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It’s odd isn’t it. To be the right kind of immigrant it seems you have to be fleeing the right war or the right set of hardship. This won’t make any difference to the posters here of a Priti Patel mindset, but most of these people risk their lives crossing the channel because they speak English rather than French and or have relations here. It makes sense to resettle somewhere where you can communicate and know people doesn’t it? It is ridiculous that to apply for asylum here you have to be here. That encourages these trips in dinghies. If you make it it takes an age to have your case processed and now you face the threat of being sent to Rwanda! It’s not working as a deterrent so far is it? Now that Johnson is at last a busted flush hopefully whoever takes his place will get rid of Patel and bring in sensible and humane measures to deal with this issue. I’m not holding my breath though and it will probably take a change of government before we get some level of decency and humanity applied to these people (who surely have suffered enough already). Not sure what any of this has got to do with MLT’s daughter in law getting her kit off for money though?

Don’t worry hypo, if you reached that stage of desperation you probably wouldn’t be able to find anyone desperate enough themselves to part with cash to have sex with you anyway. While sneering at women who sell sex or pictures of themselves, perhaps consider the fact that if men weren’t prepared to part with vast sums of money to buy sex or pictures there would be no porn industry.

It’s odd isn’t it. People get all high and mighty about nudes but, no doubt, have looked at porn. Some get high and mighty about prostitution but it is the worlds oldest profession and is still thriving. Money makes the world go round and without it we are stuffed. For many now the financial crisis will make decisions like these more commonplace as food banks start to dry up. As Lighthouse says, it is strange that some people pay for porn when there is so much free stuff about on the internet, but I guess those serving niche markets can still make money out of it. For those who do it by choice, fair play to them. It is their body and they can do what they like with it. For those forced into porn or prostitution because they feel they have no other choices to make ends meet, I think most of us would feel gutted for them. I can understand MLT being unhappy about a family member selling nudes for cash. I can also feel for his family members being unhappy about some of the conspiracy theory nonsense that he continues to spread on social media. He argues for his freedom of expression, perhaps he should extend the same courtesy to his daughter in law?

You say you don’t do politics but come on and have a dig at those with presumably a different political view to you? I have been on this site for years mate and can assure you that it works for both sides. In fact the far right supporters used to be much worse. There are more people now speaking out against the right (probably because of the awful mess Johnson has made of things and prior to that, Cameron and May). You can guarantee that there will be plenty of “yeah but Corbyn,”yeah but Abbott,” etc in response to anything partly left of centre along with the name calling. Some time back I posted against the likes of Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson and got dog’s abuse from a few right supporters. Anyway, back to what is going on at the moment. Most of the names thrown into the hat so far aren’t inspiring. Not that I get a vote, but as a citizen of this country I would like to see someone like Rory Stewart as PM. It’s a shame that Johnson drove him out of politics. Most of the rest seem slightly less dodgy than Johnson but have been tarred with the same brush. I’m not sure how anyone can think that throwing names like Corbyn and Abbott around makes up for the total ineptitude of the likes of Patel, Dorries, Hancock, Raab, Shnapps, Truss, Rees-Mogg etc, etc. The only upside is that, hopefully, enough damage has been done to the Tory brand that they will get themselves voted out at the next election and we can finally find a government who works for the whole of the country and not just a select few (are you listening Sunak?).

Word is that Johnson now is deliberately bringing more useless people into the cabinet to try and stitch up his successor. Not that you can be much more useless than Johnson.

More so if you didn’t actually do anything wrong, despite all of the best efforts of the Daily Mail. So what is the score? 126-0. We know that the right wing media were trying to tell us that had he and Rayner been fined it would equal up the score (126-2). Watch as somehow they still try and make out that Starmer is just as grubby as Johnson. Starmer made a great speech today. The next general election can’t come soon enough.

No Batman, it wasn’t but it didn’t prevent you from posting it. 😂

Joe Shields has been announced now as new Head of Recruitment. Opps…just seen a thread on his appointment elsewhere 😵‍💫

He does have a very good sense of humour but there has been precious little to laugh about for some time. As a former QC he will be used to writing his own closing speeches so I would imagine he mostly writes his own material. Angela Rayner said that he tends to work on his PMQ stuff himself.

Nonce defender Starmer? Evidence?

I wouldn’t bank on it. What he should do and what he does are two very different things. They will have to drag him kicking and screaming out of No.10. So far none of the other cabinet members have managed to grow a spine. Hopefully a few more will go before tomorrow. I expect there will be a lot of internal pressure on him to go but will he listen?

So the kits have enough similarities to be called similar? That’ll do for me. 😉

It seems that your mate Turkish doesn’t understand English according to his quote in your post. As for this picture, what is it supposed to be about? I have read your posts over the years both as Delldays and then as Batman and the only thing I can work out about your mindset is that you don’t have a problem with any kind of bigotry and go out of your way to have digs at those who oppose it. I guess all those months underwater away from civilisation can have that effect on you?

Not as original as you might think. The design is very similar to the Newport County kit last season and the promotional blurb more so.

Perhaps the plan is to make the opposition feel sea sick?

