far too controversial to find it in the usual search engines.
      If I’m wrong, my apologies, but it’s rattling around my mind for some reason.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      My mother was white and lived in a village near Hawarden, home of the Gladstone family during the 1920s’. The family leader with Butler and another high ranking servant would sit in their carriage near the villager’s houses whilst the daughters were led outside for physical examination on the roadside – teeth, arms, etc – to see if they were fit enough for service. Parents had no choice, this was feudal Britain. How about an apology to the local lower class white folk?

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      • taffman says:

        Hiring fairs ,

        In south taffland , “door boys” of seven years of age sent down coal mines until the late 1840’s .

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        • Charlie Farley says:

          taffman ,
          One of my Great Uncle’s was Fire Door Boy at 14 …..but it did save him from the WW1 slaughter in France where so many lives were wasted and Families destroyed .

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  23. Up2snuff says:

    Watch Out, Watch Out, There is a Wolf at the Door

    And the BBC apparently wish to blow the Brexit House down. BBC R4 17.40 today “Reith re-Visited.” Robert Birley’s 1949 Reith lecture series, “Britain in Europe”, remain urgently topical today. Sarah Montague discusses the lectures with Professor Anand Menon. The Reith Lectures began in 1948 on the Home Service, subsequently moving to Radio 4 and becoming a major national occasion for intellectual debate. As part of the celebrations of Radio 4’s 50th anniversary, the network looks back at the first 10 years of the Reith Lectures to explore how they reflect the times in which they were delivered and how well they stand up now. Birley was headmaster of Eton who had worked in postwar Germany. In his lectures, he looked forward to what he described as a European Union and discussed how far Britain would become integrated in it. Sarah assesses his lectures with the help of Anand Menon, who heads The UK In A Changing Europe thinktank.

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  24. tomo says:

    Your taxes well spent

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  25. tomo says:

    So the wall worked to the point where the scum want to pull it down – easy to imagine some US politicians are on Mexican criminal gang payrolls?

    On reading the NYP piece it looks like Biden White House trying to salt the earth… (obvs. not the dope in chief)

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  26. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/msnbc/status/1693291837375607214?s=61

    They seem young. And diverse.

    I thought no one was drinking any more?

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Saturday BBC local newsPR
    almost entire prog was about Lincoln Pride parade
    “Some meanies spraypainted 2 “pride benches” ”
    .. Actually they are two normal benches that the council recently painted in Pride colours.

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  28. BRISSLES says:

    And the team award in Sports Personality of the Year goes to ……….

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    Spain …

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, I think Sadiq Khan will be delighted with the result of the Womens’ World Cup Final. After all he wants to restrict or even ban Carmonarship. The result provides him with the excuse for an outright ban on ownership of all private vehicles. 😉

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  30. Fedup2 says:

    The drama channel is repeating ‘when the boat comes in ‘- from 1975 . I guess it covers the time from 1919 .

    I wonder what some of those kidults – great grandchildren ( apart from the unwanted imports ) – of people back the wouid think of the living conditions of those times …. ?

    Now back to the bottle blonds sobbing over losing a footy. Game

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, London had a big problem with immigration at the end of the 19th and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Chinese seamen were coming here in huge numbers. Prior to that Russian revolutionaries were flocking to the UK and there were fears that they would go on to stir up trouble here. If memory serves me well, Joseph Conrad, a famous author buried in Canterbury, wrote a book about that very subject. I think it may be titled ‘The Secret Agent’ but memory may be defective on that.

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  31. tomo says:

    “The theatre was hosting a gathering of drone manufacturers, the acting mayor of Chernihiv told the BBC”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66554412

    The filth at The Press Association saw fit to omit this from their syndicated report of the event.

    I fully expect the BBC to amend their report.

    https://archive.is/XXPOF

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  32. tomo says:

    I didn’t realise there’s a BBC Rwanda-Burundi web site – or at least that’s what it looks like…

    https://twitter.com/BBCGahuza/

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Tragic. And I mean the BBC priorities as well.

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1693307551901708435?s=46

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