News thread

Balladeer wrote:

The good thing about this is that we'll hopefully get another round of "mock the Tory adverts", like we did with "We can't go on like this."

EDIT: Yup, they're already out there: http://www.itv.com/news/2014-03-19/that-shapps-tweet-and-the-parodies-that-followed/

This says it all, doesn't it?

"The Thick of It co-writer Simon Blackwell tweeted:

Genuinely, if that Conservative beer & bingo ad had come up at a Thick Of It script meeting we’d have rejected it as being too far-fetched."

On a similar note to the news above...

http://longtermplan.org.uk/

It's just chronic. It's a shame Mock The Week isn't on, because they could make an hour-long special out of this.

Nor is HIGNFY. As a Londoner, I'd be very happy with fewer jobs being created in London - either give me a reason to move out, or give other people a reason and stop driving property prices through the roof!

HIGNFY is due back in a fortnight, annoyingly.

Also, what Balla said, re: That London. It's got to the point where they're planning on extending the Tube to Reading. :O

Sorry I've been away, been knocking back Strawberry Daiquiris at Gala all week, did I miss anything in the news?

Football fans are so grown up.

Wait I thought you said football fans? All I saw was fans of Manchester United.   

Hmm, I think might just confirm what you said, ha. I don't know what they expected to happen when Ferguson left considering their squad was ageing and full of average players like Young.

Still, I find the plane protest quite amusing. If they put this much effort into protesting about government spending or trident maybe we would be getting somewhere.

I love seeing the rags like this after the year's of stick we've got.

It's all quite petty, really. However, someone linked me to this Telegraph article a couple of days ago and it is very comprehensive. Poor bloke.

On a completely different topic, gay marriage is now a thing!

Sense is seen!  I love how the argument against seems to be "The definition of 'marriage' used to be 'the union between a man and a woman'", as if now we all have to change our dictionaries. Personally, well pleased that more people in love can get the same rights and privileges as other people in love.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26799969

ZeroJones wrote:

Sense is seen!  I love how the argument against seems to be "The definition of 'marriage' used to be 'the union between a man and a woman'", as if now we all have to change our dictionaries.

Exactly, adding to this I am pretty sure the 'definition' of marriage consists of a lifelong commitment. Yet I would hardly call divorce a rarity. Hopefully the homosexual couples that have been stigmatized and waiting for this revelation can show the wider public what commitment and responsibility truly is.

Bowser takes District of Columbia mayorship

This is despite controversies regarding the ambiguity of plans to move the district's stock of princesses to "another" castle.

All lifts in buildings to be replaced with Thwomps? What's not to love?

Given the top of this page, this seems relevant.

Yeah. They can start with the city where I live. Please.

I've got real news, Netflix has started to show a few things in 4K.

Powdered alcohol approved for sale in the US.

And like the vast majority of powered drinks I imagine it will taste rather poor.

Mafia boss tells underlings to get 'real jobs' as firms paying protection money go under

More bollocks from the Daily Mail, as always. Here's a follow - up article from the guardian because I refuse to actually link to the Mail. The revolution will be a bloody one but I really can't wait.

If there was any further evidence required as to the Mail deserving every bit of ire it gets (which there isn't), that'd be it. It is a fairer piece than most, though. And Drunka, wasn't the article you posted linking to you stopping a thief as a banana from the Mail?  

Interesting, though, the bit at the bottom:

Quote :

He is not amused, however, that his paper is widely viewed as being no different from the Daily Mail.

I dunno - it seems that writing/editing for something called "The Mail on Sunday" rather lands you in that.

Oh yeah, it was! Only because they're the top result when you search my name.
Which is sickening now that I think about it...