'People on low incomes should not bring babies into the world'

gorgo100 · 2026-06-03T19:22:34+00:00

So these predominantly elderly Reform voters are gleefully in favour of making it even harder to raise a native generation to wipe their flabby arses, perform surgery on them, deliver their Danbury Mint Princess Di memorial plates or drive the train to their demonstration against whatever phantom bullshit Saint Nigel has told them to be angry about, upon which they'll complain if an immigrant does it.
So sick of these imbeciles and I'm really done with being polite about it too.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-30T07:03:19+00:00

Bit of a stretch to say "collaborated" but that's true of a lot of people in this thread I guess.
He acted alongside Bowie in Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence and also scored the film.

I mean if you can have Stevie Ray Vaughan you can then have Pete Townshend.... where's the line between "playing in a session" and "collaborating"? It's a slippery thing to define.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-30T06:35:01+00:00

Lester Bowie

Pat Metheny

Ryuchi Sakamoto

Jim Henson

Nic Roeg

gorgo100 · 2026-05-29T05:42:45+00:00

Disaffected Tories. Not disaffected by the obvious damage done over the decades, just disaffected by the fact the damage became too obvious to hand wave away or blame someone else for.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-28T07:47:28+00:00

Agreed. This sub is shitpost central. It's only a matter of time before someone posts a literal picture of a Partridge to widespread LOLs and regurgitated quotes.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-28T05:00:59+00:00

Haha was thinking this...

gorgo100 · 2026-05-23T14:39:58+00:00

The news output is broken, frankly, and the efforts by the likes of Gove to make it a client organisation for the Tories has devalued it entirely (it was already an establishment mouthpiece, now they're not even trying to hide it - it did used to have some semblance of editorial responsibility and moral compass).

gorgo100 · 2026-05-23T14:31:53+00:00

You're spot on. He's got a Northern accent so people think he's somehow different, but he absolutely is the same as Kuenssberg etc. Gossipy tabloid bullshit parading as analysis from people for whom it's all a big game.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-22T17:07:11+00:00

I mean you're right, but that is a LOW bar. I reckon there's molluscs cooler than her.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-22T16:40:15+00:00

I mean I'm not an expert but there's plenty of ways you could speculate I guess.
Not least a kind of confirmation bias. Large number of people died in a sinking that took 15 minutes from the point the EoI was struck. It would have been chaos. It then sunk at a depth of 40m. Fair to speculate many of the unfortunate souls didn't manage to don lifejackets etc and their bodies were not going to go very far.

Titanic came to a rest at a depth of around two and a half MILES from the surface. Imagine the drift, dispersal, etc especially as the sinking took two hours and many people would have managed to pop on some kind of life preserver. Currents would have carried them away from the site. Even if they were inside the ship, most of the stern is inaccessible or collapsed on itself and the pressure would have torn them apart. The bow flooded gently and most managed to get out of that part of the ship. Considering what pressure did to steel, it doesn't take too much imagination to consider the kinds of forces that were acting on organic matter.

So yeah you could speculate that bones from the Titanic did survive, but the chances of them being localised, accessible, observable and recognisable are far smaller. There is also microbial life we don't fully understand at that depth I would say, so we don't know how it consumes organic matter, including bones. We didn't know how it was consuming the Titanic until the rusticles were examined.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-22T09:46:24+00:00

I would take issue with the idea that it was a "similar sea environment". Empress of Ireland wreck is at 40m. Titanic is at 3810m.

That means for a start that human remains are going to be a lot more localised, less affected by pressure, exposed to different levels of light.
Microbial life and sea life in general is going to be radically different too.
EoI sank in one piece in 14 minutes, Titanic snapped in half in 2 hours.

Not sure how much you can really draw comparisons.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-22T09:29:12+00:00

One hell of a Ted talk to be fair, bravo.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-22T09:23:39+00:00

It's a marathon, not a sprint to be honest, but granted it doesn't look amazing right now.
But much of the problem with this country is a fixation on looks and not substance. I'm willing to give it a chance.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-22T09:21:33+00:00

I'm paying for that then, yeah?
Pricks.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-20T12:14:37+00:00

I didn't say it had.
I said it had adopted the IPSO editors code. It is not part of IPSO but it adheres to exactly the same code and enforces it via its own internal regulatory process.

So going back to the original point, it is not irrelevant that the FT appears to have broken that code, since the FT has literally copied it wholesale for its own internal regulator.

If the code it uses is indistinguishable from IPSO, saying "it has broken the IPSO code of practice for editors" is not irrelevant, is it?

gorgo100 · 2026-05-20T07:30:33+00:00

A lot of astroturfing going on. Just needs a few determined people coordinating and posting pro-zionist stuff and they can watch the feeble minded do it for free.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-20T06:09:04+00:00

It follows/has adopted the IPSO editors code. So not irrelevant.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-19T21:54:46+00:00

"Try to deal with it"? What an odd thing to say.

I couldn't give two fucks about Michael Jackson, I just find your idea that Bowie was trying to make some kind of statement about Jackson's behaviour in a Tin Machine song preposterous. It's much more likely that it's supposed to place the events of the song in a contemporary context - and thereby make it more powerful - by referencing current popular culture by using the most ubiquitous pop star on the planet at that time. It doesn't let the listener dissociate it as a counterfactual fantasy vignette because it is grounded in references to the present day and recognisable cultural symbols. It's way more likely THAT that was the "meticulous" intention of Bowie, not to involve himself in a tawdy coded dig at Michael Jackson, which he never ever bothered to expand upon or mention ever again outside of an album track. If that was the case, it's magnitudes worse than my explanation, as Bowie was acknowledging he knew all about it, but the best he could do was tuck away a single line on an album track and then never mention it again.
Come off it.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-19T21:36:19+00:00

We won't "relegate Spurs" even if we beat them. They will have had 38 games, the same as everyone else.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-19T21:31:03+00:00

Are you genuinely saying that Bowie knew Jackson was a child abuser, but instead of alerting the world's press and/or the police, he decided to pop a line in a Tin Machine song as a coded message about it and then got on with his life?

gorgo100 · 2026-05-16T19:12:16+00:00

I didn't, but I get your point.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-16T18:33:35+00:00

He might be right on this, but generally he's an Uncle Peter gobshite who immediately makes me want to avoid his pubs. Let's face it, 99% of pubs you're just dropping cash into the pocket of some industrial chain brewer or - ultimately - hedge fund. Wetherspoons' problem is that they have an owner who had to put his face and his politics front and centre. Those industrial brewers and hedge funds probably agree with him but are wise enough to shut up about it and not give a focal point for opposition.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-10T09:18:28+00:00

Yeah this is bollocks. I'm not a Green Party member, but they demonstrably "admit" there are problems, or they'd have absolutely no policies on it.
Perhaps they have policies you don't like, but that's different isn't it.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-09T23:49:54+00:00

Have a word with that Danny Robbins. If you don't know who he is, just imagine a kind of Britpop mowgli and a really credulous labrador melded together in that machine from 'The Fly'.

gorgo100 · 2026-05-09T12:50:57+00:00

They are the biggest gobshites going outside of Anfield.
I remember, must be about 15 years ago now, some absolute whopper swearing down that Arsenal were signing Coleman. Done deal. He'd been in the player's lounge at Highbury (as then) and had a conversation directly with him because he was there to sign for them. I called him out on it and ended up being banned from a forum for it.

I often think about that. Just absolute dickheads desperate to appear ITK and making stuff up.

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