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Except the gingers. They're (at least partly) descended from pagan Celts.

since when?

Really?

I never would have guessed.

Sorry should have included #revisionisthistory

Well, you did ask... ;)

I'm pretty sure I remember this guy from the Red Bull Minidrome days (if only for his Happy Days-esque name). Perhaps some people off here know him? Sticking it to the man still, kind of...

........... oh Andy

Well you came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away, oh Andy
And you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Andy

...

“Of the 400,000 who are estimated to have been killed in Syria, he is responsible for the vast majority of that butcher’s bill. And you have to go a long way back in history to find a tyrant who has stayed in office given such circumstances.”

Boris Johnson talking about Assad. He seems to have forgotten about Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan. 300,000 dead in Darfur. But On January 13, 2017, the United States lifted economic and trade sanctions on Sudan due to cooperation with the Sudanese government in fighting terrorism, reducing conflict, and denying safe haven to South Sudanese rebels and improving humanitarian access to people in need. The White House announced the easing of sanctions as part of a five-track engagement process. On March 16, 2017, the US and Sudan announced the resumption of military relations after exchanging military attachés. (Wikipedia).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cunynghame

I recognised him from the EWS official videos, noticed he wasn't presenting this year's...

He's done some other stuff with PinkBike (https://www.pinkbike.com/u/Cunny/) but he's not PinkBike mod Richard Cunningham (https://www.pinkbike.com/u/RichardCunningham/)

He used to present Red Bull's DH coverage, presumably as predecessor to Claudio "singing rock songs badly through rockgardens" Caluori.

Stockholm... grim

What a simple tactic. It can happen anywhere and anytime.

FFS. Horrible.

As much as I rushed here to post about it I am having second thoughts whether it's worth reacting much to these incidents anymore.
Maybe our future weapon against these things is just ignoring them? I.e. no more attention than you would give to a traffic accident with the same extent of death/injury. Within a few hours some pathetic loser will have his name published all over the world and (if still alive) get to enjoy his 15 minutes of notoriety.

And then you'd have people like trump and his supporters saying it's a cover up to preserve some liberal agenda.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump's claptrap about Sweden gave some idiot the idea that it would now be sufficiently high-profile for their self-loathing.

100% this. The incident at Westminister had media coverage that rolled on for weeks which I'm sure in part will contribute to way more incidents like this.

Don't give the knobs that do this stuff any airtime, and admittedly they'll think of something else, but it's not necessarily the loss of life that they're aiming to achieve.

I think we take the terrorism out of it but we acknowledge it.

I mean, it's not an existential threat. Road deaths are higher. Heart disease kills more. Smoking is a scourge.

But whenever it happens, we always react with "Sweden has been attacked", or "America is under attack", or "It's an attack on our way of life". This kind of rhetoric just reinforces in the in-group/out-group polarisation, encourages bigots and makes everyone fearful.

If we responded by saying 'this is a tragedy - let's treat this as a mental health issue' I think we'd take all the fire out of it. But the problem is that there's a whole lot of powerless bitter people who want the polarisation because that's the only thing that gives their pathetic lives meaning.

Edit to add - in my frustration, I'm doing what I'm criticising. Plank in my eye.

Yes, and it's the intentionality that makes the news every time.

Road death? 'I didn't see him.' Acquitted in seventeen minutes.

I blame Trump.

Baddiel nails the reasons Livingstone is such an irredeemable cunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/06/ken-livingstone-hitler-zionism-jews

All I read there is that he shouldn't say Zionism is bad because some antisemites extend the term Zionist to include all Jews.

I disagree with this. You can't limit what you say based on what an extremist might confer from it.

obviously saying Hitler was a Zionist is absurd. Calling him on that is enough.

IS should just claim that they have a sleep disorder. Then they could kill people with their vehicles with complete impunity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39529714

Seems the story is not that he was an incompetent liar, but that you can avoid jail for beating your spouse and forcing them to drink bleach, so long as you have a"promising career". Sickening.

I thought it was that professional sportspeople are allowed to beat their wives?

The secret barrister explanation of the case is decent https://thesecretbarrister.com/2017/03/27/was-the-cricketer-who-forced-his-wife-to-drink-bleach-spared-prison-because-his-wife-was-too-intelligent/