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Trump being debated atm

meanwhile, just under 2000 tata steel workers have just lost their jobs and this government looks on and shrugs.

what a time to be alive.

Talking to people I know more closely involved in the steel industry there does seem to be a view that trying to keep these plants going could well be throwing good money after bad and that it would be better to invest the amounts in retraining, new job creation, etc.

Whether this actually happens is of course another matter.

Political cartoons can be open to interpretation (I personally totally do not get the Onion ones) and SH are pretty close sometimes to that Fine Line of humour VS just being a dick, so no wonder people are offended.

But others misunderstanding, choosing to be offended and making a black/white point from it isn't their problem.

(TL:DR too much faux outrage and calls for censorship to me these days)

But it's still important to discuss if they actually achieved something, or just made it worse (the Grauniad thinks they may have) as social norms are always in a bit of flux and we better discuss these. Before we ban just about anyone for causing offense ;)

The Tories have an excellent track record of retraining industrial workers.

excellent work

True, there is a persistent subcurrent of nastiness where psychopaths bring in a foreign wife, then prevent her from integrating in an attempt to have total control over her. Whiteys do it too.

But throwing out the victim of such suppression is just mindblowingly stupid. It's a bit like threatening to fire a domestic abuse victim unless she stops turning up to work without those unsightly bruises.

first bowie .. now mott the hooples drummer

when will the madness end

http://www.ross-gazette.co.uk/article.cfm?id=103187&headline=Death of Mott the Hoople drummer&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2016

all the old dudes.

The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll

James Avery also died but no one cares because he was black.

I think this is because many people are stupid and many others are delibertely obtuse to push their agenda/sell advertising.

What this guy?

He died in 2013.

Bit late on that one mate....almost 3 years late

we should all buy james avery albums

Exactly and still no public outpouring of grief.

When will society be equal?

RIP 'Uncle' Phil Avery

Goodnight Fresh Prince

James Brown is dead too so you know.

#blackdeathsmatter

Noooooooooooo!

Tupac it's still undecided if that helps.

killuminati theory confirmed.

I thoght that was natural causes from being so fat? Didn't P Diddly cover a Police song as tribute to him so he must be dead.

Rumours abound that Trump is going to announce Palin as his running mate tomorrow. No idea whether based on anything concrete.

^ Let the circus begin...

That would be awesome. I was having dinner with some American friends last night and suggested just that very thing and they thought it was hysterical. I guess that's the thing about Trump- the truth is stranger than the fiction. And he's a massive cunt.