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Fucking hell.

When the ROI is outdoing you on HR you know things have got bad.

she described herself as a former party girl who drank too much on occasion, smoked cannabis and took ecstasy.

Typical. They're like the ultimate whingy ex-smoker.

ROI has actually made great strides lately [abortion/lgbt], though their direct provision asylum system is really poor from a human rights POV and the Dublin housing crisis may also breach HR.

But I may miss something, I'm more aware of NI (unfortunately hah) what bad stuff has ROI done?

what bad stuff has ROI done?

Jedward.

Not on a 737! Seriously though there is no mechanical connection controlling stabiliser trim in an A320. Generally the Airbus approach is more electronic, which goes back to the A320 being originally designed as a fly-by-wire jet, while the 737 is a 50 odd old design that has had fly-by-wire added.

It is a bit curious really, especially when you consider that a true fly-by-wire Boeing like the 777 has no mechanical linkage for trim control. But it comes back to this being a very old aircraft design.

In Boeing's defence, physical connections aren't always a bad thing.

If Air France Flight 447 had been a Boeing it would have been more obvious to the pilot who thought he had control of the plane that his colleague was constantly pulling back on the yoke, causing the plane to stall, because the yokes used in Boeing cockpits are physically linked. Airbus use sidesticks, which don't give any sensory or tactile feedback to the second pilot.

In fairness, that's more than enough to get you kicked out of any human rights council

Rightly so.

Andrew Mitchell, Tory MP not all bad
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/jersey-guernsey-isle-of-man-share-ownership-uk-security

"Pay up you fucking plebs"

Their bill is a good one, it's a shame the government decided not to back it last week.

Yep,
Tax evading Party fails to back legislation forcing payment of due tax.
Who could have predicted that outcome?
Or the kicker
that they don't want it raised again until after the next (scheduled) general Election?

As a kid growing up in Chester in the 70's and 80's there were always rumours flying around about Peter Morrision MP being a kiddy fiddler.

It seems that they were true.

[MI5 did not tell police of minister's ‘penchant for small boys’, inquiry hears

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/11/mi5-did-not-tell-police-of-former-mps-penchant-for-small-boys-inquiry-hears?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard](MI5 did not tell police of minister's ‘penchant for small boys’, inquiry hears

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/11/mi5-did-not-tell-police-of-former-mps-penchant-for-small-boys-inquiry-hears?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard)

https://mg.co.za/article/2019-03-11-the-racist-reaction-to-the-ethiopian-airlines-crash-was-all-too-predictable

Relevant.

don't let facts get in the way of good old fashioned rasicism

i'm not sure i follow.

nothing really just a how assumptions on aircraft safety and reputation has been ignored on certain news feeds because it's an African airline so must it must be shitty rather than looking at the facts that is has a good record dispite a horrible hijacking. And more horribly not mentioning the Ethiopian Kenyan and other Affricans killed in the crash. ie ignoring the facts.
throw away comment after reading that link.

Am I being a snowflake or is this headline currently on the front page of http://www.newsshopper.co.uk really not OK?

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Yep it’s totally offensive to nonces

And giving his address

Ray Sadler, 86, of **** Road

WTF

looks like the editor of that rag has ambitions to become the editor of the daily mail some day

The News Shopper also recently described Nandos as "the gates to chicken heaven"

I wonder how many Pulitzer's they've got.

or the national enquirer

"the gates to chicken heaven"

huge if true.

For some reason opening the story didn't really work.

Fundamentally it seems inappropriate to use corse slang for something as sensitive as child abuse.

On the other hand who gives a fuck if you use a pejorative term for pedophiles.

At the end of the day all news outlets use sensationalist language to attract their chosen demographic. Is it any more/less appropriate that your average tabloid headline?

Morley's have lawyers primed.