Absolute pony. As someone who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s I can tell you that racism, homophobic and all that crap was was endemic in my peer group so please don’t pretend it was just the older generation. Yes there were plenty of liberal “woke people too, but the Gammon attitudes crossed all age groups in the 60’s and 70’s. The reason people did speak up against it was because you were seen as odd if you supported black people, gay people, bigots. Alf Garnet was supposed to be a figure of ridicule but many laughed with him instead of at him. Fortunately many people who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s have changed with the times but some, strangely, still call women “chicks” and anyone slightly left of centre “pinkos.” Before you go off one one, just think back to the jokes being told in the playgrounds in those days. They were all racist, sexist and homophobic. The sort you and your crowd probably still tell in your local Duckie. There were plenty of young people throwing bananas on the pitch at football matches. This country was full of bigots of all ages in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. One of the major changes now is if you call out bigotry you get labelled as a “snowflake” or “woke” as if standing up against that kind of thing is bad. Bigotry sucked in the last century and it sucks now. Thankfully more people are prepared to call it out for what it is now, despite those who put more effort into poking fun at “snowflakes” rather than dealing with the actual bigotry itself. These people thrive on todays social media where they can operate with complete anonymity behind a keyboard. We have two people on this forum who think it is amusing to use a doctored picture of someone who made comments about racist remarks as their avatars. Tells you all you need to know about how bigotry is still enabled in this country

Let’s play another game. Who can name a poster who has been banned twice but keeps coming back with a new name and swears blind he is not Delldays and Batman? Further clues, yeah but Corbyn, yeah but Starmer, the king of Whataboutery, spends his days trawling Twitter and other internet cess pools for random crap which supports his own warped world view, makes Turkish look almost reasonable in comparison. No prizes, but if you are the first name pulled out of the hat you get to choose his next username. 😎

I think 3 kits is taking the piss but don’t have a problem with the club changing the look regularly. They need to raise revenue and this is an obvious way to do it. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. If you think it is a rip off, don’t buy it. I was talking to an 18 year old Chelsea supporter the other day, not only does he buy the complete full kits every year but he also buys the training kits and leisure wear. You’d think he would have better things to spend his money on at that age, but it is his choice.

As someone on another forum posted, had a footballer been given a bj by his latest squeeze while his wife was being treated for cancer and tried to get her a job at his club it would be all over the tabloids in banner headlines. Mind you, his supporters don’t seem to care what he does anyway. It has become priced in. Oh, that’s just cuddly old Boris. At least he got Brexit done. As you say, if these things were done by Corbyn, Starmer, Abbot etc the right wing media would be all over it. If Starmer and Rayner are issued with fines for their curry night (why does it take the police so long to investigate and come to a conclusion?) you just know there will be a feeding frenzy on them but Johnson will again, get away with it.

Or barely feeds them.

I keep hearing the word “deterrent” used but it isn’t is it? Putin is doing exactly whatever he wants to do because he knows we won’t fire first and he has convinced us he is mad enough to fire first. He has deployed chemical weapons in a NATO country and we have done nothing. War is waged in many different ways now. The MAD strategy is now archaic and is actually working against us because our adversaries know that we will never use our nuclear weapons first. What is mad is to spend an absolute fortune on weapons our enemies know we will never use. If they ever decide to fire first, the so called deterrent will have failed as there will be little left our end to fight for and possibly nothing left to fight with. If Russia develop a first strike capability that leaves us incapable of striking back we are screwed. It is 2022 and we have moved a long way forward since the MAD strategy of the 40’s and 50’s. Putin knows exactly what he is doing and is using our fear of a nuclear escalation against us.

It is still UK sovereign territory. We were told at the time it was like Argentina invading the Isle of Wight. How many times have we had terrorist attacks in mainland Britain? Countries like Germany, Italy and Spain get along without them just fine don’t they?

You sound like you disapprove about our support for the Ukrainian war effort? Perhaps their need is currently greater than ours? As for our defensive capabilities, surely as long as we keep our commitment we are fine? After all, all that money spent on Trident isn’t wasted is it? Here’s a thought for you, channel the money from nuclear weapons that clearly are not working as a deterrent (Falklands, various European conflicts) into more practical defence measures.

Ale house? You are becoming more like Jacob Rees-Mogg every day Duckie.

Ok, that’s freaky. Duckie and Delldays/Batman/Alex have finally morphed into one another. No surprise though! I can just imagine them back in the 70’s snuggling up with pints of Watneys watching episodes of Love Thy Neighbour. Anyway, didn’t get to see The Beatles as I was 12 when they quit touring in 1966. Not disappointed as the screaming was a bit off putting. My first gig though was T.Rex not long after they changed from being a hippy band into teenyboppers so didn’t exactly avoid crowds of screaming hysterical girls. When The Beatles broke up in 1970 there were so many other great bands emerging that I wasn’t particularly interested in following their solo careers. It wasn’t until 1990 that I finally got to see Paul McCartney on his first major solo tour after Wings at the Wembley Arena. He had a great band and the set list was awesome. Plenty of Beatles stuff and the best from the Wings era and his solo stuff at that point. It was probably the next best thing to seeing The Beatles although the harmonies were never going to be the same. Great gig. If you are into that stuff The Bootleg Beatles also do an amazing job of recreating that music. They put on a terrific show too which transports you back to the 60’s. Happy days! Mind you, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be 😎