General News Chat

[Mason89]

I know it’s not really news but yet another mass shooting in America.

[StandfreeFM]

I know it’s not really news but yet another mass shooting in America.

Not really. The US news cycle moves so quickly, if it is over 24 hours ago, it might as well have been last year. It's how Trump gets away with so much, he knows that something else will happen and the focus will have moved. Cable News in the US is set up for a 9/11 type event. Any other time, it's a 24 hour outrage machine. It's also horrendously myopic. 'Visit America and watch your own country disappear'.

And I like the place

[Aldo1983]

Not really. The US news cycle moves so quickly, if it is over 24 hours ago, it might as well have been last year. It's how Trump gets away with so much, he knows that something else will happen and the focus will have moved. Cable News in the US is set up for a 9/11 type event. Any other time, it's a 24 hour outrage machine. It's also horrendously myopic. 'Visit America and watch your own country disappear'.

And I like the place

I like the place as well but I have my sister and brother in law staying with me just now and politics is a no go. I mentioned the shooting last night to get some sort of reaction and they didn't even know about it. Despite her having friends in that area and being from LA herself. I got some grumble about the west and east coast being so messed up. In other words, non Christians to blame.

[donsdaft]

More insanity - a white guy pretending to be black

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8617011.html

Why not?

Now that we’ve abandoned truth altogether, anything goes

[Jupiter]

52 year old man pretending to be 6 year old girl.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3356084/I-ve-gone-child-Husband-father-seven-52-leaves-wife-kids-live-transgender-SIX-YEAR-OLD-girl-named-Stefonknee.html

He should really be in a padded cell.

[donsdaft]

As should anyone stupid enough to believe that they can change their gender.

[Pacman1903]

There was a Dutch guy a few weeks back trying to make himself younger so he could get better tinder dates

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/07/dutch-man-69-identifies-20-years-younger-launches-legal-battle/amp/

Fair play

[donsdaft]

Bloody right too.

All bets are off now that imagination has taken the place of truth.

I think I'll be a bunch of grapes today.
It's my right to be a bunch of grapes, it would be grapeist to deny me that right.

[Pacman1903]

I think I'll be a bunch of grapes today.
It's my right to be a bunch of grapes, it would be grapeist to deny me that right.

Very apt as you do like to w(h)ine alot

[ILikeJam]

52 year old man pretending to be 6 year old girl.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3356084/I-ve-gone-child-Husband-father-seven-52-leaves-wife-kids-live-transgender-SIX-YEAR-OLD-girl-named-Stefonknee.html

He should really be in a padded cell.

I love how the Mail make a half hearted attempt to be 'modern' and refer to 'her' and 'she' most of the time, but invariably manage to make a cünt of it every other paragraph. Like Sky Sports covering Scottish football...

[blinlemon]

Christmas.

What a lot of ****in ****e.

[Pacman1903]

Christmas.

What a lot of ****in ****e.

Canna stick it

Im offshore from November 28 until December 27

F@cking result

[Pacman1903]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46293221

This guy is a f@cking rocket and got what was coming to him

Stupid c@nt

[mondo_notion]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46293221

This guy is a f@cking rocket and got what was coming to him

Stupid c@nt

For ways to go, getting killed by a hail of arrows fired from an indigenous tribe on a tropical island is probably up there.

I mean I'd rather die that way than, say, a sink hole. That's a sh*tty way to go out.

[Pacman1903]

For ways to go, getting killed by a hail of arrows fired from an indigenous tribe on a tropical island is probably up there.

I mean I'd rather die that way than, say, a sink hole. That's a sh*tty way to go out.

You make a good point